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Vulgar Porn. Skanky characters. Atrocious prose.
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There's nothing interesting about this. It's as if someone jotted down what happens in a very cheap porn flick. What's worse, the authors come across as if hating men on principle. The way men are presented, through their own POV, is biased, disrespectful, appalling and in its hatefulness quite depressing.
I can't say much positive about the content, the breeding erotica I like are of a fundamentally different kind, and far less disrespectful of either men or women. The writing gives you whiplash with how present tense and past tense are wildly mixed. This lacks warmth, charm and above all sophistication.
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Oh, and please, I like hairy men, but this cover is terminally skeevy....more
I'm about to move, so I am going through my books and deciding which will come with me and which will ... stay in a local charity shop.
This entire serI'm about to move, so I am going through my books and deciding which will come with me and which will ... stay in a local charity shop.
This entire series will soooooooooooooo stay right here. It sure has to be among the worst, most boring and direst fantasy spectacles I have ever had the misfortune to buy and read. I hated this 15 years ago, and my feelings haven't changed. Except that these days I also find it terminally overwritten....more
I'm about to move, so I am going through my books and deciding which will come with me and which will ... stay in a local charity shop.
This entire serI'm about to move, so I am going through my books and deciding which will come with me and which will ... stay in a local charity shop.
This entire series will soooooooooooooo stay right here. It sure has to be among the worst, most boring and direst fantasy spectacles I have ever had the misfortune to buy and read. I hated this 15 years ago, and my feelings haven't changed. Except that these days I also find it terminally overwritten....more
I'm about to move, so I am going through my books and deciding which will come with me and which will ... stay in a local charity shop.
This entire serI'm about to move, so I am going through my books and deciding which will come with me and which will ... stay in a local charity shop.
This entire series will soooooooooooooo stay right here. It sure has to be among the worst, most boring and direst fantasy spectacles I have ever had the misfortune to buy and read. I hated this 15 years ago, and my feelings haven't changed. Except that these days I also find it terminally overwritten....more
**spoiler alert** I'm not impressed with this. For one thing this was dry and not very erotic, actually not erotic at all. I couldn't build up any emp**spoiler alert** I'm not impressed with this. For one thing this was dry and not very erotic, actually not erotic at all. I couldn't build up any empathy for any character, they all were either skeevy, or wimpy and childlike.
Neal came across less like an adult, hardened criminal with a justified life sentence, and more like a whiny teenager who committed a couple of wrong choices and should have been in a young offender institution. Certainly not in such a torture centre.
Insofar things still just don't match. The drivel of Martin and the other senior wardens is and stays just drivel: neither actual BDSM works that way, nor is there any valid form of submission which works like that (they are all heading straight towards major cases of PTSD/Stockholm Syndrome instead), and that this sort of negative conditioning doesn't work, countless gulags and prisons have already proven beyond doubt. I find it immature and illogical and refer to FB Peaches and Francis Manna for a better psychological background and setup.
Also, serious overkill. The initial scene while being checked in would have made putty out of every normal person, especially given the constant frightening. Everything aftwards was overkill.
And last, but not least, not one of the tortures was sexy or interesting to me, which is saying a bit, given that I am a full-blown sadist. Not the enemas, not the stapling, not the electro shocks. I may have "switched off" at the point - quite near the beginning - where I deemed that the victim would have already been zoned out beyond repair. A gibbering semi-corpse isn't my idea of erotic, sorry. ...more
A pretty awful riff on "Sabrina". Gosh, even good, old-fashioned Bogie is the epitome of a male feminist compared to this.
If someone can explain what A pretty awful riff on "Sabrina". Gosh, even good, old-fashioned Bogie is the epitome of a male feminist compared to this.
If someone can explain what people find attractive about these arsehole men and stupid women I maybe could finally cease trying to understand. Duh....more
Nope, the Marquis still has it on this sorry sordid little and oh-so strained tale. There I thought I might stretch my horizon a bit. Alas, it wasn't Nope, the Marquis still has it on this sorry sordid little and oh-so strained tale. There I thought I might stretch my horizon a bit. Alas, it wasn't to be. Just tired twists which are so old that Hitchcock would have laughed and an author glorifying drugs and doing his best to offend. Which - closely looked at - was just childish and repetitive like a game of dare amongst brattish little boys.
1.5* rounded down. I would have liked to give this 2 stars, but - quite simply - this wasn't an okay read.
Firstly, regardless of how you package it, f1.5* rounded down. I would have liked to give this 2 stars, but - quite simply - this wasn't an okay read.
Firstly, regardless of how you package it, fucking against money is prostitution. I'd expect at the very least to have that topic raised and dealt with in a story where a woman sells herself.
Then, this was all based on the sex. Exclusively. These two men fucked women together because it turned them on, and Jules (how skeevy is it for the author to have the same name as the MC?!) or rather Julianne wants to be fucked by both, because the sex is allegedly hot. Or so she says.
Unfortunately I didn't find the sex hot at all. For one thing the scenes were extremely samey, without any emotion, and very, very repetitive. After the third or fourth I started skipping. They also were very "slot A into tab B and tab C into slot D", very mechanical.
