Review: Too many lines crossed
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 31, 2013
I absolutely love Tracy's Clans of Kalquor, but this book was so beyond questionable consent.  It seemed like it would be a good book, like most of Tracy's other books, but it went down hill very quickly.  Raven is a Ranger for the National Forest Service and is working on trying to get justice when a man is stealing young women and selling them into slavery in other dimensions.  She meets Daagiis in the form of an accountant and this is where things get messy.  He takes a liking to her and impersonates her boyfriend to see if she is sexually compatible for him and his master.  That is called rape, doesn't matter that she enjoyed it, because she thought she was with her boyfriend not some guy she had met earlier that day.  Later on Raven is critically injured and Daagiis is there to give her a bargain of going to the other dimensions where she will live and be able to hunt down the man who is stealing the women.  The catch?  She will become an indentured servant to Daagiis' master, Vendeen.  She agrees because she hates that Daagiis is powerless at the moment.  Now the real fun starts.  Vendeen is a total controlling and manipulative son of a b*tch and sees Raven as nothing but property that is his to play with.  He doesn't even wait for Raven to fully heal or awaken before he starts fondling her, because she is his property and she has no say in the matter.  Even better?  Because of his pheromones, people from earth get addicted to him and are unable to be without him, less they go insane.  So she is stuck with him if she stays longer than a couple days in his presence.  Lets also add in that Daagiis has put a computer in her brain with the programing to protect Vendeen from anything that might want to hurt him.  Between the pheromones and the programing, Raven had no chance.  At the end of the book I did not think it was a happy ever after with them all in love with each other because she was just brainwashed by the pheromones and programing.There are multiple scenes where the sex is beyond questionable consent and is what I would consider rape.  I don't know where Tracy's mind was when she was writing this, but I am not impressed.  I hope this trend does not flow into her Kalquor series because I prefer men that actually care for the women they are with and not disregard their opinions and feelings because the men see them as property. I high recommend skipping this incredibly disappointing book.