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Es ist eine allgemein anerkannte Wahrheit, dass ein dominanter Junggeselle, der eine beachtliche Auswahl an Fesseln besitzt, zu seinem Glück nur noch einer deutlich jüngeren, devoten Frau bedarf." So beginnt Lissa Trevor die heiße Variante von Stolz und Vorurteil - und mal ehrlich, welche Frau möchte sich den vornehmen Mr. Darcy nicht im Rausch der Gefühle vorstellen - mit Peitsche und Fesseln! Was Jane Austen nicht zu schreiben wagte ...

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First published April 10, 2013

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Profile Image for Online Eccentric Librarian.
3,403 reviews5 followers
October 23, 2017
I think the picture of a Victorian era corset for a Regency era story probably should have sent up red flags. But I was hoping for a light and fun read based on the description of the book. Of course, I was also looking for clever ways to see an author reinterpret the classic.

What we have here is much of the original Austen Pride and Prejudice intact - just changing some things so that the normal situations all involve sex or BDSM. The opening scene starts out with Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Bennett discussing the new residents of netherfield - in their bedroom as he spanks and disciplines her. Now, having just seen several versions of Pride and Prejudice, I just did not want to think of the elderly parents doing 'it' - just wasn't sexy in any way.

The impression I received after reading the first two chapters of the book is that it felt like a dare - to see how many scenes the author, Lisa Trevor, could rewrite to add in sex. The problem with that is that in trying to do it to nearly every scene, characterization flies out the window, the original story intent is lost, and the whole exercise becomes rote and flat. As with the Bennet parents and their sexual escapes, it just felt that SOME areas could have been left vanilla and therefore created a more satisfying read. Elizabeth Bennett was spirited enough for escapes but her parents? Less is more, I feel.

So yes, most of Austen's original words/descriptions are left intact and just enough changed to add the BDSM element. But for me, it just wasn't a satisfying read. It lost the heart of Austen, which kind of defeats the purpose.
Profile Image for The Romance Evangelist.
341 reviews89 followers
May 7, 2013
A copy of this book was provided to me by the author for an honest review at SeductiveMusings.blogspot.com.

There will be spoilers here. You have been warned.

When this book was first described to me, I was all for reading it immediately. (Mr. Darcy with a paddle? Yes, please!) If only the actual story had even partially lived up to my expectations. In hindsight, I realize I should have been more wary of the results, especially after having read Jane Eyre, Laid Bare last year.

I’m not offended by the idea of current writers using classic romance novels as a springboard to an all new erotic version. What offends me is when they do it so poorly. I especially dislike when major plot details of the original are significantly altered or removed entirely in the attempt to shoehorn ill-fitting new material. It was bad enough when “Jane Eyre Laid Bare” lopped off everything that happened after Jane left Thornfield Hall. But in “Spank Me, Mr. Darcy” we lose significant scenes that are not only beloved and familiar, but are also key to the progression of the feelings between Elizabeth and Darcy. And in their stead, we get numerous repetitive over-the-top sex scenes between secondary characters that add absolutely nothing to the story.

I've often said that there’s no such thing as “too much sex” in an erotic romance novel. I've even been known to buy a book on Amazon just because it has a one star review complaining about too many sex scenes. Yet I grew so tired of all the sex scenes in “Spank Me, Mr. Darcy” that I almost couldn't finish the book (and it’s only 141 pages long!). That’s because only a few of them were between Elizabeth and Darcy. If you’re going to sex up “Pride and Prejudice” by making Darcy the dark Master wishing to own Elizabeth on his own terms, then that should be the focus of your new material. But when the first third of the book is nothing more than pages of secondary characters having kinky sex with each other (Mrs. Bennet and Lady Lucas? Really?) then perhaps you need to reconsider the entire exercise.

Michele's Ratings:

Overall: 2 stars (The Elizabeth/Darcy scenes were good. If only there were more of them.)

Sensuality level: 5 (Everything short of blood play and water sports.)

Profile Image for Anna Fitzwilliam.
230 reviews27 followers
January 15, 2018
The title of this book could be Pride, Prejudice and Porn, but despite my curiosity, I found the plot really boring.

