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The Flesh Cartel #11-14
The Flesh Cartel, Season 4: Liberation
Mat and Douglas’s time as Nikolai’s wards is finally drawing to a close. Though torn apart by Nikolai’s machinations, their fates are still inextricably they’ve been sold to the same cruel master, and are united in their desire to go home. But “home” means two different things to the for Mat, their little bungalow in Nevada, and for Douglas, a swift return to Nikolai and Roger, the only people he believes still love him.
But first they must survive their new master. Smythe Hall is a twisted island paradise where Americans affect British accents and slaveboys dress up as slave girls, all at the whims of the rich and megalomaniacal Allen Smythe-Kennedy.
Meanwhile, FBI Special Agent Nate Johnson can’t let the case of the missing brothers lie. He knows it’s a waste of resources to chase ghosts down a cold trail, but after admiring Mathias “Stonewall” Carmichael ringside and at countless afterparties where he was too shy to say hello, he’s determined to solve the mystery and bring Mat and his little brother home.
But first they must survive their new master. Smythe Hall is a twisted island paradise where Americans affect British accents and slaveboys dress up as slave girls, all at the whims of the rich and megalomaniacal Allen Smythe-Kennedy.
Meanwhile, FBI Special Agent Nate Johnson can’t let the case of the missing brothers lie. He knows it’s a waste of resources to chase ghosts down a cold trail, but after admiring Mathias “Stonewall” Carmichael ringside and at countless afterparties where he was too shy to say hello, he’s determined to solve the mystery and bring Mat and his little brother home.
333 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 4, 2013
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37 books722 followersM/M erotic romance author, freelance writer and editor, sadist with a pesky conscience, shamelessly silly, proudly pervish. I'm a twitter addict (@rachelhaimowitz), and I blog every M/W/F at Fantasy Unbound. To learn all about my current and upcoming projects, please stop by my website. I love to hear from folks, so feel free to drop me a line anytime at metarachel (at) gmail (dot) com.
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June 23, 2017
Another mind boggling episode... what these brothers have been through, how they have changed, what they are forced to do... omg, it feels like I have run a marathon reading these books. They are warping my mind and I will never unsee or forget things that have happened.
Loved Ty & Zane's cameo along with the others from Sidewinder .. brief, but was cool!
Loved Ty & Zane's cameo along with the others from Sidewinder .. brief, but was cool!
April 13, 2018
Not for the faint hearted, these books cover every kind of traumatic event you could possibly conceive in one story.
The writing is exemplar though throughout and it never felt salacious no matter how depraved or degrading the situation went to.
The writing is exemplar though throughout and it never felt salacious no matter how depraved or degrading the situation went to.
February 3, 2014
Fuck yes. The more I read, the more I love this series. We're left with the expectation of more excitement and suspense to come next season, and I cannot wait!
The cameo appearance of Ty and Zane in the beginning of the last episode came out of left field and had me wondering what the hell was going on, but it made me laugh. For those that hate the Cut & Run series, don't worry, they were only present for like one page and aren't directly involved in this story.
I love Mat even more now. He's the reason this is my absolute favorite series. No other books have made me literally shake with excitement and cringe in suspense like these have. Going to pre-order the final season now!
The cameo appearance of Ty and Zane in the beginning of the last episode came out of left field and had me wondering what the hell was going on, but it made me laugh. For those that hate the Cut & Run series, don't worry, they were only present for like one page and aren't directly involved in this story.
I love Mat even more now. He's the reason this is my absolute favorite series. No other books have made me literally shake with excitement and cringe in suspense like these have. Going to pre-order the final season now!
January 31, 2020
In most series, there’s almost always a book that feels like filler. And this one was it.
The beginning was promising and the end was great, but apart from those few pages, there was nothing remarkable.
The beginning was promising and the end was great, but apart from those few pages, there was nothing remarkable.
September 21, 2015
Look at all the tags....
This was intense. This review won't be long.
I found myself gritting my teeth through a lot of this season. My frustration with Dougie was the biggest reason. His thought pattern was infuriating, and heartbreaking. I get it, but I don't like it.
