I’m vested so I need to know what happens but if I make it to the end, I’ll be returning this book. It really should’ve been included in Premium.
First, narrators’ voices as themselves are just ok. However, their interpretations of their opposites are TERRIBLE-particularly MH’s interpretation of Grace.
Second, the constant use of sound effects (i.e., tweets, computer key strokes, especially the dream effects when Grace is taken back to her childhood) is so annoying!
Third, this story almost started out like it could’ve been a humorous love story that develops on social media. That’s not what it is. It takes a dark and mysterious turn, but the mystery didn’t really grip me till around chapter 30. Way too long!
Last and most importantly, I’ll be more careful not to choose bdsm stories. While I believe in live and let live, and some kinks are fun, I also believe that if love is love is love, then pain is pain is pain and abuse is abuse is abuse.
And since so many authors address matters of abuse and social/gender inequality, why is it ok to glorify a practice that brings pain and humiliation to women, even if she “likes it”? What is the difference between the woman who is hurt against her will and stays, and the woman who because of some childhood trauma (because that’s what most of these books are about) “needs” the domination and pain?
What’s the difference between the man who inflicts pain and humiliation against her will or the one who inflicts it with consent? They both get sadistic pleasure by inflicting pain and abuse of some sort.