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Brotherly Love

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MY REVIEW IS ACTUALLY NEGATIVE 5 STARS (or whatever are the most negative stars can be awarded).

I read this book for free through LendleMe.com. I would have asked Amazon to refund my money had I paid for it. In fact, I think that the author owes me for the sickening, emotional distress she left me with after trying to read this absolutely disgusting book.

Is it not rape when a victim is drugged continuously, stolen by their siblings and delivered to a gang of rapists who proceed to inflict all of their twisted, demented sexual depravity over and over for hours and hours, against the will of the poor victim (who is continually drugged with a supposedly impossible-to-resist aphrodisiac that renders their body unable to do anything but seek satisfaction), forcing the victim to perform sex acts on multiple people even as their mind tells them it is not what it wants, then bringing the victim's loved one to witness the depravity into which the victim has been forced but which looks to the loved one like the ultimate betrayal, so much so that the victim is literally unable to stop having sex with multiple partners despite knowing that their loved one is witnessing this and that it will destroy their loved one and any possible future together, and the siblings "feel bad" because it went far further than they had planned but they still bring the loved one (they don't want the two together, so this is their brilliant plan to break the two up), and then they ride off leaving the victim to continue to be gang raped in every possible way????!!!!

This stomach-turning, horrific, explicitly described gang rape went on for page after page after page after page. I tried to skim through it as I could not believe the author had taken such joy in relating every little detail of the gang rape and attack, apparently feeling that this was her chance to show her prowess with sex scenes, for her "talent" to shine through and titillate her readers with her skill at multiple partner, forced sex acts. I had to skim each page to see where the rape ended, and then there were flashbacks that the victim suffered (the author used this to bring in yet more details of forced, violent sex acts) that I had to suffer through too. With each description I stumbled across my stomach turned in physical revulsion.

And why did this author (and her editor and publisher) think that it was an attractive feature of her book to describe in sickeningly minute detail the gang rape and violation of this poor victim?

BECAUSE THE VICTIM WAS A MAN!!!!!

My God, how far back has this author taken women's rights that she believes it is acceptable for such horrific violence to be inflicted upon a man? Did she really think that we readers would not take extreme offense at how cavalierly she treats the violent sexual assaults by describing them as though she actually believes that we women readers (the target audience) would find the scenes "hot," or somehow be vicariously excited by them? It's as though the author and her editor didn't think there was enough "action" to showcase her ability to write sex scenes, so they decided to throw in the most disgustingly detailed account of a gang rape they could come up with, and as it was happening to a man and the attackers were women, that made it acceptable.

It is even more insulting to actual rape victims that the male victim was portrayed as being able to "shake it off," and that he didn't seem to suffer much PTSD and was actually able to pick up and continue with his life as usual immediately after the rape, with just some flashbacks now and then. This belittles the physical and emotional trauma that true rape victims must fight to overcome in a myriad of ways, and in some cases for the rest of their lives.

Were the roles reversed, the rapists men and the victim a woman, this would be treated as the criminal assault that it is. But no, it seems the author is of the opinion that the male victim should be happy he's getting so much great sex from so many women, and with such variety, too. Even more perverse, his two brothers who set him up to cheat on his fiance because they didn't want the two to be together, these two rapists (they were just as guilty for setting it all up) were not kicked out of the victim's house, were permitted to remain unmolested in their home together with the victim and his fiancee, never apologized for what they did to their brother, and continued to act self-righteously in their refusal to accept the relationship. Again, had the victim been a woman, they would have been prime candidates for the death penalty for their role in setting up and assisting in the gang rape.

The author, her editor(s), and the publisher should all be ASHAMED of themselves for committing this violent, disgusting, criminal filth to paper and then treating it as though it's just another sexual encounter in an adult-themed story, because the victim was a man. They are also stupid to think that we women readers would accept that gang rape is acceptable erotica merely because the victim is a man and the perpetrators are women.

Loved it - a little controversial - makes you stop and think! No black and white or perfect characters here... It made me question my opinions and beliefs about love and what it means and I finished with a new perspective and a feeling of hope. Not only is it an entertaining read, but if you are willing to look a little deeper, you can take more out of it than just a good story.

there were several things wrong with this book first there were several violent and unnecesarrily graphic rape scenes which i had not expected also there was too much contention over main characters relationship yea jake helped raise jessi and had once thought of her as a sister but she wasnt his sister and though it was mentioned repeatedly no one acknowledged it and they made so much of a big deal over the incestuousness of the relationship even thuogh there wasnt any that i started feeling guilty for wanting the lovers together also the lenghths the other characters went to to keep the lovers apart resulted in some nasty rape scenes and made it so there were very few decent characters spare yourself and dont bother with this one