Review: A few conceptual flaws, but a fun ride.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2014
This review is written by Nic's wife.This would be a five, except that the weirdly gendered presentation of the meat dolls bothered me. Given the points being made about repression turning to violence, it was uncomfortable seeing the victims only as women and (non meat doll) children, rather than also including meat doll men.This was pretty well written, and very entertaining, though I would caution readers of more conservative political thought that they will be bothered by the overt messages to it. It didn't bug me in the least, even where it does conflict with my political views. But I know many wouldn't agree. At times, the sadistic sexual violence described was too much a caricature of contemporary BDSM for me to really be comfortable with it, since I know a lot of people who enjoy BDSM elements to their relationships, and this sort of material makes it more difficult to establish a normal baseline for safe BDSM behaviors.I'm going to keep an eye out for more of this author's stuff, because I did like it overall. I just would have liked it a little more if so much of the victimization hadn't been focused on men torturing women, especially given the kinds of violence already existing rooted in repression and fear of homosexuality, transsexuality, etc.Overall, it was a fun ride, even though I had my pet peeves. I doubt that anyone'll be won over to the non-religious side because of it, but if you're already there, it'll be a pleasant change to the kind of morality tales that have at least tacit roots in the same religious ideas that this story turns up til the nob breaks.