Tom Hollingworth’s The Many Spankings of Molly the Maid has the sort of title that other smut writers can only dream of. Here I am, trying to avoid overtly using the word ‘spanking’ in my book titles for fear of upsetting the Amazon Regulators, and Hollingworth has just stuck it up there front and centre. And mentioned the word ‘spank’ three times in the description.
Good thing, too. Given that I found this book by searching for “spanking romance”, so, you know, I was looking for something that’s all about the spanking.
The Many Spankings of Molly the Maid is fairly light on character development and depth and, in fact, any kind of realistic dialogue. However, it does make up for it with its sheer volume of spanking. When the author stuck the word ‘many’ in the book’s title, he wasn’t mucking about.
The book’s protagonist, Molly, takes a job as a scullery maid at Keebleton Hall, where all the servants are subjected to corporal punishment on a regular basis. This is because Lord Keebleton is a firm believer in the reformatory powers of a thorough spanking. So much so that he believes all other forms of punishment, including imprisonment, could be replaced with a good whipping.
Most of the spankings in the early part of the book are doled out by Mrs Townley, the Housekeeper, and Molly finds that, unlike her coworkers, she is strangely fond of being beaten and endeavours to engineer ways to be on the receiving end of the strap.
The story becomes a lot more interesting about halfway in when Lord Keebleton’s Spanking Machine makes an entrance. Molly is keen to help her employer with his invention. As a willing subject for spank-testing, obviously, but also on the mechanical engineering side of things. She is, you see, a wannabe engineer hampered in her dreams by living in the 19th century and not being a man.)
The Many Spankings of Molly the Maid goes off in some new and interesting directions after this while still keeping the Spankings Per Page numbers at an impressively high score. There’s a romantic sub-plot between Molly and fellow scullery maid Eliza, which is all a bit underdeveloped, to be honest.
This isn’t top-drawer literature. The dialogue and descriptions are too prosaic and perfunctory for that. But the plotline is fun, and it certainly delivers on its whole ‘people being whacked on the arse’ promise.
There’s a good variety of implements with canes, whips, straps and good old-fashioned hand spankings, all putting in an appearance. There’s also every possible gender combination with F/f, M/f, F/m and M/m spankings all accounted for. Although it’s mostly F/f, to be fair. Also, Machine/f, but I’m not sure what the initials would be for that one.
I was looking for a full-length story with lots of spanking with lots of spanking, and that’s exactly what I got. Dozens of times, in fact. On the bare.
The Many Spankings of Molly the Maid by Tom Hollingworth is available on Amazon Kindle Unlimited