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Total Control
Two rural popular girls. The first marries a sleek young billionaire who is obsessed with making her into the perfect woman at any cost. The second transforms herself to save her friend.Michael’s smoldering power and sexuality hide pathological obsession. He is just thirty years old and insanely wealthy. Nothing is denied him. A new corporate purchase brings him face to face with two pretty Midwestern girls, best friends Karen and Delia. Karen, he decides, is an woman he must have. Karen believes Michael is a dream come true … until he begins to systematically reconstruct her into his image of perfection. He houses her in golden cages, first in a 5 star hotel and then in his magnificent house overlooking San Francisco Bay. She has two overseers, a beautiful disdainful French woman for the social graces and a big barbarian of a trainer who is in total charge of her body. The naive Karen does everything to please her husband ... but Michael is never satisfied.Michael acquires a robotics company and with it the young Ward Smith. It is Michael who spurs Ward to become the engineer from the Gina Trilogy. And it is Ward who invents the devices used to transform Karen. Michael's cunning ‘education’ of Karen gradually eats away at her resistance. She is no longer the vivacious young cheerleader but instead the epitome of Michael's obsession.Delia is determined to save her best friend and transforms herself to do so. She learns karate from a huge black sensei. She gets an MBA from a top business school. A group of lesbians train her as a domme. Finally, as a result of hard work and elaborate schemes, she gets a job at Michael’s corporate headquarters.
145 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 28, 2014
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July 19, 2016
Hmmm... Mixed feelings about this one. So... And this summary may contain spoilers, but I'm not sure... There's this teen age girl, Karen, who becomes a billionaire's fiancee, not because he likes her as-is, but rather due to her potential. The billionaire works with an engineer to redesign her in a particularly nonconsensual manner. Meanwhile the girl's childhood friend is very concerned about Karen and dedicates her life to rescuing her - training her mind and body (via an evil, rapey sensei) and discovering her own inner lesbian Domme. Meanwhile the engineer just happens across a wispy, voiceless Celtic girl who, it so happens, has just narrowly evaded becoming a victim of some sort of satanic-y, voodoo-y ritual. The engineer makes her his slave, but sells her to a Middle Eastern fellow. But still there is no connection between all of these people and some poor Asian girl introduced in the prologue who was kept in a cage for some time by someone. In the end, there is no end, and I am not certain exactly where in the story I arrived and where I am to go from here...
Maybe this is just an art house book about (as the title suggests) Total Control. Because, indeed, all these threads seem to revolve around controlling someone or some circumstances... (?)
On the whole, I felt that more time was spent describing fancy cars, leaded window treatments, and penis's so big they push against one's cervix - while only alluding vaguely to the circumstances and devices used to perpetrate those circumstances upon victims. There seemed to be no sense of compassion for any of the victims while the perpetrators were practically glorified in their opulence and insight. I connected with none of the characters in any meaningful way.
The author is a fine writer although the style felt affected and arrogant. Some passages were hard to make sense of...
Sample:
"Her husband's expression did not shift - still bore the stamp of loving (obsessed?) solicitude - yet Ward knew he'd seen."
...far too many sentences with this structure, for us common uneducated masses looking for an easy thrill.
I am intrigued about what happens next. I don't know if I will find out or even if I can find out. Time, my friends, will solve this problem best, I believe, as I slowly forget that I have read this book at all. And that is too bad!
Maybe this is just an art house book about (as the title suggests) Total Control. Because, indeed, all these threads seem to revolve around controlling someone or some circumstances... (?)
On the whole, I felt that more time was spent describing fancy cars, leaded window treatments, and penis's so big they push against one's cervix - while only alluding vaguely to the circumstances and devices used to perpetrate those circumstances upon victims. There seemed to be no sense of compassion for any of the victims while the perpetrators were practically glorified in their opulence and insight. I connected with none of the characters in any meaningful way.
The author is a fine writer although the style felt affected and arrogant. Some passages were hard to make sense of...
Sample:
"Her husband's expression did not shift - still bore the stamp of loving (obsessed?) solicitude - yet Ward knew he'd seen."
...far too many sentences with this structure, for us common uneducated masses looking for an easy thrill.
I am intrigued about what happens next. I don't know if I will find out or even if I can find out. Time, my friends, will solve this problem best, I believe, as I slowly forget that I have read this book at all. And that is too bad!
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