39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
BDSM Lover's Abduction Dream, May 5, 2008
This review is from: Obsession - Girl Abducted: Formerly The Stalker - Revised and Expanded (Paperback)
I've read Claire Thompson before. I've even reviewed it. I actually read this as an ebook first. She's changed the title (Stalker) and expanded it. It's a much more satisfying read, though it was excellent the first time around. I have to admit, I'm not a big romance reader, so I don't read everything Thompson writes. But I LOVE her non-consensual BDSM stuff. This guy is obsessed with this movie star. He stalks her, kidnaps her and proceeds to try to turn her into his perfect, submissive sex slave. The action is intense and sometimes even brutal. But the weird thing, he actually loves her. And that love starts messing him up. He finds it isn't enough just to control her. He wants her to love him back. I like the way the author really explored both characters - what affected and motivated each of them. It wasn't a one-way story from the abductor's point of view. Her prose is beautiful, erotic and compelling and the scenes are hot, hot, hot, hot. Another scorcher by the Mistress of BDSM. Definitely a keeper.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A surprising amount of heart, August 14, 2008
This review is from: Obsession - Girl Abducted: Formerly The Stalker - Revised and Expanded (Paperback)
Despite this being a rather brutal tale of abduction and rape, there is a surprising amount of heart. The villain of this piece, or the hero depending on your view, desires Emily and has an intense need to dominate and own her. He has played the game before, gone to a few bdsm clubs, but there has always been something missing. Passion. He sees Emily, an actress, on the big screen and knows she's the one. He kidnaps her and subjects her to all sorts of sadistic, kinky tortures, both physically and emotionally. He delights in breaking her down and he also finds equal pleasure in taking care of her after one of his sessions. He keeps Emily on her toes (literally) with his ever changing, potentially vicious moods and demands much more of her then her body and instant obedience. He wants her love. While one might argue that such a thing would be impossible, Emily finds herself leaning towards him, wanting him and yes, even desiring him. Even after he beats her to the point of unconsciousness, she awakes and gifts him with a smile. True, it's a small smile, but it's a start and it's all Mark needs. He isolates her, makes her dependent on him for everything, insulates her in his world, surrounds her. Despite all this though, he can never be sure if it's what Emily truly wants or if it's just the fear and the chains keeping her with him. The only way he can test her is to let her go and see if his love slave returns to him.
While this fantastic story might not be for everyone, I really enjoyed it. Claire Thompson pushes the envelope as to how far we as readers can go, and how dark our desires run. It's an excellent, well articulated story, and not for the faint of heart!!
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There are scenes of abduction, bondage, gunplay, forced shaving, candle play, flogging, caning, piercing, branding, urination scenes, one latex scene, rape (both oral, anal and vaginal) and one forced enema scenes plus others.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pushes the edge, August 8, 2008
This review is from: Obsession - Girl Abducted: Formerly The Stalker - Revised and Expanded (Paperback)
Not for the faint of heart, yet well written and quite erotic. I won't go into the plot as it's given in a previous review. This book did walk a fine line for me with Mark being quite sadistic emotionally towards Emily. I found that harder to deal with than the fairly brutal physical torments he devises for the poor girl. I relished the fact that his emotional cruelty finally backfires on him towards the end.
I did wish Emily had had a bit more fight in her. She did seem to give in fairly quickly. I also couldn't help but wonder how she would hold up under such constant abuse or whether over time the "love" would outweigh the domination. One likes to think so.
The book is fast paced and very explicit in the bdsm, but elevated above a lot of other bdsm books by getting into the minds of Mark and Emily and how their motivations change over time.
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