Ironwood IV

by Don Winslow

Personal odysseys take many forms; in Jane's case, it's a trip to that peculiar institution known as Ironwood. Ostensibly a finishing school for young ladies located in a remote region, Ironwood is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562011146
• ISBN13: 9781562011147
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

5 stars, but it's pornography. Don't expect anything else.

This is another installment in the "Ironwood" series, a book about an institution where young women are sent to learn to be accomplished sex slaves. It is well written and wonderfully arousing if you're into BDSM. (And if you don't know what BDSM is, then you're not into it!) Winslow - whoever he is, since it's almost certainly a pseudonym - has an active and fertile imagination, and balances physical pain with psychic humiliation well enough to satisfy the connoisseurs of either. On the other hand, if you have no interest in the subject of erotic domination and submission, then you will be offended - indeed, probably disgusted - by this book. Don't read it! (And by the way, to answer the previous reviewer: I think we can be confident that the story of this being a recently discovered manuscript from somebody's basement in Denmark, or wherever, is silly fiction. Even Winslow himself may not exist - he's probably a committee.)

DON does it again !

I'm still not sure if the Ironwood series is really based on found manuscripts or if it's Don Winslow's imagination at work. Maybe it started out as a bunch of manuscripts and it's now being fuelled by Don's mastery. But it doesn't matter either. He's good and he has done it again.Unlike the first books in the series this focus not on the life of the Ironwood School owner (James) but rather on the changes that one girl undergoes when her uncle, tired of her attitude and uncapable of controling her, sends her to Ironwood as his las resort.The way the changes are described, the punishment scenes, the erotic/SM stile can be read in every page. You can really almost feel that you are there, eyewitnissing the whole show. There is one particular punishment scene that coinesseurs will enjoy (but I'm not going to spoil by telling it).From the moment the bratty girl steps into Ironwood, with her sassy attitude to the first confrontations with her masters and the following punishments, everything is describred in vivid colour. Gradually her attitude is broken. She becomes more docile and submissive. And at each chapter you can feel that a new girl is apearing. Some of the SM literature out there portrays girls from the first moment a masochist but just don't know it. It's different here. In here there is a real rebel, a wild girl to be tamed. And even in the end you feel that more tamming is due.For those who apreciate SM literature this is a MUST READ. I think it's the best in the Ironwood series and hope it's not the last.