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The Taming of Jessica
Coldwell, Elizabeth
- GenresBDSMEroticaM F Romance
288 pages, Paperback
First published April 3, 2013
About the author
Elizabeth Coldwell
347 books79 followersI am Rotherham’s foremost (okay, only) writer of quality erotica and erotic romance. Though I’m now based in London, family and football take me back North on a regular basis. Indeed, if you’re ever at a Rotherham United match (I know, what are the chances?) and you spot a small blonde with a large ‘London Millers’ flag, that’ll be me.
For twenty years, I worked on the UK edition of Forum magazine, for most of those years as editor. In that time, I built up the fiction side of the magazine, and was responsible for publishing the first stories by lots of now well-known and established erotic authors – most notably Portia da Costa and Lindsay Gordon, who was until recently Black Lace’s series editor.
However, I love writing even more than I love editing, and I’ve finally taken the plunge to write full-time. I’ve had stories published by Black Lace, Xcite Books, Cleis Press, Circlet Press, Mammoth, Ravenous Romance, Total-e-bound and more, and my collection of three gay erotic novellas, Wild Rides, will be coming out as a print book from Xcite in 2012. And I’m happy in my work…
For twenty years, I worked on the UK edition of Forum magazine, for most of those years as editor. In that time, I built up the fiction side of the magazine, and was responsible for publishing the first stories by lots of now well-known and established erotic authors – most notably Portia da Costa and Lindsay Gordon, who was until recently Black Lace’s series editor.
However, I love writing even more than I love editing, and I’ve finally taken the plunge to write full-time. I’ve had stories published by Black Lace, Xcite Books, Cleis Press, Circlet Press, Mammoth, Ravenous Romance, Total-e-bound and more, and my collection of three gay erotic novellas, Wild Rides, will be coming out as a print book from Xcite in 2012. And I’m happy in my work…
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October 28, 2017
Quite a good storyline for BDSM readers who enjoy training by dominants.
Jessica, a mature attractive women, whose husband Max is a millionaire businessman, but is often away on business, and she is bored and sexually frustrated...and cheats, one night stands, sex only, no relationships...and this will put some readers off straight away.
One night, Max returns and finds out. Is the marriage over? He whisks her off to a Caribbean island, on pretext of a vacation, a millionaires play paradise, and here he introduces Jessica to BDSM via an auction and he pays to have another man, Jake, train her in obedience and submission. One good point, throughout there's safe sex and safe play in general...or someone to enforce such.
It has good points and bad, good characters and not such nice ones, it also highlights problems, such as becoming emotionally attached to the dominant...now where would that leave her husband?
As I'm off to the Caribbean in a couple of weeks time, to find the luxury beach holiday taken away, I personally would be damn well peeved. I think her behaviour, losing such, and enduring her experiences, say a lot for her character.
I think I liked the end...readers will find out, but will they, like me, think it is the right ending, or should it have been different?
However, I feel this is fantasy, because if it were reality, a lot of people would queue up to go train there :)
To me it's a good three star read, but not quite four stars.
Jessica, a mature attractive women, whose husband Max is a millionaire businessman, but is often away on business, and she is bored and sexually frustrated...and cheats, one night stands, sex only, no relationships...and this will put some readers off straight away.
One night, Max returns and finds out. Is the marriage over? He whisks her off to a Caribbean island, on pretext of a vacation, a millionaires play paradise, and here he introduces Jessica to BDSM via an auction and he pays to have another man, Jake, train her in obedience and submission. One good point, throughout there's safe sex and safe play in general...or someone to enforce such.
It has good points and bad, good characters and not such nice ones, it also highlights problems, such as becoming emotionally attached to the dominant...now where would that leave her husband?
As I'm off to the Caribbean in a couple of weeks time, to find the luxury beach holiday taken away, I personally would be damn well peeved. I think her behaviour, losing such, and enduring her experiences, say a lot for her character.
