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Story of O by Pauline Réage
4.0

A love letter to subjugation (and some French guy). The Story of O is a descent into madness whose landscape takes the form of obsessive devotion and injurious kink. And just when you think you have reached the deepest abyss of degradation and pain, O is plummeted yet another level, leaving the reader crushed under its horrendously depraved gravity.

Do I feel bad for O? At times yes. But also, like Sisyphus, through her unimaginable perseverance and devotion, one must imagine that O is happy.