It's a retelling of Pride & Prejudice, in an alternative universe, where sex is as normal as eating (it's normal in our 'universe' too. I mean, it's normal to talk about sex openly). So, it's the same story, with small changes, the great difference is that the characters are very open to explore sex (still, a single women should explore sex, but not lose her virginity) and after a while, it becomes repetitive.
Profile Image for Joy Smith.
Author 9 books10 followers
May 1, 2013
Spank Me, Mr. Darcy delivers 50 shades of erotica in the manner of a Victorian spoof. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, married 20 years with four daughters to marry off, enjoy outrageous bedroom romps while discussing the minutia of the day, all the while referring to each other by their formal surnames. Although I’m not an erotica fan, the tongue-in-cheek manner in which Lissa Trevor entertains is priceless. A fun, but titillating read.
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2 reviews1 follower
May 19, 2021
This came highly recommended even though it’s not normally my kind of thing, but holy crap. Boring and weird. Literally just ripped the regular book and added what a third rate under aged fanfic author thinks bdsm is? But like with all characters involved. Will definitely be handing this off to the donate bin.
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6 reviews
September 13, 2022
No me esperaba la cantidad de contenido erótico pero ahora que lo pienso era más que claro desde el inicio. En algunas partes lo sentía tedioso mientras que otras partes fueron bastante entretenidas de leer.
Profile Image for AGMaynard.
986 reviews4 followers
December 14, 2017
Too fun! Seriously needs serious amounts of COPY EDITING, though! As always with these mashups, the Master (Jane Austen) is still the funniest and best written part of the collaboration!
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383 reviews27 followers
July 9, 2017
Simply unreadable. The text is awful and not because of sex.
Profile Image for Elaine.
411 reviews14 followers
May 7, 2013
Title: * Spank Me, Mr. Darcy
Author: Lissa Trevor and Jane Austen
Series: n/a
Genre: Historical Erotica
Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books
Format: ebook
Date/Year: January 1, 2013
Reviewed by: ElaineReads

*This book was provided to me by the publisher for review.


Summary from the publisher:

Netherfield, infamous for its debauched parties of excess and luxury, has a new Master.

After finagling an invitation to the ball, Elizabeth Bennet is introduced to the powerful and prideful Mr. Darcy, while her sister Jane has captivated the new owner, Mr. Bingley. Having contented herself with the pleasurable caresses of her best friend, Charlotte Lucas, Elizabeth is intrigued with the sensuality she finds at Netherfield. But it isn’t until her sister Jane is taken ill and Elizabeth stays at Netherfield to nurse her back to health that she finds the dungeons of Netherfield and the man in the black mask who becomes her Master.

By the time she leaves Netherfield, Elizabeth will have become disenchanted with her childhood playmate and obsessed with Mr. Darcy, her Master, who has told her that she would be more marriageable as a Netherfield submissive than as a curious virgin. Elizabeth holds on to her affront at his callous regard for her until Charlotte marries Mr. Collins and Jane is discarded by Mr.Bingley. Unwilling to save herself for a man who'll make a good match and determined not to suffer Jane's heartbreak, when she meets Mr. Darcy again at Rosings Park, she decides to become his slave and offers him her virginity.

But when she finds out that her cruel Master has destroyed Jane’s chance at marriage with Mr. Bingley, she rejects Mr. Darcy – even as he reluctantly proposes marriage to her. It isn’t until he saves her sister Lydia’s reputation and brings Jane and Bingley together, that Elizabeth realizes that she loves him. If he still loves her, she would be most willing to take her punishment for rejecting him – and live happily ever after.



My Musings:

The title page credits both Jane Austen and Lissa Trevor as authors . . . and that is exactly right.

Entire passages from Austen’s Pride and Prejudice were included in this book. Some were modified, but others were used word for word. I was impressed by how well Trevor’s material kept the flavor of the language.

Any fan of Pride and Prejudice will recognize the opening sentence:

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” (Pride & Prejudice)

Trevor’s twist on this opening clearly shows that her version of the book is going in an entirely different direction.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a dominant man in possession of a good set of cuffs, must be in want of a much younger, submissive wife.” (Spank Me, Mr. Darcy)

I have to admit, in my opinion, it’s a much more interesting direction and I am already a fan of the original.

