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A review by rlongford
In at the Deep End by Kate Davies
1.0
This book needed to start with content warning for abuse, and sexual coercion and the fact that it didn't was really upsetting, given that a lot of queer individuals have been the victim of one (if not all) of the aforementioned. I feel strongly in my presumption that a lot of readers are queer given the author's queerness and the queer individuals in this book.
I cannot imagine being in the kink or bdsm community and reading this book because of the immense misconception and normalizing of abusive relationships and the coercion that goes on. I know from friends that are a part of that community and almost everything that happens in this book are things they are vehemently against, and are stereotypes that they have to actively work to combat.
The ethical issues I have aside, this book left too many things unwrapped for me. There is a part where one of Sam's friends (Polly) texts Julia saying that she did the right thing breaking up with Sam. But we get no elaboration on that. Do Sam's friends all know she is a abuser???
I cannot imagine being in the kink or bdsm community and reading this book because of the immense misconception and normalizing of abusive relationships and the coercion that goes on. I know from friends that are a part of that community and almost everything that happens in this book are things they are vehemently against, and are stereotypes that they have to actively work to combat.
The ethical issues I have aside, this book left too many things unwrapped for me. There is a part where one of Sam's friends (Polly) texts Julia saying that she did the right thing breaking up with Sam. But we get no elaboration on that. Do Sam's friends all know she is a abuser???