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wicklowgirl 's review for:
The Collar Promises Forever
by Bianca Howards
To begin, my rating is how much I liked the book, not necessarily a comment on its quality or how much anyone happening on this review might like it.
At NO point did this book read as a romance to me, only a slow moving horror with no happy ending. She is kidnapped early on and made not only into this guy’s sex slave but ALSO his cook and maid (idk why this added so much salt to the wound but it really did for me like just hire a cook and a maid man you’re rich pay your employees).
I am not a prude, I don’t mind reading bdsm or non-con but this just had no element of eroticism at all for me. It read like an unhinged misogynist kidnaps this woman, tortures her, NEVER compromises, and does absolutely anything he wants without consequence. It’s terrifying and makes me feel sick to imagine. I kept reading hoping at some point either (in order of how happy i would be with the ending) she would escape and kill him, she would escape and visit him in prison, or she would convince him what he was doing was wrong, he would grovel, and they would try to build a real relationship while maintaining the bdsm elements. What actually happened was BEYOND my worst case scenario and I cannot believe this is anything other than a horror novel with that ending.
A little about the heroine, she manages a couple of moments of control (between beatings, sexual assault, domestic labour, and trying to appease a crazy person’s ego) and flubs it EVERY TIME. Because of her oh-so-gentle soul she refuses to hurt him and feels SO much regret when she does. I have never related less to a character in my life. Absolutely no survival instinct, no self esteem, and no sense of justice.
At NO point did this book read as a romance to me, only a slow moving horror with no happy ending. She is kidnapped early on and made not only into this guy’s sex slave but ALSO his cook and maid (idk why this added so much salt to the wound but it really did for me like just hire a cook and a maid man you’re rich pay your employees).
I am not a prude, I don’t mind reading bdsm or non-con but this just had no element of eroticism at all for me. It read like an unhinged misogynist kidnaps this woman, tortures her, NEVER compromises, and does absolutely anything he wants without consequence. It’s terrifying and makes me feel sick to imagine. I kept reading hoping at some point either (in order of how happy i would be with the ending) she would escape and kill him, she would escape and visit him in prison, or she would convince him what he was doing was wrong, he would grovel, and they would try to build a real relationship while maintaining the bdsm elements. What actually happened was BEYOND my worst case scenario and I cannot believe this is anything other than a horror novel with that ending.
A little about the heroine, she manages a couple of moments of control (between beatings, sexual assault, domestic labour, and trying to appease a crazy person’s ego) and flubs it EVERY TIME. Because of her oh-so-gentle soul she refuses to hurt him and feels SO much regret when she does. I have never related less to a character in my life. Absolutely no survival instinct, no self esteem, and no sense of justice.