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A New Devotion
'If you can't be a good and faithful wife - then be The Devil!' (Leopold von Sacher-Masoch)
Molly Sands’ new erotic romance of female power and punishment. First published in parts, now available as a complete novel. (47000 words)
What started as a game has become a thrilling reality. Catherine has grown into her power as a newly dominant woman, and her proud beauty rules her husband like a dark enchantment. And so why shouldn’t she go out with the handsome and charming Tom Shannon? After all, she makes the rules now, and James needs to learn his place.
Excerpt –
Standing outside the bedroom door, James suffered a sudden attack of nerves. He knew the woman inside was his wife and partner of many years yet he no longer thought of her as an ordinary woman, but as a superior being who existed on a plain far above him.
He tapped gently on the door and waited until he heard Catherine say ‘Come in’ before he went inside.
She lay in bed smiling at him, her hair in tangles and her lovely face flushed from her slumbers. ‘What time is it?’ she asked sleepily.
‘Nearly eleven,’ James replied, his stomach fluttering with nervous devotion.
‘I’m a lazy hound,’ said Catherine, stretching drowsily, ‘but I like that you knocked. A servant should always knock before entering his Mistress’ bedroom. Yes, I liked that. I’ll expect you to knock from now on.’
‘Yes, Mistress,‘ said James, feeling a narcotic rush of arousal.
‘Have you done the shopping already?’
‘Yes, Mistress.’
‘And put it away?’
‘Yes, Mistress.’
‘My, you have been busy.’
‘Breakfast will be ready as soon as you come down.’
Catherine smiled to herself. She liked the idea of ‘coming down’ for breakfast. It made her feel powerful and aristocratic, very much the lady of the house.
Just as it should be, she reminded herself.
With strong scenes of female dominance and bdsm sexuality. Adult readers only.
Also by the same author – ‘Cruel Heaven’ and 'The Devlin Woman.'
Molly Sands’ new erotic romance of female power and punishment. First published in parts, now available as a complete novel. (47000 words)
What started as a game has become a thrilling reality. Catherine has grown into her power as a newly dominant woman, and her proud beauty rules her husband like a dark enchantment. And so why shouldn’t she go out with the handsome and charming Tom Shannon? After all, she makes the rules now, and James needs to learn his place.
Excerpt –
Standing outside the bedroom door, James suffered a sudden attack of nerves. He knew the woman inside was his wife and partner of many years yet he no longer thought of her as an ordinary woman, but as a superior being who existed on a plain far above him.
He tapped gently on the door and waited until he heard Catherine say ‘Come in’ before he went inside.
She lay in bed smiling at him, her hair in tangles and her lovely face flushed from her slumbers. ‘What time is it?’ she asked sleepily.
‘Nearly eleven,’ James replied, his stomach fluttering with nervous devotion.
‘I’m a lazy hound,’ said Catherine, stretching drowsily, ‘but I like that you knocked. A servant should always knock before entering his Mistress’ bedroom. Yes, I liked that. I’ll expect you to knock from now on.’
‘Yes, Mistress,‘ said James, feeling a narcotic rush of arousal.
‘Have you done the shopping already?’
‘Yes, Mistress.’
‘And put it away?’
‘Yes, Mistress.’
‘My, you have been busy.’
‘Breakfast will be ready as soon as you come down.’
Catherine smiled to herself. She liked the idea of ‘coming down’ for breakfast. It made her feel powerful and aristocratic, very much the lady of the house.
Just as it should be, she reminded herself.
With strong scenes of female dominance and bdsm sexuality. Adult readers only.
Also by the same author – ‘Cruel Heaven’ and 'The Devlin Woman.'
146 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 6, 2015
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April 8, 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.
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April 9, 2016After reading this one, I am in and plan on binging on Ms. Sands' books over the next few days. She is a fresh and welcome voice in an underserved genre.
August 1, 2021
A New Devotion
This was an excellent book a d very erotic also. Also having just a few characters helped. This had a wonderful ending.
This was an excellent book a d very erotic also. Also having just a few characters helped. This had a wonderful ending.
January 12, 2024
Is submissive and slave two different things?
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.
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