Spaz Reviews: Stocking Full of Coal – Amanda Feral
January 17, 2011 in Reviews
Publisher:Ellora’s Cave Publishing- Amanda Feral’s Website
- ISBN: 9781419931758
- Release Date: December 16, 2010
- MSRP/List Price: $4.98
- Our Cover Price: $2.49
- Buy at Ellora’s Cave
Justine Crenshaw is accident-prone. On purpose. It’s the bruises…she can’t live without them, without the pleasure and pain that closely bind her sexuality to her secret obsession. She chooses men who accept her fetish, who seek it out for their own dark designs, even if they don’t understand it. She accepts that. Justine doesn’t need them for anything but a little bruise pressure during down-and-dirty sex.
Then she meets Nathan, and her heart starts demanding more than her compulsions provide. She can’t hide her body from him forever, can’t keep him in the dark, literally. But no “normal” guy could possibly understand her multi-colored kink…could he? It might be time for Justine to shine a light on her fetish and find out.
Wow. Just… wow. This is my first Amanda Feral experience and I have to say that I have to read all her books now.
Justine Crenshaw is accident-prone. Wellll, at least to the outside person she appears to be accident-prone. What is really going on is a bit more complex that that. Justine feels compelled to bruise herself intentionally. You might be familiar with a phenomenon called “cutting” in which someone feels release or relief from the injury they inflict upon themselves. Amanda’s obsession with bruising to me felt along the same lines and I found her pathology fascinating!
This book was right the hell up my alley. You have a flawed oddball heroine who is fulfilling her own needs by bruising herself. Lately, BDSM for me is being beaten to death (oh! a pun!) in a lot of chicklit books, and this was such a fresh take on it! Justine feels the bruising makes her whole and the pleasure and pain of the “accidental bruising” have become a part of her sexuality. Enter a sexy man named Nathan who does not take off running when she entrusts him with her dirty secrets, and you have one hot little story on your hands! You will cringe. You will definitely squirm. You will find yourself empathizing with a character you never thought you would. You will probably wonder what the hell you just read when you are done… because you can’t describe why you enjoyed it so much at first. And then you can thank us for recommending it to you!









