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Pretty When She Cries
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22 year old beauty Nicole Hudson is abducted from a gas station by a serial rapist. Follow Nicole as she endures the destruction of her world, trying to find a chance for escape, before her time runs out in the hands of her mentally unstable captor.
DISCLAIMER:
This is not a story about consensual sex. This is a story about "actual" rape. If reading an erotic story with non-consensual sex makes you uncomfortable, this is not the book for you. This is a work of fiction, and the author does not endorse or condone any behavior done to another human being without their consent.
Contains explicit sexual descriptions and violence.
22 year old beauty Nicole Hudson is abducted from a gas station by a serial rapist. Follow Nicole as she endures the destruction of her world, trying to find a chance for escape, before her time runs out in the hands of her mentally unstable captor.
DISCLAIMER:
This is not a story about consensual sex. This is a story about "actual" rape. If reading an erotic story with non-consensual sex makes you uncomfortable, this is not the book for you. This is a work of fiction, and the author does not endorse or condone any behavior done to another human being without their consent.
Contains explicit sexual descriptions and violence.
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June 4, 2013
This book is NOT for the faint hearted. You only need to read the first section of the blurb to realise you will not be able to read it without having every single one of your emotions completely torn to shreds.
The thing is I love that feeling of inner turmoil when reading the books I read.
Most people will cringe when reading the blurb let alone the actual book. Nicole suffers a great deal while in captivity, yet she has a fighting spirit which I loved in her character even when things get extremely ugly
It is not a pleasant read, it does leave you anxious, angry, tearful and had me on more than one occasion wanting to strangle any man within a few feet of where I sat reading on my IPad. But...
I guess my darker book tastes mean I don't mind feeling this way. Its all part of the angst, which I enjoy. Although that does NOT mean I condone the serious subject matters raised in this book.
So I recommend if you are thinking of reading this book that you take on board the advisory notes as they are there for a reason.
Well that is if you can get hold of this book any more as I know it has been discontinued, so not sure where you would be able to get it???
May 12, 2013
AUTHOR'S DISCLAIMER
This is not a story about consensual sex. This is a story about "actual" rape. If reading an erotic story with non-consensual sex makes you uncomfortable, this is not the book for you. This is a work of fiction, and the author does not endorse or condone any behavior done to another human being without their consent.
Contains explicit sexual descriptions and violence.
This is a disturbing short story of abduction and rape.
Nicole is abducted from a gas station She has just arrived from Australia to surprise her boyfriend.
She is held captive by a man called James who promptly tells her he will rape her.
Holding her prisoner for weeks with no chance of escape she slowly realises that she needs to adapt to James to stay alive.
James is a serial rapist, he is cruel, sick and he can't seem to stop himself from doing these terrible things.
First of all this is no Stockholm Syndrome, no falling for her abductor here.
It makes uncomfortable reading, but to ban it I'm at a loss as I personally do not think its any worse than some of the books that are out there.
This is not a story about consensual sex. This is a story about "actual" rape. If reading an erotic story with non-consensual sex makes you uncomfortable, this is not the book for you. This is a work of fiction, and the author does not endorse or condone any behavior done to another human being without their consent.
Contains explicit sexual descriptions and violence.
This is a disturbing short story of abduction and rape.
Nicole is abducted from a gas station She has just arrived from Australia to surprise her boyfriend.
She is held captive by a man called James who promptly tells her he will rape her.
Holding her prisoner for weeks with no chance of escape she slowly realises that she needs to adapt to James to stay alive.
James is a serial rapist, he is cruel, sick and he can't seem to stop himself from doing these terrible things.
First of all this is no Stockholm Syndrome, no falling for her abductor here.
It makes uncomfortable reading, but to ban it I'm at a loss as I personally do not think its any worse than some of the books that are out there.
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September 9, 2011Warning: Review contains Adult themes and spoilers. 18+.
I will read anything if it seems interesting. So when I caught sight of this, how could I resist? I’ll warn you again before I continue, this is not a review for anybody under 18 years of age or with a vanilla view on coitus.
Sex is primordial and uncultivated. It can allow you to explore your deepest wishes from the arms of someone you trust, and who will keep you safe even as you stumble over the edge of sanity and enjoy the most debased of behaviours. That said, always do you have a strong sense of self, and always can you separate reality from fantasy to recognise what is right and what is wrong. Some people will not be able to accept the more forbidden parts of human nature, or understand it, and nobody is asking them to.
I say all this because if you don’t have an open mind about the sexual preferences of others, and a secure understanding of your own sexuality you will feel the need to condemn this book in reaction to any emotion it evokes in you.
In a nutshell this story needed emotional depth and should not be categorized as erotica.
Pretty When She Cries is 40,000 words of rape and violence. I can see why Amazon banned it, though in reality the content is no more disturbing than watching a rape or torture scene in a film. Films which are most graphic are not necessarily those which are the most disturbing. Such is the case with this book. Its bark is worse than its bite. The issue is that all the elements combined do not add up to something anybody should be comfortable being titillated by. I am not sure if this was done intentionally by the author, or by accident.
I can see a large number of women (and men) seeing the rape and brutality featured in PWSC as sick. The themes are not supported by any substantial emotional splintering from the main character Nicole (victim). She is a two dimensional waif, and I honestly have to keep re-reading the blurb to remember her name. For me, Nicole’s emotions were kept far too in check, and were not explored in enough detail.
The book is free from errors if that is a key priority of yours, and the subject matter taboo enough to make you feel urbane for trying it. This book should have taken me to a dark place that is harsh and barren. Other than a vague absorption in what the book promised to be, there was nothing that shocked or moved me in any way. I should have felt a myriad of emotion. I should have felt the need to cry or seek solace in a story with a happy ever after. I was left frustrated.
I suffered a detachment from the story because of the narrative voice. This lack of involvement is the books main downfall. It’s almost like the author was too afraid to write the word “I”. We do not go through this horrible experience with Nicole, we watch it happen to her. Ask yourself, would you stand by and watch rape happen?
