I had a completely new experience. I
read a FemDom book...
I'm not into this particular kink yet when I
stumbled upon this book I was genuinely excited. Ever since I read
Promise by Allyson Young,
which has some role switch play, I've been curious as to what it
would be like to read about an actual FemDom love story that isn't
with two women.
I've read the stories where a female
sub of a man is a top to another woman. I've also read many main
secondary characters that are FemDoms with a female sub.
I've been reading my way through all of
Cherise Sinclairs books (which are rocking my world and I
will talk about in a week or two) and they are mainly in a club
setting. With her books you get the full scope of the BDSM club
environment, with interaction with the other Doms and subs, and I've
noticed a few of Dommes with male subs.
I had decided I wanted to
read about those intriguing Domme/m-sub couples but I had no idea where to start. Plus, I actually have some mental hang
ups where FemDoms are concerned.
At the risk of sounding like a complete
twat hat I'm going to be honest. When I thought of Dommes I thought
of the cliché sadist dominatrix in head to toe patent leather with
riding crop in hand, yelling in German.
Well, okay, that is kind of their look.
I had to push past my hangups
and misconceptions that I knew where wrong but I still
couldn't wrap my head around.
First, just like there are different degrees of male Doms there are different degrees of FemDoms. Not all the Dommes want to crush nuts and make all the boys cry.
The softer side of the Domme.
Second, I've always understood a women topping
another women. I could even understand how a man would want to be topped
by a women but I couldn't understand, could never wrap my head
around, a woman topping a man. Not to the level beyond play. Not
without something being mentally wrong with her.
I know, that
is super close minded and super hypocritical for someone that
reads what I enjoy reading.
My head is fully wrapped around the
concept now. I get it and the book Still got me there.
Ann Mayburn's book Still
(FemDom Military Romance) (Long Slow Tease 1) is
incredible.
Our very typical alpha male Wyatt
Callahan is drinking through his PTSD and generally making poor
decisions since he's been back from the middle east.
Dr. Michelle Sapphire has been fighting
her attraction to Wyatt since they were over in the 'sandbox'
together. Besides emotional hang ups where any new relationship is
concerned, she is completely into the BDSM lifestyle, she being a
natural Domme to her core.
Michelle has been keeping her distance
from Wyatt because of these things but that all changes when she's
called at three am to make his bail.
Michelle gives Wyatt two choices. She
will send him to the best facility there is for PTSD, at her expense,
or he can stay with her for at least one month at her ranch with the
condition he has to be her sub if he stays.
With nothing to loose and everything to
gain Wyatt chooses to stay with Michelle as her sub.
Wyatt isn't a natural sub. He's a super
alpha male. This is what makes this story so compelling. I went on
quite the journey with Wyatt through this story.
The first half of the story Wyatt is
really fighting his natural instinct to take over, and I kept waiting for him to take control. Of course he doesn't
because he loves Michelle and is really getting addicted to her
topping him. Yet at the same time he's having to come to terms with
what being a sub is and what a full time relationship with her would
mean.
I was so distraught that Michelle
wasn't letting Wyatt's inner Dom out when of course the whole thing is about
him finding his inner sub. I was surprised by how moved I was by this
story. It really pulled my heart strings while at the same time got
me out of a mental box I hadn't even realized I was in. Accepting
Wyatt as a sub was really hard for me, but in a good way.
This is a full length read so don't
expect to finish it in one sitting and prepare to be addicted. The
story has a HEA but it happens with loose ends, since there is a book
two Penance (Long
Slow Tease 2).
In
book two Michelle and Wyatt head out into the world and Michelle is
going to expose Wyatt to club life which I don't think he's ready
for. I don't think Michelle has prepared him for it at all and I'm
dying, dying
to read the second book and find out what the hell happens!!!! (I love Wyatt and Michelle)
Warning; This book contains graphic sexual content including, a women who likes to take control in the bedroom, BDSM with the use of sexual toys, an alpha male with a healthy love of cunnilingus and cock rings and language that may be offensive to some readers.
Ann
Mayburn
has a few other dominant heroine books (that I know of). A sci-fi with
rave reviews called Breakers Concubine,
that I almost read before this one. A paranormal fantasy Princess of Lust, a contemporary Scandalous Wish and a paranormal shifters Amber Wish.
Ann Mayburn has an immensely wide variety of BDSM and romance books (all with positive reviews), from m/f to m/m to every mix of menage you can think of. With plenty of female subs as well as male subs Ann Mayburn has something for everyone.
The settings of her stories range from historical westerns to deep space sci-fi, so if you can't find an Ann Mayburn book you want to read you haven't seen them all.
I'm glad I went with the full FemDom experience first. Like
I said before, it really opened my mind.
I'm not a FemDom. I don't have an inner FemDom and would have been
crying and apologizing to Wyatt if I had been the one trying to top
him. I think playing the FemDom is fun only when I know I'm going to
get over thrown.
Plus it's easier being a sub and if I had to choose between latex, leather or naked, I'd pick naked (wobbly bits and all) every time. You can't find a material more breathable than naked!
I still really enjoyed this book and there are women out there that don't just want to read about heroines wanting to get topped. I
have friends that are toppers and switches that would love this book and more like them.
Kudos to Ann Mayburn for breaking out and giving readers a smorgasbord of well written erotica.
Ann
Mayburn did an amazing job of
writing an alpha male sub and a loveable Domme not to mention an overall great love story. I'll be reading a
lot more Ann Mayburn in the future and eagerly
await the release of Penance (Long
Slow Tease 2).
Thank You, Ann Mayburn!!!
For more on Ann Mayburn and her many books please visit her @ www.annmayburn.com
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