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Beyond Pain - Kit Rocha Alrighty then! I finished it!

I really liked it. I like the O'Kane's, and I liked Six coming into the book, was never totally in on Bren, even though he's kinda cool, not that many Dom Masochists around.

Six is a strong character, but I thought this book was a little light on plot, and a little long on characters not named Six and Bren. Thus, the 4 stars instead of 5. Some hot lesbian sex with Noelle and Six, or Lexie and Six, and I might have got there, but instead we got Lexi and Rachel, neither of whom are named "Six" or "Bren" so...awesome scene, but...

Basically nothing happened beyond the characters and sex in this book, which is alright, I love the sex, but it doesn't quite live up to all the stuff that happened in books 1 and 2.

Overall, it scratched my itch but wasn't completely satisfying.
The Siren - Tiffany Reisz I loved this book. I can't believe I waited so long to read it. I feel like a complete fool.

I was thinking, "It sounds like femdom, I don't really like femdom, probably not my thing" and I couldn't have been more wrong. First, its a *good* book, let alone whether its erotica or not, and Second, Nora isn't really categorizable so easily as "Femdom" or "Switch" or even "submissive" she's her own thing.

Loved the characters, loved the plot, loved the sex, the BDSM scenes, I loved everything. I LOVED it. Do not wait to read this series, read it NOW!
Blood and Fire - R. Brennan A short story about a submissive girl heading out to a BDSM party with her Dominant.

This was not exactly what I was expecting, but, it was pretty hot! I liked Frankie as a character, what little we get to know her at least. I'm down with Demons, Angels and whatnot, as my avatar probably suggests, but we didn't get much world building in this short story.

So, hot paranormal sex, Demons, slave girls and a maybe HEA? I liked it.

***provided by the Author through BDSM group TPE BAR Read2Review***
Hers To Cherish (Verdantia #3) - Patricia A. Knight Hers to Cherish is a sci-fi light BDSM fantasy, involving a planet with D/s customs, an alpha male, and a female that likes to submit during sex.

Ramsey DeKieran is our alpha male, a ne'er do well roguish type, wronged by his Government, robbed of his one true love, and trying to make it through since as best he can. He's a pretty good guy, and he puts up with a lot from our female lead.

Captain Steffania Rickard is the aforementioned female lead. She's unprofessional, bullheaded and undiplomatic, and as unsubmissive as it comes, until she's naked. even when she's supposed to be undercover on a planet where she'll ruin everything by acting like a non-submissive, she just does what she wants, nearly ruining the mission. Unfortunately, she's the epitome of the sort of thing I don't like in BDSM books. She's prejudiced against other submissives, specifically those more submissive than herself, makes her feelings known when she feels the supporting female is "too submissive" and acts like a hard-ass every second when she isn't tied down. Sadly, this sort of opinion is widely held by a lot of sexual submissives, so I'm used to it in the real world also, but do we have to have our female submissives denigrating those more submissive than themselves all the time? I know Steffania is trying to establish herself as a bad-ass, but being mean to obedient submissive girls doesn't exactly make you a bad-ass, like kicking a cute puppy doesn't make you dangerous. Both just make you a mean person.

Still, the plot isn't bad, they go to the planet to rescue a girl who is being mind-raped and turned into a slave against her will, and is needed to save Verdantia, and in the end, Ramsey gets his girl, Steffania gets her HEA, and the girl gets rescued.

So, to sum up, I liked Ramsey, tolerated Steffania, even if she was mostly annoying she had a few redeeming moments, and I liked Pansy/Anjelica. The plot was pretty good, and I liked the planet they travelled to. Very interesting.
Bind and Keep Me - Cari Silverwood *I was provided with an ARC in exchange for an honest review*

First, I have a confession! I had totally preconceived notions about this book, and not a single one of them was accurate. I was sure I knew who the third was going to be in Jodie and Klaus' relationship, and I wasn't even close. I was wrong so much and so often, I probably should have been disappointed, but, um, yeah, I loved the book.

I really liked the characters. Klaus has gotten over himself, which is great, and we get character arcs on the two female leads in the story, Jodie and our mystery female, who I shall not be naming, in case anyone else had the same notions I did.

The D/s and sex is so smokin' hot I almost set the couch on fire. I had to sneak off for some "me time" before I was able to continue. The dialog is just so dirty and sexy.

Finally, the plot! I leave it till last as if its an afterthought, but it really is the driving force in everything that happens. Its great, generates tension all the way throughout, and I loved it. I love how it drives many of the decisions all the way through, and how Klaus takes advantage as it goes.

This book was great. I can't WAIT for book three.

