Review: A single book shouldn't be able to contain this much fun
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2014
(This is an abbreviated version of a review that will appear on SpankingRomance.com.)The Winter Storm is absolutely unique, I think, even in the wonderful little sub-genre of fairytale spanking stories. The book's triple authorship accomplishes that on its own, but the hilarious, touching story that seems to have resulted from the heck of a good time the authors had writing the book also sets it well apart from anything else in spanking fiction.I find it nearly impossible to describe the plot and characters of the book without giving away large parts of the fun of discovering the many little allusions to classic fairytales that all three authors have scattered through the book. I think I must let it suffice to say that the story constantly reminded me of two of my very favorite writers of non-spanking fantasy, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. That's because the world created by Deane, McKay, and Rose bears a superficial resemblance both to a standard fairytale setting (wolves, fairies) and to our regular old modern world (cellphones, spas). The tropes of other kinds of fantasy--werewolves and slayers, for example--also enter in, to create their own contrasts. Like Gaiman and Pratchett, the authors then use the interference between the two to create lovely, and often hilarious, incongruities like a hirsute Mr. B. B. Wolfe running the Spa N K, where he can provide both tender, healing spankings, and ferocious, lupine carnal action.