I’m not a psychiatrist, but I would think rape would be fuelled by a need to debase and dominate. Abusers who feel a need to retain absolute control in a sexual situation and humiliate the unwilling victim who is made helpless directly by their actions. To achieve this state, you would not repeatedly tell a victim you are about to rape them. That in itself prepares them. They could mentally fortify themselves and come to an acceptance of what was about to happen to them to survive it. This would diminish the humiliation and domination, if not remove it entirely from the hands of the rapist. Putting myself in the shoes of this victim (god forbid this would ever happen to me or any other human being on this planet), if my abuser told me what he was to do, and I was powerless and unable to fight back, I would take control from him (or her) in any way I could. Humans fight. To the last breathe. Always. We don’t give up, it’s our nature, even in the face of great pain. So fighting back, merely taking the power from the hands of the rapist removes a key driver behind it – control of the unwilling. James tells Nicole he is going to rape her. Immediately a main driver for the rapist in this book has been lost, and nothing has been given to me from the author in its place to help me to understand why he continues to abuse her. Her, specifically. Control and dominance suggests a character who is self indulged and arrogant. Not the traits of a person who would see to a woman’s pleasure during the act of sex and need constant reassurance of it, especially if it is non-consensual, like James does. Basically, his reactions do not make sense, even taking into consideration the ill treatment he'd suffered in his life.
A further problem (due to the fact it was written as erotica) is the language the author used. It is amorous. What happens between two consenting adults is between them, and had this story actually been erotica with "rape" as role play it may be distasteful to some, but appeal to others who like that kind of extreme kink (in truth, that is still technically not rape, as there is consent from the victim prior to the act). But this story is about non-consensual sex, something else entirely. Pretend is still pretend, no matter how convincing the actors want to make it. The rape in this story was not supposed to be role play, and yet, the descriptors used during are staggeringly similar to those used in current romance novels (because she has written it as erotica).
The full reality is that rape is not arousing, or attractive in any shape or form, but some of the themes (used by consenting adults) behind it are. Namely, total submission from your partner, dominance, physical helplessness ... a consensual power exchange, and that is what readers to PWSC will react to, not the rape itself, and as that is the main element in this book, this is why I do not think it should be classed as erotica. Think of it this way, you get romance novels where men “seduce” and “break” the strong willed women (marauding Viking romance anyone?). In those books it’s the same themes as explored here but in a low-key “safe” way. The levels to which any consenting individual takes these themes is down to them, this is simply the high end of that tolerance scale – gone wrong.
Non-consensual sex is not something that should arouse. Dominance, control, pain, etc, fine, do whatever floats your boat, but not the removal of free will. Never that. This needed to be an erotica which featured extreme S&M and D&S as role play, or this needed to be work of fiction which seeks to explore the mind of the abuser or the victim. The two are mixed here and that creates a problem for me as a reader and as a woman.
As for the violence ... hmm. There is pain (S&M) and then there is PAIN (torture). S&M is erotic. Torture is evil. This books flaunts violence and abuse but there is no true malevolence behind it from the abuser, and the infliction of it becomes monotonous. To hit somebody with force, to hurt them, takes an extreme amount of energy and emotion. So there needs to be a good reason for it to happen so frequently. Beatings are thrown in left right and centre in PWSC, and only a few times do you actually get a sense of James' (abusers) true mindset.
The thing is, the author probably went light on emotion and back-story because she was writing it as an erotica rather than an inability to portray them effectively.
Don’t get me wrong, because of the way language is used the book will cause a response, but not the right response, and not one you will allow yourself to feel. I can understand why this book will not be received well, not everybody wants to explore that kind of sexuality. What exactly was this book highlighting? That madmen get off on raping women? Yes, we know this, but what was the point in writing a 40,000 word novel on it if you’re not going to expose me to the victim’s or abuser’s mindset? Rape is an monstrous thing I do not think anybody can truly understand unless it happens to them, so it’s not something to write about without having a clear message in mind. The act itself should not be used to arouse.
The detachment between the reader and Nicole (victim) or the reader and James (rapist) is too great. Had there been more of a connection this easily could have been one of the rawest books I've read. Instead of taking the subject matter to a gritty and primal place forcing us to consider the darker depths of our sexuality, it panders to unsophisticated and evil sexual deviancy. The book falls short and languishes at crude and forgettable. It’s annoying, because it could have been great.
Should this author try again with another story I would read it to see if the next attempt would reach the expectation I had set.
Am I reading too much into it all? Maybe. But a book which explores subject matter like this needs a message, otherwise, what is the point? But that is simply my opinion.
No star rating, as I don’t think it’s appropriate in this case instance.
I will read anything if it seems interesting. So when I caught sight of this, how could I resist? I’ll warn you again before I continue, this is not a review for anybody under 18 years of age or with a vanilla view on coitus.
Sex is primordial and uncultivated. It can allow you to explore your deepest wishes from the arms of someone you trust, and who will keep you safe even as you stumble over the edge of sanity and enjoy the most debased of behaviours. That said, always do you have a strong sense of self, and always can you separate reality from fantasy to recognise what is right and what is wrong. Some people will not be able to accept the more forbidden parts of human nature, or understand it, and nobody is asking them to.
I say all this because if you don’t have an open mind about the sexual preferences of others, and a secure understanding of your own sexuality you will feel the need to condemn this book in reaction to any emotion it evokes in you.
In a nutshell this story needed emotional depth and should not be categorized as erotica.
Pretty When She Cries is 40,000 words of rape and violence. I can see why Amazon banned it, though in reality the content is no more disturbing than watching a rape or torture scene in a film. Films which are most graphic are not necessarily those which are the most disturbing. Such is the case with this book. Its bark is worse than its bite. The issue is that all the elements combined do not add up to something anybody should be comfortable being titillated by. I am not sure if this was done intentionally by the author, or by accident.
I can see a large number of women (and men) seeing the rape and brutality featured in PWSC as sick. The themes are not supported by any substantial emotional splintering from the main character Nicole (victim). She is a two dimensional waif, and I honestly have to keep re-reading the blurb to remember her name. For me, Nicole’s emotions were kept far too in check, and were not explored in enough detail.
The book is free from errors if that is a key priority of yours, and the subject matter taboo enough to make you feel urbane for trying it. This book should have taken me to a dark place that is harsh and barren. Other than a vague absorption in what the book promised to be, there was nothing that shocked or moved me in any way. I should have felt a myriad of emotion. I should have felt the need to cry or seek solace in a story with a happy ever after. I was left frustrated.
I suffered a detachment from the story because of the narrative voice. This lack of involvement is the books main downfall. It’s almost like the author was too afraid to write the word “I”. We do not go through this horrible experience with Nicole, we watch it happen to her. Ask yourself, would you stand by and watch rape happen?
