Jewel's Reviews > Sweet Persuasion

** spoiler alert ** This will be a graphic rant, so be warned! GRAPHIC rant. NOT kidding.

No, just no. I almost didn't finish this slave/master book numerous times and I kept reading thinking there'd be some kind of HEA that would fix everything. I didn't get that.

I'm not a prude person, but this "relationship" grossed me out and left me a little horrified. Hey ladies, do you want a man to continually and randomly (including in front of other men) whip his dick out, hold your head forcibly and fuck your mouth while you're gagging? Telling you your mouth belongs to him? There will be no return of the favor, either. Nothing in it for you but discomfort. He'll let you know that you're there for his pleasure only. This happened four or five times.

How about being tied to the bed while you sleep, but he can mount you and start fucking away whenever he wants (she was awoken this way a couple of times). Don't forget that he's doing this in a way for his own pleasure and could give a crap whether you get any pleasure or orgasm from it. She didn't.

Maybe you'd be more interested in being forced to lie on a pallet at his feet while he works? Don't worry, he'll rest his feet on you so you know he cares about you.

Or maybe you enjoy being tied in shackles and forcibly whipped. Not the fun, pretend-like whipping of play. Once while also being sodomized. With nipple clamps that were apparently well past the point of "good pain." In front of an audience. Tears streaming down your face from pain. Welts left behind. Twice she was shackled and whipped way too violently in front of others.

Oh, and about that sodomy thing... What woman doesn't dream of her first time having anal sex as being taken by surprise while two strange men hold her down? Then they'll masturbate and cum all over your face and stuff as the tears of pain stream down. Oh, goodie! That'll make you feel good about yourself!

This book was full of dubious consent, too. She had signed a one month contract with this man to be his slave because she wanted to see if it was something she'd enjoy. He told her there would be no safe word, but that he would simply respect the word "no." However, if she ever uttered "no" she would be forced to leave his house and the relationship would all be over. She regularly is screaming in her head that she wants to say "no" but is so scared to do it because she doesn't want to be forced to leave. So, she doesn't say it even when she really wants to. Don't think for a second that he didn't want it that way, too. Knowing she was too scared to say no because if she didn't go along with every little thing he wanted he would kick her to the curb. Ugh.

The bottom line is, if you like your erotica written in a way where the female in the story hardly ever experiences pleasure (except for the mental pleasure she claims she got in pleasing him) and you can keep from slapping her across the face when she repeatedly says "I know Damon would never hurt me" (so those welts and injured nipples were from... what then?) then this book is for you. This read like something written for men (angry men!), but I know this author writes for us ladies. I normally say that what's between two consenting adults is cool by me even if it's not my thing, but like I said... Not so comfortable with the "consent" in this one. Ick.

I reserve one star reviews for books poorly written or full of plot holes, so that's why I'm giving this piece of shit a two star rating.