Eve Howard

Eve Howard's 'Shadow Lane' is the first of a considerable number of tales about spanking goings-on in the small New England village of Random Point. Every person we meet in this book seems to require frequent punitive episodes in which a female 'ends up' over the knee of an enthusiastic male. It's a shame that the book is so ineptly edited - and not just in the misplacing of 'peddle' for 'pedal' - because otherwise it's an entertaining example of the erotic chastisement genre in which no female rear seems safe from the resounding attentions of at least one of several dominant men. Once provided with warmly stinging rear parts, young women prove more than likely to accept the more probing attentions of their rampant disciplinarians. The book provides a detailed scene-setting, and outlines the characters, for the numerous sequels, seemingly planned by Ms Howard from the outset. Despite its literary shortcomings it's possible to see how the series has become serially popular.… (more)

This book is one of Howard's long-running sequence of stories centred in a place called Random Point, where there is an active 'scene' involving many of the residents, with a pronounced tendency to games in which the men chastise the women with a variety of implements, starting with the bare hand. Familiarity with the earlier members of the sequence no doubt helps the reader follow the many inter-personal intrigues which provide motivation for the consensual adult chastisements, although I found that, without such familiarity, the book seemed to be a rather disconnected collection of short to medium length stories which often failed to maintain my interest. The severity of the chastisements involved here spans the full range, from uncaring near-sadism to loving aids to relationship development. As the fourth member of the sequence the book tends to feel overly routine, but it is well written, and it will appeal to those who enjoy reading about the interactions of a large number of disparate characters.… (more)