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Toy's Story: Acquisition of a Sex Toy

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Robert Cloud has taken a subject most people just think about or have read about and shows you the feelings and motivations behind those "forbidden" thoughts in such a way that you begin to root for David to realize his desires for his "toy". As for Toy, she finds her way through a stringent upbringing and the expectations of her mother to the fulfillment of the feelings buried deep in her heart and soul. Quite an enjoyable read and I'm looking forward to the next in this series of books.

This was an extremely intense, descriptive novel that was hard to read, but at the same time hard to put down. Mr. Cloud writes from both perspectives so we the reader can sympathize with both characters. I have to say the novel seamed more like a real account than fiction! When I asked the author, he denied that any of it was real- he's just very good at putting thoughts and actions into words. Wow!

Robert Cloud intense novel has passion and sexual tension, which moves this novel forward.It is STRONG ADULT FICTION, so if you are faint of heart...you been warned

The character of David is almost written as Cloud himself is the character. I do not know the man personally, but it seems if David was Cloud himself, I would embrace him as friend. His Acquisition andf his search will show a sexual underbelly unseen in many mainstream novels

The weak spot of the novel is the voice he creates for the character of Toy. Her submission is foreshadowed even before she walks onto a page. She seems sometimes almost be too good to be true. Cloud creates her with limited depth, which maybe good or bad..depending on the adult that reads this work. Her written underdevelopement is not a charcter flaw that Cloud put it, He smartly leads the reader to flesh her out for themselves

As I read this work, I savored this ADULT novel. It moved at a fast pace, which is lacking with most ADULT pieces on the market these days..and make no mistake it is a STRONG adult piece of fiction. It was not sexual POPCORN work as I have read lately.

I would enjoy seeing what Cloud comes up with a follow up to this book. Keep me in mind of a copy...and Mr Cloud, when are you putting this piece in an audiobook?

Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD

Doreen and David exemplify how not to start a bdsm relationship. Their relationship begins online, and it is one of miscommunication and lies. With the inherent distance of a cyber relationship, it's easy to lie, to pretend, to act out a fantasy and to instigate something you have no real experience in, something that soon takes over your life, for better or for worse. For me, Doreen and David are a template of what can go wrong when you lie about who you are and about what your desires are.

This story wasn't sexually charged for me. It did have explicit sex scenes, but to me it was more a psychological look at a young woman's need to be dominated by a harsh, cruel master, and an older man's need to find that one perfect woman, a slave to put him first, that woman who will not manipulate or scorn him.

Doreen and David meet online, in a writers' group, working on a story together, putting in that story those things they wish to find in their real lives. They begin to 'know' each other, and Doreen tells David: I wish you could make our story real, that you would come and kidnap me from my life and make me your slave.

This dark fantasy leads David to an inner conflict between gentle giant and ugly monster, between tender lover and cruel master. David, already somewhat emotionally unstable, soon struggles with this duality of love where darker desires leave rational thought and where love cuts both ways. As the power over another human being intensifies and takes over, David becomes the 'giver of pain and the savior from it.' And for all their mistakes, these two characters seem to be made for each other.

-- spoiler/warning --

As others have said, this story is emotional and intense, disturbing on some levels, and brutal with the harder bdsm elements like the basement dungeon, branding, humiliation, and rape, among the other things done to Doreen. This was a deep and provocative story. You'll have strong feelings about it, one way or another.