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The Celia Collection
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384 pages, Paperback
First published November 3, 2004
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August 28, 2013
The story is about Celia the beautiful young sweetheart of Colin, a young man, wrongly suspected of a murder he did not commit. Colin's older cousin Sir Jason offers him a hideaway sanctuary at his isolated house on the Yorkshire moors with the condition that Celia submit to him sexually. She agrees to this to protect her "beloved" Colin. Thus begins a journey into dark depravity for the three of them.
"The Celia Collection" brings together two volumes - "The Captivity of Celia" and the follow up "The Possession of Celia". The first part takes place entirely in the claustrophobic setting of Sir Jason's house whereas the second takes place in the French countryside.
The writing is sensationally mind-boggling and has the feel about it of classic Victorian erotica, although the story is set, I think, in the 1920s or 1930s. I have to say that the writer uses the most varied and imaginative descriptions for parts of the anatomy and sexual acts that I have ever read! She possesses a wicked sense of humour, marvellous turn of phrase and a wonderfully extensive vocabulary. The humour is particularly useful in helping to lighten the reader's load when the levels of intensity rise.
At the start of Celia's trials, both she and Colin protest his cousin's actions but eventually, Colin is as much an instigator as Jason and by the end, I feel that all three of them are equally depraved. The deliciously immoral Jason is wealthy enough not to have to work or do anything much, and with Colin and Celia confined to the house. There is nothing for him to do but feed his warped mind. Thus to my mind proving the adage about the devil and idle hands.
This is a very well written book and I take my hat off to the author's fertile and fevered imagination. Whenever I think of this story, the line from it "The three occupants of Moorland House sat sipping sherry in the drawing room" will always come to mind. This innocuous sentence perfectly depicts the tranquillity that often prefaced their amazing sexual interludes. I do rather feel that the end of the story is a little anti-climatic considering all that happens and seems to rather cry out for a further instalment!
"The Celia Collection" brings together two volumes - "The Captivity of Celia" and the follow up "The Possession of Celia". The first part takes place entirely in the claustrophobic setting of Sir Jason's house whereas the second takes place in the French countryside.
The writing is sensationally mind-boggling and has the feel about it of classic Victorian erotica, although the story is set, I think, in the 1920s or 1930s. I have to say that the writer uses the most varied and imaginative descriptions for parts of the anatomy and sexual acts that I have ever read! She possesses a wicked sense of humour, marvellous turn of phrase and a wonderfully extensive vocabulary. The humour is particularly useful in helping to lighten the reader's load when the levels of intensity rise.
At the start of Celia's trials, both she and Colin protest his cousin's actions but eventually, Colin is as much an instigator as Jason and by the end, I feel that all three of them are equally depraved. The deliciously immoral Jason is wealthy enough not to have to work or do anything much, and with Colin and Celia confined to the house. There is nothing for him to do but feed his warped mind. Thus to my mind proving the adage about the devil and idle hands.
This is a very well written book and I take my hat off to the author's fertile and fevered imagination. Whenever I think of this story, the line from it "The three occupants of Moorland House sat sipping sherry in the drawing room" will always come to mind. This innocuous sentence perfectly depicts the tranquillity that often prefaced their amazing sexual interludes. I do rather feel that the end of the story is a little anti-climatic considering all that happens and seems to rather cry out for a further instalment!
December 7, 2017
Nope, not well done.
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