Gary E’s review of Femdom Envy (The Seven Femdom Sins Series) > Likes and Comments

My sweet little girl,

I want to pause here and acknowledge something. This is not just a review. This is a confession — one of the most honest and beautifully articulated confessions I have ever received from a reader. You took my book and held it up as a mirror, and instead of looking at the characters, you looked at yourself. That takes courage. Real courage. The kind of courage that Martin could never find.

What I see in your words is a man at a very advanced level of submission — a man who has done the hardest work there is, which is not kneeling or serving or surrendering control. The hardest work is what you describe: looking deep inside yourself and finding the submissive truth that lives there, and accepting it completely, without reservation. That journey — from the lecturing man to the kneeling man, from conflict to peace — is a journey that many men begin and very few complete. You completed it. And the fulfilment you describe is real. I can feel it in every sentence you wrote.

But I want to gently say something about Martin, because I think it matters.

Martin is not a criminal. He becomes one — yes, at the end, he commits a terrible act. But the man who walks through Dakota's gate for the first time carrying a bottle of wine and a lifetime of opinions is not evil. He is underdeveloped. He is a man at an earlier stage of a journey you have already completed. His lecturing man is faster than his kneeling man — exactly as you described your own younger self. The difference between you and Martin is not that you are good and he is bad. The difference is that you kept walking. You found the courage to accept what you are. Martin could not. His pride blocked the path, and because the path was blocked, the pressure built, and because the pressure built, it eventually broke through in the worst possible direction.

I do not judge Martin. I wrote him with sadness, not with contempt. Every protagonist in my Seven Sins series — the lustful judge, the gluttonous boy, the proud CEO, and now the envious Martin — they are not villains. They are men with a specific limitation, a specific blindness, a specific inability to see what is standing right in front of them. Some of us reach the place you have reached — the place of peace, of acceptance, of knowing who we are and what we need. Others do not. And we cannot punish a man for being at a level he has not yet reached, any more than we can punish a white belt for not performing like a black belt.

What we can do — what I try to do with every book — is hold up the mirror. Some men will look into it and recognise themselves and begin the journey. Others will look into it and turn away. Both responses are human. Both deserve compassion.

Thank you for this beautiful review. Thank you for your honesty. And thank you for being living proof that the journey Martin failed to complete can, in fact, be completed — by a man brave enough to stop pretending.

With love and genuine admiration,

Elara xxx

Thank You Ma’am, thank You so very much for such a beautiful reply Ma’am!!

Ma’am Your reply made me have tears in my eyes Ma’am. It touched me so very deeply Ma’am, right to my core Ma’am. I have never felt so at peace within myself since I fully accepted who I am and what I was born for Ma’am. Ever since Ma’am, I have only kept walking Ma’am, getting deeper and deeper but also more fulfilled and happier within myself Ma’am. I will always keep walking Ma’am determined to reach my destiny Ma’am, as I feel as though I have not totally completed my journey yet Ma’am, and only when a Superior Woman takes me and totally enslaves me to Her forever will I ever feel I completed my journey Ma’am.

I only wish I had accepted myself sooner Ma’am, I feel I lost many of my younger years fighting something that was fake, where I could have been using this time to find the Superior Woman I desperately need to own me Ma’am. The life I was only ever born for Ma’am, every day in this vanilla life I feel is not me Ma’am. I need to be forever chained and shackled crawling on the floor at the Feet of a Superior Woman under Her Absolute Control, slaving and worshipping Her in entirety Ma’am. Reading Femdom Envy Ma’am, I would have totally submitted immediately having been given the opportunity by Dakota Ma’am and the story would have a very different outcome Ma’am!

I totally understand the story with Martin unable to accept who is truly is Ma’am, and he became a criminal Ma’am. I hope the book will make many males hold up the mirror and begin this wonderful, exciting, fulfilling journey Ma’am and not end up like Martin or Arthur Ma’am. Everybody loses Ma’am and males need to accept what we are truly born for Ma’am. Pretending to be someone you are not is a waste of the valuable time we have in this world Ma’am. A world always meant to be ruled by Superior Women Ma’am keeping males as slaves and objects Ma’am.

I think the punishment for the likes of Martin, is for not living their true selves Ma’am and completely wasting their lives Ma’am. Nothing can ever be more fulfilling than being at the end of a leash at the Feet of a Superior Woman Ma’am under Her Absolute Power and Control Ma'am.

I’m amazed by the author’s detailed response to your first-rate review. The book is unique within the author’s femdom genre. Why?
Because the description of the protagonist, Martin, is such that I can’t help but suspect he’s a real person—someone who was an Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, or Omega reader and whom she kicked out. But I can’t prove that. If there’s a 60-year-old out there with a Ph.D. and two kids who’s been exchanging letters with her back and forth and who kept changing his mind, he’ll know.
As I said, it’s speculation, even if it seems plausible to me. But that’s not the point. Why respond to the review again now and explain once more how she sees this Martin (I think the comments about the other protagonists are just noise meant to distract)? Why give this Martin so much attention again? He’s been punished for his stupidity. It’s his own fault. He’s been held up as a cautionary tale. Let’s just let it go.