I’m not a psychiatrist, but I would think rape would be fuelled by a need to debase and dominate. Abusers who feel a need to retain absolute control in a sexual situation and humiliate the unwilling victim who is made helpless directly by their actions. To achieve this state, you would not repeatedly tell a victim you are about to rape them. That in itself prepares them. They could mentally fortify themselves and come to an acceptance of what was about to happen to them to survive it. This would diminish the humiliation and domination, if not remove it entirely from the hands of the rapist. Putting myself in the shoes of this victim (god forbid this would ever happen to me or any other human being on this planet), if my abuser told me what he was to do, and I was powerless and unable to fight back, I would take control from him (or her) in any way I could. Humans fight. To the last breathe. Always. We don’t give up, it’s our nature, even in the face of great pain. So fighting back, merely taking the power from the hands of the rapist removes a key driver behind it – control of the unwilling. James tells Nicole he is going to rape her. Immediately a main driver for the rapist in this book has been lost, and nothing has been given to me from the author in its place to help me to understand why he continues to abuse her. Her, specifically. Control and dominance suggests a character who is self indulged and arrogant. Not the traits of a person who would see to a woman’s pleasure during the act of sex and need constant reassurance of it, especially if it is non-consensual, like James does. Basically, his reactions do not make sense, even taking into consideration the ill treatment he'd suffered in his life.
A further problem (due to the fact it was written as erotica) is the language the author used. It is amorous. What happens between two consenting adults is between them, and had this story actually been erotica with "rape" as role play it may be distasteful to some, but appeal to others who like that kind of extreme kink (in truth, that is still technically not rape, as there is consent from the victim prior to the act). But this story is about non-consensual sex, something else entirely. Pretend is still pretend, no matter how convincing the actors want to make it. The rape in this story was not supposed to be role play, and yet, the descriptors used during are staggeringly similar to those used in current romance novels (because she has written it as erotica).
The full reality is that rape is not arousing, or attractive in any shape or form, but some of the themes (used by consenting adults) behind it are. Namely, total submission from your partner, dominance, physical helplessness ... a consensual power exchange, and that is what readers to PWSC will react to, not the rape itself, and as that is the main element in this book, this is why I do not think it should be classed as erotica. Think of it this way, you get romance novels where men “seduce” and “break” the strong willed women (marauding Viking romance anyone?). In those books it’s the same themes as explored here but in a low-key “safe” way. The levels to which any consenting individual takes these themes is down to them, this is simply the high end of that tolerance scale – gone wrong.
Non-consensual sex is not something that should arouse. Dominance, control, pain, etc, fine, do whatever floats your boat, but not the removal of free will. Never that. This needed to be an erotica which featured extreme S&M and D&S as role play, or this needed to be work of fiction which seeks to explore the mind of the abuser or the victim. The two are mixed here and that creates a problem for me as a reader and as a woman.
As for the violence ... hmm. There is pain (S&M) and then there is PAIN (torture). S&M is erotic. Torture is evil. This books flaunts violence and abuse but there is no true malevolence behind it from the abuser, and the infliction of it becomes monotonous. To hit somebody with force, to hurt them, takes an extreme amount of energy and emotion. So there needs to be a good reason for it to happen so frequently. Beatings are thrown in left right and centre in PWSC, and only a few times do you actually get a sense of James' (abusers) true mindset.
The thing is, the author probably went light on emotion and back-story because she was writing it as an erotica rather than an inability to portray them effectively.
Don’t get me wrong, because of the way language is used the book will cause a response, but not the right response, and not one you will allow yourself to feel. I can understand why this book will not be received well, not everybody wants to explore that kind of sexuality. What exactly was this book highlighting? That madmen get off on raping women? Yes, we know this, but what was the point in writing a 40,000 word novel on it if you’re not going to expose me to the victim’s or abuser’s mindset? Rape is an monstrous thing I do not think anybody can truly understand unless it happens to them, so it’s not something to write about without having a clear message in mind. The act itself should not be used to arouse.
The detachment between the reader and Nicole (victim) or the reader and James (rapist) is too great. Had there been more of a connection this easily could have been one of the rawest books I've read. Instead of taking the subject matter to a gritty and primal place forcing us to consider the darker depths of our sexuality, it panders to unsophisticated and evil sexual deviancy. The book falls short and languishes at crude and forgettable. It’s annoying, because it could have been great.
Should this author try again with another story I would read it to see if the next attempt would reach the expectation I had set.
Am I reading too much into it all? Maybe. But a book which explores subject matter like this needs a message, otherwise, what is the point? But that is simply my opinion.
No star rating, as I don’t think it’s appropriate in this case instance.
October 2, 2011
I rarely review books, but I am making a special case for PRETTY WHEN SHE CRIES because it offended me on a very special level. Is that because the book portrays rape, violence, and torture? No. It's because that's ALL it does--portray it. This book has absolutely nothing new or interesting to say about the psychology of either the victim or the perpetrator, and it doesn't even "push the envelope" in rape fiction. Not only that, it's poorly edited, badly written, and emotionally lifeless. In short, it failed on every level imaginable.
Why did I read this book in this first place? Partly because I'd seen the author on the Kindleboards talking about the fact that Amazon had refused to list it due to its content and I was curious to see what the fuss was about. But I wouldn't have finished if it hadn't been lent to me by a friend, who begged me to read the entire thing so she'd have someone to bitch to about it.
My problems with this book began before the plot even got to the rape. Within the first five pages, I found multiple instances of missing or misplaced commas. On either the first or second page on my Nook for Android app, the text says the protagonist has gone to visit "her boyfriend Cameron"; this is the sort of missing comma that is the difference between a polite question ("Are you eating, Uncle Ralph?") and cannibalism ("Are you eating Uncle Ralph?"), and it's pretty much inexcusable. If you make that kind of mistake in the first 200 words, I've already pretty well lost faith in your competency as a writer.
Later in the book, I nearly choked laughing when, after the protagonist says she's cold, the villain responds, "I know I can see you shivering." Wow, I'm glad he knows he can see! There were also numerous typos/misspelled words ("course" for "coarse"; "middled" for "middle") that further convinced me the book hadn't been subjected to a proper edit prior to being published. That's just insulting to people who are paying good money for a product, and I'm glad I didn't pay for this one.
And once the rape plot gets going? Oy! The rape scenes are dull, emotionless, and repetitive. There was so much "sawing" of fingers, I expected someone to yell "Timber!" at any moment. After the first few times, there's simply no point to the gratuitously graphic scenes because they all have exactly the same impact, which is that the heroine is ashamed, horrified, in pain, disgusted. It's redundant. The book would have been the same (or perhaps better) with less than half those scenes. They weren't needed and seemed included purely for shock value. The problem is, they failed to shock because each one was almost exactly like the last.
