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The Carnal Games by Naudii Nebula
5.0
**Read the Content Warning for this book before proceeding. The cover does not match what’s between the pages.**
Two soldiers on opposite sides of a war are abducted and forced to take part in a Hunger Games style competition featuring sexual brutality that only one of them can walk away from. Stripped of everything, including clothing, they must fight and win. But, more importantly, entertain their patrons to court favor.
It’s an illegal private survivalist sex game. Snuff porn for subscribers. Patrons pay to play; sometimes literally via avatars.
The game Hosts force sexual coercion on both characters threatening them with the death of someone dear to one of them. The disgust is not one-sided; he is equally repulsed. It is made all the worse by the fact that their species aren’t generally sexually compatible; human females often die from it. I like the way the author has his perspective shift from “defiling himself with a human female” to his rage at her willingly defiling herself to save the someone.
Over the course of the game a respect grows between them as she makes impossible sacrifices of her body to protect the threatened individual and he cares for and protects her while they both ignore that one of them has to die in the end. There are some really strong, emotional moments as their relationship progresses and develops into love as they learn about the individual behind the enemy. Yes there is an HEA for them.
The author is excellent at maintaining the alien-ness of the MMC throughout with his behavior and cultural differences.
There are a lot of tough themes: war, gruesome violence, abduction, past infertility, past miscarriage, grief, sexual coercion on page (both characters), sexual battery on page (both characters). Don’t read it if you can’t handle it.
Two soldiers on opposite sides of a war are abducted and forced to take part in a Hunger Games style competition featuring sexual brutality that only one of them can walk away from. Stripped of everything, including clothing, they must fight and win. But, more importantly, entertain their patrons to court favor.
It’s an illegal private survivalist sex game. Snuff porn for subscribers. Patrons pay to play; sometimes literally via avatars.
The game Hosts force sexual coercion on both characters threatening them with the death of someone dear to one of them. The disgust is not one-sided; he is equally repulsed. It is made all the worse by the fact that their species aren’t generally sexually compatible; human females often die from it. I like the way the author has his perspective shift from “defiling himself with a human female” to his rage at her willingly defiling herself to save the someone.
Over the course of the game a respect grows between them as she makes impossible sacrifices of her body to protect the threatened individual and he cares for and protects her while they both ignore that one of them has to die in the end. There are some really strong, emotional moments as their relationship progresses and develops into love as they learn about the individual behind the enemy. Yes there is an HEA for them.
The author is excellent at maintaining the alien-ness of the MMC throughout with his behavior and cultural differences.
There are a lot of tough themes: war, gruesome violence, abduction, past infertility, past miscarriage, grief, sexual coercion on page (both characters), sexual battery on page (both characters). Don’t read it if you can’t handle it.