Noel Burch :  A case of mistaken identity
Reviewed by Spiros Bousbouras
http://www.thevalkyrie.com/stories/noelburch/identity.txt

My rating system:  * = Forget about it !     ** = Fair     *** = Good 
**** = Very good       ***** = Read it now !!

This story gets a *****

Seldom one sees such a sinister , diabolical yet quite irresistible
character in a story as Olga , the main heroine or rather villainess of
this one.And one rarely sees such a character portraited so vividly as
to get the feeling that one watches a movie instead of reading a
story.But I'm not doing the story justice by saying that because it's
not just her outside appearance although this is also very detailed.The
portrait of her soul , given indirectly by what she says and does , by
the description of her bodily reactions to what's happening ( this part
would have been missed in a movie ) is also exposed before our eyes.

On the other hand we have Peter , her victim.The author writes in the
third person yet it is clear that we see the world mainly through
Peter's eyes.We don't just feel his pain but also his sense of
helplessness , his despair and his slow and horrifying realization that
his tormentress is enjoying everything she's doing to him and that he
is totally unable to find an escape or stop it.At some point he gets
hope but this is crushed in the most decisive manner by the skills of
Olga therefore sending him into even greater depths of agony.

I imagine different people find this site appealing for different
reasons.What I'm mainly interested in is female dominance.If you're
like me you can do no better than to read "A case of mistaken
identity".The dominance Olga has over Peter is total and absolute
despite his best efforts.Dominance over his body through pain and
sexual arousal and over his mind.The culmination of this dominance
comes at the end which of course I'm not going to reveal.But please
notice the exquisite detail in which the author describes how Olga
savours the moments before the conclusion and how the final scene of
the story completes the portrait of the ultimate sadist which is Olga.

Masterpiece !