Add to these problems the clunky dialogue--at one point, for example, the villain goes on for pages about his experiences in prison, in language that's far more erudite and self-conscious than suits the character--and the utterly flat ending, and you have a book that doesn't work on any level. It doesn't accomplish any of the things it claims to and, in fact, undermines itself by chickening out of dealing with the horror it's supposedly setting up. I can't even say it's full of sound and fury, but it certainly signifies nothing.
There are much better books out there that explore these kinds of topics. Off the top of my head, I'd direct you to COMFORT FOOD by Kitty Thomas and ARENA OF SHAME by Kate Benedict. And if I were Amazon, I'd have refused to list it, too. Not because it's shocking or envelope-pushing, but because it's a bad book.
Why did I read this book in this first place? Partly because I'd seen the author on the Kindleboards talking about the fact that Amazon had refused to list it due to its content and I was curious to see what the fuss was about. But I wouldn't have finished if it hadn't been lent to me by a friend, who begged me to read the entire thing so she'd have someone to bitch to about it.
My problems with this book began before the plot even got to the rape. Within the first five pages, I found multiple instances of missing or misplaced commas. On either the first or second page on my Nook for Android app, the text says the protagonist has gone to visit "her boyfriend Cameron"; this is the sort of missing comma that is the difference between a polite question ("Are you eating, Uncle Ralph?") and cannibalism ("Are you eating Uncle Ralph?"), and it's pretty much inexcusable. If you make that kind of mistake in the first 200 words, I've already pretty well lost faith in your competency as a writer.
Later in the book, I nearly choked laughing when, after the protagonist says she's cold, the villain responds, "I know I can see you shivering." Wow, I'm glad he knows he can see! There were also numerous typos/misspelled words ("course" for "coarse"; "middled" for "middle") that further convinced me the book hadn't been subjected to a proper edit prior to being published. That's just insulting to people who are paying good money for a product, and I'm glad I didn't pay for this one.
And once the rape plot gets going? Oy! The rape scenes are dull, emotionless, and repetitive. There was so much "sawing" of fingers, I expected someone to yell "Timber!" at any moment. After the first few times, there's simply no point to the gratuitously graphic scenes because they all have exactly the same impact, which is that the heroine is ashamed, horrified, in pain, disgusted. It's redundant. The book would have been the same (or perhaps better) with less than half those scenes. They weren't needed and seemed included purely for shock value. The problem is, they failed to shock because each one was almost exactly like the last.
Add to these problems the clunky dialogue--at one point, for example, the villain goes on for pages about his experiences in prison, in language that's far more erudite and self-conscious than suits the character--and the utterly flat ending, and you have a book that doesn't work on any level. It doesn't accomplish any of the things it claims to and, in fact, undermines itself by chickening out of dealing with the horror it's supposedly setting up. I can't even say it's full of sound and fury, but it certainly signifies nothing.
There are much better books out there that explore these kinds of topics. Off the top of my head, I'd direct you to COMFORT FOOD by Kitty Thomas and ARENA OF SHAME by Kate Benedict. And if I were Amazon, I'd have refused to list it, too. Not because it's shocking or envelope-pushing, but because it's a bad book.
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October 1, 2011Pretty When She Cries is a disturbing story, plain and simple. The main plot is about a young woman who’s kidnapped, raped and tortured throughout the course of the novel. I guess you could say this is a psychological thriller that stays in the mind of the victim as she tries to survive from a psychotic, crazed sexual deviant. As I read, I was filled with disgust at the acts portrayed in this book. Usually I’ll give the author the benefit of the doubt because regardless of the subject matter, it comes down to the writing for me and if it works. If I was going to review this based on Sarah Kate’s writing skills, I would say she still needs work. The beginning is the strongest, the middle falters and the end falls flat with no real reward.
Nicole has traveled from Australia to America to visit her boyfriend, Cameron. Right from the start we’re told that Nicole is blonde, has rosy lips and she’s “Neutrogena-commercial perfect”. She has come to visit Cameron three months early as a surprise. She stops at a gas station and that’s where she notices a man buying cigarettes. Nicole assumes he must have been in prison from his military haircut and tattoo peeking out from his T-shirt. Everything about him screams brutality and a severity. She knows something is not right about him and as soon as she’s done paying for her things, she’ll high tail it out of there. Unfortunately, Nicole makes a quick stop at the bathroom and somehow the stranger grabs her (I still can’t figure out how he does because it’s glossed over) and forces her into her car where he drives them away.
The man James tells Nicole right from the start he’s going to rape her. He takes her to his house in the middle of nowhere and if she behaves and doesn’t fight him, he won’t kill her, but he’ll rape her until he’s tired of her. And from this moment on, James uses Nicole as his plaything and rapes her every which way, even at one point inviting his friend to use her and debase her. Nicole is put through some horrendous sex acts and abuse. James lives in his own fantasy world and wants Nicole to love him, so they can start a family. Nicole tries to escape and when James shows her what he’s hiding in his basement, she comes to the conclusion he’ll kill her anyway.
Pretty When She Cries is full of the crazy, as they say. Nicole is a pretty steady character and believable with her actions and thoughts. You do feel her fear and loathing for the man who has destroyed her whole world and her spirit. I had a very big issue with James. He’s full of contradictions and has no depth. When we are introduced to James, we’re told about his “military haircut”, which leads me to believe he likes order and things done in a precise and specific way. James is all over the place. He’s a total mess and I’m not talking about his personality, but the way he acts. He has no explanation or rhyme or reason for anything. At one point we’re given this long history about why he’s turned out the way he has and why he’s torturing Nicole, but it doesn’t really give a valid reason for anything. If Sarah gave the reader a bit more insight or some interesting personality trait on his part, then maybe there could have been some sort of connection. There was none. The way he’s portrayed is very off and I can't say this is how a true mentally unstable man would act. I really couldn’t tell you what he is or why he has done any of this.
The acts here are shocking and at times revolting, but it’s nothing I haven’t read before. After awhile I grew bored because it was relentless with over the top violence that seemed gratuitous for no reason that I can think of other than to shock the reader even more. And what occurs in the last few pages had me shaking my head because it seemed tossed in as if Sarah didn’t know how to end things.
The ending annoyed me most of all because I was waiting for James’s comeuppance. It fell as flat as a pancake.
Sarah’s writing skills do have some merit. She has some moments that work, while sections need a good editor. The beginning of Pretty When She Cries is the best, and from that you do want to continue on and see what happens. But when you’re thrown into the situation like Nicole is, you want to get out. There’s too much telling and not enough showing, even with the degrading sexual abuse.
