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rachelastica 's review for:
Story of O
by Pauline Réage
The plot of this novel is very thin, it's really a sequence of places and people for O to get taken by and it ends abruptly and unsatisfyingly after feeling like it's building to something. There are bits that are genuinely hot but there is so much whipping and beating and even for a submissive relationship O is so lacking in any agency or self-respect that it is unpleasant at times in a bad way. The whole thing kind of feels like Pauline Réage had a basic idea of things she thought would be sexy and then half-attempted to string them together. The essay at the end is total garbage. When it's good, it's one of the better popular erotic novels that I've read, but there were times where getting to a good part felt like a struggle.