Review: Really???
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2012
SPOILER ALERT!! I can't properly rant about this story without posting spoilers, so you have been warned.So -- this COP is sent to the scene of a domestic disturbance. Once there, he finds an effeminate young man who has been basically imprisoned (clothes taken away, kept naked, not allowed to leave), beaten, and no doubt raped for THREE WEEKS.Now, this is a romance, so of course the cop is instantly in lust for the younger man.So -- what does the cop do? Why, as soon as he gets this traumatized young man -- who has been forced to survive by selling his body and catering to the guy who had been imprisoning, beating, and raping him, remember -- as soon as the cop gets the kid into the police station, what does he do??Well, of course he throws the kid into a stall in the men's bathroom and jerks him off. And then drags him home and has more sex with him. And then he tries to take over the kid's life, telling him how he should act, how he should dress, telling him what to buy, even teaching him how to WALK fercrissake. Of course, why not?? This is just a poor kid who's been seriously traumatized for weeks on end, why not take even more advantage of him while the taking's good??And this cop is supposed to be a GOOD guy?? REALLY??The main problem here is that Tristan isn't really capable of giving any kind of consent at this point. He is completely dependent on one controlling jerk/abuser/rapist at the beginning of the story, and as soon as he is "rescued" from that situation he is instantly thrown into being completely dependent on yet another controlling jerk when the cop takes him home. The only things Tristan has known are dependency and submission. He doesn't know how to stand up for himself, and he has no means to be independent of his abusers. And the "good guy" cop just takes advantage of Tristan's helplessness and compliance, trying to mold Tristan into his own perfect boy toy instead of helping Tristan to stand on his own two feet. It's really kinda sickening....