“A Holy Maiden’s Guide To Getting Kidnapped” by Katy Nyquist [Femdom Book Review]

The book sells itself as a subversion, a pure “Holy Maiden” who is actually a hard drinking, cynical dominatrix. What you actually get is a tedious and incoherent mess that intermittently reminds you the protagonist, Ysabel, is dominant, but requires you to slog 195 pages in for a perfectly adequate sex scene. I feel bad hating this, because it’s incredibly sincere. There is a dominant protagonist who gets to have a constant horny hunger, be messy, and fling herself about like a chaos gremlin. There’s queer rep, and a lot of soul baring of the author taking big risks that feels precisely the hardest sort of thing to criticize, because it’s going all in. Unfortunately it’s really, really stupid, deeply unfunny and baffling character behaviour and motives. It cannot decide if it is a light hearted farce, a trope heavy fantasy with an incidental romance, or a serious examination of real world issues like misogyny, rape, racism and queer-phobia. Cartoon character style evil shares the…