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A review by emmalthompson85
Auctioned by Cara Dee
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
2.0
About 25%, dnf.
I may be jumping ship too early but I like some comfort with my hurt and this doesn't look like it's going to deliver. Like, I knew what I'm getting into. I can understand the appeal of a dark fantasy in the safety of fiction. I'm all for dub con where a has to hurt b because the other options would be worse but after I want a and b to hold and comfort each other, to break each other and heal each other. The setup here where there are cameras so they can't comfort each other at all, nah, not for me. Maybe they find a way around it later in the novel but once the novel effectively told me I wasn't going to get comfort, I mentally started picking at everything. My breaking point was where they were going to have to, for contrived plot reasons, have a dinner with the other people who'd been trafficed and people who'd bought them. During the course of this dinner they were going to have to watch torture and a was going to have to torture b. They were negotiating this mutual non/dub-con scene and a mentioned he'd brought viagra. B immediately got upset because he presumed a was straight and didn't want to fuck him? Instead of presuming that maybe a wasn't going to get off on being in a room where torture is happening around him and he's effectively being forced to torture someone. It's something I'd wrinkle my nose at but carry on after in a book that was giving me more of what I want but in this book, it made me turn the audiobook off and listen to music for the rest of my commute so I'm done.
I may be jumping ship too early but I like some comfort with my hurt and this doesn't look like it's going to deliver. Like, I knew what I'm getting into. I can understand the appeal of a dark fantasy in the safety of fiction. I'm all for dub con where a has to hurt b because the other options would be worse but after I want a and b to hold and comfort each other, to break each other and heal each other. The setup here where there are cameras so they can't comfort each other at all, nah, not for me. Maybe they find a way around it later in the novel but once the novel effectively told me I wasn't going to get comfort, I mentally started picking at everything. My breaking point was where they were going to have to, for contrived plot reasons, have a dinner with the other people who'd been trafficed and people who'd bought them. During the course of this dinner they were going to have to watch torture and a was going to have to torture b. They were negotiating this mutual non/dub-con scene and a mentioned he'd brought viagra. B immediately got upset because he presumed a was straight and didn't want to fuck him? Instead of presuming that maybe a wasn't going to get off on being in a room where torture is happening around him and he's effectively being forced to torture someone. It's something I'd wrinkle my nose at but carry on after in a book that was giving me more of what I want but in this book, it made me turn the audiobook off and listen to music for the rest of my commute so I'm done.