Review: Capture Fantasy Heaven!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2013
This book is... I really... Hmm...How do I say this?If you like stories with dubious consent, then you have to read Bind and Keep Me. Well, first you have to read Take Me, Break Me. Then you have to read Bind and Keep Me. Stat.Honestly, it is awesome and hot and deliciously dubious in the consent department.This isn't just a story you read, this is a trip you, quite literally, go on. You will embark on a journey where your body will go in one direction (it will be looking for your vibrator and for a clean pair of undies), while your mind will be wondering what the hell is right and what is wrong. By the end, you'll probably have gone through at least three pairs of panties and a few pairs of batteries, and your ideas about right and wrong will have morphed into a gray area that you might not want to examine too closely. But the good news is that your significant other will need to write a personalized 'thank you' note to Cari for all the hawt, kinky sex you'll be requesting, so I guess it's okay that you'll have readjusted your moral compass.The general plot line is that Jodie got into a pickle and Klaus had to get her out of this pickle. But, in the process of getting her out of the pickle, he created an even bigGER pickle and the only way to stay out of an even BIGGER pickle, he had to, essentially, kidnap Stephanie. Who was also in a pickle. Lots of pickles to go around.Are you still with me? Look, I'm just trying to keep this review spoiler free, okay? I won't tell you what actually happened. All I will say is that Klaus' solution to their major problem was to take a captive - Stephanie - and do bad things to her body and f*** with her mind in order to ensure her compliance and loyalty.The consent here is very dubious. Some may say it wasn't consensual at all. Non-con treads a very delicate line. An author has to be careful to not turn the readers off, to keep the characters believable, likable, and relatable. I think that Cari Silverwood did a great job with balancing the realism with the fantasy (realism of the fantasy?). Creating a situation where the capture fantasy made sense in a contemporary setting, was really interesting, and really freaking HAWT."I sat forward. No threat. No growling. I wanted to see her cave in, apparently, all on her own. So she could see, feel, taste, her defeat against a nothing background."Klaus was a scary, dominant, and sadistic b*st*rd, yet he intrigued the masochistic submissive in me. I'd volunteer to be his willing (or even unwilling) victim any day. Cari kept us guessing - is he a good man who had to make very difficult decisions and then enforced them in very interesting [HAWT and scary] ways? Or did he lose his shit?Stephanie is our victim. Or is she?"I rallied my rational self from the fog of mixed horror and lust that only Klaus could summon in me."Honestly, I can write so much stuff here that I've decided to stop trying to express how I felt about the book and instead let you decide for yourself that this is awesome and that you need to 1Click it like right now by showing you some teasers.Jodie's POV:"I slowly slid one foot off the seat and lowered it until my cold toes touched the side of her neck.She stopped. Her big eyes stared up at me. Glasslike orbs that said nothing in this flickering darkness. I could empathize with almost anything and anyone, Klaus had told me. I knew what she must be going through. I did sympathize, and yet...She writhed again, away from me an inch, as if escaping my touch. I moved my foot in and, keeping my eyes open so I missed nothing in her response, I pressed it harder, ever harder, onto her neck until she stilled. Then I leaned down, and let my other foot slip also, to rest lightly on her ribs. She stayed there, quiet, and I thought her throat moved in a swallow."Good," I whispered, and I smiled, I f***ing smiled, and a thrill shivered through me from my groin. A sexual thing. I could tell. Damn. I would have to be careful. This was a little creepy even to me."Stephanie's POV:"I growled deep in my throat and attempted to shake my head as much as I could while held. And got nowhere."Don't growl, girl. Naughty things happen to growly kittens."His assured smile sent a prickle of delicious terror into me that I now recognized as a Klaus specialty. Dissected by his gaze, situated naked on this man's lap, and subject to whatever experiment in pain he might choose to do, it was a moment of scalding understanding. I was his victim, whether I chose to be, or not. I also knew that I found it arousing."Bottom line is that the story is interesting, the sex is freaking HAWT, the characters are likable (lovable!), and there's lots of sadistic dominance and dubious consent going on.Now do you get it? Go 1Click.Review copy provided by author in return for an honest review. I also beta read this book.