What can I say about the plot and characters?

This version follows the general outline of the original plot and the characters, for the most part, keep the same personalities. Darcy is overbearing. He is a dom after all. Surprisingly, Mr. Bingley is also a dom. He is so easily led, I expected him to be a sub.

Elizabeth still has the most character of all of the women and Jane is still a namby-pamby twit. Jane does have an interesting sex life though.

My only issue with the book is it needs closer editing. There was one entire scene in which I never did figure out what was going on.

All in all, this was a fun read which immediately caused me to pull out some of my other BDSM books. That’s definitely what it put me in the mood to read.



Ratings:

Overall: 3
Sensuality level: 5
Profile Image for Reverenddave.
313 reviews17 followers
May 14, 2013
Alright, I cant do this anymore. This is at least the fourth attempt to mash-up Austen's masterpiece with bodice rippers that Ive read and I think its starting to affect my enjoyment of the original work.

Whats interesting is that all four have failed in different ways. The first two seemed lost as to how to sexualize a book centered around the manners and strictures of polite society. As a result other than "heated" glances and elevated heart rates there wasnt any alteration, cept to the character of Lydia. Lydia is clearly the go-to way to inject sex into the book. Its like some 18th century slut-shaming. The third version I read opted to get around the restrictions of the book by going all in on the insanity. As I remarked in its review, this was a book that in between bizarre sexual congresses had a throwaway subplot about Mary growing a beard and becoming a rabbi. The less said the better. This book dealt found that the easiest way to deal with the original text is to junk most of it.

One hundred and eighty pages in we were at Rosings with the Collins; the book was finished by page 210. This was achieved by omitting the trip to Pemberley with the Gardiners, Lady Catherine's visit to Eliza and cramming the whole of the Lydia/Wickham elopement into less than a page. Clearly I will accept a lot of massaging (no pun intended) of Austen's original work, but you cant just forgo the latter half of the book. It was like the writer just got tired or up against the deadline and stopped. I confess, on that point I can sympathize. All the time spent in Netherfield's sex dungeon or on bejeweled butt-plugs really started to weigh down the story by the midpoint and while I could never approve scrapping the backhalf of the narrative, I was pretty desperate for the book to end.

To some degree its a shame, I felt the original writing in this book was better than the others, at least in the beginning. And, with its focus on bondage/discipline it was entertainingly insane without bad acid-trip insane (see: Mary the Hassidim). Still, as if it wasnt obvious already, I am clearly not the target audience for harlequin bodice rippers or 50 Shades of whateverthefuck. It was an interesting reading exercise but one that is definitely over.
Profile Image for Jacquie K.
16 reviews1 follower
May 28, 2017
Prudish, innocents and/or Austen purists beware; avoid this book. You will hate it. Go away now.

Everyone else, read on...

This book is set in Regency, but with the alternate reality that sexual promiscuity is the norm. Not only do ladies attend finishing school, they are also schooled in the arts of pleasure, particularly domination and submission. Servants really do have Masters and Mistresses. Brace yourselves for m/f, bondage, punishment, voyeurism, m/m, f/f, f/f/m, f/m/m, anal, riding, felatio, cunnilingus, whipping, butt plugs and yes, MR. DARCY'S RIDING CROP! (Plus more...)

Still with me? Good, because even though the book is not perfect...it's good. Seriously good. Trevor knows her stuff when it comes to BDSM and Pride and Prejudice. Yes, it's true. She keeps the major players relatively in-character, especially Darcy, Lizzie, Bingley, Caroline and Charlotte. Please remember, that the world in which they exist is one that accepts casual encounters as a norm and this book is a means of delivering quality erotica. Trevor borrows from Austen's text in pivotal scenes and incorporates/delivers good quality Regency-style vocabulary and syntax with her original writing and scenes. Her erotic scenes are realistic and the vocabulary in them is not embarrassing, insulting or repetitive. (You won't see the word "member" used dozens of times. She mixes the vocabulary up quite a bit and injects good Regency-style colloquial verbiage masterfully.)

