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Review of Dommemoir
by Elizabeth Coldwell
"Forum" magazine editor

      Geneviéve has lived in a vanilla marriage for many years, but while she's exceptionally well catered for financially, what she really needs is a man to serve her, a man who she can own body and soul, and who will do the household chores she hates. Nicolas has wanted to be a woman's slave ever since he was bossed around by a childhood playmate. Their journey will eventually lead them into a 24/7 BDSM relationship in which each will gain exactly what they want from the other, but there are setbacks and disappointments for both of them before they reach that point.
      Told in the form of two overlapping autobiographies, Dommemoir is a knowledgeable, sympathetic look at the needs and desires of a dominant woman and a submissive man. The Lady Geneviéve is a late bloomer while nicolas (BDSM protocol is followed here, with all the slaves and submissive characters having their names rendered in lower case) has always known he wants to worship a woman. Both of them are in marriages where their partner is unsympathetic to their needs, and one of the themes of this novel is the conflict betweeen those in the lifestyle and those in wider society who simply donĂ­t understand the need to dominate or submit.
      The characters The Lady Geneviéve and nicolas meet along the way are composites of many in the lifestyle, from the online timewaster to the ageing sissy maid, and I.G. Frederick describes the details of play sessions, piercing, branding and polyamory with skill and authority. Dommemoir is ultimately a love story, describing a full-time relationship many fantasise about but few will ever experience, but within its pages is plenty of comfort and affirmation for would-be pervs everywhere.

Elizabeth Coldwell was editor of the
UK edition of "Forum" magazine.
Her short stories have appeared in more than twenty
anthologies including Best SM Erotica Vols 1 and 2,
Yes, Sir and Spanked: Red Cheeked Erotica.

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Review of Dommemoir by JAG
Professional Reviewer, author of My Secret Obsession

      Imagine devotion, commitment and servitude. Utter surrender to being owned completely. Visualize love that knows no boundaries but those that are proposed. Existing as a slave to a divine worship and existence, knowing no greater degree of ecstasy than giving ecstasy. Pleasure becoming pleasure only when decreed by the receiver in the moans, the praise, the pat on the head, the punishment, the eternal collar of gold, the piercing, and the brand of a lifetime from Her. She who is the inspiration, the source, the reason The Lady G and her Dommemoir.
      Fairy tales dictate a prince for every princess to take her away into a happily ever after where she is the center of his universe. When we awake from the fairytale, we are often left in bewilderment wondering where all the promises went. So is the awakening of Genevieve after Her marriage ends. In search of assistance for managing the basics in Her life, Genevieve turns to service as the solution.
      As she begins to enlist help for keeping her house clean, Genevieve finds a growing joy in male servitude and allows herself to become the Lady G that she had always been but hadn't allowed herself to discover. Up until then, I had lived a pretty vanilla life. I didn't know I was a sadist. I hadn't explored my dominant nature or discovered that I crave the worship of a male slave who truly believes I am his Supreme Goddess (p 2).
      Through well-written words that echo two souls, the Lady G and Her slave nicholas, readers are escorted through a journey that many fail to explore. The core of what and who we are beyond desire, that truth of our existence and what makes us is revealed through the struggles, the trials, the losses and the triumphs recorded in this memoir. Lady G and nicholas present readers with a search for purpose and reason, the meaning in one's existence, the ache for satisfaction and a portrayal of the courage to embrace the relief for that ache, even if it's an existence that must be protected from the vanilla world.
      Ultimately, Dommemoir is an opportunity to do more than explore The Lifestyle. Readers explore what it means to embrace life and boldly venture into a destiny of one's own design, taste and meaning. Often times, we find our answers in unexpected places, sometimes in more than one place. And love in a variety of ways and hearts that leave us branded forever in memory.

JAG is a professional reviewer and
the author of My Secret Obsession

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