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foreverbeautifulbooks's review
5.0
Hello, naughty Wonderland!
Now picture if you will Alice falling through the rabbit hole in the middle of a park in San Francisco. Then bring your mind to Alice waking up in Wonderland and peaks behind a tree only to see a woman being happily pleasured by three men at once. Oh yes, welcome to Wonderland folks.
My warning: If you don’t like the idea of B D S M then this is not the book for you!
For one, Alice totally is the perfect submissive kitten. She loves it, she wants it, and she thrives off the whole concept of being the perfect sub. Alice was awesome for me, because she doesn’t lie and say she isn’t into it. The idea is there, she is told what is up, and she’s like get me naked and sign me up
King Jarronn, I might take up B D S M if he is the man with the silk ties and the flogger LOL! This book is incredibly sexy in the fact that Alice is a full figured woman, who of course in modern society is called fat and worthless because she is not a size 2 but a 16. She is tossed into Wonderland with a group of hunky Kings that all want a piece of the curvy beauty. They figure it is the perfect body for loving. It was so awesome. Jarronn’s job is to make Alice love herself; that she is just damned beautiful and that is her lesson as a sub, to truly own who she is.
It made me feel good as a size 14 woman to read that; and to have that man just think she was the sexiest woman alive. I liked that Alice was a sub, and they played out the full training. He was gentle as well as punished her when she broke the rules.But it wasn’t some dark dangerous dungeon scenario. Like a proper Dom, he knew exactly how far to push her, and what the proper punishments where.
Now picture if you will Alice falling through the rabbit hole in the middle of a park in San Francisco. Then bring your mind to Alice waking up in Wonderland and peaks behind a tree only to see a woman being happily pleasured by three men at once. Oh yes, welcome to Wonderland folks.
My warning: If you don’t like the idea of B D S M then this is not the book for you!
For one, Alice totally is the perfect submissive kitten. She loves it, she wants it, and she thrives off the whole concept of being the perfect sub. Alice was awesome for me, because she doesn’t lie and say she isn’t into it. The idea is there, she is told what is up, and she’s like get me naked and sign me up
King Jarronn, I might take up B D S M if he is the man with the silk ties and the flogger LOL! This book is incredibly sexy in the fact that Alice is a full figured woman, who of course in modern society is called fat and worthless because she is not a size 2 but a 16. She is tossed into Wonderland with a group of hunky Kings that all want a piece of the curvy beauty. They figure it is the perfect body for loving. It was so awesome. Jarronn’s job is to make Alice love herself; that she is just damned beautiful and that is her lesson as a sub, to truly own who she is.
It made me feel good as a size 14 woman to read that; and to have that man just think she was the sexiest woman alive. I liked that Alice was a sub, and they played out the full training. He was gentle as well as punished her when she broke the rules.But it wasn’t some dark dangerous dungeon scenario. Like a proper Dom, he knew exactly how far to push her, and what the proper punishments where.
anzuk's review against another edition
1.0
So, I’m doing a new review series called Failrotica. The purpose of this is to explore the depths of human relationships when it comes to romance novels. Erotica, in particular.
I need to mention that I’ll be a complete troll about it, so if you actually enjoy this genre then I might advise you to avoid reading my reviews since they most probably will make you angry. I’m a nice person. I care.
Back to my introduction. I’ll be choosing only la crème de la crème of erotica. Yes, I do find erotica boring and extremely repetitive, so I need good material to work with. This being said, I’ll go for monster, bizarro and fairytale retellings - because they just crack me up.
Let’s start with the raping of one of my most favorite childhood books, shall we?
Meet Alice O’Brien, our lovely, self-respecting and clearly intelligent heroine. The first thing we find out about her is that she’s flawed. Completely and hopelessly flawed. Why is that, you ask? She is flawed because of her full figure. Ample hips, large heavy breasts and vast bottom. (!sarcasm) No man, nor woman, can ever take her seriously because of this. But at least her fiancé, Jon, is there to help her.
And her hot and, despite all logic, skinny twin, Alexi.
After Alice loses her job for no apparent reason (the poor thing, she probably thinks it’s because of her vast bottom), she comes home only to find her beloved fiancé busy making a sandwich. And, to her complete horror, he wasn’t planning on sharing it with her!
His reason, you ask?
Hurt beyond reason, she makes her escape and ends up resting on a bench in a secluded park. Oh, sorry. Did I say resting? I meant to say masturbating. Yes, she ends up masturbating in the quiet park using raspberry lotion! Pain works in mysterious ways…
And now we switch to Wonderland, which appears to be in a bit of a predicament. King Jarronn, our charming male lead, is worried sick for his people.
