Kimberly

I enjoyed this book when I read it in college, I enjoyed it even more a few years ago. This is classic literature, it is dark, and naughty and hot....but it is literature..not beach trash. There is nothing light or whisical about it.

The story is prefaced with a number of forwards, and literary studies on the work which I found fascinating.

The story was originally published in 1954 as Histoire d'O. It was penned entirely in french and some may find the "translation" difficult. The writer, Anne Desclos a french author and journalist, wrote the book because her editor said no woman could write erotica. She did not reveal herself as the author until 40 years later.

I enjoyed the audible edition, and truly appreciated the forwards, but it will not be for everyone.

The only thing to say about this book is that it was wonderful. All of the stories were good, a couple of them were sensational. Very credit worthy.

To be completely fair I should preface this review with a qualifier ~I couldn't get through the whole thing~.

Book one of this series wasn't spectacular, but it was okay. This may be the worst second installment in history.

Anna's inner dialogue makes her sound like an ill-bred golden retriever. She is depicted as being so damaged and so traumatized that it makes Stephen's desire to make her his submissive creepy.

The final straw for me came about two hours into the listen ( nothing erotic having happened up to that point) when she is so broken she can't manage to say his name without sounding it out like it was swahili.

Submissives are wonderful because they are strong and empowered by their service and sexual freedoms. That is nowhere near what this is.

This book is amazingly hot....and naughty....and hot....and well read...and hot....and suspensful...and hot. Did I mention it was hot? Not like jalepeno pepper hot.....like Vindaloo curry hot.

There is an art to talking dirty...and Jack Cole has it down to a science.....

I loved this, I was literally laughing aloud. You want to hate her, you really do...but you just can't. Tastes a little like Mean Girls....fun listen!

This was truly awful....really. I made it about 45 minutes into the book before I just had to turn it off. A woman who works at a sex club got fired from her last job for having sex at work, offers to have a threesome out of the blue with another employee......but dumps her boyfriend for talking dirty to someone on the phone? Ya....that happens.

I don't expect realism, it is fiction afterall, but sheesh.....there ought to be enough in there that I can get caught up in the fantasy of it.

I suppose it might get better later in the book, but I'll never know.

Again, this one stays on the iPod. The narrator is perfect and I love the story. It's obscene, raunchy, hardcore and I loved every minute of it..all three listens.

Wow....just wooowwwwww!!! I had to add new highs to the naughty scale...I love this one. Almost as much as I love the Marketplace series. Def not for the faint of heart....but for me...perfect. This one stays on the ipod.

This doesn't register high on my naughty scale, but it was well worth the credit. I enjoyed the book. If you liked 50 shades, you'll love it. There's more suspense, there's humour and the main character gets past the whiney stage fairly quickly.

I wanted to spank Tessa, and not not in the good way. I'm quite certain I rolled my eyes more than once, but it wasn't awful. A little too predictable, a little too cheesy. A little too 50 shades.

This is not bad, the sex scenes are hot, and there are a lot of them, it tasted a little like a very...very naughty Hunger Games. It did not really grab me and take hold like some stories do, but all in all it was ok. If you are looking for a naughty listen, you coulddo mch worse.