Review: A Dark and Gritty Tale
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2014
This book was a little bit of a different read for me. It begins with Jane (who the men choose to rename her Lydia) showing up at a place called "La Nouvelle Vie" where three men await her to become whatever they want her to be..Lydia is in a situation where she needs to disappear from the world as she has done something illegal. She had approached Preston, a man she had known through out her adolescence and asked him for sanctuary. He agrees but only on the condition that she will submit to him, a man named Kruin, and lastly Gabriel.As the story progresses you are shown how the three men are very different and they each treat Lydia very different as well. Preston enjoyed humiliating and punishing Lydia and he became very aroused doing it. Her relationship with him started off with her hating him. I had a hard time with the relationship with these two. More than a few times I wanted to turn around and slap Preston myself. I did not care for his treatment of her at all and found it hard to enjoy the scenes they had together.Kruin was a very hard man also, and he got off on punishing Lydia. She feared him and what he might do to her. As much as Lydia feared him, she also craved his approval and she was confused as to why.Then there is my favorite and that is Gabriel, who I thought of as the gentle soul. Lydia also developed trust and feelings for Gabriel pretty much from the start because he did treat her so kindly.So the book goes through the relationships and the sex with these three men and Lydia. The sex scenes were hot and as the story progressed I started to see the relationships between Lydia and the men develop and get better. Another book that had me go through a roller coaster of feelings which in my opinion always makes for a good book. I look forward to the next book and I only recommend this book to people who don't mind some conflict, humiliation, and punishment dished out in the relationships of the characters.