Safe Word [Paperback]

Molly Weatherfield (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1998

The sequel to Molly Weatherfields best-selling look at contemporary dominance and submission. Carrie leaves behind her life with Jonathan, intent on proving herself with the demanding gentleman he has chosen her as his own. Whisked away to Greece, Carrie learns new, more rigorous methods of sexual satisfaction. When her year of training is complete, Carrie faces a decisionlife on her own, or in the embrace of her beloved but estranged Jonathan....

Product Details

• Paperback: 342 pages
• Publisher: Masquerade Books (August 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563336650
• ISBN-13: 978-1563336652
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,232,209 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Molly Weatherfield is the pen name of erotic historical romance writer Pam Rosenthal.

But Molly came first. It was Molly, in the early 90s, who dragged Pam kicking and screaming into the world of erotic fiction, when she realized that it would be possible to write as intelligently (and as feministically -- is that a word?) as she wanted about the erotic imagination she'd been hiding and cherishing all her life.

You can find out more about both authors at our linked web sites: http://www.pamrosenthal.com and http://www.mollyweatherfield.com

Customer Reviews

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39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worthy in all aspects!, April 14, 2005

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Goddess Orchid "Orchid" (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Safe Word: An Erotic S/M Novel (Paperback)

Again, I read this book in one sitting. I found that Weatherfield's writing has matured and that she is almost delightful in her explicit detail of S/M & B/D. However, I give it four stars because, her switching back and forth was confusing. One moment you're reading about Carrie's expereinces and suddenly you're looped back into Jonathan. I don't like back and forth stuff and so 4 starts she gets. I especially loved the pony training and how Carrie experiences the other side and Kate...the growth with her is spectacular. This book makes B/D almost bareable and although you may find yourself feeling shocked into another world...it is merely the way of life there. I like the fact that Carrie is always taken very good care of- despite the fact being in some very difficult conditions. That care shows some sensibility in the book. I started to get the hang of what to expect. And so will you.

Very sexually explicit but not as explict as the first book. I do recommend you reading the first book before moving on to this one or you will be confused. A+ to Weatherfield. Looking for more from her.

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Finally its over, March 14, 2006

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Natasha Rene'e - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Safe Word: An Erotic S/M Novel (Paperback)

For some sick reason I felt the need to see what happened to Carry after the auction, so I purchased Safe World. This is one of the most annoying books I've tried to read. I have no idea what the author was trying to accomplish by shifting writing styles but it really didn't work well. The story shifts points of view over and over again. So its Carrie talking about her new master, or Carrie in the present tense, or Johnathan in the present tense, or Johnathan talking about what he was up to while Carrie was gone or its this all knowing third person narrator in the present tense. Its just too much back and forth. This book didn't have much about to keep my attention for too long so it took a few days to read it.

As for the story

It starts off with Carrie meeting Johnathan after a year in Greece with her new master. Carrie and Johnathan spend four days together in France doing nothing much except telling stories of the past year and having a lot of sex. Then on the fifth day Johnathan tells her its time for her to come back to him to be his slave and she falls back into the role easily. Johnathan gives Carrie the new arrangement and particulars and leaves her to decided if she's going to take him up on his offer which I won't spoil the details of here. This leaves Carrie with a choice to make and her choice was a bit of a welcomed surprise. It was the first bit of realism this story had captured since the beginning.

This book is still way too heavy on the ponies, so if that's not your deal, you wont really get into this. I'd estimate to be about 89.9% pony play. Even the BDSM parts are minimal compared to the freaking ponies...what's with the ponies??? Of course this book, like 'Carrie's Story', is so out there that its looses some of its appeal, but after you wrap your head around the idea of it being just a fantasy its a bit easier to get into.

29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, December 15, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Safe Word: An Erotic S/M Novel (Paperback)

I loved this book. Not just as porn, but as a real book. Though I definitely liked it as porn, as well. This author seems to be channeling every fantasy I ever had (and added a few to the list -- I never in a million years thought I could find pony girl stuff that hot.) Unlike some, I thought it had exactly the right amount of prurient detail -- for me it's the story, more than the blow by blow descriptions (well, you know what I mean), that does it.

It should definitely be read after Carrie's Story, to get the full impact of the characters, but I thought Safe Word was even better. Unlike several reviewers, I didn't find it confusing at all, though it takes some doing to follow the time line, as it switches back and forth between the present reunion between Carrie and Jonathan, her former master, and each of their stories concerning the events of their year apart.

I loved each of the characters -- I don't know how it's possible not to adore Carrie, with her sharp insights, her unsparing (but not at all unhappy) self-view, her wit, and her never-ending, insatiable, and constantly entertaining lust. And, while we knew in Carrie's Story that Jonathan was a bit compulsive and neurotic underneath his perfectly in-control, and perfectly dressed, persona, here he really turns into a real person -- flawed, sometimes silly, frequently faking it, and somehow, for all that, quite dear and still very, very hot.

Most of all, having come of age reading books like The Story of O and The Image (both of which, don't get me wrong, I dearly love), it was particularly satisfying to have those lovely mythologies taken apart and put back together in a way that made the heroine, while every bit as riveted by lust and abandon and the longing to obey, remain intact throughout. I won't talk about what actually happens at the end, for those who haven't read the book, though I will say I both hated and loved the ending, and it made me rethink all those myths, and the impact that their beauty and their despair had on my own self-view. I don't know how I can say more about a book than that.