A worthy contemporary successor toSTORY OF O set in San Francisco’s Napa Valley, involving a Berkeley Ph.D. who also moonlights as a bike messenger and gets entangled into a sinister but alluring world of dungeons, BDSM and slave auctions. Strong stuff but undeniably compelling and full of gentle irony and reflection.
<I>Carrie's Story</I> is regarded as one of the finest erotic novels ever written- smart, devastatingly sexy and, at times, shocking, Molly Weatherfield has penned a book that is standing the test of time alongside <I>The Story of O</I> and <I>Justine</I>. in this new era of "BDSM romance," a la <I>50 Shades of Grey</I> the whips and cuffs are out of the closet and "chateau porn" has given way to mommy porn. <I>Carrie's Story</I> remains at the head of the class, literally. <BR> <BR>Imagine the <I>Story of O</I> starring a Berkeley PhD in comparative literature, who moonlights as a bike messenger, with a penchant for irony, self-analysis and as well as anal pleasures. Set in both San Francisco and the more chateau-friendly, Napa Valley, Weatherfield's deliciously decadent novel takes you on a sexually explicit journey into a netherworld of slave auctions, training regimes, enticing "ponies," (people) preening for dressage competitions. Desire runs rampant in this story of uncompromising mastery and irrevocable submission.
