Review: Carrie’s Story by Molly Weatherfield
Reviewed by Zelda Gillian
Rating: 
(4 Books)
“All Aboard for the BDSM World Tour!”
The Plot: I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that Carrie’s Story is a story about a girl named Carrie, but what you might not know is that Carrie’s story is really quite fascinating. Carrie is a student and part-time bike messenger who, through a wanton encounter at a party, finds herself innocently recruited into a demanding Master/slave relationship with a weathly business-man named Jonathan. Carrie is smitten with Jonathan and his quirks, and they quickly fall into a routine of dominance and submission that Carrie finds at once challenging, arousing and endlessly compelling.
When one day Jonathan mentions that he is interested in auctioning Carrie off, their relationship turns into a complex effort to school Carrie on the ways of a true slave — complete with a week in the stables, countless “Uncles” and “Muffies,” slave conditioning abroad, and the pièce de résistance… the auction itself.
Zelda’s Take: I’ll admit that I was hesitant to pick up Carrie’s Story initially because the description on Amazon references pony-play, and, frankly, it’s just not my thing. But I was so pleased that I did end up reading it, because I found Carrie’s experiences really captivating — even the small section that covers her week at the stables! I appreciated her matter-of-fact attitude, her inexperience and her endless desire to submit and succeed. In a way, I see a lot of myself in Carrie… sans the whole rich dom with a housekeeper thing.
I loved the process of the book — hence, the “Tour” — the discovery of Carrie’s kink, how she’s taken in and trained by Jonathan, the point when Jonathan’s demeanor cracks a bit, the changing of their relationship, Carrie’s exposure to pony-play, the auction tests, the prelude to the auction and, finally, the auction itself. BDSM is a process. Most people don’t go from vanilla to collared in the blink of an eye, so I found Carrie’s introduction to and tour through the world of BDSM quite realistic. I admired her resolve throughout to please and to submit, but also that she never failed to recognize and acknowledge her own intelligence. Carrie was very deliberate in her submission and did so with her eyes wide open, despite the fact that her intelligence and cognizance often got her in trouble.
I think the most fascinating part of the book is the auction process in itself. I loved this fantasy world that Molly Weatherfield has created… it is a fantasy, right? ’cause if this really exists, I want to know about it ;) But from the training and scening to the computerization and the general mindfuck, it was very well-concocted. I loved the scene especially between Carrie and Margot. I thought the sexual undertones (and overtones) between the two were just so titillating that I couldn’t help but cry for more, more, more.
In fact, it isn’t often that a particular quote in a book inspires me to utilize the highlighting feature on my Kindle, but this one did it for sure. From Margot to Carrie:
“What gets to me and you is power, coercive power. Force, directed. I make you do something, go somewhere, be as I wish. You, your flesh, your prazza. And what I especially like, what has always fascinated me, is making you work at it. I love the fact that you get around here on your own, that you deliver yourself to me, that it is always a stretch, an effort of will and intelligence, to become an object.”
A stretch. An effort of will and intelligence. This kind of embodies what a D/s relationship is, for me, in such a beautiful way.
I also love that the ending left so much promise and intrigue, which is why I’m especially excited to read Weatherfield’s follow-up novel to Carrie’s Story, Safe Word, to follow Carrie’s journey further into slavery.
Zelda Gillian is a wife, a mother and a lover, likes strong espresso, stiff corsets and never strays far from her Kindle.
