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39 of 40 found the following review helpful:
 BDSM Lover's Abduction Dream May 05, 2008
By Mary Beth Lennon
"BDSM Book Lover"
I've read Claire Thompson before. I've even reviewed it. I actually read this as an ebook first. She's changed the title (Stalker) and expanded it. It's a much more satisfying read, though it was excellent the first time around. I have to admit, I'm not a big romance reader, so I don't read everything Thompson writes. But I LOVE her non-consensual BDSM stuff. This guy is obsessed with this movie star. He stalks her, kidnaps her and proceeds to try to turn her into his perfect, submissive sex slave. The action is intense and sometimes even brutal. But the weird thing, he actually loves her. And that love starts messing him up. He finds it isn't enough just to control her. He wants her to love him back. I like the way the author really explored both characters - what affected and motivated each of them. It wasn't a one-way story from the abductor's point of view. Her prose is beautiful, erotic and compelling and the scenes are hot, hot, hot, hot. Another scorcher by the Mistress of BDSM. Definitely a keeper.
28 of 28 found the following review helpful:
A surprising amount of heart Aug 15, 2008
By Holly R
Despite this being a rather brutal tale of abduction and rape, there is a surprising amount of heart. The villain of this piece, or the hero depending on your view, desires Emily and has an intense need to dominate and own her. He has played the game before, gone to a few bdsm clubs, but there has always been something missing. Passion. He sees Emily, an actress, on the big screen and knows she's the one. He kidnaps her and subjects her to all sorts of sadistic, kinky tortures, both physically and emotionally. He delights in breaking her down and he also finds equal pleasure in taking care of her after one of his sessions. He keeps Emily on her toes (literally) with his ever changing, potentially vicious moods and demands much more of her then her body and instant obedience. He wants her love. While one might argue that such a thing would be impossible, Emily finds herself leaning towards him, wanting him and yes, even desiring him. Even after he beats her to the point of unconsciousness, she awakes and gifts him with a smile. True, it's a small smile, but it's a start and it's all Mark needs. He isolates her, makes her dependent on him for everything, insulates her in his world, surrounds her. Despite all this though, he can never be sure if it's what Emily truly wants or if it's just the fear and the chains keeping her with him. The only way he can test her is to let her go and see if his love slave returns to him.
While this fantastic story might not be for everyone, I really enjoyed it. Claire Thompson pushes the envelope as to how far we as readers can go, and how dark our desires run. It's an excellent, well articulated story, and not for the faint of heart!!
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There are scenes of abduction, bondage, gunplay, forced shaving, candle play, flogging, caning, piercing, branding, urination scenes, one latex scene, rape (both oral, anal and vaginal) and one forced enema scenes plus others.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Pushes the edge Aug 09, 2008
By Kristin
Not for the faint of heart, yet well written and quite erotic. I won't go into the plot as it's given in a previous review. This book did walk a fine line for me with Mark being quite sadistic emotionally towards Emily. I found that harder to deal with than the fairly brutal physical torments he devises for the poor girl. I relished the fact that his emotional cruelty finally backfires on him towards the end.
I did wish Emily had had a bit more fight in her. She did seem to give in fairly quickly. I also couldn't help but wonder how she would hold up under such constant abuse or whether over time the "love" would outweigh the domination. One likes to think so.
The book is fast paced and very explicit in the bdsm, but elevated above a lot of other bdsm books by getting into the minds of Mark and Emily and how their motivations change over time.
20 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 Vile. No stars for this one May 29, 2009
By melina zora
I was unaware as to what to expect regarding this particular book but I certainly was not expecting torture that only a nazi holocaust warden would not hesitatte to administer.
Mark, a severe mental case in my opinion, abducts a young actress who has become his obsession, takes her to his isolated home where he proceeds to "train" her in the worst possible sadistic manner. I will reveal some means of toeture so the prospective reader can decide whether he/she can stomach the book. I have to admit that I stopped reading it as I kept wincing through the nightmarish ordeal the girl had to undergo . There were instances when I felt like retching, so disturbing was the read. Mark the psychopath, brutally whips (using a variety of floggers for his delectation) beats, slaps, starves, rapes and even pees in this girl's mouth, to name just a few of the means he employs to break her spirit. At about this point in the book I gave up as I realized the worst was yet to come and truly I couldn't bear it. The utter degradation and humiliation this girl was forced to endure was disturbing. Her name escapes me as our sadistic hero calls her by four letter word expletives. I know that this is a means used in order to break down the personality and then rebuild it as desired but this is probably done in the dungeons of the secret service, and I doubt whether "love" is an issue there. Yes, indeed, our machiavellian hero quotes love as his motive for his actions; a twisted notion of love, one to match his derranged mind.
I am aware that these books are to be taken with a grain of salt, that they cater to women's fantasies and so on, but this story must be every woman's nightmare. I could not see anything erotic in the story as the girl was unconsenting and even though it seems that she does eventually become dependent on her lord and master , it's just that; dependence as in conditioning like Pavlov's dogs. She has no free will after the relentless breaking of her spirit. She can no longer function without her master's voice and whip. How romantically SICK.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Intense and not for Everyone Jun 03, 2009
By Berta B
"Avid Reader of Erotic Fiction"
This book details the abduction of a woman and the subsequent "breaking" by her captor. The book has many graphical scenes of hardcore kinks and fetishes that are not in any way for the faint of heart...torture, bathroom scenes, degradation, humiliation, needles, food and sensory depravation..this is not your momma's Harlequin romance that is for sure. The book is well written from a grammatical stand point, and very graphically descriptive, almost detrimentally so. Not a book for eveyone, unless you like your sex with a whole heaping dose of pain and violense.
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