Review: Conflicting opinions creating confusion
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2012
I purchased this story because the subject matter is something I respond to and find erotic.  But this... This was not erotic. More like maddening, disappointing, irritating and in the end, infuriating. There were so many reviews that were conflicting, I just didn't know what to believe. So here is what I wish I had seen in the reviews. First, one reviewer said this was well written. Well, sort of, it sure had its fair share of missed words, doubled words and sentences that hadn't been fully corrected after editing and rewording. Not a huge amount, but certainly enough to not have been missed by the average reader.No actual sex until the very end. To me, domination, submission, spanking, its all foreplay leading up to something satisfying. Not so here. Poor misunderstood, mischaraterized Lucy doesn't get deflowered until the very end.She is not a submissive, but a free spirit. She is not masochistic, she doesn't get off on the spankings, lashings, and anal punishments. She doesn't respond sexually until her husband actually begins to touch her in an erotic way, at the end of the story.He doesn't dominate her, he treats her coldly, callously and smirks at her tears.  As another reviewer already stated, there is no tenderness, no love, no feelings what so ever.There really was no relationship between Lucy and Edward, no dialogue, no eye gazing, heck they were rarely in the same room except when being punished and when on horseback.What I found extremely annoying was that poor Lucy spent the entire story trying to understand and cope with the way shes being treated. She wonders why he hasn't made love to her, why he married her in the first place and only at the end does he actually talk to her.Then story was nothing more than age play disguised as D/s. If you like age play without love, without tenderness you will like this.