Review: I'm Really "Creeped-Out" Right Now
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2014
******Spoiler Alert*******So, I started reading this new anthology which I received as a free ARC for my unbiased review, and I'm already creeped out!  This first story hit me wrong from the beginning.STEALING Aubrey is right.Scenario: Older wealthy man LUSTS after YOUNG school girl; wants to engage in BDSM (which to me implies both participants have some cognitive awareness of the nature & implications of such a relationship) with her and plots ways to become her sexual dominate; knows girl is inexperienced and vulnerable; You do the math...Maybe this author thought she was the new Nabokov or something...She isn't.  But, then again, Nabokov was vilified when Lolita was published too.This feels more like child abuse and exploitation of a vulnerable young woman than a Domination and Submission "romance" story.  The idea that this 36+ year old recently divorced, wealthy guy is busy "Eye-F******" this (initially) underage girl is really off putting for me.  He's a total pedophile to his heart and that is not okay, even in this erotic story context.  Yuck!  And the idea that he is telling us what he is fantasizing doing to and with her (Leather collars, straps, chains, whatever, whatever...) as he covertly watches her "on her way to school" is just gross!I'm all for two consenting adults engaging in a little BDSM, but to me, this girl (who by the way is unhappy with her life and comes from a humble background) seems more prey than consenting participant.  This "creeper" even insinuates himself into her life on her birthday and offers to let her stay with him, free of charge, while she goes to school.  Really?  I smell a sex slave situation in the making!  Here are some of the things he does.  You be the judge:He lures her in with the offer of a "better life" ( " Want some candy , little girl? " ).  He offers her money to "model" bondage gear.  He plies her with liquor and gets her drunk  ( "The better to eat you, little girl" ).  He plays on her vulnerability by calling her "PRINCESS" and telling her how beautiful she is in the various and assorted fetish items she is wearing.  Even he knows his actions are skeevy.I'm sorry, maybe I've suddenly developed a more pronounced moral compass lately, but I just can't read anymore!  This may be unfair to the other authors in this anthology, but I'm done reading!!!I may be the Closet Freak in Cali, but I ain't no pedophile and I don't approve of thinly veiled kiddy porn when I'm reading.!!!