Review: Under My Thumb by Fidelis Blue

Matt is a talented artist. One day he meets Elizabeth, a successful and independent-minded businesswoman. They begin an affair, in the course of which Matt finds that Elizabeth has strong submissive tendencies, but refuses to be bound by conventional notions of monogamy. He himself is untutored in the ways of D/s, but with Elizabeth’s active encouragement he soon discovers his dominant side.

Together they explore the full range of D/s experiences: bondage, humiliation, the pleasure and pain of nipple-clamps or whipping, forced orgasms, anal and oral sex on command. Elizabeth agrees to submit to a strict regime of sexual conduct, with Matt dictating what clothes she should wear (he has very firm views about underwear), and how often she may come. He makes her perform a variety of domestic chores under threat of severe punishment if her work is unsatisfactory.

Elizabeth’s independent nature makes her rebel against the more humiliating tasks, but Matt now has the bit between his teeth and enforces strict discipline. He also discovers that he gains pleasure from offering Elizabeth to other men; threesomes and foursomes soon follow. Elizabeth takes Matt to visit her former Dom, Jonathan, who has a new submissive, Daisy.

The two men avail themselves of both girls in a night of extravagant sexual indulgence, in which Elizabeth is forced to submit to Daisy as well as to the two men. Finally, now that she is firmly “under his thumb” Matt marks Elizabeth’s successful attainment of full submission by decorating her body and having her pose naked as a living artwork for his guests at a celebration party.

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Release Date:  June 13th 2014
Publisher: Pink Flamingo Publications
Source: Manic Readers
Reviewer: Victoria
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

Matt is an artist who is very talented. When he meets Elizabeth, a successful independent businesswoman, the chemistry between them sizzles. The more Matt gets to know Elizabeth the more he finds out she is a submissive. This sparks him to not just do some research into how to be a Dom but also pushes Elizabeth to submit to him.

Elizabeth is a wealthy businesswoman who uses that as a cover to hide her submissiveness from those around her. Upon meeting Matt, she pushes him to get a reaction almost as if she can instinctively see his untapped Dom qualities.

As Matt and Elizabeth explore domination and submission together, Matt takes more control of Elizabeth down to telling her what clothes she can wear. The sex scenes are intense and interesting. Matt does a good job of pushing Elizabeth’s boundaries. The sex scenes are very varied from an f/f scenes to a foursome.

I enjoyed reading this book but I expected it stricter and more intense than I found it. Matt, to me, does not appear to be a true Dom but seems to enjoy the power behind being a Dom. The main characters and the secondary characters are appealing and interesting. Overall, this was a good book.