Review: Stories like this are why BDSM has a bad name...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2012
The female lead in this story goes from a confused,  emotionally distant woman to victim of abuse in less that 200 pages.  It is books like this that make BDSM appear to be a lifestyle practiced by emotionally unhealthy people and shows that any one who gets involved in one as a sub is setting themselves up to be a victim.That is exactly what happens to Marjorie when she meets and starts a relationship with David. David is a master manipulator and lies throughout the whole book about every thing in their affair,  he sets her up for continual emotional betrayal and caps it all by writing a book about it and publishes it.  When all is at last revealed, her so called friends encourage her to resume the relationship and sadly she does -  she has just become another victim.  Congratulations -  the story of how to abuse and victimize a damaged woman has just been perfectly told.BDSM is about trust and there is no trust here,  BDSM is about honesty and there is no honesty here.  BDSM is about safe, sane, consensual partnership and there is nothing of that here either.  David goes about deliberately breaking an emotionally unstable woman and then thinks a few sorries, some diamonds and the coercion of her misguided friends are going to make it all better.  The outcome is predictable,  Marjorie will resume her relationship with David,  continue to be abused and betrayed because David cannot stop manipulating and lying and  she will wind up either with a nervous breakdown or dead from either her hand or his - just another roadkill on the highway of life.Story of O,  9 1/2 weeks or anything by Annabelle Joseph,  Anneke Jacob or Kitty Thomas this isn't.  If you read it, read it because this is how not to be in a BDSM relationship and don't expect a happy ending because the ending of this story is just sad. Marjorie was basically a good person who got mixed up with the wrong man straight out of a nightmare and it doesn't appear she will ever wake up.