BDSM A-Z 2012 Challenge

This is a popular challenge from several other groups which we are going to borrow and use here. For those who enjoy a longer challenge, we are going to do a yearlong one for BDSM too. This is the A-Z challenge.

Rules
1. Sign up is any time in 2012.
2. Book should be a BDSM theme.
3. Books have to be read in the calendar year 2012
4. Sign up in this thread with a post listing all your books
5. Titles of the books have to start with the letter of the alphabet
6. Reading starts January 1, 2012.
7. Reading ends December 31, 2012.

If you complete this early, you can run through it again. 

I'm done!

Read 26/26

Autumn's Fuck Toy
Blushing Violet
Chairman of the Whored
Dark Angel Sounding
Erotic Stories of Domination and Submission: Taking Jennifer
Forbidden Room
Gingerbread Dungeon
Honeymoon Perversion
Island
Jesse's Story
Keep Me Safe
Lady's Maid
Marked for Surrender
Nursing A Grievance
One Worth Finding
Purple Passion
Quick Study
Red Lust
S&M 101
Take Your Pleasure
Undone Rebel
Very Demon Christmas
Wild Side of Christmas
XXX-tra Credit
Yellowstone Wild
Zoe's New Job

Review: Love and Brimstone

Love and Brimstone by Tymber Dalton

My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars





Impulse control! That is what Robertson must teach Anastazia "Taz" Proctor. Who exactly is Robertson? He reminds me of Alfred from the Batman shows. He's a lawyer who is also a nanny for the infant Taz. Taz is a very precocious little girl who seems to possess the power of persuasion. Is the force strong in you, Taz? Strong she is; dark she is not. At least this is what my inner Yoda says. Turns out, Taz is from a line of people who have special powers and persuasion is the least of it all. Her entire life has been carefully monitored unbeknownst to her. When the truth is revealed it her, she takes it rather badly.

I've read other paranormal romance stories by the talented Ms. Dalton. This is the first one where it's about vampires. The vampires in this world are very different than the ones I'm used to and that's pretty cool for me. These vampires are more like witches and sorcerers, truth be told. It is a nice twist. The world Ms. Dalton built is slow in its reveal. It's like a striptease and at the end of the book, we haven't even seen skin yet. I want to learn more about this world. I am just as frustrated as Taz. Where is my Buffy's Vampire guide? And where are all the other women? Why is Taz only surrounded by men? Not that there is anything wrong with the center of attention from men, but it's just a little odd to me. I am very surprised a main character was killed off. It shocked me and my brain came to a halt.

The characters in this book are very lovable. Taz is a funny snarky control freak. I can totally relate. Cousins Matthias and Rafe are both super hot and I would be hard pressed to choose between the two. Matthias is an alpha dog with the attitude to follow it, at first. Rafe is a hot love them and leave them playboy. As we learn more about Taz, the hints about her comfort with Rafe have me sick to my stomach since she's with Mattias and this isn't a ménage story. I fear I know where this is going. What disappointed me a bit is how quickly both Matthias and Rafe went beta to Taz's out of control behaviour. If anyone needed a spanking, Taz is one who desperately needed it. This isn't a BDSM book so none of that happened. Instead, we find Taz trampling all over the men. I understand it is because Taz is very powerful. Still, I would have liked someone to stand up to her.

The storyline captivated me from the very first page and all the way through to the end. This is a page turner and when the book ends, the only thing you will want is to read the next book. I know I did. I recommend this book to paranormal romance readers who want a twist to the vampire mythology.



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30 Days of Kink!

     One of the authors on Goodreads pointed this fun little writing exercise which I will attempt to complete over 30 days in July.  In June, I'm going to be doing my best to write 50K words at Camp NaNo.   Camp NaNo is a child of the November NaNo.  My attempt will be a BDSM F/f story because that is what currently appeals to me.  I don't have a title yet for it.  I did start a chapter already in my musings.  We'll see how it goes.

