Prisoner of Desire (novella)
Isadora Rose
Medieval Romance/Erotica (BDSM)
Published in 2011
H/h - Sir Alasdair Donachie/Lady Isobel Macnair
Setting: Medieval Scotland.
Read in May, 2014.
I’ve never read anything by Isadora Rose before, so when I went into this, I thought, oh ok, short smut. Yet it doesn’t even begin to articulate the ‘sexual violence’ that was cautioned in the blurb.
Don’t think I can even explain just how disturbing and disgusting I found this story. It’s not that I’m a prude, or that I don’t read dark erotic stories. Few, but I have read those. It was not even the writing of the author... Everything about Prisoner of Desire ticked me in the wrong way. Don’t expect any delicious mindf*ck, cause there was none. But if you’re expecting abuse, abuse and more abuse by a jerk, you’re in for a treat!
Isadora Rose
Medieval Romance/Erotica (BDSM)
Published in 2011
H/h - Sir Alasdair Donachie/Lady Isobel Macnair
Setting: Medieval Scotland.
Read in May, 2014.
My rating:
[spoiler alert]
I’ve never read anything by Isadora Rose before, so when I went into this, I thought, oh ok, short smut. Yet it doesn’t even begin to articulate the ‘sexual violence’ that was cautioned in the blurb.
Don’t think I can even explain just how disturbing and disgusting I found this story. It’s not that I’m a prude, or that I don’t read dark erotic stories. Few, but I have read those. It was not even the writing of the author... Everything about Prisoner of Desire ticked me in the wrong way. Don’t expect any delicious mindf*ck, cause there was none. But if you’re expecting abuse, abuse and more abuse by a jerk, you’re in for a treat!
The ‘prisoner’ part was done well but I was in utter disbelief when I
tried to come to terms with the fact that someone would fall in ‘love’
with this human being, who spanked and raped her, a virgin, in front of
his men, let the other men spank her too, raped her repeatedly
throughout the 40 pages, kept her battered body chained to the bedpost
while he slept on the bed, calling her ‘pet’. Then, this a$$hole had the
gall to show righteous indignation when one of his men went behind his
back to f*ck the heroine... why? Cause the ‘hero’, who was even more
revolting than a villain, wanted the beautiful heroine to be his wife
and didn’t want any question of the paternity of his child.
‘You want my c*ck, you know it’, then rape and
repeat, is how he thinks to get romantic with ‘his’ Isobel.
If you think you’ve read it
all by now, you’re wrong. In between, he gives his men permission to
rape the other defenseless women of the castle (though not explicitly
narrated, I got the feeling that they did), when moments before he said
to Isobel that if she ‘submits’, these women would be safe. There
already were no men left in the castle, thanks to these creeps.
All because the hero, Alasdair, along with his jerks, conquered this castle and staked his claim on everything.
Am I supposed to get aroused by this piece of sh!t that calls himself the lord and master of the castle? Not bloody likely!
I
skimmed through because I’m still adamant about not DNF-ing a book, but
this came very, very close. Also very close to being
my first 1 star read. But I’ll spare 2 stars because I thought the
author’s writing was good enough.
I knew there was a reason why I don’t read bodice ripper novels.
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