AUTHOR: STACEY KENNEDY
Pages: 244
Date: 04/09/2013
Grade: 4-
Details: No. 1 Club Sin
Received from Random House
Through NetGalley
Own / Kindle
The Blurb:
“Presley Flynn is ripe to
experience her secret fantasies . . . and Dmitri Pratt wants nothing more than
to fulfill them. Once inside the elite Club Sin in Las Vegas, Presley is nervous but excited—and
determined to surrender to her every desire. Dmitri is her Master, and his
touch is like fire. With each careful, calculated caress, he unleashes her
wildest inhibitions, giving her unimagined pleasure.
Presley is different than the other submissives Dmitri has mastered. The BDSM lifestyle is new to her, and so are the games they play at Club Sin. From the start, Presley stirs emotions in him far beyond the raw purity between a Dom and the perfect sub. For the ecstasy they share goes beyond the dungeon igniting a passion that claims the very depths of the heart.”
Presley is different than the other submissives Dmitri has mastered. The BDSM lifestyle is new to her, and so are the games they play at Club Sin. From the start, Presley stirs emotions in him far beyond the raw purity between a Dom and the perfect sub. For the ecstasy they share goes beyond the dungeon igniting a passion that claims the very depths of the heart.”
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There are as many
reasons to read as there are readers, or books. Sometimes you need to learn
something, sometimes you want to be scared, there are occassions when it is all
about the mystery and then there are the moments when all you want and need is
a sweet love story. Today was one of those love story days for me and wasn’t I
lucky that I decided to start – and finish – “Claimed” by Stacey
Kennedy.
Because a sweet
love story is exactly what we find on these pages. Yes, it is definitely an
erotic story, and yes there is a strong BDSM theme to it, but neither the story
nor the subject matter is shocking. In fact, I would call this BDSM light.
When we meet
Presley Flynn she is a bundle of nerves about to meet Dmitri Pratt – on a side
note, Pratt seems to be an unfortunate surname for this character since he is
anything but incompetent and foolish. Aged 25, Presley has recently broken up
with her one and only boyfriend of eight years after catching him cheating on
her. When her friend and roommate, Cora, sees her devouring BDSM novels she
decides to introduce Presley to the club she is a member of. While Presley
knows that the stories excite her and is very curious about the life-style, she is very nervous
about acting on her feelings and even more scared about coming across as not
good enough.
Master Dmitri is
fascinated by the young woman from the moment he first sets eyes on Presley.
Especially since he can’t quite get a handle on the combination of lust, fear,
insecurity and determination she exhibits.
“He couldn’t tell who she truly was; the innocent little darling scared
out of her wits, or the brave woman not hiding from her sexual desires but
fighting to express them.”
Dmitri doesn’t only decide to allow her into his club,
he also fast-tracks her application process just so that he can start training her
as soon as possible; before Presley has a chance to second guess her desires
and let her fear keep her away. And so begins Presley’s slow but very intensive
introduction into the pleasures of Domination and submission.
“That, Presley, is what makes you a submissive. You find peace and
happiness when you relinquish control.”
As Presley spends more time with Dmitri she not only
discovers the delights of BDSM and submitting to a man who seems to know
exactly what she wants and needs, she also discovers sides to herself she never
suspected were there.
“She had thought she’d come to Club Sin with something to prove to
herself, to be a different woman, but tonight she felt as if she had become the
woman she was meant to be – free and calm.”
But Presley isn’t the only one with issues to overcome
and lessons to learn. As much as Dmitri teaches Presley that it is not only ok
but also good to stand up for herself and stop always trying to please
everybody around her, she teaches him that he doesn’t have to carry the weight
of the world on his lone shoulders. It takes a few lessons, but Presley and
Dmitri soon discover that:
“Together, we’re better, aren’t we?”
Like I said, this is a sweet and romantic, not to
mention sexy, story. And if it is BDSM-light it is also sexy light. And I have
to say I’m glad about that. In this story, with this innocent main character,
anything else might have stretched my willingness to suspend disbelief a bit
too far.
There is of course something cute about Presley in
this book, coming to the realisation that the BDSM she has been reading about
in her romance novels isn’t quite like the reality she’s encountering. I read
that and couldn’t help thinking that there must be a lot of (mainly) women out
there who have discovered the joys of reading this genre and now think they
know exactly what BDSM is. Chances are that most, if not all of them – probably
including myself – would be in for a rude awakening if confronted with the reality of the
life-style.
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