Want to read an EXCELLENT-Regency-P&P-highly-erotic-JAFF? Then rub one out to "Spank Me, Mr. Darcy".
Profile Image for Nancy Ruane.
10 reviews14 followers
June 5, 2013
I really wanted to read one of these mash up type stories. Pride and Prejudice is the story most modified in my searches. I think the author did an admirable job splicing erotica into the story with a nod to the original style of Jane Austen. I guess it comes down to preferences. I prefer the erotica aspects to play a part in the story rather than slipped in as background. The book starts off with a BDSM scene during a conversation revolving around marriage of the girls. It may happen, but its not my ideal. There was other scenes where the erotica played a more central role. The whole premise is sliding new text into existing text. Changing too much, changes the book away from the classic and that was not the goal.
I think if you like the original and want to see it with some kink to it, this is your book. I took some time to warm up to it, but ultimately was glad to have read it.
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1,494 reviews59 followers
November 17, 2013
Spank Me, Mr. Darcy was a very interesting and entertaining read. One might call it a farce on Pride and Prejudice but its actually a mashup, its Jane Austen's original words with the additional words or set up done by the author Lissa Trevor. Its basically Pride and Prejudice and kinky sex or BDSM all rolled into one. Yes Mr. Darcy can wield a paddle and Elizabeth is his more than willing accomplice. Steam factor definitely way up there however fans of Pride and Prejudice should be warned that its not exactly their beloved original work.

*The ARC for this novel was provided by the publisher and NetGalley in return for an honest review*
Profile Image for Tina.
727 reviews22 followers
September 1, 2013
Run. RUN AWAY SCREAMING! I didn't think it was possible to beat the two worst erotica books I've ever read (50 Shades and some E. Jerome Dickey crap) but this? This did it in spades. I wasn't even done the first page before I was taking a screencap and emailing it to my friends to be amused/horrified by. If I was Jane Austen, I'd become a zombie just to eat the brains of this Lissa Trevor in revenge.

ETA: Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for electronic access to this title for a fair and honest review.
Profile Image for Zenny Dahl.
46 reviews2 followers
June 25, 2015
Well. You don't see that every day. OK, if you're a die hard Jane Austen fan, you're going to hate this. As in RAGE. However, if you've always had a hinkering for Mr. Darcy and like reading sex scenes that will make your jaw drop. This book is for you. It's a little hard to get into at first because the author is basically mashing up Austen's own words with well . . . pornography. So if you don't like the style of Austen's writing, you probably won't like this book. I loved it and I gave it five stars just for the "Oh no, you didn't" factor of the sex in this book.
Profile Image for Jessica Robinson.
71 reviews
May 30, 2013
I got just over 100 pages in and couldn't continue reading this story anymore. Pride & Prejudice is a classic, especially for book buffs like myself, and while the dialogue was great and the scenes intense, the settings and characters ruined the experience for me. Also, there were some grammatical errors that slow the reader down trying to figure out what the author is saying. This story wasn't for me.
7 reviews
June 3, 2013
I had a really hard time getting into this book because of the Jane Austen style of writing. When the author drops this style this is a good book. The sex scenes are fun. If the author has other books not written in this style I will defiantly read them. This would have easily been a 4 star book but for the writing style.
Profile Image for GONZA.
7,513 reviews129 followers
August 27, 2013
I'm sure Jane Austen is turning in her grave. That said, the book is a pitiful BDSM version of Pride and Prejudice to carefully avoid.

Sono sicura che Jane Austen si stia rivoltando nella tomba. Detto questo, il libro é una pietosa versione BDSM di Orgoglio e Pregiudizio da evitare accuramente.

THANKS TO NETGALLEY AND RIVERDALE AVENUE BOOKS FOR THE PREVIEW!
Profile Image for Kelly.
666 reviews27 followers
June 12, 2013
Wow. That sure was something. Check out the full dueling review here.
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Author 69 books215 followers
September 24, 2014
The debauchery of the upper classes of Victorian England come to life in this sexy book, a must read for anyone interested in what goes on behind closed mansion doors.
3 reviews1 follower
May 13, 2013
Insteresting twist. Well written. Well worth the money. Definately much better than 50 Shades of Crap.
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