Should have this been banned from Amazon? No. Like I said in my post yesterday, Amazon allows books on their site where there are more than enough disturbing stories available for purchase. One example is Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, which is a novel that’s sexist, misogynistic and degrading toward women. The torture and violence in that boo is much worse than what happens to Nicole in Pretty When She Cries. This book is my ultimate WTFOMGBBQ.
American Psycho’s protagonist, Patrick Bateman, becomes a full blown serial killer who kills his victims by some sort of sexual torture. There’s mutilation upon mutilations of his victims. There’s one memorable scene where I can’t unseen what I’ve unseen, get me the bleach and take out my eyes worthy, where I had to stop reading and came close to vomiting. Sounds dramatic right? It’s a doozy because Bateman forces a tube into a woman's vagina and lets a starved rat loose inside of her. After pulling the tube out he continues to saw her in half with a chainsaw. And this is show in graphic detail.
Can someone explain why Amazon wouldn’t ban American Psycho, just for the rat scene alone, but has banned Pretty When She Cries? Is it because of the brutal rape of a woman? Seems hypocritical to me and not right, especially when there’s American Psycho that I feel is one of the worst books I ever read based on the over the top, disgusting subject matter. And the fact that it’s considered a classic and is even getting the Broadway show treatment that makes me go WTFididily?
I couldn’t tell you whose Sarah Kate’s audience is. I don’t even know what genre classification Pretty When She Cries falls into. Sexual Thriller? Psychological Sexual Fetish Drama?
Most people will not read Pretty When She Cries, or if they do, they probably won’t admit it. This one is a hard one to grade for me because even if I did enjoy a rape novel, how would I ever recommend it?
Disturbing is the key word here and the strongest emotion I felt while reading Pretty When She Cries. I guess if an author can make a reader feel something, rather than nothing at all, they have accomplished something. As for what Pretty When She Cries accomplished, I would say it’s more of an exercise on part of the author and whether or not a person will be curious enough to buy and read her book. I was one of them, so in that case she has succeeded.
Nicole has traveled from Australia to America to visit her boyfriend, Cameron. Right from the start we’re told that Nicole is blonde, has rosy lips and she’s “Neutrogena-commercial perfect”. She has come to visit Cameron three months early as a surprise. She stops at a gas station and that’s where she notices a man buying cigarettes. Nicole assumes he must have been in prison from his military haircut and tattoo peeking out from his T-shirt. Everything about him screams brutality and a severity. She knows something is not right about him and as soon as she’s done paying for her things, she’ll high tail it out of there. Unfortunately, Nicole makes a quick stop at the bathroom and somehow the stranger grabs her (I still can’t figure out how he does because it’s glossed over) and forces her into her car where he drives them away.
The man James tells Nicole right from the start he’s going to rape her. He takes her to his house in the middle of nowhere and if she behaves and doesn’t fight him, he won’t kill her, but he’ll rape her until he’s tired of her. And from this moment on, James uses Nicole as his plaything and rapes her every which way, even at one point inviting his friend to use her and debase her. Nicole is put through some horrendous sex acts and abuse. James lives in his own fantasy world and wants Nicole to love him, so they can start a family. Nicole tries to escape and when James shows her what he’s hiding in his basement, she comes to the conclusion he’ll kill her anyway.
Pretty When She Cries is full of the crazy, as they say. Nicole is a pretty steady character and believable with her actions and thoughts. You do feel her fear and loathing for the man who has destroyed her whole world and her spirit. I had a very big issue with James. He’s full of contradictions and has no depth. When we are introduced to James, we’re told about his “military haircut”, which leads me to believe he likes order and things done in a precise and specific way. James is all over the place. He’s a total mess and I’m not talking about his personality, but the way he acts. He has no explanation or rhyme or reason for anything. At one point we’re given this long history about why he’s turned out the way he has and why he’s torturing Nicole, but it doesn’t really give a valid reason for anything. If Sarah gave the reader a bit more insight or some interesting personality trait on his part, then maybe there could have been some sort of connection. There was none. The way he’s portrayed is very off and I can't say this is how a true mentally unstable man would act. I really couldn’t tell you what he is or why he has done any of this.
The acts here are shocking and at times revolting, but it’s nothing I haven’t read before. After awhile I grew bored because it was relentless with over the top violence that seemed gratuitous for no reason that I can think of other than to shock the reader even more. And what occurs in the last few pages had me shaking my head because it seemed tossed in as if Sarah didn’t know how to end things.
The ending annoyed me most of all because I was waiting for James’s comeuppance. It fell as flat as a pancake.
Sarah’s writing skills do have some merit. She has some moments that work, while sections need a good editor. The beginning of Pretty When She Cries is the best, and from that you do want to continue on and see what happens. But when you’re thrown into the situation like Nicole is, you want to get out. There’s too much telling and not enough showing, even with the degrading sexual abuse.
Should have this been banned from Amazon? No. Like I said in my post yesterday, Amazon allows books on their site where there are more than enough disturbing stories available for purchase. One example is Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, which is a novel that’s sexist, misogynistic and degrading toward women. The torture and violence in that boo is much worse than what happens to Nicole in Pretty When She Cries. This book is my ultimate WTFOMGBBQ.
American Psycho’s protagonist, Patrick Bateman, becomes a full blown serial killer who kills his victims by some sort of sexual torture. There’s mutilation upon mutilations of his victims. There’s one memorable scene where I can’t unseen what I’ve unseen, get me the bleach and take out my eyes worthy, where I had to stop reading and came close to vomiting. Sounds dramatic right? It’s a doozy because Bateman forces a tube into a woman's vagina and lets a starved rat loose inside of her. After pulling the tube out he continues to saw her in half with a chainsaw. And this is show in graphic detail.
Can someone explain why Amazon wouldn’t ban American Psycho, just for the rat scene alone, but has banned Pretty When She Cries? Is it because of the brutal rape of a woman? Seems hypocritical to me and not right, especially when there’s American Psycho that I feel is one of the worst books I ever read based on the over the top, disgusting subject matter. And the fact that it’s considered a classic and is even getting the Broadway show treatment that makes me go WTFididily?
I couldn’t tell you whose Sarah Kate’s audience is. I don’t even know what genre classification Pretty When She Cries falls into. Sexual Thriller? Psychological Sexual Fetish Drama?
Most people will not read Pretty When She Cries, or if they do, they probably won’t admit it. This one is a hard one to grade for me because even if I did enjoy a rape novel, how would I ever recommend it?
Disturbing is the key word here and the strongest emotion I felt while reading Pretty When She Cries. I guess if an author can make a reader feel something, rather than nothing at all, they have accomplished something. As for what Pretty When She Cries accomplished, I would say it’s more of an exercise on part of the author and whether or not a person will be curious enough to buy and read her book. I was one of them, so in that case she has succeeded.
