Drew Bennet is a personal trainer out to take a professional relationship to the personal level. There's something about the profession itself akin to D/s. I suppose it is the fact of the name itself "trainer" and the way conditioning parallels D/s since so many D/s relationships go through a "honeymoon" period of training; or perhaps it is simply the dynamic of the trainer issuing commands, and the trainee doing their best to perform the action commanded. What could be more D/s than that? Isn't it weird that a command--as well as a bit of praise--can work so powerfully on a psyche? This is something which our heroine begins to realize early on--almost as much as she appreciates the chemistry of having a healthy, well-built personal trainer aiming his hormones in her direction.

Sarah is the executive. She follows the tradition of the woman in control everywhere except in the bedroom. The powerful woman is looking for someone to control her--behind closed doors. As we meet Sarah, she is just coming to realize her attraction for Drew though not necessarily aware of her submission. But by the end of the first workout, Sarah is well on the way to becoming putty in Drew's hands. Sarah's conquest is something that Drew has planned; he draws her into his world, and entice her to give over control to him in BDSM tradition, i.e. Taking it Personal. And Drew has planned all this. Because inside Sarah the control freak, he sees the potential submissive--and a woman he could introduce to his family.

Perhaps it isn't surprising that there are so many personal trainer Dom stories out there. I have read several which were positively entrancing. I wasn't quite taken in by Drew Bennet however; perhaps because I just didn't have time to get into Sarah Fairland's head fast enough. You submissive readers can read this and expect an explicit fantasy of being seduced by your trainer; you Doms can read this to fantasize seducing that hard-to-get corporate Amazon type. Happy reading, boys and girls.

Reviewed by Maîtresse
© October 2007