Lady Eleanor Petersham knows exactly what she wants from her marriage – a man who will worship at her feet.Instead, her father marries her off to her brother’s best friend, the devastatingly handsome, authoritative, and devilishly dominant Lord Edwin Hyde.It doesn’t matter that he makes her entire body tingle when he kisses her, or brings her to heights of pleasure she’s never known, or how he … known, or how he disciplines her when she plays nasty tricks on him – like throwing a dinner party which only includes dishes with ingredients he despises – she’s not willing to give up on her version of marriage without a fight.
Pain and pleasure struggle for dominance the same way husband and wife do in this relationship.
Birching His Bride is approximately 52,000 words.
The Complete Quartet:
2. Dealing With Discipline
3. Punishing His Ward
4. Claiming His Wife
more
Cliffhanger alert!
Edwin & Eleanor end up having a hasty marriage shortly after her debut of the season. They’ve known each other for a few years as friends, but he became more interested in her after seeing how her father punished her (it seems to excite him a lot). This makes him seem a bit distasteful, but could be excused by his younger age at the time he saw this. However, he thinks back on this fondly quite a bit, which makes him seem a bit dodgy. She seems quite immature also, being annoyed at having to plan her own party after her wedding. It gets better during their honeymoon, though.
Despite this, this short story isn’t really finished by the last chapter. When we get to the epilogue, it’s actually about completely different characters, too…
So this seems to end on a cliffhanger.
I rarely give low ratings for books, but… this one is an exception.
The story begins with a prologue in which Eleanor’s brother Hugh, brings his friends, Wesley and Edwin over to his house in order to watch his sister get birched by his father for misbehaving.
One year later Edwin sees Eleanor at her come out ball and starts thinking of marrying her. Eleanor for her part wants a husband that will let have her own way and give her lots of gifts, certainly not Edwin as she figures that he is not that kind of man. The next morning Edwin has an interview with Elanor’s father and he is informed by Elanor’s father that he should marry Eleanor. The make up the marriage agreement with the assistance of some solicitors who were called to join them. Edwin leaves to procure the special license that he and Eleanor could marry the next day.
Eleanor was not exactly happy to be told that she was to be married to Edwin, and so her father used a tawse on her bottom so that she might comply better. The next thing Eleanor knows, she is married and she is imagining that somehow she will be able to escape and get her marriage annulled, but that is rather unlikely and she just doesn’t realize it.
That night after the wedding in bed with Eleanor, Edwin first licks her pussy and fingers her until she comes and then he finally fucks her until she orgasms again and then he follows soon afterward.
The next day Eleanor goes off and shops for an entire new wardrobe and so when she gets back home she gets an over the knee spanking for misbehaving so. Later even though Edwin told Eleanor that he expected her to have dinner with him at 7 o’clock, she tells a servant that she is ill and that she wants a try in her room. However Edwin finds out about the tray request and goes to check on her, afer determining that she is not in fact sick, Edwin makes Eleanor get over his lap so that he might give her another bare bottomed spanking. Next Edwin gets Eleanor in position on her hands and knees and fucks her hard until they both come.
Later Eleanor has a dinner party during which she wears a scandalous dress that is too low cut at the bodice and she also makes sure that the foods that Edwin dislikes most are served and none of his favourite foods, poor Edwin starves and Eleanor feels guilty. After the party Eleanor is made to bend over the bed and first get spanked by Edwin’s hand and then to get birched for her behaviour. After Edwin birches Eleanor, he takes her from behind while she is bent over until she comes and then he puts her on her back and fucks her some more until she comes again and he finishes.
The next main event is Edwin takes Eleanor to Paris for a honeymoon and they have a fine time with a nice HEA ending, this is followed by a teaser for Dealing with Discipline where we will have Hugh, Eleanor’s brother and Hugh’s fiancé in their story.
I read this as part of a box set given to me as a promotional book set. It was a cute book just very memorable and it took forever to read cause it couldn’t keep my attention. I love domestic discipline and historical books, this was both mixed together just not well thought out fully, it has a decent start but needs more to to make the book really good.
First in the series is not a stand alone.
This is hot, wonderfully written. But is almost cliffhangerish. The story isn’t finished, this book can’t stand alone. I highly recommend waiting to read until you have all of this excellent series. This series is worth the credits. I will definitely reread/listen to this series again and again.
Beautifully read the narrative drew me in.
This audiobook was given to me for free at my request from the publisher or author or narrator and I provided this unbiased voluntary review.
This is my first time reading anything by this author, it’s also my first time listening to an audio of a book. I thoroughly enjoyed both! The story is brilliantly written, and I was enthralled from the get-go. The author has chosen a great narrator that fit the story excellently and added to it. I loved every second of this book and highly recommend it to anyone who loves a good historical story with plenty of steam!
This book would fall into erotica and domestic discipline. I believe the era is Victorian, although I’m not sure. It is interesting in the way men and women relate to each other, as well as how the same sex interacts in society. The narration was pretty good. I think it served to enhance the story.
I found the father’s discipline of Eleanor to be a little creepy. I also found it creepy that Eleanor’s brother Hugh was allowed to discipline her.
Edwin and Eleanor’s relationship is off to a shaky start, with issues that are not fully worked out in this first book. I discovered quite by accident that this is the first in a four book series because I started listening to the 4th book and had no idea what was going on.
I voluntarily listened to and reviewed the Audiobook received from the author.
Golden Angel is one of my go-to, one-click authors. I’m not sure how I missed this series up to this point, but certainly am thrilled now to have started it. Eleanor has seen how “love” manages to get in the way of couples. In her experience, it allows the wife to be taken advantage of and never have a life of her own and Eleanor has no intentions of becoming one of “those” type of women. Set in the Victorian Age, this headstrong, opinionated woman and dominate man are just what was needed. The antics and consequences took me from shaking my head, smiling, and then catching my breath. I can hardly wait to start the next book in this series.
Oh my gods, this is super steamy and great to read. I loved every word of it. I love the sprinkling of period appropriate language. It’s enough to season but not to overwhelm the rest of the story. Too many times, authors put as much of that kind of language as they can in a story, and it is always jarring to me and takes me out of the story. That isn’t the case here.
The story is as good as the sex is, which is always nice. Eleanor and Edwin are engrossing characters. I want to know so much more about them. I can’t wait until I read the rest of the story.
The first book in the series and if you are a fan of the Properly Spanked series by Annabel Joseph, you will love this series as well.
I loved the connection and banter between Eleanor and Edwin and how she tried everything in her book to get what she thought she wanted. And Edwin no nonsense reactions.