Hilary James

Bondage and submission stories cover a wide range of modern fetish literature, and the active ingredient as concerns any particular devotee can include elements of humiliation, rigorous discipline, corporal punishment, restraint, and bodily functions that are not universally considered as erotic. This book is quite strong on restraint and humiliation, and it is almost free of punishment interest; only rarely-exacted threats and extremely perfunctory descriptions are involved. It is almost exclusively F/F in orientation, with the token male almost eunuch-like in his restraint. But then even the F/F love-making scenes are treated in an off-hand way, seething with boredom rather than erotic frisson, and the fetishes described are required to stand on their own rather than as an adjunct to ‘other’ activities. This is the fourth book in a series; perhaps the earlier volumes are less disinterested, but I found this one bloodless to the point of pointlessness. If you’re turned on by the provoked lactation of young girls, and hints at ill-defined (but odd) M/F behaviour, then you may find this book a great experience, but I found it spent most of the time just going listlessly through the motions.… (meer)