This ends on a cliffhanger, but I imagine if you're this far in, you'll be forging ahead.
Stellar writing and plot. The authors are amazing. I am a total fangirl.
This was intense. This review won't be long.
I found myself gritting my teeth through a lot of this season. My frustration with Dougie was the biggest reason. His thought pattern was infuriating, and heartbreaking. I get it, but I don't like it.
This ends on a cliffhanger, but I imagine if you're this far in, you'll be forging ahead.
Stellar writing and plot. The authors are amazing. I am a total fangirl.
May 2, 2021
I accidentally deleted my first review like the beautiful genius I am, so this will be much shorter. I took a small break between this season and the last because season 3 was SO BRUTAL. I started on the fifteenth, read a page, and then stopped. Once I picked it up yesterday, I finished it in the wee hours of the morning. This one had some hope and I trust the author with where it is going, but I feel like the light in four is going to make the dark spots in five even darker.
What I liked:
-this one was more mat-focused which is a nice balance from some of the more dougie-focused earlier books.
-Nate’s perspective adds a different way of looking at Mat from Dougie or Nikolai and I think it was much needed, especially with Mat working with but not yet really dealing with his trauma.
What I didn’t like:
-SPOILER//............coach Darryl was hardly mentioned in previous books and then suddenly he was mentioned a lot right before... he makes a reappearance! As a reader, it seems suspicious to me that he is there so much especially amidst an fbi investigation. I feel like he has something to do with dougie and mat being taken, though it may have been unknown or unwilling. Remains to be seen..........//ENDSPOILER
-Allen. Allen is just so... boring. A black-hatted villain twirling his mustache making decisions based on increasing his personal wealth and establishing his own power. That’s fine for other books, but not flesh cartel. Every character, even minor ones like Reginald and Jeremy seem so complete that Allen sticks out. Maybe he will get more complexity in season five, but I’m just bored with him.
What I liked:
-this one was more mat-focused which is a nice balance from some of the more dougie-focused earlier books.
-Nate’s perspective adds a different way of looking at Mat from Dougie or Nikolai and I think it was much needed, especially with Mat working with but not yet really dealing with his trauma.
What I didn’t like:
-SPOILER//............coach Darryl was hardly mentioned in previous books and then suddenly he was mentioned a lot right before... he makes a reappearance! As a reader, it seems suspicious to me that he is there so much especially amidst an fbi investigation. I feel like he has something to do with dougie and mat being taken, though it may have been unknown or unwilling. Remains to be seen..........//ENDSPOILER
-Allen. Allen is just so... boring. A black-hatted villain twirling his mustache making decisions based on increasing his personal wealth and establishing his own power. That’s fine for other books, but not flesh cartel. Every character, even minor ones like Reginald and Jeremy seem so complete that Allen sticks out. Maybe he will get more complexity in season five, but I’m just bored with him.
July 19, 2020
It's been a few years now since I first read this series, so I'm going to do one overall series review because I can't remember what happens in which episode and don't want to misguide anyone.
Mild spoilers ahead, but not really anything you can't get from the blurbs, but read on at your own risk.
I'm a dark reader. Like, seriously dark. The darker, the better. And The Flesh Cartel pays out, with a vengeance. Mat and his brother Dougie are kidnapped out of their home by a group of brutes whose job it is to literally take pretty young things to be sold into sexual slavery. But it isn't just sexual slavery, it's a billion-dollar underground crime organization known as The Flesh Cartel who pedals in literal human bodies. They have trainers who break the pretty humans only to rebuild them into perfectly obedient slaves, willing to do anything their owners might ask of them and then some.
This series shows us everything. Leaving nothing out. We see the moment Mat and Dougie are taken all the way through to their (very, very eventual) rescue and even on after that. I believe this series is unique in that. Because we see every moment of psychological, physical, mental, and emotional torment and change, from day one, until they are distanced enough from their hell that a cobbled together future can almost be seen. Not the same perfect future they had before their ordeal, but a new version with its own positives (and, certainly, negatives).
