Review: BLACKMAILED INTO SUBMISSION
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 22, 2012
Helene receives candid photos of herself. The sender demands that she must meet him at a motel. In this seedy motel room is a man who tells Helene to call him the doctor. Threatening to send the pictures to family and her boss. He then forces her to have sex with him. Instead of being outraged, she doesn't scream or call the police instead she feels drawn to this man, he has inflamed her passions, for the first time she feels alive, vibrant and powerful.I had some mixed feelings about this book. I was not shocked by the explicit content at all. Although this is a very well written story. If you are looking for a romantic read with a HEA, this may not be for you. There are very explicit sex scenes, Helene is tied up, whipped and made to submit to the doctor, he tells her his name is Daniel. The two of them embark on this relationship, if that is what it is, I was never quite sure, they never hardly ever had any other contact except for sex. There is no character development here, all the reader gets is to see is the sexual preferences of the two.We are privy to Helene's thoughts , where she feels powerful that she makes Daniel feel such an overwhelming need for her. She is the one who makes him out of control only her. But it never occurs to Helene that any willing submissive might make Daniel just as excited, and maybe the same would go for her, with any other dominant partner.The author has portrayed Helene and Daniel as two professional business people, both financially secure with good jobs both apparently successful in their chosen careers. Both of similar social status. But what I wondered if the man blackmailing Helene had turned out to be someone quite different, someone lets say for arguments sake lower down the social ladder. Maybe not so refined, and not so well presented. Would Helene had been so receptive and accepting then? The sex scenes were very well detailed, did I find them hot? No for me they were too clinical, as Daniel always had planned what was going to happen, so there was no spontaneity. In the end I wondered if this relationship could or would last, based only on sex. This is a thoroughly well written story, that inspires the reader to see beyond the sex, and think about the dynamics of the relationship. A thought provoking read.