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A review by thenovellush
I Will Not Beg by Cherise Sinclair
2.0
I've read a few of Sinclair's books by now, though I read this one before the other two or three, and one thing that remains the same is the odd way she has of characterizing all of her characters as giant (and I mean GIANT) exaggerated stereotypes. The characters from Texas are such caricatures that it's just painful. Swaggering, straw chewing characters who say things like 'git along little doggie' and other old school John Wayne-esque sayings that nobody actually uses. Especially in 2019.
It's distracting, as are the odd nicknames which didn't really appear much in this book as they have in the others.
In I Will Not Beg, our MC is in a BDSM relationship, embodying the s in the s/M (slave/Master) dynamic. She signed a contract with The Defiler (yup, that's what she calls him in his head the entire book) stating that she'd be his slave and then that particular defiling character and many in the BDSM community treat it like it's a legal and binding contract, going so far as to actually "retrieve" their "runaway slaves". I believe I don't need to point out why this bugs the fuck out of me. Now, again other people in the community seem to back this up, that a slave contract is legal and binding, but correct me if I'm wrong, the pillars of BDSM are Safe, Sane, Consensual, but many, MANY people in parts of this book treat it as she literally signed over her life with no way out.
Alas, the author combats this by getting very preachy with her "good Doms" and having them time and again heavy handedly "teach" the members of their club that a slave contract is not, in fact, legal and binding.
It's distracting, as are the odd nicknames which didn't really appear much in this book as they have in the others.
In I Will Not Beg, our MC is in a BDSM relationship, embodying the s in the s/M (slave/Master) dynamic. She signed a contract with The Defiler (yup, that's what she calls him in his head the entire book) stating that she'd be his slave and then that particular defiling character and many in the BDSM community treat it like it's a legal and binding contract, going so far as to actually "retrieve" their "runaway slaves". I believe I don't need to point out why this bugs the fuck out of me. Now, again other people in the community seem to back this up, that a slave contract is legal and binding, but correct me if I'm wrong, the pillars of BDSM are Safe, Sane, Consensual, but many, MANY people in parts of this book treat it as she literally signed over her life with no way out.
Alas, the author combats this by getting very preachy with her "good Doms" and having them time and again heavy handedly "teach" the members of their club that a slave contract is not, in fact, legal and binding.