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Sandstorms (Black Gold)

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I am all about the BDSM books. I am all about erotic romance. I'm all about role play, forced sex, whatever. I couldn't even finish the book. One minute the girl is RAPING a guy who has been ritually tortured and raped by men, and yet he saves her after the 2nd F and ends up falling in love with someone who he should hate and should hate him back. Didn't believe it for a second, not even a fiction/science fiction/science fantasy second. And it's not even science/fantasy fiction.

The first 2 stories aren't any better. Girl wants guy to play out fantasy role, guy does so and after they decide to spend the rest of their lives together. Next story?? SAME insipid flat characters, now years later, 2 kids and he doesn't spend enough time with her so she leaves him. Blah Blah Blah. Even with a hint that he might pull out some whips and chains couldn't get me to keep reading it.

Honestly, even if the characters had been rounded out the sex scenes didn't even do it for me. I kept thinking - it'll get better. It didn't.

This author has seldom been afraid to push limits when writing about sensual topics. However, in this set of 2 1/2 novellas, a lot of time is spent wishing for large limits from anywhere--common sense, patriotism, guilt--to set aside oddities like these stories. Dealing with Iraq, Kuwait, and a kind of fantasy-shiek element might have been ok. But when prisoner death, torture, unpleasant forced sensuality, etc. are combined into what is essentially presented as a romance--it just doesn't work. Risk is part of the creative process--this novel is waaaay too risky for me.