Review: Sweetly twisted
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2011
Others have already done a great job detailing plot/set-up so I won't go there. I want to go into why I loved this story, and why you may or may not. I love bdsm, capture/sex slave theme, coercion, menage, and alien romance, and here in this story I get it all. This story is sweetly twisted, just the way I like it.This is my first Kitty Thomas story, but it won't be my last. She gets me, every secret dark place, every rough kink. This story is harsh yet subtle. She has a certain finesse in her writing which allows me to be forced gently along with the story, never completely at ease but also never totally uncomfortable. Her way with words allowed me to be all emotions, from pleasure to pain and back again.With Belle, I identified with the fiery submission and with her need to be mastered and controlled by someone dominating and strong. Belle is the possession and her Master is her owner. Master is everything Belle did not know she wanted or needed. He is everything she most feared but also secretly coveted - to be owned and at the mercy of a stranger. With Master, she is able to let go and just be, finally reveling in her deepest and darkest desires.I loved many scenes in this story, but one I most enjoyed, and which spoke to me at my most primitive level, was when Belle first tries to escape Master. For me, one of the thrills of capture erotica is the chase, and when Belle runs away from Master after he has just bought her, running away from her fear and desire, this is symbolic of the whole story, this first little scene, heavy with so much emotion.Master swoops down with wings unfurled, excited by her capture and her unwilling and temporary capitulation, and as he comes at her, he seems to me like a dark angel. Master is at once harsh and tender, vengeful and merciful; at the same time, his actions are painful and pleasurable, hurtful and caring. It's this complex dichotomy of character and action which I love the most about this story. I loved that nothing in this story is ever good or bad but both things altogether, for every emotion and action is reciprocated by its direct opposite, making this story sweetly erotic and disturbing.I loved seeing Master punishing Belle, bending her to his will and making her submit. I loved seeing Belle find comfort in his control and pleasure in his harsh treatment of her. And when Master ceases to be a 'monster' to Belle? That was truly erotic. To see Belle accept that she is his "good little slut", that she is his completely and in all ways, however he chooses, that is the ultimate turn-on for me when reading bdsm erotica.All the sex was hot, enhanced by the that master/slave dynamic. I'm not normally aroused by knife-play, but when Master uses his claws to punish Belle, scarring her back and making her bleed, that was such a dark and disturbing scene. In her pain, I found pleasure. With this story, I felt as if I were living it, as if I were Belle and as if that monster were my master. When she crawled to him, I also crawled; when she gave him everything, I did as well.Every scene in this little novella had force behind its subtlety, from the forced sex to the menage with Master's brother, to the female on female action, all of it was unbelievably sexy. I'll be back for more Kitty Thomas.