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A review by hottoddie
Consent by A.J. Rose
4.0
I love this series . I love the characters and their authenticity and development. I love the relationships , mainly the relationship between Ben and Gavin but also all the secondary characters who are so well drawn they stay with you. I love the description of BDSM lifestyle and the powerful love between Dom and sub.
A.J.Rose is excellent at writing crime thrillers keeping you rapidly page turning till the last moment. Her books are an emotional read, not just heart beating anxiety but even tears .
While I can't take any of these things away and people deserve to know how good they are, I've dropped a star because I do not like reading in such brutal detail about torture and rape. This book maybe crossed a line too far for my complete enjoyment. Was it really necessary? I'm not sure even if that's a rhetorical question. Maybe it was necessary. Maybe we need to be disturbed and shaken about the very real presence of man's inhumanity to man in our world. If however I thought the author included these hideous scenes simply as titillation or torture porn, I would remove more than one star! However,the opportunity to donate money and educate ourselves about the reality of sex trafficking at the end of the book makes me think not.
Now however I'm off to read something funny and as far from this as I possible can to try to purge my mind.
A.J.Rose is excellent at writing crime thrillers keeping you rapidly page turning till the last moment. Her books are an emotional read, not just heart beating anxiety but even tears .
While I can't take any of these things away and people deserve to know how good they are, I've dropped a star because I do not like reading in such brutal detail about torture and rape. This book maybe crossed a line too far for my complete enjoyment. Was it really necessary? I'm not sure even if that's a rhetorical question. Maybe it was necessary. Maybe we need to be disturbed and shaken about the very real presence of man's inhumanity to man in our world. If however I thought the author included these hideous scenes simply as titillation or torture porn, I would remove more than one star! However,the opportunity to donate money and educate ourselves about the reality of sex trafficking at the end of the book makes me think not.
Now however I'm off to read something funny and as far from this as I possible can to try to purge my mind.