The horrible fates of all these fertile women not being able to accept the seed of their virile men… I cannot bear the thought…
King Jarronn’s people are dying, and the only way of saving them is by picking a random, yet special, woman and knocking her senseless with his mighty sausage!
The fate of the kingdom lies in the hands of the ever erect Jarronn, who, despite being a world apart, happens to catch onto a new scent. Alice’s raspberry, and other intimate liquids that I dare not mention, concoction seems to be music to King Jarronn’s ears. Yes! He finally found the woman who will save his kingdom from Mikaela’s oh so brilliant barren curse!
Jarronn lures the easily confused Alice through a metaphorical rabbit hole and traps her in Wonderland. Fortunately, she is a strong independent woman, and she will fight for her virtue with all her strength!
Milord’s charm at its best! Alice can’t help but be impressed.
Alice is yet to find out that becoming Milord’s queen will not be easy. She has to pass several hard and lengthy tests in order to prove that she is worthy of leading the ever aroused people of Wonderland!
Her first lesson comes quickly.
Milord is assigned with the difficult mission of making Alice know that she is beautiful. A very difficult mission indeed. She must be stripped bare, chained up, ordered around and displayed as an exotic possession in order to increase her self-esteem.
She must trust him completely!
As days pass by, Alice seems to adapt to the life of a sex slave soon to be queen.
Sorry, my mistake. Alice seems to adapt to the life of a treasured possession soon to be queen. Her self-esteem seems to have increased. Also, Milord turned out to be a weretiger. His very thick and sandpapery tongue proving useful in very dry situations.
One night, Alice gets attacked in her sleep by a whip-wielding Dominatrix. Thin and super-sexy, she can only turn out to be evil, as many of the beautiful women of Wonderland do.
The evil Dominatrix says. She wants to crumple Alice’s self-esteem!
With this extremely original insult she disappears, leaving Alice in tears and her self-esteem in pieces.
But yes, Milord does love her! And he proves this by always believing in her. It is time for Alice’s first test. She is to mind-bond with all four Kings of Wonderland - at the same time!
After long seed-gulping and mass penetrating moments, Alice’s trust for Milord is proved. She is ready to mate with him in front of his people and become his Queen.
Several orgies later, the baby hating Mikaela attacks again, but Alice’s self-esteem is impenetrable. Words like “fat” or “ugly” don’t seem to work anymore, and the evil Mikaela makes her escape only to spare the author from bothering herself with creating another villain in the next installments.
Our dearest Alice is yet to receive her coronation gift!
Rejoice!
And they lived happily ever after. The end.
I need to mention that I’ll be a complete troll about it, so if you actually enjoy this genre then I might advise you to avoid reading my reviews since they most probably will make you angry. I’m a nice person. I care.
Back to my introduction. I’ll be choosing only la crème de la crème of erotica. Yes, I do find erotica boring and extremely repetitive, so I need good material to work with. This being said, I’ll go for monster, bizarro and fairytale retellings - because they just crack me up.
Let’s start with the raping of one of my most favorite childhood books, shall we?
Oh, my god. I just fucked a king!
Meet Alice O’Brien, our lovely, self-respecting and clearly intelligent heroine. The first thing we find out about her is that she’s flawed. Completely and hopelessly flawed. Why is that, you ask? She is flawed because of her full figure. Ample hips, large heavy breasts and vast bottom. (!sarcasm) No man, nor woman, can ever take her seriously because of this. But at least her fiancé, Jon, is there to help her.
Damn Jon. Her somewhat forgetful—make that irresponsible— fiancé.
And her hot and, despite all logic, skinny twin, Alexi.
Why couldn’t she be slender, with all those thick, wavy, auburn locks like her twin?
After Alice loses her job for no apparent reason (the poor thing, she probably thinks it’s because of her vast bottom), she comes home only to find her beloved fiancé busy making a sandwich. And, to her complete horror, he wasn’t planning on sharing it with her!
Jon was engaging in a ménage à trois—fulfilling Alice’s fantasy for another woman.
His reason, you ask?
She’d heard Jon say: If Alice wasn’t so fat…
Hurt beyond reason, she makes her escape and ends up resting on a bench in a secluded park. Oh, sorry. Did I say resting? I meant to say masturbating. Yes, she ends up masturbating in the quiet park using raspberry lotion! Pain works in mysterious ways…
And now we switch to Wonderland, which appears to be in a bit of a predicament. King Jarronn, our charming male lead, is worried sick for his people.
It should have been a time of growth for Jarronn’s people, too—a time for males to seed their mate’s wombs. A time to look forward to new births in the fall.
