Review: Surprisingly Good
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 24, 2013
This is the second of a series of books, which I happened to read first. It was so good, I ordered the series. Here is my assessment of the series. This book, "Freed" is a lead into the next book. None of the books really stand alone.If you don't like explicit BD/SM scenes, you will not like this book. That aside, I found this to be a surprisingly good read, especially for books of this genre. John Taylor is a wounded soul. Physically, sexually, and emotionally traumatized by sadistic parents, he is unable to feel or endure any human touch or emotion other than pain. But underneath it all, John is still a kind, good man. When he runs into the only child who was ever kind to him in school, he realizes he fell in love with her then and that he still loves her. Slowly she teaches him to trust and to love. This was an interesting study of the long-lasting effects of child abuse. The author also works in a murder mystery. There were even a few laughs here and there. Other than the author tending to repeat some descriptions of the feelings of the two principals for each other a little too often, and a few omitted or out of order words, it was well written and held my attention. I liked it.