     Back to the 30 Days of Kink.  It was started by I believe Rayne at Insatiable Desire. Here's the 30 day writing assignment.  I'll come back to this post and link back to it.

Day 1: Dom, sub, switch? What parts of BDSM interest you? Give us an interesting in-depth definition of what that means to you. Basically define your kinky self for us.

Day 2: List your kinks.

Day 3: How did you discover you were kinky?

Day 4: Any early experiences that, in retrospect, hint at your kinks?

Day 5: What was your first kinky sexual experience? If you haven’t had one yet, talk about what you hope to have happen.

Day 6: Describe your weirdest/most interesting sexual fantasy.

Day 7: What’s your favorite toy?

Day 8: Post a kinky image you find erotic.

Day 9: Post a kink related song or music video you enjoy.

Day 10: What are your hard limits?

Day 11: What are your views on the ethics of kink?

Day 12: Tell us about a humorous BDSM/kink experience you’ve had. If you haven’t had one, talk about aspects of kink/BDSM you find funny.

Day 13: Explain as best you can what the appeal of kink/BDSM is to you? Why are you drawn to what you’re drawn to?

Day 14: How would you say real life BDSM/kink varies from fantasy BDSM/kink? If you haven’t experienced real life BDSM/kink how do you think it might differ?

Day 15: Post a BDSM/kink activity you’re curious about and would like to try.

Day 16: What are the most difficult aspects of having a sexuality that involves kink or BDSM for you personally?

Day 17: What misconception about kinky people would you most like to clear up?

Day 18: Any kinky/BDSM pet peeves? If so, what are they?

Day 19: Any unexpected ways kink has improved your life? If so, what are they?

Day 20: Talk about something within kink/bdsm that you’re curious about/don’t understand.

Day 21: Favorite BDSM related book (fiction or non-fiction)

Day 22: What do you think is important in keeping a BDSM relationship healthy? How does it differ from a vanilla relationship?

Day 23: Since you first developed an interest in kink, have your interests/perspectives changed? How so?

Day 24: What qualities do you look for in a partner?

Day 25: How open are you about your kinks?

Day 26: What’s your opinion on online BDSM play?

Day 27: Do your non-kink interests ever find their way into your kinky activities? If so, how?

Day 28: How do you dress for kink/BDSM play? What significance does your attire have to you?

Day 29: Do you have a BDSM title (e.g. mistress, master, slut, pig, whore, princess, goddess, ma’am, sir)? What is your opinion of the use of titles in general?

Day 30: Whatever BDSM/kink related thing you want to write about.

Review: Petslaves

Petslaves by N.T. Morley

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Heat Rating: Blaze

Sting (Kink) Rating: 5 Stars

Story Review Rating: 4 Paddles


What’s your dark fantasy that you don’t want to tell anyone about? Maybe it involves being a puppy or kitty? Maybe it involves humiliation and another woman? These are fantasies you don’t really want to happen to you, but reading them gets you so hot that you have to go “take care” of yourself? I LOVED Petslaves by NT Morley. This collection of stories is BLAZING hot. Each story aroused me to a feverish pitch. They are all depraved. There is not a single one with romance in it. If you are looking for romance, this is not the book for you. If you are looking for intense taboo humiliation, this is the book for you!

What I enjoyed about these stories is the intense humiliation factor. We take females in every single one of these stories and dehumanize them. Some of them start out as girlfriends; others are wives. The dominating men are cruel and the dominating women are crueler. Most of the stories involve puppy play in a TPE. They are all different in their combination of M/F/f to M/F and how the additional woman comes into play. The only light one is the kitty play which is rather sweet. The only one which involved heavy body modification was My Dairy Cow Fantasy. This was a sci-fi futuristic naughty fantasy. I loved it! I enjoy body modification stories and combining it with being a human cow is always a win for me. There are two cow stories and both were fun.

