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A New Devotion
Catherine enjoys the dominant role in her marriage but she hasn’t bargained on falling head over heels for a handsome stranger. Will her devoted husband accept it if she takes a lover? After all, a true Mistress should be free to do as she pleases, but can she really live out such a dark and dangerous fantasy?
An erotic romance of sex and power, and the evolution of a new kind of marriage. Part One - 15500 words.
Excerpt –
But tonight, as undisputed mistress of the household, she could flaunt her good looks, set her sexuality free to take its natural place in her life and marriage.
Catherine wiped the moisture from the mirror and looked at her reflection. She was still smiling and there was a gleam in her eyes. She looked younger. There was no doubt about it, these ‘mistress-nights’ as she’d come to think of them, were doing her good. She looked forward to them all week, a sweet sensuality building inside her as the week-end approached. At first she’d been nervous, guilty and ill-at-ease about speaking down to James in the way their game demanded, but she’d grown used to it, and now she enjoyed taking charge of him, watching the shame and wonder come into his eyes as she bent him to her will.
Taking charge of him made her feel daring and transgressive. Decent, respectable wives shouldn’t treat their husbands this way, it went against everything they’d been taught, but that knowledge only heightened the pleasure she found in her female authority. It excited her, and a new strength and confidence bloomed within her.
From the author of 'Cruel Heaven' and 'The Devlin Woman.'
An erotic romance of sex and power, and the evolution of a new kind of marriage. Part One - 15500 words.
Excerpt –
But tonight, as undisputed mistress of the household, she could flaunt her good looks, set her sexuality free to take its natural place in her life and marriage.
Catherine wiped the moisture from the mirror and looked at her reflection. She was still smiling and there was a gleam in her eyes. She looked younger. There was no doubt about it, these ‘mistress-nights’ as she’d come to think of them, were doing her good. She looked forward to them all week, a sweet sensuality building inside her as the week-end approached. At first she’d been nervous, guilty and ill-at-ease about speaking down to James in the way their game demanded, but she’d grown used to it, and now she enjoyed taking charge of him, watching the shame and wonder come into his eyes as she bent him to her will.
Taking charge of him made her feel daring and transgressive. Decent, respectable wives shouldn’t treat their husbands this way, it went against everything they’d been taught, but that knowledge only heightened the pleasure she found in her female authority. It excited her, and a new strength and confidence bloomed within her.
From the author of 'Cruel Heaven' and 'The Devlin Woman.'
50 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 15, 2014
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March 25, 2017
NOTE: The full review covering four books in sequence can be found under The Rule of Love: Tales of Pleasure & Pain by Molly Sands (a compilation later renamed Wicked Wives).
A New Devotion (47,000 words):
It was a bit better than the previous two books Cruel Heaven and The Devlin Woman. There was more show and less telling. It didn’t overdo the bait and switch by promising things it didn’t deliver. It promised a few future things that it didn’t get around to depicting, but it also delivered a bunch of actual scenes.
It was competently written if a little glacially paced. Too much of it wasn’t sexy (doing housework chores is not sexy in my opinion) and there wasn’t much actual sex. I found the whole cuckolding part to be uninteresting and so I skipped through those pages for the most part. The story was a little blandly mechanical and didn’t grip my attention all that much. It was more readable than actually enjoyable. The one note subject matter does get a little stale. There isn’t any significant variation from her previous books in the type of slavery or activities they get up to. It’s just more of the same. Also why is it always a husband and wife situation instead of a girlfriend and a boyfriend? Her sexual imagination seems very limited as she never branches out beyond this stock situation.
The ending is very problematic. The book does deliver a few proper sexually charged scenes so it’s not an unsatisfying book, but still the book ends abruptly in a fairly random place. It’s not as annoying as the previous books, but it has other issues. The next book (An Obedient Husband) is a direct sequel that continues the story immediately from this end point. So the rest of the story appears to exist. It just happens that it was published in its complete form nine months later. So basically anyone who buys A New Devotion only gets the first half of the story they’ve paid for. They can only read halfway into the story when it suddenly ends. Then they have to buy a whole other book to get the second half of the story – a story they’ve already paid for as far as I’m concerned. Hmm. A very big hmm. There’s something morally dubious about that. It’s not even as though she’s charging the bare minimum for these books either (her books are expensive). Frankly it should never have been published in this form. I feel she should have written the complete story and published it in one go. It’s a rip-off. You can argue that it isn’t a rip-off; that it delivers a complete story, but I don’t think it does. It’s literally the first half of a story with the second half sold separately. There’s no notice that clearly states that to complete this one story you need to buy the other book.
Your mileage may vary on how big a con you feel this ending is. For me it’s very bad. If you only buy the first one then you are left high and dry with the other half of the story you paid for locked away in another book. Imagine buying [insert name of a popular novel] and finding only the first half has been included and that the second half has to be bought at full price in the form of a so-called ‘sequel’. An Obedient Husband isn’t a sequel. It’s literally the second half of A New Devotion. It’s the one book. It’s a total rip-off. A sequel is a different story with the same characters or locations or whatever. I believe An Obedient Husband cannot technically be classed as a sequel.
It was a 3 out of 5 while reading it but with the sudden ending I’ve got to mark it down as 2 out of 5. At least the second half exists in this case – it’s just in a separate book.
[From my Cruel Heaven review: ‘The formatting was weird. Many times a paragraph would end and there would be a page break so you had to skip to the next page. It wasn’t the end of a chapter. It was just the end of a paragraph. Sometimes it would be used to denote a new scene, but not always. It was a unique style choice that I’ve never seen anywhere else. For a good reason. Because it’s sort of silly.’]