October 28, 2017
The tags on this book called to me: dark, abuse, banned by Amazon, erotic, rape, seclusion, obsession, survival, sexual thriller... So, ignoring the very, very low average rating knowing I would be reading something that was not well edited, I went for it.... I’m glad I did!
“Nicole was the kind of girl that men scheme and make sacrifices to acquire as girlfriends.” When James sees her in the gas station, he decides that he wants her so he takes her. James is not all there in the head so he sees no problem with keeping Nicole in his home, doing whatever he wants to her all day, every day.
This book was good yet it would have been great with better editing. There were several times when I wished the author would provide more detail yet there were also times when I thought so much explicit detail was unnecessary. During the first 95% of this book, Sarah Kate provided graphic details about each and every one the many sex/rape scenes. However, when James was non-sexually abusive, Sarah Kate would often omit details and simplify things by only saying, “he beat her“. During the last 5%, things get a lot more exciting and many things happen quickly – too quickly in my opinion. I really wish the last 5% of this book could have been fleshed out.
We don’t get to learn much about the characters but I wish we had. At one point we learn that James was abused while he spent time in jail. I was eager to absorb this information, wanting to know more about why this character was the way he was yet Sarah Kate decided not to give us details on the character’s personalities, focusing solely on their actions. Perhaps she wanted us to create our own image of these characters?
This is a sick book about rape. There are no warm fuzzies and no moral lessons. I won’t be recommending this book to anyone I know because I honestly don’t know that anyone would enjoy it. However, there is obviously something wrong with my brain because I did! I guess I liked to see how dark an author can get.... Sarah Kate definitely dug deep!
“Nicole was the kind of girl that men scheme and make sacrifices to acquire as girlfriends.” When James sees her in the gas station, he decides that he wants her so he takes her. James is not all there in the head so he sees no problem with keeping Nicole in his home, doing whatever he wants to her all day, every day.
This book was good yet it would have been great with better editing. There were several times when I wished the author would provide more detail yet there were also times when I thought so much explicit detail was unnecessary. During the first 95% of this book, Sarah Kate provided graphic details about each and every one the many sex/rape scenes. However, when James was non-sexually abusive, Sarah Kate would often omit details and simplify things by only saying, “he beat her“. During the last 5%, things get a lot more exciting and many things happen quickly – too quickly in my opinion. I really wish the last 5% of this book could have been fleshed out.
We don’t get to learn much about the characters but I wish we had. At one point we learn that James was abused while he spent time in jail. I was eager to absorb this information, wanting to know more about why this character was the way he was yet Sarah Kate decided not to give us details on the character’s personalities, focusing solely on their actions. Perhaps she wanted us to create our own image of these characters?
This is a sick book about rape. There are no warm fuzzies and no moral lessons. I won’t be recommending this book to anyone I know because I honestly don’t know that anyone would enjoy it. However, there is obviously something wrong with my brain because I did! I guess I liked to see how dark an author can get.... Sarah Kate definitely dug deep!
August 26, 2011
The pace is blistering. The sex is exciting. The violence is sickening.
Sarah Kate is a very visceral writer and any reader with an imagination will have a physical reaction to this book.
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since I read it. I’ve been wondering if it should be banned. There’s always a temptation to ban something that makes you ashamed of your own feelings.
What sort of person could possibly like this book other than a serial rapist? If you read it will you turn into one?
I don’t know the answers to the questions but I know the reason this book disturbs me so much is that it is so good. It may become famous. At any rate, Sarah Kate has an enviable future as a writer of adult thrillers.
Damn her to hell! Yes, this and all her future books should be banned!
Sarah Kate is a very visceral writer and any reader with an imagination will have a physical reaction to this book.
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since I read it. I’ve been wondering if it should be banned. There’s always a temptation to ban something that makes you ashamed of your own feelings.
What sort of person could possibly like this book other than a serial rapist? If you read it will you turn into one?
I don’t know the answers to the questions but I know the reason this book disturbs me so much is that it is so good. It may become famous. At any rate, Sarah Kate has an enviable future as a writer of adult thrillers.
Damn her to hell! Yes, this and all her future books should be banned!
May 12, 2013
AUTHOR’S DISCLAIMER:
“This is not a story about consensual sex. This is a story about "actual" rape. If reading an erotic story with non-consensual sex makes you uncomfortable, this is not the book for you. This is a work of fiction, and the author does not endorse or condone any behavior done to another human being without their consent.
Contains explicit sexual descriptions and violence.”
MY IMPRESSIONS:
This is a dark, erotic thriller about a young woman, Nicole, who was kidnapped, beaten and raped for several weeks by a serial rapist.
Nicole flew over to the States to surprise her boyfriend of two years. She rents a car, stops at a gas station where her good day quickly slid into one of the worst days of her life. She had stopped to pee in a restroom that you gained access to from the outside of the building.
When she is leaving the bathroom she is overtaken by James, a tall man, thin with big shoulders and a tattoo on the back of his neck.
The premise of the story is really good and definitely scary. There is LOADS of non-consensual sex. The writing is very flawed. This book needed some serious editing. I have no idea why this was banned. It is no darker than Break Her and arguably not as dark. Would I read it again, flaws and all? Yes, because I’m just that depraved.
“This is not a story about consensual sex. This is a story about "actual" rape. If reading an erotic story with non-consensual sex makes you uncomfortable, this is not the book for you. This is a work of fiction, and the author does not endorse or condone any behavior done to another human being without their consent.
Contains explicit sexual descriptions and violence.”
MY IMPRESSIONS:
This is a dark, erotic thriller about a young woman, Nicole, who was kidnapped, beaten and raped for several weeks by a serial rapist.
Nicole flew over to the States to surprise her boyfriend of two years. She rents a car, stops at a gas station where her good day quickly slid into one of the worst days of her life. She had stopped to pee in a restroom that you gained access to from the outside of the building.
When she is leaving the bathroom she is overtaken by James, a tall man, thin with big shoulders and a tattoo on the back of his neck.
The premise of the story is really good and definitely scary. There is LOADS of non-consensual sex. The writing is very flawed. This book needed some serious editing. I have no idea why this was banned. It is no darker than Break Her and arguably not as dark. Would I read it again, flaws and all? Yes, because I’m just that depraved.
March 31, 2013
3.5*
I don't think the rape was in any way glorified. Thus I do not agree with the Amazon ban, even if this were a good reason to ban a book.
