Shy, self-conscious Sarah is all too used to attracting male attention to her ample bust and well-formed bottom, despite never really knowing what to do about it. Offered her dream job as a cartoonist, she is willing to sacrifice a little of her own dignity by drawing cartoons for men's magazines. Unfortunately, the job also means sacrificing every last scrap of propriety for Sarah's heroine, the exquisite Celeste du Musigny, which has unforeseen repercussions, ensuring that Sarah comes to live out every last detail of her darkest and most secret fantasies.
"You can have me for as long as your money burns."
This is a quote from notorious nineteenth century courtesan Cora Pearl, or so I am led to believe by the magazine article which inspired the story The Rake, originally published in the early 'nineties. It was one of many, the product of years of reading and writing, purely for private entertainment, but The Rake was expanded to become a novel, and when asked for a pen name I chose Aishling Morgan. More precisely, I had a few minutes to make my choice and quickly came up with something that sounded vaguely Celtic, vaguely romantic and might be male of female. As it turns out, Aishling is very rare indeed as a male name, but then at the time I had no idea that The Rake would be the first of many books, more than thirty in all.
Aishling Morgan is not my only pseudonym by any means, and I've now had over 100 books published, mainly novels, but also short story collections and a little non-fiction. Aishling Morgan is the name I use for my most imaginative work, done for the love of writing and of erotica, which has been my metier since long before I'd considered it as a profession. I've also been involved with the UK fetish scene since the early days, which has provided plenty of background knowledge and inspiration.
The Aishling Morgan books are diverse, with a wide variety of settings and characters, while I aim to provide sufficient plot to make each story worthwhile in its own right. Their erotic content is also highly diverse but tends to focus on power play and exotic sex, sometimes very exotic, and always an integral part of the story.
This was a long read for the content. While it may seem abused to some, there was way to much sex at the cost of the story line. The sex was non stop to the point that at the end of the story the characters fantasy blended into reality without a good explanation. It really was not necessary for constant sex at the cost of the development of the other characters. There was plenty of opportunity to move the story into a better story line. However, if one enjoys constant sex without character development this is for you.
This is a novel of the discovery of submissiveness by a young girl. It mixes fantasy with reality. Yet, an enjoyable story despite being the story a little bit conventional.
This was quite good, hasn't beaten Morgan's last book that I read (Conceit and Consequence), but so much better than some other books of this type. I agree with the 'dog food' exclamation - that really turned me off towards the end, which I felt was a let down. I liked the dual story and the 'fantasy' world of Sarah, but would have liked to see that resolved a bit better, rather than just being excepted. We all like to live in our fantasies, but that was a bit ridiculous! Good read though.
Here as part of the erotica spiral which resumed after the summer. Quite uneven I found. Some good parts but then it started going totally downhill for me towards the end. Dogfood??? Hello....?