Review: Rather Strange Take on BDSM
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2013
Releasing Kate is a very different take on the world of BDSM. Edward belongs to a "clan" and Kate does too, but she doesn't know it. Her parents died in an accident when she was little and she went into the foster system. The clan didn't know she existed so she was raised as a "normal" person. Her sex life is unsatisfactory but she doesn't know why, until Edward takes over as CEO of the hospital where she works. He immediately starts on a brutal campaign to convince Kate that she belongs with him and only him, and to do that, he must initiate her into the ways of the clan.This involves some serious mind games and even more serious BDSM equipment -- Edward must convince Kate to let him dominate her completely and since she was raised as a normal woman, this goes against every thing she has ever been taught. He tells her; "You will never again have pain without pleasure and you will never again have pleasure without pain." And he means it.Only once do Edward and Kate actually have intercourse -- 99% of the sex scenes in the book (and there are a lot of them) involve Edward arousing Kate -- sometimes to the point of orgasm, many times not, but always with some sort of pain.  The sex scenes are sometimes steamy and sometimes tiring. It gets a bit old after a while, the constant torture without no clit throbbing sex scenes to make it more palatable. While the entire story asks the reader to suspend disbelief, the most difficult part for me to swallow (no pun intended) is that Edward is so "well endowed" that he cannot enter Kate without causing her great pain. Really?I give Kade points for an unusual plotline, but I can't say I really enjoyed the book and I'm not dying to read anything else by her soon.  This is Book One in a series so there will be more to follow. Disclaimer: I did not pay for this book.