Aaaaaaaaaaaand, for all the allegedly physically correct fucking in this book, you got very little - or rather NONE AT ALL - sex described as it would play out between a real triangle. It is pretty clear that the author watched porn as the sole source of research and information. But porn actors fucking despite the pain and without the slightest consideration for the others in the fray are not at all how real people act and behave, or feel. None of the typical physiological reactions to having two penes inside the same woman at the same time were described, not for the men, not for the woman.
Also, not once did the author show the inevitable aftermath of the amount and violence of the fucking she describes. Not even a bit, we don't even see mentioned how Jules walks a bit straddle-legged or has some discomfort sitting down or taking a leak the day after.
As a love story towards a HEA this was also ridiculous. The most cogent and necessary discussions a triangle would engage in are lacking, none of the real dynamics of living poly are touched, all is hung up on instalust instead of actual love.
I'm fed up to my gills with "special people who're particularly beautiful and accomplished".1.5* rounded up.
Not really my thing for several reasons...
I'm fed up to my gills with "special people who're particularly beautiful and accomplished". One is that super-blond norse god with the chiselled body of a skier (am I supposed to think Thor? ), an Olympic winner, no less. The other is that super-special detective, the bad ass among the bad asses with that speshul snowflake "hot" panther tattoo (scars would have been hot, and a man facing those scars would have been so). Which he has because someone whupped him one with a bicycle chain - which of course never bothered him. Clash of the titans? Superhero fanfiction?
Whatever, I am fed up with special Alphas straight out of the US male box. Both men didn't feel human to me, they felt like plastic tropes. I couldn't connect with either of them, and to enjoy BDSM or erotica I have to be and stay connected.
The writing was unfortunately overwrought, gimmicky, breathy (the "I am fanning myself so hot am I"-type) and very much in the style of current fanfics. I didn't like that all one bit. Instead I prefer reticent and precise prose, which doesn't tell me what to feel and instead allows me to feel and think for myself.
There was far too much and entirely needless sex in this, and not enough painplay. What sex there was, was rape, never mind that the author later tried to do away with that. It legally and technically is rape. When Hunter told Camden to get off, Camden should have gotten off.
An aside: Firstly, no one needs a safeword. People can play without safewords all day long - as long as the top stops whatever they do the moment the bottom says "stop that". Meta-consensual play (play during which nothing will stop what happens) is indeed a (very rare) thing. However, it is halfway healthily and securely done only between longterm partners (which these two absolutely weren't), who are sure of each other and know each other's limits to the nth point (which these two absolutely didn't, either) and lastly, even then it still is a crime, even where BDSM is legal.
I did like one or two short sensual passages, but on the whole the story didn't give me much. There wasn't enough pain play. The little pain play which was there, was half-heartedly written, and, so sorry, but "pain by pegging/fucking" is so not my kink. Fucking someone into submission is neither. Not if you set this up as some sort of BDSM play. This came across as highly off to me. All the security gadgets and leather guards and what-not felt completely overblown on the other side. What happened to simply stringing up a guy by his wrists and having a go? Do American authors currently have this "curious household implements" fetish? What is this about wet towels and belts as percussion instruments lately?
I by the way disliked the allegation that women can't break men down, pain wise. I do that regularly, there is no need for superior muscle power to do that. All you need are the right implements and technique. The funny thing is that the human body is much more fragile than people think.
And I hated the notion that Cam forced himself on Hunter knowing full well that Hunter isn't gay. That's saying something I really don't much like as a statement.
The author has potential, but she needs a ruthless editor who not only helps her contain her purple prose, but also where she enters fanfiction self-service....more
What a ridiculous take on BSDM! As if furious wannabe James Bonds and Kill Bill brides hopping madly around 1. Met Her Match by Sierra Cartwright - 1*
What a ridiculous take on BSDM! As if furious wannabe James Bonds and Kill Bill brides hopping madly around a glitzy fantasy dungeon and assigning women at will is anywhere close to sane, never mind consensual or sanitary. These guys are straight from the cave.
2. Educating Evangeline by Belinda McBride - 1*
If I ever read the phrase "inner wolf" again, I'll probably explode. This was the usual shifter bullshit with a side serving of boring sex and boring BDSM.
3. Simon Says: Mine by Cherise Sinclair - 1*
Not just that the hero is a passive-aggressive arsehole who, even though giving lip-service to SSC/RACK, gets insertive sexual with a woman he has just met and who he "forcefully convinces" into submitting to him, the whole story is so rife with sorry old clichés, that I was wincing practically every other page. Yes, he can beat up other men just nice. Yes, he gets called "Master" and "Sir" and whatnot. Yes, he of course foists himself on a woman telling him she has no interest. And yes, of course this nonsense ends with marriage, even though the heroine stated she didn't want to re-marry.
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Oh, and just a short note: safer sex needs to be extended to toys and fingers/hands etc. used. After these three stories I feel like having contracted chlamydia, probably crabs, nice cases of athlete's foot, maybe Hep B and C, and possibly a couple of worse STIs. And it wasn't written so you could forget it.
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