Bondage

by Patti Davis

After meeting Anthony, a hot shot Hollywood director, Sara, usually the sexual aggressor in her encounters with men, finds the roles changing as Anthony takes complete control over her

Genres: Erotica, BDSM, Fiction, Adult

316 pages, Hardcover

First published February 11, 1994

About the author

My new book, Dear Mom and Dad, is the end of a long journey toward understanding my family. My hope is that readers will be inspired to take a step back and look at their own families through a wider lens. Families are all complicated to some degree, certainly mine was, but in this book I also explore the times when there was just love there. That's part of our story too.

Reviews

[Keair Snyder · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I rate books I read some time ago, I rate them based on what I thought the first time I read them which is why I gave this one five stars. A friend of mine loaned me this book because I ran out of stuff to read. She told me nothing about it in advance except that she thought I would really like it and then she laughed her ass off so I went into it expecting it to suck. I was fourteen and the concept of bondage had not yet entered my pervy little mind but this book....ah, this book...it started me on my pervy path of kinky bondage thoughts with a quickness! I couldn't believe what the hell I was reading, that people actually did the stuff that the characters did in this book (tied up, spanked, and violated with the handle of a whip...humm), yet I liked the idea...a lot. A year later I bought Anne Rice's Beauty series and this book instantly became lightweight compared with the incredibly (and yeah, sometimes twisted) kinky stuff I found in that trilogy. I even tried to read this book again when I was about twenty-two and I bought it at a yard sale. It did not have the appeal it once held for me BUT it did introduce me to a whole new type of fantasy that I still dig today so for that, and the awe I once felt reading it, it gets my highest honor. Sort of like an old friend you used to party with that never grew up like everyone else...but you still keep in touch because of the secrets you once shared....In a good way of course. lmao

[Gabrielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Honestly, I wasn't expecting much - I had designated this as "recreational reading", but it delivered more than recreation. The author (Ron & Nancy Reagan's daughter) seems to be well versed in the emotional, mental, and psychic aspects of power, control, and cult abuse. This was an absorbing read.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This writer draws interesting parallels between a woman's sadomasochistic relationship with a man, and her friends consequent rape by a public figure. Thought provoking...

[BookAddict ✒ La Crimson Femme · Rating 3 out of 5]

As the title suggests, this is about bondage. I learned about sexual tension from this book. Was eye opening for a 18 year old.

[Kristi Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was just not really a book for me.

[Kate · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Sara never meant to lost control. In all her relationships before Anthony, she had always been the seducer. She had call the shots. Set the rules. Dominated.

"So when exactly did she let go? When did he become the conqueror, she the slave? Whenever it happened, she knew it was too late now. Sex -- the game she played best, the game at which she was master -- suddenly had a whole new set of rules. It was, Sara thought, like having to start all over again ...

"...

"Sara is a child of California, grown up and grown old at age thirty-five as only a woman could who has lived so much in so short a time. A costume designer for movies and television, it is through work that she meets her best friend, Belinda, a very vulnerable and needy young woman who envies Sara her ease with her own sexuality, her ability to dominate and control the men who want her.

"Sara has never questioned sex or her own sexuality. She likes it, is comfortable with it, and uses it whenever she wants. She begins and ends relationships with ease, taking what enjoyment she can before going on to the next. Then she meets Anthony, the hot new director of the moment. With him she begins a relationship that propels her into uncharted territories and that ultimately threatens to consume her ...

"... a novel for the '90s that is shocking and startling, yet speaks to the hidden desires of women and men. It is a novel about a new kind of sexuality, at once a thriller and a dark love story."
~~front & back flaps

That description does NOT reveal the thrust of the book, which was equating a BDSM relationship with cults and rape. It was a difficult read, and not particularly well written.

[Darby · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bondage by Patti Davis (Ron and Nancy Reagan's daughter) was given it as a gift in 2000 and never read it. It had some light bondage in it. It wasn't horrible. But it isn't a book I would read again or keep on my bookshelf.

Basic plot Sarah is has built up lots of walls around herself so that when she enters a relationship she controls it - she decides where it will go and what she will feel and how it will end. And then she meets Anthony and everything changes. He seems to be able break those walls down and crawl into her head and create her thoughts and feelings. I liked some of the descriptions of how he made her feel. But over all it was kind of a boring read.

[Kim BookJunkie ~ Editor & Proofreader · Rating 3 out of 5]

I expected so much more from this book. It started out good & when I thought it would start to get really good, it fizzled out. It is a good drama, the storyline is a good one, yet everything was just mediocre. I did not care for the ending at all and saw a lot of places where the author could have developed the relationships, scenarios and situations into so much more than she did.

[Erin Nudi · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a very bizarre book. I randomly picked it up at a used bookstore and gave it a shot. I don't think I'd recommend it. Although if you're looking to expand your sexual life, and explore some new, strange areas with that...then...maybe this is a good one for you!

[Ren · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was reminded of the Shades of Grey when reading this book. Wasn't quite the storyline I had anticipated though and I certainly didn't end up with the warm fuzzies I'm accustomed to. Just goes to show you though, all fantasies don't have fairy tale endings!

[Chamie · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[A'ledyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this book hoping it would be about BDSM, but instead it was about emotional bondage. It was interesting. But not really my average 'Thing'

[Mariloli OS]

Save yourself the trouble, the most exciting element in this book is its title.

[Greeneyes Belle28 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

[Sarah Murray · Rating 5 out of 5]

best book ever read it twice very very good book its on my must read list for my friends

[Angela Field · Rating 5 out of 5]

Shhh, can u keep a secret?? I read this when I was 11, maybe 12. It was soooo hot!! OMG!! It makes Shades look like a practice exercise!

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was okay but definitely left me wanting more. The end seemed quite contrived and unsatisfactory but I didn't hate it.

[Jamie Kustak · Rating 1 out of 5]

Predictable and dated. Mediocre sex scenes.

[Belinda · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was so many years ago since I've read this book (1990's)
Well written, because I finished it in a short time.
Maybe it's time to re-read this one.

[Shouty]

I GOT THIS FROM A LITTLE FREE LIBRARY AND HAD NO IDEA A) IT WAS GOING TO BE SO FUCKED UP AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY; AND B) IT WAS WRITTEN BY RON AND NANCY REAGAN'S DAUGHTER