Review: Well written, but I just couldn't get comfortable with Bach
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2014
This is sci-fi non-consensual pet play/age play - heavier on the age play than the pet play.  I'm OK with non-con capture fantasies, so that was't the big problem for me.  It was Bach actually having an internal moment where was uncomfortable with having sex with what he thought of essentially an animal - and then goes ahead and does it without reservation later.  The author does try to mitigate that later, but it takes a long time until he actually views Pani as a person that he treats as a pet, not an actual pet.I don't have an issue with spanking books, so much as when the spanking goes from "correction" (as it is euphemistically labeled in so many books) to abuse - serious over the top beating for really no reason at all - which this book does.  I also struggle in general with age play - why would an adult think having sex with a child is a good thing?  This book never really explored why treating somebody like a toddler would turn them on any way that could possibly be deemed socially acceptable.I gave it 3 stars because the writing was very good - the world building was good, the characters were well developed.  I went on to read Pani's story because I was hoping that it would help me understand why the age play was erotic - and it did help.