Review by books_cats_kids - Tears of Tess

books_cats_kids 's review for:

Tears of Tess by Pepper Winters

3.5

challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I’m unsure how to review this. I liked the premise of the story, but the execution was flawed. The story was well written.

If Q’s mission was to save and repair slaves, then why didn’t he just tell Tess that. It makes no sense.

Everyone kept acting like she was in the wrong, but as far as she knew he was just as bad as any other sex trafficker. He kept saying he wanted to rape her, not just role play.

Seriously, not how he treated all the other slaves.

Then the sparrow room incident. How is that ok?

How is that supposed to repair/help a slave?

And Suzzette? WTH. She has no problem with the way he treated her. Was eager to encourage it. Sick. Then she was raped, and sure he tended to her, but then he touched her and more. I’m sorry she would have had significant internal injuries, and he just expected her to submit, and she did? Unrealistic. Then they did a scene while he was drunk. That is so far from safe. He always left her after an encounter. Aftercare? There was none. They never had an interaction when he wasn’t awful to her, and

she just wanted to stay. She actually came back.

The only people I liked in the were the cook and Franco.

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