"Meeting her Match" Justine Elyot Xcite Press
"It is a truth universally to be acknowledged that a single dom in possession of a whip must be in search of a sub"
Classy opening, which Justine Elyot develops into a very well written book. First and foremost, it's extremely hot, funny when it needs to be, as in the all too accurate description of how dull vanilla life feels when you're on the verge of taking the plunge into the fetish scene. Cherry's a smart cookie, a teacher, no Bridget Jones ditziness, but lightly amusing all the same. He's a medical professional, tough but tender, never overbearing, massively experienced. As she's a kink virgin she needs exactly such a man, and not the sadistic creeps she might have met first time around.
Too much information alert! Fifteen pages into this excellent book I drew the curtains and got my dear wife to turn the racing off. We plighted our troth, after a lot of sub female CP play similar to this novel's opening. One of those "Where did THAT come from?" couplings. Well, it came courtesy of Justine Elyot and Xcite Press. I flew solo with this book on the second day and achieved another happy landing. Enough of my hobbies. Speaking of openings, and butt plugs, the play gets more extreme as she makes her journey through the sexual undergrowth.
While missing her first Dom she is bought from a slave auction to become part of a mansion full of trainee subs. More hardcore action here.
Anyone who knows scene etiquette will be satisfied with the realism, and as for the phwoar factor, the needle's right over in the red, flickering up to Spinal Tap's eleven. The first person narration throughout is a very smooth ride nailing the ups and downs of modern life and typical scene types. There's narrative tension in addition to the masses of high quality erotica. As kink rearranges lives there's the agony of disintegrating familes and will I lose my job? Has she gone too far with strangers at the slave Mansion. Will she meet her first Dom again?
Good covers are a given with Xcite, this one features a darkly romantic besuited guy, classy blonde with blindfold. An excellent package all round. Mark Ramsden