The Trainer (The Marketplace Series, 3) Paperback – January 1, 2001

I love this series of books and recently after reading the incredible new installment, The Inheritor, had to get the rest of the books back on my shelf. I really enjoy Laura Antoniou's work and highly recommend it to anyone interested in the genre --- and that genre, my friends, is in depth character development, quality story lines and plot. Not something you see every day in today's market.

Such a great series by a wonderful writer! I am so happy I found this in hardcover!

The Trainer is the best novel of Laura Marketplace trilogy. And the first ones were excellent. If you like power games, you will adore it. Laura wrote that the next one will give us more of Chris Parker (my favorite character). I wish she will not take years to finish it as she did for The Trainer.

this entire series are phenomenal books i was happy to be able to locate the novels on amazon what a great style of writing an excellent story line amazon in a turn to place to find all novels

The main character in this one isn't terribly sympathetic, he's basically a clueless top. Chris takes a long time getting the d00d to understand some basics - sympathy, empathy, responsibility, duty and honor.I like Laura's approach to SM very much and the books in this series are both great stories as well as excellent wack-off material.

no clue on what it is never ordered it

If you were ever in the mood to get lost in a book read from cover to cover and an entire series this would be the one. I couldn't put them down.

Though I did enjoy this book, it was a little disappointing when compared to the first two books in the series. I am not sure I would have paid as much for this book as I did if I had known it was going to be this predictable...

The Trainer is the third of five books in Laura Antoniou's Marketplace Series. It has all of Antoniou's wit, charm and wonderful writing style, blending fantasy with reality, and the erotic with the mundane in the most enigmatic of styles. Plus, we get to meet Anderson, the Trainer of Trainers, a most engaging woman. And yet...while Chris Parker is as fascinating as ever, Michael LaGuardia, the other central character, is overly petty and simplistic, even one-sided to some extent. He needs to be written as arrogant in order to be shaken up with some "real" training, but I think that he's just too full of himself to be likeable. That said, I would still recommend this book to anyone interested in the BDSM Lifestyle, and particularly the psychology behind it. Events which transpire here, and have already happened in a previous book, are retold from another's point of view, blending nicely into each other and giving the reader a real sense of a timeline of events.The Trainer is most definitely worth the read, even if the central character can really get on your nerves. Despite my complaint about him, he is meant to be that way in order to see his personal changes take effect. Don't be put off by this review, read the book and find out for yourself!