The horrible fates of all these fertile women not being able to accept the seed of their virile men… I cannot bear the thought…
Veins rose along the surface of Jarronn’s muscles as rage filled him anew that he had been unable to break Mikaela’s powerful mind spells…the black sorcery that had rendered the women of Tarok incapable of conception for nearly two decades.
King Jarronn’s people are dying, and the only way of saving them is by picking a random, yet special, woman and knocking her senseless with his mighty sausage!
The fate of the kingdom lies in the hands of the ever erect Jarronn, who, despite being a world apart, happens to catch onto a new scent. Alice’s raspberry, and other intimate liquids that I dare not mention, concoction seems to be music to King Jarronn’s ears. Yes! He finally found the woman who will save his kingdom from Mikaela’s oh so brilliant barren curse!
Jarronn lures the easily confused Alice through a metaphorical rabbit hole and traps her in Wonderland. Fortunately, she is a strong independent woman, and she will fight for her virtue with all her strength!
“I am Jarronn, but you may refer to me as Milord .”
Milord’s charm at its best! Alice can’t help but be impressed.
“You will obey my every command, wench,” he said as he slid the satin from her hair. “And you will accept and enjoy whatever punishment is dealt.”
Alice is yet to find out that becoming Milord’s queen will not be easy. She has to pass several hard and lengthy tests in order to prove that she is worthy of leading the ever aroused people of Wonderland!
This woman would need to learn to trust him completely, and to follow whatever orders he may dictate, for her own safety as well as the safety of his people.
Her first lesson comes quickly.
“Always thrust out your chest when you are looking at me, so that I might better view your beautiful treasures.”
Milord is assigned with the difficult mission of making Alice know that she is beautiful. A very difficult mission indeed. She must be stripped bare, chained up, ordered around and displayed as an exotic possession in order to increase her self-esteem.
Would she ever love his people and his kingdom, if she could not even love herself? Damnation but he’d make her see herself for the beauty she was. And she would fall in love with him.
She must trust him completely!
“I am High King of Tarok, and amongst my people such respect is expected. If one person does not show respect, loyalty, and trust, it could cause others to believe there is a flaw in my leadership.”
As days pass by, Alice seems to adapt to the life of a sex slave soon to be queen.
Jarronn owned her. Not like a slave, but as a treasured possession, and she really liked how it felt to belong to him.
Sorry, my mistake. Alice seems to adapt to the life of a treasured possession soon to be queen. Her self-esteem seems to have increased. Also, Milord turned out to be a weretiger. His very thick and sandpapery tongue proving useful in very dry situations.
Alice also had to admit that she certainly didn’t miss a culture that dismissed its heavier citizens. A culture that ridiculed people of size and constantly forced weight-loss advertisements on them. Of course all the ads had perfect-bodied mannequins that made a gal with a few extra pounds want to go out and eat a whole damn cheesecake just for spite.
One night, Alice gets attacked in her sleep by a whip-wielding Dominatrix. Thin and super-sexy, she can only turn out to be evil, as many of the beautiful women of Wonderland do.
“How could you ever think the king could love the likes of you?”
The evil Dominatrix says. She wants to crumple Alice’s self-esteem!
“You’re fat and ugly and no one will ever love you.”
With this extremely original insult she disappears, leaving Alice in tears and her self-esteem in pieces.
How could she have so easily believed that Jarronn could come to love her? There was nothing beautiful or special about her at all.
But yes, Milord does love her! And he proves this by always believing in her. It is time for Alice’s first test. She is to mind-bond with all four Kings of Wonderland - at the same time!
After long seed-gulping and mass penetrating moments, Alice’s trust for Milord is proved. She is ready to mate with him in front of his people and become his Queen.
Several orgies later, the baby hating Mikaela attacks again, but Alice’s self-esteem is impenetrable. Words like “fat” or “ugly” don’t seem to work anymore, and the evil Mikaela makes her escape only to spare the author from bothering herself with creating another villain in the next installments.
“You are my possession, Alice. And you are my queen.”
It would be my greatest joy if you would bear my cubs.
Our dearest Alice is yet to receive her coronation gift!
“The first time I took you as my mate and released the tigri pheromones, the process was started.”
She stilled. “Process?”
With a slow nod, Jarronn said, “Eventually you shall become a weretigress.”
Rejoice!
“No kidding?” Alice’s body tensed and her face lit up with hope. “That means I’ll live longer and all that other stuff? And I’ll be able to shapeshift, too?”
And they lived happily ever after. The end.
witandsin's review against another edition
5.0
Alice O’Brien is having a record-breaking bad day which is topped off by her coming home to find her fiancé cheating on her. Her day takes a strange turn when a trip to Golden Gate Park sends Alice tumbling down a rabbit hole where she lands in a fantastical land…and in the path of a devastatingly handsome king.
