Review: Well written, Titillating but not over done
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 24, 2013
This was a well written short story (57 pages)  in a diary format.  Lady Catherine is a young bride of an older husband.  He is so afraid of insulting her propriety that their marriage bed is nothing but frustration for Lady Catherine.  She knows there should be more but how to get her uptight stalwart husband to come around to her way of thinking.Out of all the historical romance books I have read, this story probably comes the closest to the reality of how May-December marriages in the 19th century were conducted.  Sweet, proper young women were married off to older men for protection and to produce heirs to carry on the family dynasty and fortune. There was a dichotomy between what was expected in the marriage bed and what men found with other women outside of marriage. This story tells the story of Lady Catherine's wanting more than perfunctory sex from her marriage.  Although this story contains mild BDSM it is done in a tasteful manner.  However this is an erotic story and is titillating but not over the top with sex.