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"A Hope and A Prayer" by Generic Joe (light bdsm) 8, 9, 8
"A Hope and A Prayer" by Generic Joe (genericjoe@vnet.net). Guest review by Mark Aster. This is a nice light bdsm story, with some good sex and some interesting characters. I won't give you all the details. A friend of mine pointed out recently that each reader has the chance to read a story for the first time only once, and I don't want to steal that chance from you with this review. Not that it has a surprise ending or a twist or anything like that; it's just that any story that's at all good is especially nice the first time through, leaping out at you from behind an armoire. The basic layout: the (male) narrator is hauled into court for driving with a suspended license, and he notices that the judge is the same fascinating Domme that he met the other day at an informal gathering of local bdsm fans. She imposes a light official sentence, on the condition that he come to her chambers later, to pay the fine in person. He does. Fun things happen. I found the sex scenes (one recalled, one in narrative time) pleasant, if not amazingly hot. This is not dark bdsm, not humiliation stuff. These are friendly and rational people, who just happen to have noticed that pain can play an important part in really hot and orgasmic sex, and that consensual control-games can add spice to it. It is, if you will, the vanilla version of spanking and domination. It sounds like fun to me! But if you're looking for people actually being nasty to each other, or even seriously pretending to, you'll have to look elsewhere. The Numbers: Athena: 8 (fine writing, a bit of its/it's and lie/lay confusion and stuff) Venus: 9 (nicely-drawn characters; lady judges are good fantasy figures!) Mark: 8 (I would have liked a bit less setup and more sex, but I'm greedy) |