"The Stepford Wives" by Rhett Dreams (reposted by somogy1@hotmail.com) Guest review by Piper

Funny. I've learned more about classical literature from reading "smut" in ass than I did all through school, university, and the many years of normal reading since. That's probably because my interests lie in other genres, like scifi, fantasy, comic books, and the like. This means I have absolutely no bias when (and no basis for) comparing this story with the original. Having said that, I think that Rhett's version is probably not as literary as the original, but it is probably much hotter and more titillating.

If you've never read the book or seen the movie (there is a movie, isn't there?), there is something strange going on in the town of Stepford, Kansas. Something very strange. All of the women are perfect. Not physically perfect, of course, but perfectly made up, perfectly dressed, perfectly mannered, and perfectly wonderful wives and mothers. Too perfect. Scary perfect. There's a reason for this perfection. He's called Dr. Richard Poulson -- aka Joseph Mengele, Jr.

He's controlling their minds, using drugs. But if you think this might be a normal run-of-the-mill mind control story, you would be wrong. Dr. Poulson has much greater ambitions than a small town like Stepford could ever contain. Who else is in on this plot? Just about every male resident of the town, of course. When will his ambitions break loose? Soon. Very soon.

Into this cauldron of depravity comes a couple of strangers and their little girl. These are normal, every day people. The doctor, in order to protect his dirty secrets, must incorporate these newcomers into his web. The husband must be seduced and compromised. The wife must be processed. All without their knowledge, of course. He orders his minions to see to it. When they try, complications arise.

I liked this story. There are plenty of plot twists. There are genuine bad guys and good guys. There is evil aplenty. There is tons of sex of all types and varieties and degrees of heat. Being a MC story, naturally a fair bit of it occurs without one or more of the participants' informed consent. Sometimes it occurs without their knowledge. Sometimes it involves whips and chains and crops and the like. Definitely not for the faint of heart, but definitely interesting and engrossing.

There are a couple of things that bothered me. One was the need for a final, thorough, proofreading. I hate getting deeply involved in a story, only to be thrown out of my carefully built up mental world by a wordsmithing problem. Another was the ending. I don't know how closely this story mirrors the original, but the ending was a little hokey. Minor hokey, but hokey none the less. Maybe that's just me and my non-literary judgementalism. I'm sure there will be lots of folks who will enjoy the ending.

Despite these minor flaws, I loved the story. It's worth a read. But be warned -- it's long. 410k long. I don't know how many words that translates into, but it's a lot! (I just got told it's around 75,000 words by one of my lady friends. Even she liked the story!)