Review: Informative and Tantalizing
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 15, 2014
Jean-Claude Carvill's tantalizing novel "Rebecca's Bottom" is so much more than a novel- it's a brief history and explanation of BDSM, practices, and lifestyle, as well as a how to guide covering nearly every personal aspect of BDSM.First off, the characters are well-developed and realistic. Their relationships with one another, from the silly Father Williams to Rebecca and David to Andrea and beyond draw on archetypes that many people can relate to. I personally had a professor like "Tim" and a friend like Sven. One of the beauties of this novel is that the reader can relate and place himself or herself in with the characters. There is no porn without plot here- the sex scenes are erotic and arousing, but they serve an overall purpose within the plot.One aspect of the novel that I found particularly intriguing was that Rebecca becomes attracted to BDSM while in the process of converting to Catholicism. She strikes me as a religious girl with some experience with sex, no qualms about it, yet she's in the process of converting to a strict faith. From my own experiences as a Catholic, BDSM is all at once tolerated and abhorred. This provided an interesting backdrop to the novel that could take up pages and pages of an academic account of BDSM and the Catholic church. "Rebecca's Bottom" has spurred me on to explore this topic a bit more on my own.If you are looking for a steamy read that goes so much deeper than a pulp erotic novel, then this is for you. I was very impressed with Mr. Carvill's coverage of this topic and I look forward to exploring more of his work in the future.