Review: NOT Domestic Discipline!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2014
I had a hard time with this book. It popped up on my Amazon recommended list. Having read other DD books I thought that this would be the same but with a military twist. Let me say: It is NOT!!!!!  DD is based on a cornerstone of trust and respect and the fact that BOTH parties want to be in the relationship. That was NOT the case with this book!!! Zora is kidnapped off the porch or her apartment building when she is one small step from being black out drunk. Savage lied to her with in the first few moments (or maybe it is his partner that lied) and tells her that they  met in a bar a few weeks ago and that she is trying to get into the wrong building. They offer to drive her to the correct building a few blocks and gently ease her into their vehicle. That was the last time she is treated gently!She is taken to a compound and forced to train to deactivate a security  system in Bulgaria. Savage spanks her brutally over and over when she resists any orders he gives her. She is tossed in a small cell and ignored for days at a time. Being only fed food and given water. What he does to her is criminal abuse! He hits her with his hand, tawse, slipper, cane and finally a belt. That is what causes her to snap. She hits him with her fist (breaking his nose) and kicks him in the balls (you go girl!). In this scene Savage breaks the #1 rule of DD which is NEVER discipline (if that is what this could be called) in anger. He breaks rule #1 many times, spanking while being angry.In this book, Zora is a prisoner and Savage is her jailer.She had zero rights. If a real corrections officer were to do that to the most depraved serial killer under his watch that guard would be fired, stripped of any retirement/pension and the facility sued after the inmate (or his family) hired a high profile lawyer!!! And these are the most dangerous criminal in our society. They still have rights. What crime did Zora commit? Getting drunk and having the audacity to walk home? How dare she!Zora was taken prisoner, stripped of her old life and spanked for any little breach of conduct and for NO PAY. One can assume that Savage and his team where drawing a paycheck for THEIR services. Savage also messes with her mind by having sex with her at about the 52% (if I remember correctly) point in the book. Waking up to the fact that "you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar."IMO this book does the DD genre a disservice. Savage is a paid soldier and forces Zora to comply with extreme spankings. (Zora and I call them beatings) It paints Disciplinarians as a brutes. Just as the movie Secretary paints submissives as  mentally unstable, weak women who cut themselves.That said, i LIKED the book (not loved) as it had a lot of adventure in it. I found the fact that Zora was a super intelligent math wiz who earned a college degree at age 13 fascinating. This story would have been good written as a vanilla spy novel. I will most likely buy the other two books just to see how the story plays out. It is clear that by the end of this book that Savage has real feelings for Zora.Maybe the phrase (Military Discipline) after the title was a clue that this was some kind of sub-genre of DD. I thought it was the title of this particular series as the author seems to have written quite a few books. So in closing, read the reviews and have the free sample of the book sent to your Kindle before you buy to see if this book is for you. It is NOT the loving DD relationship kind of book that other top authors of this genre write! (and perhaps this authors other books)