Every Time a Bell Clinks, B.J. Frazier Gets Her Kinks in Mistletoe Bound
Author: B.J. Frazier
Publication Date: December 24, 2024 by B.J. Frazier Publications, LLC
Genres: Fiction | Erotica
Protagonist Gender: Male
Having deconstructed the entire genre of Hallmark Holiday romances in A Domme for Christmas, the lovely Miss B.J. Frazier turns her attention to a holiday classic here, reinventing It’s A Wonderful Life as a kink-fueled tale of meaning and purpose in Mistletoe Bound.
Like the movie, the story starts on a rather dour note with Nolan Drexel finding himself at a breaking point. Jobless, struggling to make ends meet, feeling sorry for himself, and dealing (poorly) with the added stresses of the holidays, he comes across as miserable, at best, and cruel, at worst. Honestly, I have to give Miss Frazier credit for going all-in and sticking with the theme because, despite my sympathies, I found myself wondering how long I could put up with his selfish antics. Even a bizarrely inappropriate femdom-themed job interview couldn’t compete in my imagination with the way he snapped at his kids for ruining a moment of intimacy with his wife.
(I should point out here that much of my disdain is connected to the fact that his antics served as a painful reminder of who I was before I was diagnosed as neurodivergent and medicated for my crippling anxiety. Other readers may not react quite so harshly, but I suspect he holds up a mirror to something in all of us).
I’ll let you discover the catalyst for yourselves, but suddenly we find ourselves in a very different life . . . but with the same Nolan. No longer unemployed, broke, and feeling trapped in a sexless marriage, he’s the wealthy owner of a brothel where he gets all the sex he wants, whenever he wants it. He’s the same angry, selfish, inconsiderate man in both realities, however, and it’s in trying to show he can be better that he learns to be better – and hopes to earn his way home.
Miss Frazier walks what should be a treacherous tightrope between arousing/awkward, depraved/depressed, sweet/sad, and kinky/callous, but does so with such style that you have to admire how she so openly manipulates our emotions. It helps that the characters as so well-drawn that we engage with them, feel for them, and take an interest in their fates, even if only in a dream. The story enjoys frolicking in that dream during a second act of sexual exploration and kinky indulgence, but it’s in the final act of redemption that Mistletoe Bound brings two worlds together and tugs hardest at the heartstrings.
You won’t get it yet, but trust me when I say the snap of Christmas garland is infinitely more meaningful, passionate, and erotic than any combination of corsets, cages, chains, and collars.
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My sincere thanks to the author for sending me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