Model Submissive (Rack and Ruin, #2)

Model Submissive (Rack and Ruin, #2) - Amy Valenti Izzy!

I liked Izzy in the first book, and she's back as the lead in book 2. As in Little Tease, the characters are well done again. Izzy is a Domme, but she's got troubles. She's lost her job, and with it, her confidence.

Luckily, she gets a job as a model for a new line of clothing/fetish wear, and the photographer is a hot dom. Izzy, not being a sub, does get off on being ordered about while the camera is on her, but thats as far as she's willing to go. However, the sex between Luke, the photographer and Izzy is hot!

Izzy gets her mojo back, finds a job in addition to modelling, and is dating a hot dom. Whats better than 2 Dom/mes, dating? 2 Dom/mes dating and getting a hot sub to work over together...hopefully we'll see that happen in a future installment!
Little Tease (Rack and Ruin, #1) - Amy Valenti I enjoyed this book a lot. Lena is a switch, and considers herself more Domme than sub, and despite having a serious desire to drop to her knees for the hero, she resists doing so, because she's like that.

I really liked the characters in this story. They were both fully realized and unique, Lena was interesting for sure, and Josh felt like a real person, as opposed to what we've been getting lately, an Alpha male caveman carbon copy. The secondary characters are also interesting, I'd like to read more about Smurfette and Heidi especially!

The plot revolves around the will they or won't they, and we get to see both Lena and Josh dom/ming people, Lena with Tamara, and Josh with Smurfette. There is a subplot involving friends of Lena betting on when she and Josh are going to hook up, and once thats resolved, they finally get together.

I enjoy reading about switches, even if I don't really understand them at all, and find the whole idea of switching roles to be fascinating. This story kept me fascinated all the way through.
Gestapo Girl - Lindsey Brooks Gestapo Girl was a lot of things, none of them what I was expecting it to be. I really liked a number of aspects of this book.

First, it is set near the end of World War II, in Germany and Britain, in two sections. The first running in summer, the second in winter. It stars a British Officer, who is a blackmailing scumbag. He keeps his secretary as his personal sex slave, arranges for her to help blackmail others, and generally goes about being despicable. He does dominate the heck out of his secretary, though, and the poor girl is half-in-love and half-in-hate with him because of it.

The British sections involve his unit, his secretary, and the "operation" he is planning which involves a young sex slave who is not his secretary, but who is being trained for some sort of insurgency into Germany.

The German sections involve the SS, and their special whorehouse set up to help the special officers of the SS and elsewhere unwind from the horrors of war with specially chosen hot young ladies.

I really enjoyed a lot of the characters in this, despicable though most of them were, and I loved the ending. So perfect.

So, interesting setting(World War II!) very interesting characters, and an ending I did not see coming!

Oh, plus hot sex, torture scenes, and a smattering of forced f/f action. How can one go wrong?
Customer Service - Felicity Brandon This is the first work by this author I have read, and I'd definitely read more.

Its short. I liked how Rachel left a note, and I liked her attitude. I liked the encounter itself also. I would have liked for Polly to be better as a waitress, or at least for more time to have been spent on it, but she did better later as a sub, anyway.

I like F/f as a whole, and I was not disappointed by this one.

***provided by the Author through BDSM group TPE BAR Read2Review***
Re/Paired - Michele Zurlo This is my third book by this author, and I have to say, its easily my favorite by her that I've read so far.

Katrina and Keith are our sub and Dom in this one. Keith had a terrible childhood and is a recovered alcoholic, and its colored him. Katrina has watched him for a decade with her brother, who is his partner in the FBI, and crushed from afar. She knows her brother is a dom, she knows Keith is a dom, and she's spent some time seeing how Keith treats women, which is not well. At all.

The whole subplot of "I'm so bad a person" really wore on me for a short time, but it only lasted a short time, and from there, I really enjoyed the rest of the book. Katrina is being stalked, and unlike a lot of stories, she not only isn't an idiot about it when she goes to see her stalker, she manages to both alert the authorities pre-emptively, and to rescue herself from the situation without needing a man to ride in and do it for her.

One of my own personal pet peeves is contained within, though, so lets take a moment to discuss it. Those who read a lot about, or live within the framework of a BDSM relationship are not likely to enjoy hearing stuff like "You are too good to be a submissive" and "I'll teach you not to be a submissive". When I first read the words, I was not in my happy place, but in the context of this story, Keith was a mess, and I think what he really meant was, "I'll teach you how much of a lost cause/loser I am so you'll abandon me."

Katrina and Keith work it out, and everyone gets their happy on. I liked it. Oh, also, Bonus Points/Kudos to the author, for a Dom thats a masochist, and a sub thats willing to wield a flogger for her Master's pleasure. Loved it.