If you like dark, and if you want to see a story that takes the reader on the full journey, then I highly recommend this whole series.
Mild spoilers ahead, but not really anything you can't get from the blurbs, but read on at your own risk.
I'm a dark reader. Like, seriously dark. The darker, the better. And The Flesh Cartel pays out, with a vengeance. Mat and his brother Dougie are kidnapped out of their home by a group of brutes whose job it is to literally take pretty young things to be sold into sexual slavery. But it isn't just sexual slavery, it's a billion-dollar underground crime organization known as The Flesh Cartel who pedals in literal human bodies. They have trainers who break the pretty humans only to rebuild them into perfectly obedient slaves, willing to do anything their owners might ask of them and then some.
This series shows us everything. Leaving nothing out. We see the moment Mat and Dougie are taken all the way through to their (very, very eventual) rescue and even on after that. I believe this series is unique in that. Because we see every moment of psychological, physical, mental, and emotional torment and change, from day one, until they are distanced enough from their hell that a cobbled together future can almost be seen. Not the same perfect future they had before their ordeal, but a new version with its own positives (and, certainly, negatives).
If you like dark, and if you want to see a story that takes the reader on the full journey, then I highly recommend this whole series.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 25, 2021
This season had ALLEN SMYTHE-KENNEDY!💀
Allen...man, he was true evil. I loved Nikolai because he fucked with minds and loved himself for that. You can't help but feeling a dark grin on your lips when you watch Nikolai's work. Allen, on the other hand, was the man you even hate to hate...the pure evil, entitled, villainous brat kind of person. He was a sadist and I knew he could be easily fucked with....which Mat figured as well😏
My heart broke for Mat more and more in this season but I also loved him that much more because, holy hell, the determination in that man was exemplary. We can see that he truly deserves his ring name "Stonewall". I loved that Mat rescued himself instead of the FBI rescuing him....it showed that he was no damsel in distress and his trauma didn't define him at all.
Dougie....got what he deserved. I feel bad saying this because he was brainwashed and suffered a lot at Nikolai's but I actually do hate him for what he did at his coming out party in the last episode. It was avenging sort of victory to see him treated the way he was by Allen in his office when they first arrived....to see his smugness washed away.
Let's see what happens next with the FBI and Nate in the picture 😈♥️🖤
Allen...man, he was true evil. I loved Nikolai because he fucked with minds and loved himself for that. You can't help but feeling a dark grin on your lips when you watch Nikolai's work. Allen, on the other hand, was the man you even hate to hate...the pure evil, entitled, villainous brat kind of person. He was a sadist and I knew he could be easily fucked with....which Mat figured as well😏
My heart broke for Mat more and more in this season but I also loved him that much more because, holy hell, the determination in that man was exemplary. We can see that he truly deserves his ring name "Stonewall". I loved that Mat rescued himself instead of the FBI rescuing him....it showed that he was no damsel in distress and his trauma didn't define him at all.
Dougie....got what he deserved. I feel bad saying this because he was brainwashed and suffered a lot at Nikolai's but I actually do hate him for what he did at his coming out party in the last episode. It was avenging sort of victory to see him treated the way he was by Allen in his office when they first arrived....to see his smugness washed away.
Let's see what happens next with the FBI and Nate in the picture 😈♥️🖤
July 21, 2018
I really don't know how I could even breath while reading these books ...
I am so into this series i can't let it do without downloading another then another...
Mat and Douglas the brothers whose lives have been awful and cruel .
Sold and sold on again living with the thoughts of others repeatedly telling them that this is who they are meant to be.....
He could have this. This brief escape, this single moment of pleasure and companionship and happiness. It’d only make him stronger, after all, for what was to come. And he’d need every ounce of that strength if he was ever going to get them home again.
I am so into this series i can't let it do without downloading another then another...
Mat and Douglas the brothers whose lives have been awful and cruel .
Sold and sold on again living with the thoughts of others repeatedly telling them that this is who they are meant to be.....
