Surrender

Erotic Tales of Female Pleasure and Submission

By: Rachel Kramer Bussel

Narrated by: Mona Bella

Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

Bondage, spanking, sex parties, power play and more, all in one extra-kinky book collected by editrix extraordinaire, Rachel Kramer Bussel. The stories of Surrender showcase the fantasies and deepest wishes of women who love to be blindfolded, bound or used for a lover's pleasure. Whether in a hotel room, dungeon or even at a deli with instructions from the right dom, these women go deep into the heart of submission to experience the thrill of physical and mental surrender. A woman discovers that "Pink Cheeks" is more than just an online nickname in Fiona Locke's story, while Gwen Masters asks - and answers - "How Bad Do You Want It?" Alison Tyler's "The Hardest Part" exudes the powerful eroticism that anticipation of the next hard smack brings.

Surrender yourself to these tales of bad girl submissives who ache to be punished. With stories by Donna George Storey, Teresa Noelle Roberts, Emerald, Lolita Lopez, Terri Pray, Alison Tyler, Jacqueline Applebee, Tess Danesi, Shanna Germain, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Elizabeth Coldwell, Thomas S. Roche, Noelle Keely, M. Christian, Matt Conklin, Amanda Earl, Dominic Santi, Isabelle Gray, Justine Elyot, Fiona Locke, Gwen Masters, and Clancy Nacht.

©2011 Cleis Press (P)2013 Cleis Press

stories are good, narrator not so much

Any additional comments?

I like a lot of sex in my erotica, so I tend towards the compilation types rather than a novel. I mean, don't get me wrong... I like a good erotic novel, but they are few and far between; most end up being romance novels with a few steamy sex scenes. I much prefer explicit, raunchy, xxx stories which most would probably say are too extreme. I love the sleeping beauty series by anne rice, for instance.

anyway, the stories here are varied and most are adequately explicit for my tastes. However, I think the narrator did a horrible job with them. She isn't really cut out for erotica, in my opinion. she wasn't sultry at all, and was almost robotic at times. it all felt very rushed to me. she could have slowed down for sexy emphasis, and put a little purr into her voice here and there and every story would have been improved ten fold.

that being said, I'm still glad I bought the book, but I would have given it 5 stars had the narrator been a little sexier.