**provided by the Author through BDSM group TPE BAR Read2Review**
Cornered - Amy Valenti I can't do a full review, because it was too short for a full review!

What there was of it was good, though. =)
Flip Her Coin (Sex in San Francisco, #3) - Leah Ridgewood

This is my first book by this author, novella, in this case, and I have to say I really liked it. It contains stuff that usually I wouldn't love like miscommunication and stuff, but it just works in this story. So what was there to like?

First, I love F/f, so that's a plus, and I'm a sucker for ffm also, not to mention girl on girl fisting.

Second, I love the characters in this thing. Great job.

Third, its free on Amazon right now, I'm gonna tell all my friends!

Gabrielle and the Leviathan - Michael  Alexander This is a short read about the events relating to the SS Gabrielle and a Space Monster known as "Leviathan".

Main characters include Amber, an up and coming engineer, Lori, a lazy, slutty but occasionally brilliant layabout, Rebecca the XO, Captain Jennifer the ships Captain and disciplinarian, and Dr. Lenore, the ships Doctor. Everyone on the ship is female, and human except the Leviathan.

The Leviathan is a giant undersea tentacle monster, with designs on the rape and violation of the crew. The explanations of the whys and wherefores of the story are actually a strength, as I never thought, "Damn, thats silly/stupid" or whatever, but the characterization wasn't terribly strong. I'm not sure if names were removed if I could tell who was who beyond Amber.

So all in all, 3 stars, pretty decent read, and since the FF market is underserved, to say nothing of the lesbian tentacle rape market, if thats your cup of tea, you are in luck!

The Vampire Skye - Fulani Lesbian Vampire BDSM? Yes please!

This is my first experience reading anything by Fulani, and I have to say, it was unusual, but in a good way.

Skye and Leah were interesting, in what little context we got to see them, Rosemary was a neat character also. I like that all three were not your typical generic stereotype.

Skye is a lesbian vampire Domme, turned during WWII, she's been mostly behaving and keeping from drinking human blood since the late 80's, wants to be a tattoo artist.

Leah is a goth switch with a degree in physics, and a job working as a girl friday for the governments Vampire division.

Rosemary is a PhD student specializing in sociology and philosophy. Interesting dynamics! She's also a sub.

Skye takes the girls on as her human pets. Its too bad it was so short, I'd have liked to have a full novel to get into this, but it was a good read for what it was. Interesting characters, hot vampire bondage and bloodplay and interesting world building.
Two Masters for Samantha - Michele Zurlo Samantha considers herself too independent and awesome to be a submissive, even though her life is filled with Doms and their subs, and she has a weird and warped sense of what the lifestyle entails, despite her best friend being a Domme, and her brother being a Dom, because apparently she's never cared enough to do anything more than listen to pop psychology and anti-bdsm preachers on the topic.

Sounds like a setup I'm ready to fall for? Uh, no.

Enter two good looking Doms to sweep our Little Miss Independent off her feet. Samantha counters with "I don't like pain, won't wear a collar, or do anything in public" because, you know, she's too awesome to do that stuff.

So first, apparently she's actually a total masochist pain slut, who knew, there is lie #1, second, it takes like 13 seconds and she's in a collar, because 13 seconds of with holding an orgasm is more than Little Miss Independent needs to lose her independence, etc.

But because she's so willfully ignorant, we get to have BDSM tediously explained, and we get to be told over and over how the submissive is the one in control and the Doms her willing servants, yadda yadda, etc etc

Ugh. If the writing, aside from the characters, wasn't good, I'd 1 star this for annoying preachery and annoying Samantha character alone.
A Doll's Story (The fall and rise of Merr StahlRhune) by Lez Lewis - Lez Lewis Despite including some of my favorite stuff, demons, slavery, objectification, it still only comes out with 2 stars, a feat that is hard to achieve.

This story revolves around an amnesiac young girl, Merr StahlRune. She awakens in a dangerous version of London where everything plans to either murder you or enslave you, and quickly falls into the collar of Mistress Copper, a Priestess? or Witch? who turns her charges into succubus-types and uses sexual energy to power her spells.

The world building was not well done. I dunno what Mistress Copper was, she just tended to "do stuff". I played a little World of Warcraft and a little D&D, so I'm not completely lost on whats going on, but good world building doesn't rely on your audience knowing your lifting concepts from games and not even explaining them!

There were some good scenes, and some of the concepts were good, but this is essentially taking John Norman's Gor novel style slavery, importing it into an Urban Fantasy London with Demons and Magic and explaining none of the inner workings.

Lastly, the characters...I didn't develope any attachment to any of them. I am not sure I even could distinguish them if names were removed from them.