He could have this. This brief escape, this single moment of pleasure and companionship and happiness. It’d only make him stronger, after all, for what was to come. And he’d need every ounce of that strength if he was ever going to get them home again.
June 25, 2024
This book takes brutality to the next level. Given what happens in the last 3 books, you'd think it can't get much worse, but it can. It always can.
I love how much empathy this book has for its characters. We watch helplessly as Dougie becomes more and more brainwashed and Matt struggles not to give up on himself and on his little brother. The two characters don't understand eachother anymore, but the book makes sure we, the readers, understand them both. What they've been through, what they're feeling, why they react the way they do.
It's bleak, cruel, and beautifully written.
I fucking love this series so fucking much!
I love how much empathy this book has for its characters. We watch helplessly as Dougie becomes more and more brainwashed and Matt struggles not to give up on himself and on his little brother. The two characters don't understand eachother anymore, but the book makes sure we, the readers, understand them both. What they've been through, what they're feeling, why they react the way they do.
It's bleak, cruel, and beautifully written.
I fucking love this series so fucking much!
February 19, 2024
Douglas is an absolute bitch. I don't care that he's a victim a this point.
Mat is pure and good ❤
Nate's arrival literally allowed me to breathe for the first time in hundreds of pages.
Coach is the MVP.
I love Mat.
Douglas Sucks.
Mat is pure and good ❤
Nate's arrival literally allowed me to breathe for the first time in hundreds of pages.
Coach is the MVP.
I love Mat.
Douglas Sucks.
June 24, 2017
4.75 stars
Dark, abusive and great. You will be deeply intrigued by the dynamics of these stories. If you got this far in the season go for broke and finish.
Dark, abusive and great. You will be deeply intrigued by the dynamics of these stories. If you got this far in the season go for broke and finish.
August 13, 2020
Don't go into this expecting an HEA. Or anything even remotely close to a happy moment even. This is a psychosexual thriller/horror and it delivers in stunning fashion.
January 25, 2022
YESSS!!
I feel SO good after this one! I needed this soooo bad I can’t even explain it! Mat deserves everything in the world!
I feel SO good after this one! I needed this soooo bad I can’t even explain it! Mat deserves everything in the world!
February 10, 2017
Thank GOD there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. Allen is a sick fudger who doesn't know what he want. Wish he would be dead already. I am going out of mind a little bit for not reading Dougie's ordeal after the fact. They only gave us a snippet. LAWD help him!
July 8, 2020
I hate to admit that I enjoy dark, f*cked up sh!t, but I do. And this whole series is exactly that. It's probably the most f*cked up thing I've ever read, but like a train wreck, I can't look away. However... if you and your heart can withstand the whole thing, the ending is pretty satisfying.
December 30, 2020
Psychological torture and emotional end
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. The trials and tribulations of both characters are coming to an end one way or another.
This series has great writing and parts are very difficult to read. To think this definitely could be based on a true story, keeps me up at night tbh.
Douglas is completely striped away and Mat is not. Both suffer greatly in this installment. Trust is broken and then renewed in a way you did not see coming.
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. The trials and tribulations of both characters are coming to an end one way or another.
This series has great writing and parts are very difficult to read. To think this definitely could be based on a true story, keeps me up at night tbh.
Douglas is completely striped away and Mat is not. Both suffer greatly in this installment. Trust is broken and then renewed in a way you did not see coming.
January 30, 2016
I'm getting close to the end of the series and I'm not sure if I'm happy or sad. On one hand, I can't even imagine where else these authors can take me - this entire series thus far has been on the bleeding edge of the kind of darkness I enjoy in books.
For this particular set, I couldn't believe that things could go from bad to worse for our two main men. I think I was suffering from a bit of Stockholm syndrome - wishing that we could all go back to Nicolai.
For this particular set, I couldn't believe that things could go from bad to worse for our two main men. I think I was suffering from a bit of Stockholm syndrome - wishing that we could all go back to Nicolai.
February 20, 2015
4 stars
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