Review: Disturbing Drivel
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2014
As a previous reviewer titled it:  "seriously stupid".  But, more than that, it is disturbingly stupid.  I'M INCLUDING SOME IMPORTANT SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW, SO BE WARNED.  IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW IN DETAIL WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS BOOK, PLEASE STOP READING NOW.This is a dystopian novel, set about 300 years in the future, when the world has a very few number of fertile females, or ANY females, actually, due to factors that would strain the credulity of even a 10 year old.  There are a few pockets of religious communities in various places throughout the world where procreation has been maintained in the normal way and, therefore, there are some women.  These women are in high demand.  So much so, that groups of men form syndicates, pool their assets and bid on the women at auction.Our heroine in this book, April, is one such woman.  She has been raised without awareness of the outside world.  She believes that everyone lives as she does.  After graduating from school, (which is located in her tiny township, and thus not part of the outside world), she is suddenly informed by her father that he will be auctioning her off the following day, because he is about to get remarried, and his wife to be "needs" more money than he makes.This the first of many screamingly insane situations that occur in the book.  And, not "screamingly" in the funny sense.  After having an internal dialogue with herself about this, and running off to sulk for a few minutes, April decides that she guesses it's OK.  Her father "loves" her, after all, and he deserves to have a new wife, and if she wants him to sell April, then it must be fine.  She's not really mad.  Or terrified.  Or in shock, as any normal person would be, who was raised on strict Christian teachings, not allowed to date, ever in her life, and, of course, is a virgin.  That her father comforted her by telling her had limited the groups of men who were allowed to bid on her to four, and that one of them had to marry her the moment the auction ended, was, naturally, enough to dispel any doubts she may have had.So then, on to the auction.  She is paraded in front of a large gathering of about 10,000 men, while dressed in very little.  She is described by the auctioneer as if she were literally livestock.  Much is made of her virginity, and the fact that she's never even been kissed.  Our group of four heroes, formed for the purpose of owning her jointly (who we have met previously in the book, with descriptions of their wealth, and how they acquired it), outbids everyone else, and takes possession of her.  And, it is possession.Next stop, the hotel (although there is a scene in the car en route to the hotel in which she is fondled in front of all the men).  This little girl is a completely nave and innocent virgin, whom these men proceed to have sex with back to back during the night with no regards at all to her comfort or her state of virginity.  She is repeatedly raped, and raped roughly.  The scene is very ugly and very disturbing.From that point on, for the next two weeks or so, her life is nothing but constant rape, during which she is introduced to every type of intercourse, including anal, with some light BDSM thrown in -- bondage and spanking.  Her thoughts about this are generally concerned with how lucky she is that they are so rich, even though she can never go outside anywhere for fear of kidnapping.  She can't wear any of the beautiful dresses they have made for her.  She pretty much spends all her time, when not being raped, either soaking in hot baths, or having therapeutic massages, in an attempt to keep her healthy enough for the men to go on with the  raping.  The men take turns coming home every two hours during the day to have sex with her, and they each spend an hour with her every night.  She is raped a minimum of 8 times a day.  And, then, there are the group sex events, which the men seem to particularly like, during which she may be tied up, blindfolded, spanked, raped with foreign objects, as well as with the usual physical instrument of torture.  The description of these instruments is graphic and detailed, lest we think the men are not well endowed.And, of course, they all fall madly in love with one another, even though the men still treat her as if she is an inanimate object.  She is, quite simply, just the most expensive possession any of them own.  Despite her value, and her rarity in this world, they still take no care, at all, for her feelings.  She is not treated as a precious object.  Just meat.At a turning point in the plot, April manages to sneak into the home office of the man she is "married" to, and finds the contract between the four scumbags.  In it, the terms reveal that the future plans for her include the men auctioning off any daughters she may have, in order to recoup their investment.  She kind of wakes up at this revelation, and reasons, finally, that they don't really love her  after all, because, you know, who would sell the daughters of a woman they loved?  She plans her escape.The remainder of the book deals with this flight, the fact that she is, indeed, pregnant, and we watch the men during this time as they attempt to locate her.  The climax of  the book comes when they find her.  I was expecting a huge scene, with April finally telling them everything she thought of them, and the way that they treated her the two weeks she was with them.  This doesn't happen.  After a one or two line explanation they give her for the contract, she is immediately convinced that they really are her heroes, and they really do love her, and would never, ever, ever, sell her children.  They're just not that kind of men.I'm almost embarrassed that I finished this book.  The only reason I did was because I seriously thought the author was going to give her that scene, and she would call each of these animals to account for their behavior.  Doesn't happen.  They take her home, where only the fact that she is almost 9 months pregnant relieves her from enduring the continuing raping.  They make it clear that eventually, the relationship will go back to what it was, nothing will change, nothing will improve.  They are quite explicit in their discussion of her future.  She's just fine with this.These men truly are selfish pigs.  They are cruel to her.  They are rapists.  They are slave owners.  They brutalize her.  The author has placed this story in the future, so that she could keep to the fantasy that it was part of a dystopian vision.  That's a crock.  She just wanted to write about all this garbage.  There is no world building going on, beyond the stark statements relating to the reasons for the auction.  You never get to hear any other details of this new world.  The action takes place in just a handful of locations:  April's home, the auction, the car, the hotel, the mens' penthouse (yeah -- they live all together in one big dorm), and, at the end, the seedy apartment she finds to live in somewhere in Alaska.  No real interaction takes place with anyone from the outside world, except for servants and vendors.There is nothing redeeming about reading this book.  It will make you feel dirty and depressed.  The heroine is a milksop who never once stands up for herself, and accepts whatever the men say or do to her, with no complaints.  This is not about Dominance/Submission.  It is not Romance.  It isn't even Erotica.  This is about four men buying a young, virginal girl, for the purposes of raping her multiple times a day for the rest of her life, and a detailed description of the raping.  It's a disgusting waste of time, and I'm trying to forgive myself for reading it by exposing the author's motives here to anyone who may be interested in knowing what they're about to delve into.  If it's your kind of thing, then have at it.  If it's not, then be forewarned.  You'll have no sense of satisfaction after finishing it.  You'll feel dirty.