Choosing Lovers for Justine Paperback – June 17, 1993

This has to be one of the most erotic novels of alll time. Although some parts of it are hard for any "normal" person to cope with, the overall tone is glistening with eroticism and lust. Aran Ashe has written a number of books--The Slave of Lidir and many others--and each is a triumph or erotic writing. For sheer breathtaking sexual description he or she has no equal. I have all of his/her books and they are all my treasured companions in Eros. My only despair is that he/she seems to have stopped writing. If he/she reads this review I beg for another offering. Many of you may have read The Story of O by Pauline Reage. Aran Ashe goes well beyond that and if you have fallen under the spell of true erotica you will want to read his/ her books still available on Amazon.

Aran Ash’s most erotic book. A book I reread constantly marvelling at Ash’s erotic writing ability. Really a breathtaking story.

The author is listed as "Justine Ashe". But I think it is probably the same person as Aran Ashe, who has written other books on similar themes. This is the author's best work by some margin, though the Tormunil series is well worth reading. Also, I am sure I read a censored print version 20 years ago. So it has been re-published electronically, with all the rude words re-instated. As far as I know, there is no prined edition currently available in the UK.If you are not interested in themes of female submission, bondage & punishment, this book is definitely not for you. It describes the painful & pleasurable experiences of a troubled young woman at the hands of various masters and mistresses. Throughout the tone is serious, thankfully avoiding the jokiness which mars so much material in this genre. It carries an intense erotic charge, and - unusally for this type of material - is extremely well-written, with original scenes developed in a dramatic way. The quality of the prose alone puts it into the same class as "The story of O", whose influence pervades the whole book (but be warned, it is far more explicit than that work).