Twenty-one-year-old Felicia Rose Culbertson is a college student working part-time as a professional Dominatrix. Though she maintains a marked degree of emotional distance from her customers, she’s dedicated to doing a good job always and her clients keep coming back. She came to the profession with the advice and assistance of an older, more experienced Dominatrix, originally hoping to use it as a means of coping and coming to terms with an extremely traumatic and humiliating event she experienced when she was only eighteen and a senior in high school: she had been intimidated by a coach to consent to a disciplinary paddling from her school principal. The resulting media attention, both social and otherwise, has resulted in her community almost totally ostracizing her. Though she’s left for the big city and feels she can never go home again, she’s a confident Dominatrix three years later–but her feeling of satisfaction with the profession is only transitory. She still suffers from anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, and feels as if she’s missing out on something she may be afraid to admit, even to herself…
Until one warm spring evening, when she accepts an “outcall” from a posh hotel not far from her apartment and she meets a “client” of the sort she never expected–much less than he ever expected to run into a girl like her. A bit of hilarity due to a practical joke and mistaken identity ensue, but as the evening progresses, Felicia discovers that not all males calling themselves Dominants are cut from the same cloth– not to mention realizing a few possibilities she’s been missing and an aspect of her personality she may never have quite accepted, until tonight…
- ASIN: B09C8ZQRDW
- Publisher: Pink Flamingo Media (9 Aug. 2021)
- Language: English
- Genre: BDSM Erotica Literature & Fiction
The BookViral Review:
Masterfully weaving BDSM, Romance and intrigue into a no holds barred read Switch: A Tale of Spanking, BDSM, and Romance proves a dangerously delightful foray into the mind of Ardie Stallard and the aptly named ‘Switch’ series.
Many plot points and literary devices have commonalities in BDSM Fiction with far too many titles feeling predictable and familiar. But this is something Stallard confidently avoids.
Fast-paced, with continued conflict that keeps its chapters forging forward you won’t find any mundane romance tropes in Switch: A Tale of Spanking, BDSM, and Romance or lame sex with coy descriptions.
Crafting a succinct and well-paced plot that quickly gets to the crux of the genre whilst rapidly building intrigue and suspense it’s fair to say Stallard’s not an author to labour in the detail when it isn’t warranted but does have a colourfully dynamic and visual imagination that seldom lets up!
Of course, any novel of note rises and falls on the strength of its characters and here both Felicia and Joe prove far from pedestrian. Add a little humour and strong backstories and they each have broad appeal. They’re intelligent and conflicted and each of them is damaged with Felicia’s humiliation and social media notoriety being the catalyst that ultimately brings them together.
But a great read in any genre must go beyond its lead protagonists and this is where Stallard’s novel really excels. BDSM is part of the holistic fibre of Felicia’s story but the moments of truth, the plot triggers, lie in the sexual reality of both Felicia and Joe with this allowing Stallard to move beyond simply telling a good story and delve into the more cerebral aspects of BDSM Erotica
With everything a reader could want from a top-notch read in the genre Switch: A Tale of Spanking, BDSM, and Romance is quick to ensnare the imagination and is recommended without reservation.
ARDIE STALLARD 