Review: I read a ton of dark erotica, capture fantasy, and non-consent - this is pretty frightful!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2014
To be clear - I read a ton of this type of book -- dark erotica, non consent, dubious consent, capture/kidnapping -- and all sorts of related perverted acts. In general I like the one's that have a HFN or HEA however if you can play with my mind for the time I'm reading it's all good. So I am well versed in good and great in the sub genre. This is not it.To start you have a whining, simpering heroine who is completely and utterly too miserable even to feel sorry for. This chick just cries and cries and cries - and then cries some more. I'm not saying she doesn't have something to cry over. And there are moments when a personality comes through but they are far too far between to lend any sort of feeling to her for me.Then you have a sociopathic, psychotic, and possibly mentally deficient male MC. There is no romance hero here - not even one who can be redeemed. He is, quite literally, written as a sociopath or at least someone who your momma warns you about and who you might expect to have jars of human body parts in his basement. He is creepy. The scary kind.So two characters that you cannot relate too or empathize with land in this very stilted prose story. It has a very "he did this" and "she did that" feel. It is functional - not lyrical or flowing or smooth at all. It badly needed editing help. Badly. We won't talk about the SPaG errors.It is very rare I give 1 star ratings. Really I'm a very easy grader. Where I have it is because the male MC was really not any sort of person you can even remotely see as a hero or romance MC - instead they are creepy, stalker type guys who have more than a few screws loose. I mean this guy is so frightful even his DAD says he won't protect him for what he's done. What he did and what he continues to do is not swoon worthy. It's deplorable. I cannot even say it is Stockhom Syndrome because I don't think the girl is really enough there to even make me feel like that is what happened - although it's probably as close as anything else. However since she spends most of her time crying you really don't have any other way to find out what is going on in her head. I mean the guy does horrible things - takes advantage of her in awful ways and she just sort of is there.And there is no erotic part to any of this. Sometimes the guy is a total jerk but at least the sex is hot. Not so here. It's exceptionally boring without a shred of eroticism. This is the type of book that makes you double check locks and warn your teenage girls on safety. I thought perhaps the other reviews were exaggerated and, since I read a lot of this, I thought they were just perhaps not able to stomach it. As it turns out they were right. Take a pass people.