Else I took this more or less like a horror story, at times it reminded me in its inevitability of Hellraiser or just about anything Stephen King wrote, but a Stephen King on a bad trip rather than his usual self. There was, curiously, a very satisfying end.
It was logical in itself, and certainly took up several strands of considerations which seem to be valid to some women and get thrown back at them or played with in a lot of erotic fiction.
What rang a bell for me and certainly got me thinking was the point about so many women indeed feeling the need to be forced into enjoying sexuality which is a consistent subliminal actuality within BDSM relationships and sexuality. Confronted with this, from the mouth of a rapist, no less, shows me once again why I fail to react positively or even just excitedly to a large amount of erotica: I'm devoid of this problem. Here it made me wonder how things would be if those many women, who can't freely enjoy their sexuality without someone "pushing" them into that, also were devoid of these inner restrictions. If anything I am thankful that this story set me thinking.
I don't think the rape was in any way glorified. Thus I do not agree with the Amazon ban, even if this were a good reason to ban a book.
Else I took this more or less like a horror story, at times it reminded me in its inevitability of Hellraiser or just about anything Stephen King wrote, but a Stephen King on a bad trip rather than his usual self. There was, curiously, a very satisfying end.
It was logical in itself, and certainly took up several strands of considerations which seem to be valid to some women and get thrown back at them or played with in a lot of erotic fiction.
What rang a bell for me and certainly got me thinking was the point about so many women indeed feeling the need to be forced into enjoying sexuality which is a consistent subliminal actuality within BDSM relationships and sexuality. Confronted with this, from the mouth of a rapist, no less, shows me once again why I fail to react positively or even just excitedly to a large amount of erotica: I'm devoid of this problem. Here it made me wonder how things would be if those many women, who can't freely enjoy their sexuality without someone "pushing" them into that, also were devoid of these inner restrictions. If anything I am thankful that this story set me thinking.
September 19, 2011
Pretty When She Cries was a really tough to read, but I thought it was fantastically written. It was dark, emotional, and felt very real. The book is exactly like the synopsis describes, it’s about a woman’s abduction, rape, and complete degradation by a sadistic psycho. The book was very suspenseful and as hard as it was to read I very much enjoyed it and was grateful that the author didn’t try to turn the heroine into having Stockholm syndrome like so many non-consensual books do to try and lighten things up. You really get a feel for both the victims and the psycho’s emotions. My only aggravation was that I wanted Nicole to fight back earlier someway somehow.
December 9, 2013
Typically when I read non consent it morphs into forced seduction, meaning that the end result is pleasure, even when the victim tries to deny their feelings. I like that. A lot. Pretty When She Cries does not contain forced seduction. It is disturbing and violent. The reader is placed in the uncomfortable position of witnessing the h being beaten, raped and tortured by a sick and disgusting man. This book is about her attempt to survive this crazed man.
October 1, 2013
That was hard core!! There was nothing hot about this story it was sick!! I don't know if I'll ever want to read something that sorta straight up. There was no romance just rape. It was well written though I defiantly feel pissed from reading it lol I don't even know what kind of stars to give it, I read the disclaimer...... Ugh!!
January 25, 2014
Can't say I enjoyed this one. Very much the pure torture of what Nicole went through when she was abducted and kept for James pleasure, oh and Tony's.
Rape, Violence, and a sadistic mentally disturbed abductor.
Ending a bit disappointing.
Rape, Violence, and a sadistic mentally disturbed abductor.
Ending a bit disappointing.
November 7, 2019
I thought it was pretty good. I know it could have been very triggering to people, but the book was great. At no point did I empathize with the villain and I thought the heroine did amazing considering the situation she was in. I understand why this book might have been banned but it did not give the reader any indication that what the villain did was okay. It was just a depiction of what happens in real life, but sometimes they don’t always escape their attacker.
6-tbr-soon
October 29, 2017This is not a story about consensual sex. This is a sick book about 'actual' rape. Contains explicit sexual descriptions and violence.
So.... why do I still want to read it?? 😲 LOL!
Tags on this book: dark, abuse, banned by Amazon, erotic, rape, seclusion, obsession, survival, sexual thriller... that's why! 😉
So.... why do I still want to read it?? 😲 LOL!
Tags on this book: dark, abuse, banned by Amazon, erotic, rape, seclusion, obsession, survival, sexual thriller... that's why! 😉
September 6, 2021
This book was dark and taboo which I was fine with. Are there some areas that the author needs to work on yes. But still it's worth the read if you like dark reads. It's not for the faint of heart.
January 23, 2019
Y'all I don't know why I read it or whatever. 🤷♀
September 23, 2011
At first I wasn’t sure if I want to read this book. After reading the summary I was torn between the desire to know more and a little disgust with my desire. Why a book on this subject? The cover and the book's title caught my eye. I was curious and went to the website of the author and I discovered that I could read the first 2 chapter of the book. After only a few lines, the reader is thrown into the action of this creepy story. I was stun by the speed of how this story unfolds.
Honest, I read the entire book, especially to see what would happen with this poor Nicole. Story with abused or raped women are not my type! I was also curious to read a book about rape .... curiosity may be unhealthy, but I must admit that I like discovering new thing! I think that a normal person can feel a little disturbed at the idea of wanting to read this sort of thing. But after reading this I realized that this kind of book is especially created to disturb and the author has done very well to get me out of my comfort zone! You should know that the sex scenes, or rather rape scenes are very well described in the book. There is nothing hidden, tampered with or minimized to preserve the drive.The intensity is at its height almost from beginning to end. The reader is invaded by a number of new emotions (especially for me) and I think it's good sometimes to read other things, to be disturbed in are daily lives.
On my reading, I had some apprehension when it come to Nicole’s fate. I wondered if she would eventually develop into Stockholm syndrome and fall in love with her attacker. Finally, this book surprised me more than once. I was not expecting that kind of ending and I think that's one reason that made me enjoy this book in a way. The author accurately describes the action, characters, environment, and her writing is amazing.
I've seen movies with raped women and I have always this funny and weird feeling when I see this kind of thing. I think the author has succeeded in this purpose with me since reading Pretty When She Cries make me feeI the same. I was left uncomfortable, even after finishing the book I still think of it.Some parts are harder than others and some are even ugly (for me). I wished to learn more about Nicole, but it's so unnecessary in this book and I understand why the author didn’t put emphasis on the past of Nicole. However, I had a hard time identifying myself to the character. Yes, she is raped and not me but it's still a human being.