My favourite ones were Pepper and Crystal’s Pet. I really wish these were longer. I would have loved to read more about Ariel’s demotion to family pet. Her best friend Mia certainly did a number on her. It’s so hawt. I enjoy M/F/f stories so both Pepper and Crystal’s Pet are especially appealing to me. Of the two, I found Crystal’s Pet to be hotter because the degradation and humiliation was more intense. To have a younger woman replace you as the “wife” and being demoted to an anal fuck-hole puppy who can’t speak, it’s pretty hot. While I wouldn’t like this in real life, I definitely do love reading about it. I hope there’s more in the training of Crystal’s Pet and I’d love to read a follow up where she’s sent to the pound. Many of the mentioned things in Crystal are depraved but I loved it. It’s a guilty pleasure.

The reason why I didn’t give this story a 5 star for writing is due to the grammar and spelling issues. There were a couple of them in the stories which threw me. I’m not a picky editing type, but if I notice it, it’s a problem. Overall, this book is awesome and I highly recommend it to BDSM roleplay fantasy lovers. This dark book hits the spot. I’ve been a fan of NT Morley since The Castle. This book is another winner.



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Review: On Display

On Display by Lorelei Powers

My rating: 2 of 5 stars



This book was just okay for me which is why it is a 2.5 star. Since I truncate, it's a 2 on GR.

Heat Rating: Spark

Sting (Kink) Rating: 2 Stars

Story Review Rating: 3 Paddles


I enjoy femdom stories. In fact, I love them. It doesn’t matter to me if the submissive or slave is female or male, it all works for me. In this short collection by Ms. Powers, we are treated to a variety of femdom tales. Each of the combinations from F/f to F/m are ones I’m excited to read.

This collection seems unfinished. Some of the stories contained neither beginning nor end, just a middle. It’s almost as if we are wandering through a BDSM party and only catching glimpses of each scene. This is not my preferred writing style. While the scenes were tantalizing, I barely tasted it before it was ripped away from me. I couldn’t even feel yearning for more because I blinked and the scene changed. At one point, I was sure some of the stories were missing pages. I had to double check to make sure this wasn’t the case. I recommend Ms. Powers focus on writing a story which contains a beginning, middle and an end.

The domming scenes were appealing to me. My favourite one is the last one, the one with the artists. I liked the older more experienced Domme who would take gifted artists on as apprentices. Her methodology was definitely unconventional yet so bloody enticing. When the words stopped for this story, it was more like a crashing halt. Frustrating is an understatement to how I felt.
I do want to make a point that each of the BDSM scenes was very realistic. I could tell Ms. Powers is in the lifestyle and most likely a Domme. This appeals to me because I could feel the D/s exchanges. For this, I definitely commend Ms. Powers. This book is probably best for BDSM readers who want just a little sip of Femdom.




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Review: Fury

Fury by Laurann Dohner

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I had to see what all the hoopla was about. Some people love the New Species series, others hate them. I'm a lover not a hater. I enjoyed this first book quite a bit. I read through the entire book in one sitting. Three and a half hours later I was so wired I couldn't go to bed.

We are at the beginning of this new world where humans have been DNA spliced with animals. This world is almost identical to [a:Lora Leigh|2614|Lora Leigh|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1211464290p2/2614.jpg]'s Breed series. Pretty much everyone who has read Ms. Leigh's Breed series says the same thing.

Similarities:

1. Evil scientists torturing hybrids.
2. Animalistic qualities such as fangs, strength, hearing/smelling, etc.
3. Most importantly, the dicks of each hybrid male takes on characteristics of the animal. Yup, you got it. A knot for the canines!
4. Pure human hate groups
5. Creating essentially a reservation/compound as a safe haven for these hybrids.
6. Mating desires (not heat)
7. Questions about whether there will be children to cross breed.
8. Original scientist who designed the hybrids was a female who destroyed all the original paperwork and disappeared. (How much do you want to bet she left with one of the first prototypes and they are still looking very young?)
9. Focused on one pivotal couple.

