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Feminist Mystery Reviews BELLADONNA Reviewed by Harriet Klausner In 1935, American Isabella Ariel Nickerson and her cousin are visiting London. They are invited to a masquerade party that seems to have all the makings of a great time for the innocent Midwesterner. Instead of the social event of the season, Isabella is abducted and sold off at an auction hosted by the members of the Club, a bunch of wealthy, sadomasochistic aristocrats. Her time with the hedonsitic Club members turn the sweet Isabella into the ferocious Belladonna. Over the next four and half decades in America and Europe, Belladonna enacts vengeance on the individuals who ruined her life. BELLADONNA is a kinky novel of vengeance starring a fascinating lead protagonist whose motives are made very clear by author Karen Moline. Though the story line moves briskly through five decades, it fails to leave the reader with a whiff of a feel for that decade. Still, anyone who enjoys a novel filled with kink (without the Kinkster) and a avenging female set in erotic/exotic places, BELLADONNA is the book to take you there.
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