Claiming Melissaby H. Dean Imprint: Silver Moon This book is written in English 
 
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| Style: Bondage/BDSM and Romance, Bondage/BDSM Fetishes Published: 7 / 2013 Available Formats to Download: MOBI, EPUB, MS Word, PDF, MS Reader, Text, RTF, Available for members to read online in the Reading Room which is part of the member library
| | STORY DESCRIPTION Melissa was vivacious and beautiful, instantly stealing Bill's heart. Their affair, though short lived, was passionate, intense and loving. But a dark secret, and the loss of her mother, drove her from Bill's loving arms. Having remained friends, Bill became a helpless witness to Melissa's descent into a life of sexual depravity. Terribly pained by all he saw, Bill found the situation untenable, and was faced with a terrible decision. | Keywords related to this title - click on a keyword to find more, related stories Anal enema Bondage D/s BDSM Romance Slave Author information: I wouldn't exactly call myself a writer of erotic fiction, preferring to engage in lighter fare. However, there are times, late at night, when a particularly odd idea will formulate in my head, ideas that demand I release them with the written word.
Mostly, my tales will tilt towards the erotic horror, the story twisting somewhere dark in the final chapters. Though, I will admit to the romantic. Occasionally I go there and put forth something with more substance and emotion.
Find me on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/#!/authorh.dean Reviews Very mlid story of very willing submission. I prefer much stronger stories and did not finish it. Well written though. 2 out of 5 (Stark47) External Reviews Claiming Melissa is a psychological study in mind control, with a detailed look inside the thoughts and motivations of both the controller and the controlee. The dialectic within the story centers around the controlling desires of the dominant man with his own (supposedly) ethical/moral character. The way Dean delivers the story, that stress within Bill makes the tale more sinister and disturbing than it would otherwise be.
Thus, Claiming Melissa becomes a horror tale that sneaks up on you, and gets under your skin, without being overtly erotic, in the sense that there isn’t much physical domination or corporeal erotic behavior going on here at all. In many ways, compared to Dean’s heavier stuff, this novel leaves the reader a bit flat, in that the delectable suffering of a character in the midst of physical changes and irreversible bondage is missing until the very end. And even there, that part doesn’t hit the reader as hard as it does in Dean’s more intense work.
But, as a story of one character getting into another’s mind, molding her, and setting her future on a completely different (and destructive) path, this book excels. What I found interesting is the yummy level of dominance and depravity the otherwise-noble character of Bill could plummet to, in the work he does in his chosen career (making sex “toys” [“devices” is more accurate]), his dealings with Melissa, or his interactions with his closest friends, Tom and Marla. Dean paints Bill as a master manipulator who is sometimes well-disciplined, but who, at other times, is unable to control his instincts. Melissa is the epitome of a sub completely lacking in self-confidence, who wants every decision to be made by someone else. The levels she’ll stoop to in that pursuit form the most tragic aspects of the book.
Dean is a master at giving us the hopeless victim (or sub – if you prefer), thrust into an awful world with a demoralized, despondent, wretched future at book’s end. I love that about this author. That’s made Dean’s novels and short stories must-reading for the devout sadists (or sadees) among us. Claiming Melissa doesn’t quite deliver the visceral experience of some of Dean’s other books, in that regard. It almost seems like Dean was trying to tell us, through Bill, that the author is not such a bad guy after all. I prefer to think of H. Dean as a very bad (though fascinating) person.
On another level, though, this story shows us a collection of characters that are mentally linked. The story dwells far more on the level of the torture of the minds of the characters than on the physical stress. The exception is Marla, who turned out to be my favorite character, and, in my view, the sexiest – because of what Tom did to her physically. (Goodreads) |