Jarronn, the King of Hearts and High King of Tarok is in a bind. The fate of his kingdom rests on he and his brothers defeating the mind-spell cast by their enemy. Jarronn knows he must pick a mate who is not of his world, and fate makes him set his sights on Alice. She’s everything he could want, both as a mate and as a queen. But what will happen when Alice learns Jarronn’s true purpose in bringing her to his kingdom?
Get your fans ready, readers – the Tarok kings are here and they’re hot enough to burn! Taken by Passion is a hedonistic delight that I devoured in one sitting. I flat-out love Alice. She’s a kind, beautiful plus-size woman who’s been put down and made to feel insecure all her life. It takes a trip to “Wonderland” – aka Tarok – for her to find the love, passion, and relationship she needs. Jarronn loves the way she looks and he won’t settle for anything less than Alice seeing how gorgeous she is. It was wonderful to watch their emotional journey from blinding lust to love…with explosive amounts of lust, of course.
It’s impossible to talk about Taken by Passion without discussing the erotic content. Ms. Holland pulls out all the stops and it works. The sexual content is extremely high but never feels overdone and isn’t repetitive – not an easy feat. Ms. Holland also makes every delicious moment memorable, for which I applaud her.
If passion and emotion weren’t enough, a dangerous villain adds an element of danger to Taken by Passion and adds intrigue to the Wonderland series as a whole. Finally, you cannot ignore the fact that Taken by Passion is simply fun. I laughed at some of the quirks of Tarok that made Alice think of the story Alice in Wonderland. All in all, Taken by Passion has everything you could want in an erotic fantasy romance and it’s the perfect book to curl up with for a few hours. I love Taken by Passion and I can’t wait to revisit Tarok in the next Wonderland book, Claimed by Pleasure.
Note: Taken by Passion by Jaymie Holland is a reissue of Wonderland: King of Hearts by Cheyenne McCray.
Recommended Read. Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed.
Jarronn, the King of Hearts and High King of Tarok is in a bind. The fate of his kingdom rests on he and his brothers defeating the mind-spell cast by their enemy. Jarronn knows he must pick a mate who is not of his world, and fate makes him set his sights on Alice. She’s everything he could want, both as a mate and as a queen. But what will happen when Alice learns Jarronn’s true purpose in bringing her to his kingdom?
Get your fans ready, readers – the Tarok kings are here and they’re hot enough to burn! Taken by Passion is a hedonistic delight that I devoured in one sitting. I flat-out love Alice. She’s a kind, beautiful plus-size woman who’s been put down and made to feel insecure all her life. It takes a trip to “Wonderland” – aka Tarok – for her to find the love, passion, and relationship she needs. Jarronn loves the way she looks and he won’t settle for anything less than Alice seeing how gorgeous she is. It was wonderful to watch their emotional journey from blinding lust to love…with explosive amounts of lust, of course.
It’s impossible to talk about Taken by Passion without discussing the erotic content. Ms. Holland pulls out all the stops and it works. The sexual content is extremely high but never feels overdone and isn’t repetitive – not an easy feat. Ms. Holland also makes every delicious moment memorable, for which I applaud her.
If passion and emotion weren’t enough, a dangerous villain adds an element of danger to Taken by Passion and adds intrigue to the Wonderland series as a whole. Finally, you cannot ignore the fact that Taken by Passion is simply fun. I laughed at some of the quirks of Tarok that made Alice think of the story Alice in Wonderland. All in all, Taken by Passion has everything you could want in an erotic fantasy romance and it’s the perfect book to curl up with for a few hours. I love Taken by Passion and I can’t wait to revisit Tarok in the next Wonderland book, Claimed by Pleasure.
Note: Taken by Passion by Jaymie Holland is a reissue of Wonderland: King of Hearts by Cheyenne McCray.
Recommended Read. Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed.
shardy1's review against another edition
3.0
This was a solid read. I'm actually ready to read about the King of Spades
justzoe_withbooks's review
4.0
I don't know how to rate this book AT ALL!
WHAT DID I JUST READ??? OMG!!!
WHAT DID I JUST READ??? OMG!!!
xakyr's review against another edition
2.0
This book came across rather annoying to me for most of it, but it was better than what I was reading at the time. The relationship wasn't built, it was demanded, which made it feel forced to me. We aren't privy to in depth conversations of getting to know one another, the readers are only given snippets of it. There wasn't a real "Wonderland" vibe, just that some of the residents could do magic and some of the food names resembled the Lewis Carroll story. I did admire the way that the King of Hearts helped build Alice's self-esteem about being plus-sized, but it wasn't enough to lift the book to a 3 star rating.