I noticed that the new page after a paragraph thing was now being used exclusively to denote a new scene. Perhaps it was used this way in The Devlin Woman, I’m not sure. Certainly in Cruel Heaven it was used in the middle of scenes. Starting a different scene on a new page is an unusual quirk but not one I can say was annoying or inappropriate.
I don’t recall noticing a single typo. One thing I did notice though was ‘thank-you’ being written with a hyphen, which is undoubtedly wrong.
A New Devotion (47,000 words):
It was a bit better than the previous two books Cruel Heaven and The Devlin Woman. There was more show and less telling. It didn’t overdo the bait and switch by promising things it didn’t deliver. It promised a few future things that it didn’t get around to depicting, but it also delivered a bunch of actual scenes.
It was competently written if a little glacially paced. Too much of it wasn’t sexy (doing housework chores is not sexy in my opinion) and there wasn’t much actual sex. I found the whole cuckolding part to be uninteresting and so I skipped through those pages for the most part. The story was a little blandly mechanical and didn’t grip my attention all that much. It was more readable than actually enjoyable. The one note subject matter does get a little stale. There isn’t any significant variation from her previous books in the type of slavery or activities they get up to. It’s just more of the same. Also why is it always a husband and wife situation instead of a girlfriend and a boyfriend? Her sexual imagination seems very limited as she never branches out beyond this stock situation.
The ending is very problematic. The book does deliver a few proper sexually charged scenes so it’s not an unsatisfying book, but still the book ends abruptly in a fairly random place. It’s not as annoying as the previous books, but it has other issues. The next book (An Obedient Husband) is a direct sequel that continues the story immediately from this end point. So the rest of the story appears to exist. It just happens that it was published in its complete form nine months later. So basically anyone who buys A New Devotion only gets the first half of the story they’ve paid for. They can only read halfway into the story when it suddenly ends. Then they have to buy a whole other book to get the second half of the story – a story they’ve already paid for as far as I’m concerned. Hmm. A very big hmm. There’s something morally dubious about that. It’s not even as though she’s charging the bare minimum for these books either (her books are expensive). Frankly it should never have been published in this form. I feel she should have written the complete story and published it in one go. It’s a rip-off. You can argue that it isn’t a rip-off; that it delivers a complete story, but I don’t think it does. It’s literally the first half of a story with the second half sold separately. There’s no notice that clearly states that to complete this one story you need to buy the other book.
Your mileage may vary on how big a con you feel this ending is. For me it’s very bad. If you only buy the first one then you are left high and dry with the other half of the story you paid for locked away in another book. Imagine buying [insert name of a popular novel] and finding only the first half has been included and that the second half has to be bought at full price in the form of a so-called ‘sequel’. An Obedient Husband isn’t a sequel. It’s literally the second half of A New Devotion. It’s the one book. It’s a total rip-off. A sequel is a different story with the same characters or locations or whatever. I believe An Obedient Husband cannot technically be classed as a sequel.
It was a 3 out of 5 while reading it but with the sudden ending I’ve got to mark it down as 2 out of 5. At least the second half exists in this case – it’s just in a separate book.
[From my Cruel Heaven review: ‘The formatting was weird. Many times a paragraph would end and there would be a page break so you had to skip to the next page. It wasn’t the end of a chapter. It was just the end of a paragraph. Sometimes it would be used to denote a new scene, but not always. It was a unique style choice that I’ve never seen anywhere else. For a good reason. Because it’s sort of silly.’]
I noticed that the new page after a paragraph thing was now being used exclusively to denote a new scene. Perhaps it was used this way in The Devlin Woman, I’m not sure. Certainly in Cruel Heaven it was used in the middle of scenes. Starting a different scene on a new page is an unusual quirk but not one I can say was annoying or inappropriate.
I don’t recall noticing a single typo. One thing I did notice though was ‘thank-you’ being written with a hyphen, which is undoubtedly wrong.
October 1, 2022
Molly Sands' style of writing is very suitable for slow buildup long stories. She's normally very good with characterization. In this book, however, she failed to deliver this well. It seems to me she got confused whether she should treat the main character (Catherine) as anti-hero or make her a protagonist. Hence, even though this character is entirely immoral and evil, several important details of her thought processing were omitted (which seemed intentional), probably for avoiding making her a hateful character. Consequently, Catherine is neither a likeable character nor a scary one. It's said she used to be good and moral. And her transformation has just started occurring since the first line of this book. But this transformation is so heavy (and without a very good and logical reason) that she never felt guilt a single time in the entire book. Due to this bad characterization the story could not deliver the true essence of its potential.
Please note that this is an incomplete book. It's basically first part of a trilogy. That full trilogy was later published by the name 'Scorn'. It's better to go for the full book rather than this one.
Please note that this is an incomplete book. It's basically first part of a trilogy. That full trilogy was later published by the name 'Scorn'. It's better to go for the full book rather than this one.
April 14, 2015
Another great story from Molly Sands. Well written and edited, void of syntax errors and typos. The strength of this story is its rich dialogue which reveals the mixed feelings of being humiliated and dominated by a new, dominant female, who just realized how much power she's holding. You also get the to explore the mind of the female protagonist in the second portion of the story. Both character are appropriately developed, making it easy to relate to anyone of them.
The story ends with a strong feeling of completion. Although it's been announced for additional parts to be published, and I would love to see them released, I do not feel trapped into buying my way through a potentially costly series. I could quit at the first installment and feel content. It was equally good as her previous stories and I will certainly purchase all the future installments.
The story ends with a strong feeling of completion. Although it's been announced for additional parts to be published, and I would love to see them released, I do not feel trapped into buying my way through a potentially costly series. I could quit at the first installment and feel content. It was equally good as her previous stories and I will certainly purchase all the future installments.
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