Review: Mind controlling magic masquerading as erotica
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2010
Tessa blows into Darinthian Ambassador Kortal's office looking for her missing sister on his home planet where people are "linked" by magic - as Tessa and Kortal are now, according to some gut feeling of his.  Apparently, this means now that she's entered his domain, she's surrendered to whatever he wants, which he tells her is her "body, mind and spirit."Moments after he tells her this, she's inexplicably, violently crazed with lust until he satisfies her (quite easily), then as she tries to fight him, he subdues her with sex again, then he builds her up and demands she wears his collar, which she agrees to in a haze of lust.  He ties her up because he knows when the magic wears off, she'll be ticked off and try to leave him before he can do the sex mojo thing on her again.It's all explicit and if you like that kind of thing without it being necessarily erotic or having any emotional element, than you'll enjoy this.  Tessa and Kortal have absolutely no emotional connection; she's his possession from the moment she walks into his office and she's struck deaf and dumb with lust immediately because of some super mind-bending ability of his; when he's not around, she comes to her senses, then loses them again when he returns.This is from Ellora's Cave, and if you're familiar with them, this particular story would fit with their Exotica collection in my opinion (it contains stories that are more unusual, push boundaries and don't necessarily include affection or happily ever afters), although I don't think this writing is up to par with the authors that are generally included in that series.