Review of Cuckold Stories: Series One By Eden Rose

First, to dispel any doubts, this is a very dirty, sexy, kinky book. If that's the sort of thing you like, you'll love this. But that said, it's a bit unusual. The sex doesn't really start until at least a third of the way in. Until then we learn a lot about the first-person narrator; in fact, we learn more him than he knows himself. For me that's always an indication of a good writer, and Rose pulls this off rather well. We learn about his background in poverty, his history crawling up from the gutter to star status, his successes and his failures (he's a best selling author but is lonely and has no meaningful relationships with anyone). Curiously, we don't get a strong sense that he is a gay man. The character is rather in denial about this, but even so...it was particularly confusing for me because I knew the author was a woman. Maybe I'm just slow, or perhaps I was reading it too fast to get to the dirty bits. In any case, Rose writes this rather well, and I couldn't help thinking that this part of her work could stand on its own outside of a sex book.

But the story takes off when the narrator is taken to see a sex counsellor with some unusual techniques...and of course, a fully equipped dungeon. Here too Rose has managed to invent what is for me a new kink. Forced bi is a fairly common theme in femdom literature, where as part of his humiliation a straight submissive is forced to perform gay sex, often with another straight submissive. Rose's innovation is forced straight; her narrator is gay, even though he doesn't entirely identify as such, so forcing him to have all kinds of wet, messy sex with a dominatrix carries additional humilation energy. Well done, that woman. She's particularly good on the choreography of threesomes, and the spectacular foursome that completes the story is unlikely to be equalled for some time.

There's an extra little cuckold story on the end, much shorter but for me even more enjoyable. Rose introduces it as a more 'normal' story, and I suppose it does draw on a more conventional part of the femdom palette. But it's pretty damn hot, with bondage, forced chastity, cuckolding, and lots of nasty messy details.

One tiny quibble with this one; as Chekhov says, “One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it." Similarly, I don't think anyone should introduce a big dildo into a femdom story with a submissive male unless it is going to go up his ass. Sucking it off is just not enough. But as I said, that's a quibble. It's an enjoyable little story, and I'd like to see more short stories like this from Rose – though I suspect that as a writer with a strong interest in the inner life of her characters she wants to write more outside this genre rather than it.