mx_manda's review
4.0
A short dark piece of erotic fiction about the dangers of voyeuristic white tourism and not truly understanding where you've decided to sample from.
Jennifer was sick of her damp dreary life in London and decided it would be quaint and fun to go stay in Japan for a while. After almost a year in country and no luck finding work which bleeds her funds dry, she's desperate to just get back to her old life... but first she needs to earn enough money to make it happen. She takes a job at a Blonde bar playing hostess and makes the mistake of turning down a Yakuza member 4 times too many. She wakes up pierced and kidnapped after the final time and proceeds to live the week—maybe two—from Hell. That Yakuza she slighted? He's decided she owes him for the offense, and it's not ever going to end.
There's a lot going on in this story for how short it is. I will be thinking on this one for a long time to come.
Trigger/Content warning: rape, violence against women, kidnapping, drugging
Jennifer was sick of her damp dreary life in London and decided it would be quaint and fun to go stay in Japan for a while. After almost a year in country and no luck finding work which bleeds her funds dry, she's desperate to just get back to her old life... but first she needs to earn enough money to make it happen. She takes a job at a Blonde bar playing hostess and makes the mistake of turning down a Yakuza member 4 times too many. She wakes up pierced and kidnapped after the final time and proceeds to live the week—maybe two—from Hell. That Yakuza she slighted? He's decided she owes him for the offense, and it's not ever going to end.
There's a lot going on in this story for how short it is. I will be thinking on this one for a long time to come.
Trigger/Content warning: rape, violence against women, kidnapping, drugging
ephermeyal's review
I don't know how to rate this. Everything that happened was so horrific and messed up and I wouldn't wish what happened to anyone at all.
Reading this made me feel as trapped as the main character and it was so agonizing. So, I guess kudos to the Remittance Girl for being able to write a story I can feel so viscerally.
One experience is enough. I wouldn't subject myself to this torture again.
What bothered me is how it was depicted in such a way that people not aware that a body can orgasm even in non-consensual situations and that doesn't mean that they enjoy it will read this and think that this is acceptable. Maybe I just missed the emphasis that what happened was abuse and rape even if the victim didn't jump off the balcony in my rush to get this done as fast as I could.
But my point still stands. I hope there was at least a disclaimer somewhere because there were some passages where the woman was blaming herself and was like, "he was right, I didn't try to fight that much". AnD nO!!! NO NO NO NO!!!
Reading this made me feel as trapped as the main character and it was so agonizing. So, I guess kudos to the Remittance Girl for being able to write a story I can feel so viscerally.
One experience is enough. I wouldn't subject myself to this torture again.
What bothered me is how it was depicted in such a way that people not aware that a body can orgasm even in non-consensual situations and that doesn't mean that they enjoy it will read this and think that this is acceptable. Maybe I just missed the emphasis that what happened was abuse and rape even if the victim didn't jump off the balcony in my rush to get this done as fast as I could.
But my point still stands. I hope there was at least a disclaimer somewhere because there were some passages where the woman was blaming herself and was like, "he was right, I didn't try to fight that much". AnD nO!!! NO NO NO NO!!!
rogue007's review
4.0
This story was a wild and crazy ride. I'm sorry it ended the way it did. By the end, I sort of developed a thing for Shindo. But to have ended this story another way, would've made it unrealistic. I'm happy Jennifer got what she wanted in the end.
amanda_p's review
4.0
A short dark piece of erotic fiction about the dangers of voyeuristic white tourism and not truly understanding where you've decided to sample from.
Jennifer was sick of her damp dreary life in London and decided it would be quaint and fun to go stay in Japan for a while. After almost a year in country and no luck finding work which bleeds her funds dry, she's desperate to just get back to her old life... but first she needs to earn enough money to make it happen. She takes a job at a Blonde bar playing hostess and makes the mistake of turning down a Yakuza member 4 times too many. She wakes up pierced and kidnapped after the final time and proceeds to live the week—maybe two—from Hell. That Yakuza she slighted? He's decided she owes him for the offense, and it's not ever going to end.
There's a lot going on in this story for how short it is. I will be thinking on this one for a long time to come.
Trigger/Content warning: rape, violence against women, kidnapping, drugging
Jennifer was sick of her damp dreary life in London and decided it would be quaint and fun to go stay in Japan for a while. After almost a year in country and no luck finding work which bleeds her funds dry, she's desperate to just get back to her old life... but first she needs to earn enough money to make it happen. She takes a job at a Blonde bar playing hostess and makes the mistake of turning down a Yakuza member 4 times too many. She wakes up pierced and kidnapped after the final time and proceeds to live the week—maybe two—from Hell. That Yakuza she slighted? He's decided she owes him for the offense, and it's not ever going to end.
There's a lot going on in this story for how short it is. I will be thinking on this one for a long time to come.
Trigger/Content warning: rape, violence against women, kidnapping, drugging
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