Review: Victorian vice with lots of spice
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2012
Usually when someone mentions the Victorian era, images of straight-laced morality comes to mind along with images of proper gentlemen and ladylike ladies. So it's especially tantalizing to think that all those ladies became ladylike under the tutelage of a stern man like Uncle Charles.If you like stories of stern discipline, this is the book for you.You have to feel a tad sorry for the two main characters at the offset of the story. Poor Clara and Louise - after the death of their headmistress they're packed off to London to live with their uncle. They clearly expect him to be an absentee guardian but they are sorely mistaken, pun intended. Uncle Charles takes a very personal interest in their guidance. He's doesn't spare the rod - or in this case, the cane. And when he's not available to discipline the girls, there's always Frau Schwartz, who is about as fearsome a governess as ever graced the pages of a Victorian spanking novel. Like Charles, she relishes in disciplining her charges. But be warned - the discipline in this book is so explicitly written that you may find yourself squirming a little as you read the passages, especially the ones on birching.Anne Randolph's descriptions are nothing short of delicious. If you enjoy crystal clear imagery of fair bloomer-framed bottoms birched until they are covered with screaming red lines of pain, restrictive corsetry and other heavy BDSM themes all in a historical setting you do not want to miss this book. Will poor Clara and Louise be sufficiently tamed to fetch proper, strict husband? I don't want to give the plot away, but you will certainly want to find out.