Generational Sins [Kindle Edition]

This book seems to have been compared to 50 Shades of Grey.

It was not and if 50 shades was your introduction to BDSM be prepared to read a very different take on in Generational Sins.

Generational Sins deals with an experienced submissive who is unable to process emotional pain without physical pain (sometimes extreme)
So this is not for the average BDSM reader. It deals with a very different type of dominance, family violence, sexual abuse, and a wealth of other emotions. It is also a story of hope and love.

David is studying to be a doctor, like his father. David's father is regarded as the pillar of the community but in reality he is an abusive sadistic father and husband. Control is the only thing he loves and respects.

When David leaves for college he takes his father's lessons with him - how to use and abuse women. David must provide a weekly report on how many woman he has f....d in a week and what the experience he has gained from this.

At college David meets Katlyn - a classmate who is his intellectual equal but becomes his emotional saviour.

I read this story in one go. I was captivated from the opening paragraph (which was shocking and gives you a taste of what is to come) until the end. It was well written and provided me with another view of BDSM. I also liked the way Samantha Blair told the story in timelines each chapter told from Kat and David's perspective.

An exceptional story and a difficult journey for David, Kat and David's mother.

Before you buy I would suggest you read the opening chapters on Samantha Blair's website.

This is an outstanding and engrossing story, which I cannot praise highly enough. It starts with a rather disturbing scene with all the main protagonists - the Paulson family - introduced together. While I was still digesting what I had just read, the story then took us back five years to set the scene in context.

The meeting of the h and h, David and Kat, is innocuous they meet in grad school and become lab/study partners. The story unfolds in quite an inventive manner with chapters alternating between the past and present and from David's perspective, then Kat's. One of the things I especially liked about this book is that running parallel to David and Kat's story and their fledgling D/s relationship is the abusive relationship between David's downtrodden mother and his bully of a father. Although 'bully' seems a rather inadequate word to describe what the man is. We suspect in the beginning that David is possibly going to go down the abusive road in his interactions with women but when he meets Kat as he himself says she 'completes him'.

I thoroughly recommend this book as an excellent first read if you want to try a book about a BDSM relationship. It is not an extreme, 24/7 total power transfer one so there is none of the objectification, humiliation, branding and name calling stuff involved - the latter of which always particularly rankles with me. The couple are equals in their marriage and in intellect but it is in the bedroom (or their playroom) that Kat's submissive tendencies come to the fore. It is actually she who is instrumental in pushing the relationship in that direction. They adhere to the safe, sane, consensual principle, have a working system of safe words etc. why even the collar David gives her sounds attractive!

A character called Cody, an experienced Dom, becomes a kind of mentor to David and is the means through which David and, I suppose if necessary, the reader also, learns about the lifestyle.

Alongside this there is great drama involving David's parents, which I will not go into as it would give away way too much. I will only say it was dramatic and involving and you may find yourself raising a silent cheer.

I felt like I had been on an emotional roller coaster by the end but content at the outcome and glad that I read the book.

This story is definitely adult only - dom/sub/angst...but a delicious read and a well paced storyline. Ms Blair is a compelling storyteller....leaves you desperate for the prequel and the sequel. I really loved the development of the relationships between the characters, how they struggle to deal with the inevitable collision and subsequent consequences.....my test of a good read is often would I read it again...absolutely. Well done Samantha Blair....