This book is a story about a woman's transformation into a submissive slave after being brought by her fiance, Rene, to the house of "Roissy" where she is supposed to learn how to "behave".

I heard from a lot of people that this book was a masterpiece, a classic in France even, only to be disappointed the entire time reading it. The story jumps between characters too much, who are in my opinion quite pompous and droll.

O doesn't really want to be a slave so I guess you could say she's being forced into it. I don't know about other people, but not giving consent for something like that, even in a book, is just ridiculous.

I don't know if it was just poorly written to begin with or it's the horrible translation, but I don't particularly like the way it was written in English. It was full of insanely long sentences, not to mention that it was missing the ending and it was just too hard to follow.

The book I bought was a soft cover, small sized book. The pages were yellowed and musty, which wasn't entirely bad, but it sure didn't add to this book's appeal at all.

I really would never recommend this book to anyone at all. Not even beginners because it's just too hard to follow and doesn't really portray bdsm accurately.