I think I liked the end...readers will find out, but will they, like me, think it is the right ending, or should it have been different?
However, I feel this is fantasy, because if it were reality, a lot of people would queue up to go train there :)
To me it's a good three star read, but not quite four stars.
November 20, 2013
The Taming of Jessica is a BDSM novel by Elizabeth Coldwell. It tells the tale of Jessica Sheringham, an older woman with a penchant for younger men, preferably well hung. She heads to London’s hottest clubs in search of boy toys. Jessica believes in fun, hot sex, as well as safe sex. The only trouble is, she shouldn’t be doing it at all. She’s a married woman, and her husband, Max, has no idea what she’s been up to—until he finds out, that is.
When he discovers her wild ways, rather than arguing, throwing her out, and divorcing her, he suggests a trip to Isla Barada—a luxury resort on the other side of the planet. But Jessica quickly discovers that it is no ordinary island. Isla Barada was created as a place for dominant men to act out their desires. Max knows it’s the perfect place to train Jessica, to make her into a submissive, well-behaved wife.
Jessica is soon stripped, searched, spanked and humiliated, before being put up for auction. Max is amongst the crowd, but he doesn’t bid for her. There’s soon a bidding war between a sexy blond she recognises from somewhere and a young guy called Jason Raynes. Jason wins, which basically means that Jessica becomes his submissive for the week that she spends on Isla Barada. She barely sees Max at all, but what she doesn’t realise is that this is the whole point. Jason is an experienced dominant. He’s there to train the wilful Jessica, to make her into the submissive that Max believes she is underneath the badly-behaved exterior.
Jessica must learn to submit, to take orders, to behave, to service anyone she is asked to, and (the most difficult of all) take beatings from instruments varying between hands and canes. By the time she and Max go home, Jessica must be the perfect example of a submissive—or who knows what will happen?
The Taming of Jessica is a great piece of escapist, fantasy-laden erotica, with the slightest smidge of romance. You have to suspend your disbelief to an extent when reading this, but I actually found the storyline, the characters, and the writing engaging enough that I didn’t question the realism—a huge plus point, in my opinion. It was a real page-turner, rendering me eager to find out what happened to Jessica next, and whether her relationship with Jason would develop. This is a book I’d definitely recommend to BDSM/male-dom fans. A very hot read with a brilliant and surprising ending.
When he discovers her wild ways, rather than arguing, throwing her out, and divorcing her, he suggests a trip to Isla Barada—a luxury resort on the other side of the planet. But Jessica quickly discovers that it is no ordinary island. Isla Barada was created as a place for dominant men to act out their desires. Max knows it’s the perfect place to train Jessica, to make her into a submissive, well-behaved wife.
Jessica is soon stripped, searched, spanked and humiliated, before being put up for auction. Max is amongst the crowd, but he doesn’t bid for her. There’s soon a bidding war between a sexy blond she recognises from somewhere and a young guy called Jason Raynes. Jason wins, which basically means that Jessica becomes his submissive for the week that she spends on Isla Barada. She barely sees Max at all, but what she doesn’t realise is that this is the whole point. Jason is an experienced dominant. He’s there to train the wilful Jessica, to make her into the submissive that Max believes she is underneath the badly-behaved exterior.
Jessica must learn to submit, to take orders, to behave, to service anyone she is asked to, and (the most difficult of all) take beatings from instruments varying between hands and canes. By the time she and Max go home, Jessica must be the perfect example of a submissive—or who knows what will happen?
The Taming of Jessica is a great piece of escapist, fantasy-laden erotica, with the slightest smidge of romance. You have to suspend your disbelief to an extent when reading this, but I actually found the storyline, the characters, and the writing engaging enough that I didn’t question the realism—a huge plus point, in my opinion. It was a real page-turner, rendering me eager to find out what happened to Jessica next, and whether her relationship with Jason would develop. This is a book I’d definitely recommend to BDSM/male-dom fans. A very hot read with a brilliant and surprising ending.
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