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Depredation by Natalie Bennett
2.0

There is ZERO erotic content in this, despite it being placed in that category on Amazon. Erotic to me means sexual activity that is a turn on to the reader. Instead there is
Spoiler rape, torture and abuse
. This took me less than 90 minutes to read and felt a little incomplete, lacking both depth and detail at times. It was easy to read and held my attention, but I wouldn't bother reading it again. Thankfully I borrowed it the KU.

Because blurbs are open to interpretation I was under the impression that

'He has no idea I’m alive.
He doesn’t know he woke the devil inside me.
When I find him, nothing in the world will be strong enough to save his tar black soul.

meant that a chunk of the book would deal with this, but it is set mostly during her capture period.

I'm a very character driven reader, which is the main reason this didn't work for me. It was too short to get to know or understand the two main characters. Had it been more fleshed out I'm sure I would have rated this as at least a 4 star read.

*****Goodness knows why anyone has shelved this under erotica or BDSM?????!!! Sorry but you have a HUGE misunderstanding of the kink world if you think this in any way shape or form is BDSM - it is horror or a dark psychological thriller-ish book.