Review: Excellent novel combining erotic scenes and great plot
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2014
Rebecca's Bottom by Jean-Claude Carvill is a captivating erotic novel that explores the world of BDSM in a new light. The book views BDSM as a life journey of a character who felt lost and out of touch with the world until she discovered the form and method of BDSM that not only brought meaning to her life, but also helped her find her true identity.While the book is certainly well placed under the erotica category, it's a lot more than just a saucy story. It is also a thorough description and in many ways explanation of the BDSM lifestyle, values, discipline and hierarchy. It is also a self-discovery road that the heroine, Rebecca, completes.Rebecca is a college student who is evidently lost in life. She is not satisfied by her background, her faith (hence her conversion to Catholicism), her surroundings, and her job. She is searching for something better, something more. Something that will make her feel true to herself and be accepted by the society at the same time. But things don't work out quite according to her original plan. She becomes part of the BDSM community that is in many ways better structured and disciplined than the world of mediocrity where she was drowning. Through her sexual journey, Rebecca finds her place in life, people with whom she feels at home, and her own true identity that she had been suppressing all her life.The book is very well written and even though it is classified as erotica, it reads well even by those who are not fans of the genre. It's not smut, it's good literature.