Differences:

1. Medical company version a secret consortium.
2. Spliced with domesticated animals for female sex slaves to satisfy the bestiality sex fetish.
3. More of a BDSM undertone.

I liked Ellie and Fury. I enjoyed them and found them to be uncomplicated. Ellie's interaction with the female breeds was fun to watch. It was a hoot for them to think of her as a pet poodle. Cute. I do wonder, if there were female sex slaves, are there going to be male ones? I'd be surprised if there were not. I guess I need to read the other books in the series.

Overall this was a 3.5 rating. I recommend this book to paranormal romance lovers who also liked Lora Leigh's breed series.



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Death in the BDSM Lifestyle

I am saddened by a post in fetlife which details the death of one of the founders of http://www.kinkengineering.com/index.html Kink Engineering.  This young man, 35 years of age died through an accident that was just heart breaking, especially for his lover.  Basically, the young man broke the safety rules.  There are two things when done together result in a high probability of death.  Never be fully restrained AND be alone at the same time.  In this case, Matt hit the probability. 

Matt is one of the few who design and build vacuum beds.  This is a very erotic type of play which takes mummification up to another level.  While I personally have never played this or seen it in real life, I've seen videos of it and I'm always a bit unnerved.  It is not my type of fetish yet I understand it's appeal.  It's isolation in an extreme way while involving restraint.  Pretty sexy and sometimes very hot, temperature wise.

Matt always said, don't do this alone, it is never safe.  This begs the question, why did he do this?  Why did he test out something he cautioned against?  He died due to testing a new way to be restrained in the vac bed, alone.  The actual cause of death was strangulation due to his throat being too tightly compressed and shutting off blood flow.  I can't imagine the panic going through his mind when this was happening.  I also feel only sorrow for the loved ones left behind.  I can't imagine how his lover feels after going on a business trip to return home to find her lover dead.  It's very sad.

UPDATE - it's now outside of fetlife with the announcement

RIP, Matt.

Archean and the staff at Kink Engineering are sad to report that Mad_Scientist (Matt) passed away on May 23rd, 2012, at the age of 35.  His death was accidental.  He was a great friend, a brilliant mind, and an exceptional lover.

Matt was awesomely creative and scientifically curious.  His first focus for his customers was always safety.  Many of you will remember Matt commenting in the vac bed groups and taking a strong stand against the idea that a person could safely do vac bed bondage whilst alone. 

Kink Engineering’s philosophy continues to be safety first; therefore, even though it hurts to say it, we have a duty and responsibility to the community and to our past and future customers to be completely honest here. 
Matt died, because he made a stupid decision to go into a vac bed alone, while Archean was out of town.  He thought he had figured out the safety issues and created another layer of safety; he was wrong and it cost him his life. 

There is no way that we at Kink Engineering could ever cover up the real cause of death and pretend it happened any other way, to do so would be a disservice to our customers, the community, and to Matt, who was adamant that vac beds be used responsibly and safely.

Matt’s death was a direct result of prolonged neck compression from the neck gasket.  The bed he chose to go in had been custom fitted to Archean, who has a much smaller neck.  The baro receptors in his internal carotid arteries signaled to his body that his blood pressure was dangerously high, and this sent off a vagal response to slow the heart.  Since the signal of high blood pressure could not be relieved, Matt lost consciousness and the vagal response caused his heart to stop completely.

Had there been a person to assist outside the vac bed, they would have been able to get him out at the first sign of trouble or non-responsiveness.  All Matt’s safety contingency plans relied on him still being conscious enough to implement them, and thus, they were useless.

Never, ever get into a vac bed alone.  There is no safe way to do so.  The man who understood vac beds the best, in the whole world, wasn’t able to do it safely.  Please do not allow this scene to replay with another person’s death.

We will miss you and love you forever, Matty.