Review: Nicely dark and disturbing erotic read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 27, 2011
This isn't your normal, mainstream type of romance, erotic or otherwise, nor is it pretty and sensual erotica. This is erotic fiction for a very specific reader who likes a darker story, a story that takes you to those disturbing places in your mind where emotional discomfort lingers. Told in first-person from Rachel's POV, this novella, around 72 pages, actually begins with Rachel being raped, but that scene is layered with more than just nonconsent, as the reader soon realizes there is more to Rachel's captor and his motivations.From this first scene on, the story hits the reader with more gritty and rough images of rape, forced oral, pain and humiliation. Rachel is abused emotionally and physically by more than one man, and as she tries to hold it all together, all those dark and conflicting emotions, Rachel forms an unexpected bond with the man she begins to see as her saviour. And this reader was anxious to see exactly where this journey into pain, guilt and regret would take these two characters.Regardless of a few typos, the author's voice is clear and strong as she delivers a hard, emotionally disturbing and even brutal read. So, while most definitely not for everyone, I personally recognize and appreciate what the author did here: putting a rough, non-PC kink out there for me to enjoy. You either like to read kidnapping/capture theme/nonconsent in your erotic fiction, or you don't. If you enjoy and search out those themes, as I do, I think you'll be pleased with this story. Read this only if you like to be provoked and pushed around by a different type of story.