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Olivia/Lucy

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This is two novels and some bonus excerpts for the price of one. The first novel--Olivia--rates five stars. It is a hardcore bondage, dominance and discipline novel that does a very good job of marrying the erotic with the literary, making it a very engaging read. Olivia is a suffragette in Victorian England who has pissed off the wrong powerful man, who takes it upon himself to teach Olivia that far from being his equal, she is actually suited only to be his pleasure slave. The capture, training, discipline and play scenes are all at a grippingly intense level, that is both hugely erotic and impossible to put down. Olivia's transition and acceptance, her emotional reactions to the experience and her balance between shame and arousal add a dimension to the novel that is both exciting and engaging.

The short excerpt between the two novels is badly written, unerotic, and unnecessary, but takes up very little space so is hardly worth mentioning.

The second novel, Lucy, is even more of a hardcore, heavy bondage and discipline novel than the first. Lucy is a hapless captive taken to be a love slave by ruthlessly cruel captors. Her emotional turmoil is less developed, and her transitions are disappointingly fake and shallow (particularly after the masterful, pun intended, emotional development we were treated to in Olivia). However, this novel makes up for poor writing with inventive scenes of pain, degradation, and creative bondage.

If bdsm is what you're into, you'll enjoy this double dose.

Both books are of the female abduction/submission scenario. 4 Stars first half, ZERO stars for second. Olivia, the heroine of the first novel is actually well written and develops the character as well as a delivers a reasonably well written series of sexual vignettes, numerous bondage/discipline scenes and some real eroticism. The second novel (Lucy) is an execrable piece of trash, again dealing with the female abduction/submission scenario. This portion of the book utilizes the time "honored" scenario of "humiliate, beat, rape" and then the "beat the woman, then humiliate her" followed by the usual violent rapine scenes. This part of the book is trash, written poorly and only worth shredding. Personally, I tossed it in the trash.