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Slave Auction
An austere, masterful dominatrix, Frankie has learnt to enjoy her life as mistress of the castle. But, her haven is about to be shattered. Her arch enemy McGivern is about to organize a slave auction. The dominatrix becomes the dominated.
- GenresErotica
256 pages, Paperback
First published February 10, 2000
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July 22, 2015
I always find it interesting whenever I come across an author I enjoy reading in this genre. Maybe I'm still too new, but I always get surprised when I find a good one! Well I'm happy to say that I found Lisette Ashton to be a good author so far. I couldn't find the book she printed before this, so this is where my experience with her will begin and I believe this is her second effort.
"Slave Auction" takes place in modern times, but essentially playing into a very interesting fantasy life style. With that we get to meet the main characters Frankie and Simon. They are joint owners of a castle on a small island. I assume it's off the coast of England. Being so far removed from modern society has its advantages for Frankie and Simon since they are both dominatrices and possess a decent contingent of very willing slaves. From there we get brought into a whole underground society of slaves and slave owners. These aren't slaves in the normal sense, these people are willing slaves and it is entirely their choice to live this life style. Anyway, Lisette Ashton manages to weave a story amidst all the uncouth encounters between slaves and masters and this is what made me realize it was well written. Apparently the owners of the castle won the place from a man named McGivern in a bet and Simon has invited him back to the island to purchase something else from him. Unbeknownst to Simon or Frankie McGivern had his own underhanded plans all along and he's even setup a slave auction to be held on the island while he is there. This is where things get very interesting because now Simon has multiple problems, a major one being he didn't tell Frankie her most hated foe McGivern was coming. I must say I did enjoy the way Ashton set up the conflict in this novel.
Based on what I kind of expect out of my books I am somewhat surprised I liked this book as much as I did in terms of its format. This book is heavily geared towards the sex scenes, meaning that they take up far more of a chapter than any real story developments. Ashton describes her scenes in great detail and I think most readers will enjoy that so they can really get inside the authors head. Now normally I enjoy a lot more story in my erotica, but I have to hand it to Ashton she blended them together so well that I rarely noticed. There was only a couple times where I wanted to intimate scenes to move on so I could find out what happened next, but that's not because the scenes were bad, it's because she left parts on a cliffhanger. Personally I love when authors do this between chapters, because it always makes you want to keep going and start the next one! Sometimes scenes will be interrupted by people that move the story along and I found this creates some wonderful sexual tension for the reader so you really feel what the characters have to deal with in this instance. While I'm on this topic I might as well delve into what that includes. For the most part this book is very heavy on the bondage kind of domination and heavily blended with spanking scenarios. There is only one scene that briefly touches on something m/m and doesn't go more than a paragraph. There is large a mount f/f scenes in this, so if you really like that sort of thing you'll enjoy that. For the finale there is only one scene that goes into extreme humiliation with a girl wetting herself. Other than that it's pretty standard stuff for this kind of genre. While I'm not into all of those things listed above the story and writing of the book made it worthwhile.
Overall I actually enjoyed this book quite a bit. I'm not easily grossed out about stuff, probably due to the fact that I have read far more extreme stuff in the past. However, if you heavily dislike even the single scenes I mentioned above at least you know about them now before you commit to a purchase. This being a work of fiction authors get to break a lot of rules that most people would consider unbreakable. Such as sexual humiliation against someone's will. That kind of stuff does happen in this book even though most of the characters are willing submissives. I can overlook this for the pure fact that those kinds of unwilling conflicts are what heavily moved the background story. No one was severely injured and this book doesn't play into that kind of brutality, but it was merely being humiliated. Maybe that's no excuse for some people, but like I said, it's a work of fiction and I fully realize that whenever I open these books.
"Slave Auction" takes place in modern times, but essentially playing into a very interesting fantasy life style. With that we get to meet the main characters Frankie and Simon. They are joint owners of a castle on a small island. I assume it's off the coast of England. Being so far removed from modern society has its advantages for Frankie and Simon since they are both dominatrices and possess a decent contingent of very willing slaves. From there we get brought into a whole underground society of slaves and slave owners. These aren't slaves in the normal sense, these people are willing slaves and it is entirely their choice to live this life style. Anyway, Lisette Ashton manages to weave a story amidst all the uncouth encounters between slaves and masters and this is what made me realize it was well written. Apparently the owners of the castle won the place from a man named McGivern in a bet and Simon has invited him back to the island to purchase something else from him. Unbeknownst to Simon or Frankie McGivern had his own underhanded plans all along and he's even setup a slave auction to be held on the island while he is there. This is where things get very interesting because now Simon has multiple problems, a major one being he didn't tell Frankie her most hated foe McGivern was coming. I must say I did enjoy the way Ashton set up the conflict in this novel.
Based on what I kind of expect out of my books I am somewhat surprised I liked this book as much as I did in terms of its format. This book is heavily geared towards the sex scenes, meaning that they take up far more of a chapter than any real story developments. Ashton describes her scenes in great detail and I think most readers will enjoy that so they can really get inside the authors head. Now normally I enjoy a lot more story in my erotica, but I have to hand it to Ashton she blended them together so well that I rarely noticed. There was only a couple times where I wanted to intimate scenes to move on so I could find out what happened next, but that's not because the scenes were bad, it's because she left parts on a cliffhanger. Personally I love when authors do this between chapters, because it always makes you want to keep going and start the next one! Sometimes scenes will be interrupted by people that move the story along and I found this creates some wonderful sexual tension for the reader so you really feel what the characters have to deal with in this instance. While I'm on this topic I might as well delve into what that includes. For the most part this book is very heavy on the bondage kind of domination and heavily blended with spanking scenarios. There is only one scene that briefly touches on something m/m and doesn't go more than a paragraph. There is large a mount f/f scenes in this, so if you really like that sort of thing you'll enjoy that. For the finale there is only one scene that goes into extreme humiliation with a girl wetting herself. Other than that it's pretty standard stuff for this kind of genre. While I'm not into all of those things listed above the story and writing of the book made it worthwhile.
Overall I actually enjoyed this book quite a bit. I'm not easily grossed out about stuff, probably due to the fact that I have read far more extreme stuff in the past. However, if you heavily dislike even the single scenes I mentioned above at least you know about them now before you commit to a purchase. This being a work of fiction authors get to break a lot of rules that most people would consider unbreakable. Such as sexual humiliation against someone's will. That kind of stuff does happen in this book even though most of the characters are willing submissives. I can overlook this for the pure fact that those kinds of unwilling conflicts are what heavily moved the background story. No one was severely injured and this book doesn't play into that kind of brutality, but it was merely being humiliated. Maybe that's no excuse for some people, but like I said, it's a work of fiction and I fully realize that whenever I open these books.
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