In the eighteenth century waif Marianna Wren is taken into an aristocratic home where she became a servant. However, as she blossomed into a beautiful woman, she is accused of unbecoming behavior when her owner took her virginity and consequently fired her. Marianna tries to hitch a ride and is picked up by Calliope. They hit it off and the more experienced woman tutors her new friend in the vast delights of a wide variety of sex with male and female partners. Marianna loves her new freedom and changes her name to Madame Bliss. She enjoys seduction and being seduced, but deep down in her heart, Bliss knows Marianna is still that stray trying to belong to someone; she wants to love and be loved by her own personal Eros.
MADAME BLISS will remind readers of Fanny Hill and Tom Jones. This is the amorous adventures of a woman of pleasure in a delightfully lewd coming of age historical. Marianna is like a wren until her mentor teaches her the love and joy of blissful bisexual bawdy encounters of all kind.
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The premise for this book is rather similar to John Cleland's classic "Memoirs of a woman of pleasure." But all promises aside, this book falls just a little flat.
In the product description and elsewhere, this book is heralded as being equivalent to Cleland's title. The scenes are, as expected, racey and sexy and to complete the saga "Madam Bliss" also has her own tragic lover, lost to her, whom she will regain, with him having metamorphsized into a marvellously rich man, when all it said and done.
The book is a decent (as in: just OK) read, with a decent plot and lots of sex as you would expect from a title like this. I cannot help but feel that the plot development and the unexpected twists gives the book corny feel and predictable, Cinderella-happy-ever-after conclusion that would have people who read this genre, yawn and roll their eyes frequently. (I know I did)...
A sensual book, but let's just say that it didn't keep me up all night reading it.
MADAME BLISS will remind readers of Fanny Hill and Tom Jones. This is the amorous adventures of a woman of pleasure in a delightfully lewd coming of age historical. Marianna is like a wren until her mentor teaches her the love and joy of blissful bisexual bawdy encounters of all kind.
NOTES:
The premise for this book is rather similar to John Cleland's classic "Memoirs of a woman of pleasure." But all promises aside, this book falls just a little flat.
In the product description and elsewhere, this book is heralded as being equivalent to Cleland's title. The scenes are, as expected, racey and sexy and to complete the saga "Madam Bliss" also has her own tragic lover, lost to her, whom she will regain, with him having metamorphsized into a marvellously rich man, when all it said and done.
The book is a decent (as in: just OK) read, with a decent plot and lots of sex as you would expect from a title like this. I cannot help but feel that the plot development and the unexpected twists gives the book corny feel and predictable, Cinderella-happy-ever-after conclusion that would have people who read this genre, yawn and roll their eyes frequently. (I know I did)...
A sensual book, but let's just say that it didn't keep me up all night reading it.