I do not think this book should be banned. I understand that many people like that disturb kind of novels, and different thinking, but I do not think this story is more or less disturbing that some BDSM or hard core erotic books appearing on the sites selling book. Yet I have seen books on these sites selling stories between young girls and men of a certain age ... I didn’t know what note I should give, I hesitated between 3.5 and 4 stars. I enjoyed the work and the determination of the author. The story is dramatic, explosive, and the reader can really feel the emotions and sensations of Nicole. I believe the author succeed in reaching the readers and especially to keep them in suspense. I can't wait to see what the author Sarah Kate would do next.
Honest, I read the entire book, especially to see what would happen with this poor Nicole. Story with abused or raped women are not my type! I was also curious to read a book about rape .... curiosity may be unhealthy, but I must admit that I like discovering new thing! I think that a normal person can feel a little disturbed at the idea of wanting to read this sort of thing. But after reading this I realized that this kind of book is especially created to disturb and the author has done very well to get me out of my comfort zone! You should know that the sex scenes, or rather rape scenes are very well described in the book. There is nothing hidden, tampered with or minimized to preserve the drive.The intensity is at its height almost from beginning to end. The reader is invaded by a number of new emotions (especially for me) and I think it's good sometimes to read other things, to be disturbed in are daily lives.
On my reading, I had some apprehension when it come to Nicole’s fate. I wondered if she would eventually develop into Stockholm syndrome and fall in love with her attacker. Finally, this book surprised me more than once. I was not expecting that kind of ending and I think that's one reason that made me enjoy this book in a way. The author accurately describes the action, characters, environment, and her writing is amazing.
I've seen movies with raped women and I have always this funny and weird feeling when I see this kind of thing. I think the author has succeeded in this purpose with me since reading Pretty When She Cries make me feeI the same. I was left uncomfortable, even after finishing the book I still think of it.Some parts are harder than others and some are even ugly (for me). I wished to learn more about Nicole, but it's so unnecessary in this book and I understand why the author didn’t put emphasis on the past of Nicole. However, I had a hard time identifying myself to the character. Yes, she is raped and not me but it's still a human being.
I do not think this book should be banned. I understand that many people like that disturb kind of novels, and different thinking, but I do not think this story is more or less disturbing that some BDSM or hard core erotic books appearing on the sites selling book. Yet I have seen books on these sites selling stories between young girls and men of a certain age ... I didn’t know what note I should give, I hesitated between 3.5 and 4 stars. I enjoyed the work and the determination of the author. The story is dramatic, explosive, and the reader can really feel the emotions and sensations of Nicole. I believe the author succeed in reaching the readers and especially to keep them in suspense. I can't wait to see what the author Sarah Kate would do next.
July 1, 2012
Vanessa Wu wrote:"any reader with an imagination will have a physical reaction to this book."
The only reaction I had, was to take a shower and read something else.
I missing the deepness in this book, there is rape, there is only rape actually and mainly physical rape. I don't see Nicole breaking, she seems the same for me the whole book.
Nicole is some hot chick, but never really said anything about e.g smell. I know, after being raped smell is not really a concern. But if you live in a dirty house, I am sure the rapist (forgot his name already) won't be that clean. I was trying to imagine some scenes. She is describing his breath at her neck, but what about the smell? No disgust there?
I just want to have more information about what she is feeling. Pain okay that's natural in that situation, but there has to be more.
And the sex itself.. I am used to more, different stuff, not only forced vanilla positions.
As mean as it sounds, I think he is not fully using her, he could do better and more. At least let her clean the house ffs!
This book is disturbing, but not that much that it should be banned. Amazon is overreacting in my opinion.
Still 3* because it is disturbing, it is well written and I somehow still liked it.
The only reaction I had, was to take a shower and read something else.
I missing the deepness in this book, there is rape, there is only rape actually and mainly physical rape. I don't see Nicole breaking, she seems the same for me the whole book.
Nicole is some hot chick, but never really said anything about e.g smell. I know, after being raped smell is not really a concern. But if you live in a dirty house, I am sure the rapist (forgot his name already) won't be that clean. I was trying to imagine some scenes. She is describing his breath at her neck, but what about the smell? No disgust there?
I just want to have more information about what she is feeling. Pain okay that's natural in that situation, but there has to be more.
And the sex itself.. I am used to more, different stuff, not only forced vanilla positions.
As mean as it sounds, I think he is not fully using her, he could do better and more. At least let her clean the house ffs!
This book is disturbing, but not that much that it should be banned. Amazon is overreacting in my opinion.
Still 3* because it is disturbing, it is well written and I somehow still liked it.
September 7, 2011
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this story, so I wasn't entirely sure how to rate it. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it. It was a very hard, visceral story, and it also skirted an interesting line. The ending was a little too abrupt for me, and I wish we'd gotten a little deeper into the narrator's mind. So much of the story told about her physical abuse, but she shuts down so much that I'm not entirely certain how this experience is going to change her. I don't know.
June 26, 2012
well crap! this book was intense! i lost track of time like i was there with Nicole and had no hope and of rescue.
things were moving so slow yet fast with everything that was happening to Nicole. Right when you think she has become attached to James the unexpected happens and she's a free woman.
Not that i would ever want to be in this situation but the first person i'd call would be my parents not my boyfriend.
a most def mind f*ck book!
things were moving so slow yet fast with everything that was happening to Nicole. Right when you think she has become attached to James the unexpected happens and she's a free woman.
Not that i would ever want to be in this situation but the first person i'd call would be my parents not my boyfriend.
a most def mind f*ck book!
June 28, 2014
ok i found this book in a german or greek website yet the book was still in english . now this book was disturbing and yet i didn't find a reason why it was pull out , there is a book call HELD that has along the same this as this one . the book was a good dark read and a very disturbing just for the fact that it could happened to anyone . just don't read before sleeping or it will stay in your minds
December 31, 2015
well.. this book is NOT for anybody that's for sure! it gets very disturbing and I'm not taking about the non con and torture stuff I'm talking more of Hannibal lecter style but I felt the end was very rushed... but it deserved 3.5/ 4 stars for me.
July 20, 2012
It's like a bad lowbudget porn movie.
Want to read
October 2, 2011I feel like a vaguely sick person for wanting to read this, but honestly, all the brutal reviews on B&N make me want to read it just to see if it's really "that bad" lol
December 28, 2013
very disturbing read
March 4, 2015
I was warned. Well.. I asked for it.. I got it! Sheesh!!! Talk about 8 levels of hell!? Shit, I feel broken & dirty. Poor poor Nicole. Man.. that's all I got.
November 6, 2015
Heed the warning, otherwise a trip into true sexual horror. Not terribly deep, but definitely shocking.
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