His Lordship's Downfall contains some seriously intense, kinky action between a master and slave (who have entered into a mutually consensual, contractual arrangement for said action). But this isn't just another scandalously erotic Dom/sub novel. This is a story about a man finding his own humanity through his torment of a woman who is viewed within the aristocratic caste system of Litton’s world as a virtual inhuman non-entity.
Litton’s writing is technically flawless, her story line well crafted and thought provoking. But the real genius to me is in all the ways that she casually exploits our poor clueless Lordship, using him to showcase that ugly, relentless inner frailty that drives all true sadist dominants. I rather enjoyed the ongoing subtle power shift between the H and h—particularly, watching the H grow increasingly terrified of the chained woman he would only refer to as his “pet”.
Litton credits the work of Jane Austen as inspiration, but there’s some heavy underlying existentialism and absurdism to be found within this text. I feel like if Austen had lived about a century later and had engaged in a total power exchange relationship with a sadist Franz Kafka, this is pretty much how things might’ve gone down (minus a few convenient, kinky futuristic sexual devices). In any case, I like to think Jane Austen would approve.
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- Esther Curra De VargasReviewed in Spain on July 13, 2017
Great read. Can't wait for part two.
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