Female, Recreational 5: Summer Supplement

by Badger Therese

The fifth and final book of the Female, Recreational Series, it is intended for readers 18 and over. The only thing moving here were plastic bags, three blowing down what had been called Main Street, bouncing together, buoyed by air alone, one stopping briefly at Athena’s feet before it warped around her ankle and continued on. “Okay,” said Desmond, “I think this was it.” Athena followed him into a byway between a long alley defined by walls of tattered, billowing plastic sheeting, stepping with him into a clearing, a ring of humble lodges surrounding scorched brick, scorched pool tiles, scorched fragments of cinder block, testifying mutely that these had been hearths where people had come to cook things. “Where?” Athena demanded. “Where?” “That’s probably the bucket,” Desmond said, pointing to an empty pool chemical bucket lying before the entrance to a home made from a quilt and beach towels, its roof a pink tarpaulin. Athena rushed to it, picked it up, looked beneath it, at a circle of fading green weeds. “Hannah?” she said once, hopelessly. She set the bucket down on its side and peered into the dwelling beside it, pausing before she plunged forward. As Desmond stood behind her, speaking quietly into his phone, Athena reached in, grabbing at an opened sleeping bag, wadding it up and tossing it into the clearing, grabbing up a sheet, reaching into the corner where three black bras, three pairs of white panties had been set, neatly folded and stacked but wrinkled and deformed under a harsh regime of detergentless washing and sun drying. “Uh,” she grunted quietly as she studied the label on each undergarment in turn, folding them and setting them back. “Uh.” She continued to scrabble through, uncovering trail mix, dried fruit, a coffee mug, powdered coffee and cream and sugar, and a half-eaten protein bar. She found a stash of toiletries in the other corner, a brush and mirror, the rudiments of makeup, a worn bar of soap, half a box of tampons, a white dildo, a plastic bag with a dozen pills, and a glass jar empty but for a black crust against the bottom, the lid screwed on tight, plastic gloves and a black-stained rag beside it. Athena, kneeling, returned everything to its place except the dildo and pills, which she slipped into her purse, and she turned to investigate a place along the edge of the space, where sheets and blankets had been piled high, and she pulled them back and found a plastic tub and a suitcase of inlaid leather. “Uh,” she said again, yanking it out and staring at the brass plate, running her fingers over the three letters engraved HSL. “This was hers,” she said, turning to look up at Desmond, her eyes filled with a horrified despair. “It was in your story. I remember when we got this for her. It was a Christmas present. It’s her initials.” Athena unclasped the suitcase, popped it open, gasped before an assortment of syringes, pills in prescription bottles, gauze, medical tape, tongue depressors. There was a thermometer, scissors, a razor, iodine in a small brown bottle, three wrinkled tubes of disinfectant, a speculum, bottles of aspirin and ibuprofen, catheters, a penlight, and under everything else, a dog-eared copy of “Illustrated Field Clinic Guide, Fourth Edition” stuffed with cards and sheets of paper. “What the hell, Hannah?” Athena said quietly. “What the hell?”

655 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 25, 2021

Reviews

[william w. millan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant

How can one author however brilliant write so much, so quickly, so well plotted with such wonderful dialogue? In Hannah she has created a genuine heroine. Also sexy as Hell. Keep writing.

[Winstone · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked the storyline of this whole series. It's an alt reality story about a girl who was turned a slave to pay her mothers debts. The writing leaves a bit to be desired, sometimes going in to too much detail that a single scene plays out over too many pages (do we need to know she wiped her vulva every time she went pee?).

In this alt reality slaves (aka subjects) do have some legal protections and the series explains the mechanics of how the system works, weaving it in to the story as it goes. For the most part, the story starts with the FMC (Hannah) a young, sheltered naive girl turned slave, assigned as 'recreational', being purchased and her whole life managed by others (book 1). She gains freedoms with compliance such as the ability to attend college and she is a voracious reader and begins to steer towards wanting to be a doctor. (Book 2) Her focus on achieving that goal is admirable given her circumstances. Thankfully in this series the 'bad guys' weren't her owners but rather the people behind the system that made it and kept it legal (book 4). The series ended with a good fast forward epilogue so you aren't left wondering what happened. (book 5).

My only critiques: Some spelling/grammar errors and I despise the covers. I would be more inclined to publicly recommend the series if not for these covers. Sure there is a lot of descriptions of sex (FMC's 'job' is sex) but the overarching theme and story line resonated with me especially with where America is at this year in reality.

[CarrieOnRegardless · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfect end to an emotional roller coaster

I didnt originally but this book for the novel that it is, but i became hooked from the get go.
I have cried, been infuriated and laughed through out the series. I have loved it and hated it.
I always say some books and characters stay with you and become a part of you and this series is definitely one.
I was really worried that the ending I hoped for wouldnt become reality, but was ecstatic when it all worked out.