Review: Meh
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2014
There's no doubt that Ms Lane has talent as this was a very well written book and well edited too. She executed her thoughts well and the story flowed at a nice pace.However I felt no connection between the characters. I felt I didn't know anything about them but worse, I didn't want to know anything about them. I didn't care what made them the way they were. I didn't care that they offered no after care to Lydia. There were no feelings in this story. No one liked each other, no one cared about each other and therefore, neither did I. None of them had any redeemable characteristics at all.Throughout the book Lydia was humiliated and shamed and ashamed of the things she was made to do until almost the end when all of a sudden she decided it was a great life! Unrealistic turnaround.Considering the amount of sex in this book, this should have been a very sexy and erotic book but it didn't even provoke a twitch from me! The overly flowery, nonsensical description of body parts was over the top and quite ridiculous at times.I'm not sure what sort of angle the author was going for. It wasn't a romance, it wasn't sexy, it wasn't even bdsm.If you like stories about dubious consent and the humiliation and abuse of women, then this will be right up your street.For me, I like to feel invested in the characters, I like to champion a character, I like to feel their angst, their pain, their heartbreak, their emotions but sadly it was all lacking from this book.