ANGELS, DEMONS AND DOMS

TITLE: ANGELS, DEMONS AND DOMS

AUTHOR: CAROLINE McCALL & EILEEN GORMLEY

Pages: 80

Date: 14/01/2013

Grade: 4+

Details: Authors also write as Evie Hunter

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Lexi is a curvy woman aged 39 with angel wings tattooed on her back, who has more or less given up on her erotic dreams. With her marriage to a boring and cheating vanilla man behind her, she enjoys reading and fantasising about submitting to a powerful Dom, but she has no expectations of that ever really happening.

Sam is one of the Doms running Hades but hasn’t been involved with the club or the BDSM lifestyle since he married his now ex-wife. He has been admiring Lexi from a distance for a while when an unexpected session of telephone sex shows him that his dream woman is a natural submissive and provides him an opportunity to get her to visit his club.

Lexi has no idea what to expect when she enters Hades and she never dreamt that she would be seduced and pleasured by four masked Doms. Her introduction into this sensuous world is cut short when the scene is rudely interrupted by very unwelcome intruders. Embarrassed and confused Lexi flees the club and determines to have nothing to do with her anonymous Dom or his world again. Sam meanwhile is angry that his perfectly planned evening has come to nothing and is determined to get his “angel” back, even if it means pretending to the perfect vanilla boyfriend. Of course, pretending to be something you’re not always carries the risk of severe consequences when your deception is discovered. And Lexi is not one to be messed with.

This was a wonderful little novella. The story had everything a reader could wish for; realistic and interesting main characters, a captivating and believable story-line and a wonderful happy ending. Sam and Lexi go through their fair share of drama, but none of it was dragged out to the point where it gets frustrating. Both Sam and Lexi have their flaws and quirks as well as their charms and that makes them a pleasure to read about.

And talking about pleasure; the erotic scenes in this book were yummy. Whether it was the phone-sex, Lexi’s encounter with the four Doms or her drinks with Sam near the end of the book the descriptions of what they get up to and how it makes them feel would heat up an ice-cube. The BDSM in this book is of the milder variety, but with Lexi being new to the experience that makes perfect sense; anything more would have stretched the imagination too far. I know I’m going to have fun imagining where Sam might be taking his angel next.

The fact that Lexi, despite being a natural sub, is no push-over gave this book a nice added edge. I loved the way in which she managed to surprise Sam and make him think about what he was doing to her. There’s nothing quite like a strong female character submitting but not surrendering to her Master.

I really enjoyed this story. If I had a complaint it would be that it wasn’t any longer. I would have loved to read more about Lexi and Sam and the antics they get up to, especially the further exploration of Lexi’s new found sexual pleasures. I also hope that this will turn out to be the first book in a series. After all, Hades has more Doms and I’m sure they would like to find their special subs, just like Sam did. My only worry is that now that the authors, in their guise of Evie Hunter, have been offered a more main-line publishing contract, Hades and its members may end up on the backburner. I can only hope that I will be proven wrong on that point.

For more by these authors, writing as Evie Hunter,  have a look at my thoughts on The Pleasures of Winter and A Touch of Winter. 

INTRODUCING A NEW BLOG

IF YOU CAN’T STAND THE HEAT…

Stay out of the kitchen or, in this case, start a new blog.

It was May, 2012 when curiosity got the better of me and I picked up Fifty Shades of Grey. I reviewed that book as well as its two sequels on in this blog and followed that up with a post on the trilogy as a whole and therefore won’t be going into what I thought about the books, the story-line, the writing or the phenomena here again. I will admit though that reading those three books awakened in me a taste for erotic stories that I thought I had left behind when I ended my teenage years.

 

Eight months and 46 erotic books and stories later I’ve come to the conclusion that I enjoy the genre too much to give up on it again. I have however also discovered that it is very hard to do (some of) these works justice in a general blog that can be read by anybody. While it is quite possible to give short descriptions and my thoughts on these books without using language or descriptions that might offend some people it does mean that there are huge sections of story I can only refer to in the most general of terms. This is not always satisfying for me and I imagine that it can also be frustrating for those reading the reviews because they want to find out more about the erotic content of a book – the part that I tend to describe in only the vaguest of terms.

I’ve thought about all of this for quite a while now and have decided that the only thing to do is start a second book blog. From this moment onward every work of erotica will be reviewed in both blogs. While More Than a Reading Journal will continue to describe the books and stories in the most general and “inoffensive” of terms, If You Can’t Stand the Heat will allow me to give more graphic details of the stories and to explore my thoughts and feelings about those. Because I won’t be mincing my words in the new blog I’ve added an age-barrier to it. Anybody wanting to read that blog will have to confirm that they are over 18 years of age. While I’m aware that this is a voluntary barrier and in no way stops anybody from reading my posts there, it will serve as a warning for those who would rather not be confronted with adult content.

I’m playing with the idea of doing a bit more than just book reviews in this new blog. I think I may also indulge in posts in which I explore my likes and dislikes in this genre and maybe even try my hand at a bit of creative writing. I don’t know yet. In many ways a new blog is like a blank page; it can be filled with anything and everything that springs to mind. The only thing I know for sure right now is that I will be reviewing my kinky reads in far more detail than I have been doing so far, everything else is “wait and see” both for the reader and for the writer.