Jan's Reviews > These Monstrous Deeds

I only read this story until the end because I wanted to see how they would get the bad guys, to just found out it ends in a cliff and we will have a sequel.🤦‍♀️

Cutting to the chase what didn't work for me:

📌 I found the story one dimensional, too focused on the Master/slave dynamic without exploring other aspects.
📌The whole book presented only 3 parts outside that ☝ bubble.
1-The auction.
2-Todd Henley's visit.
3-A party to make contacts.
Save that 3 occasions, we have a description of a Master/slave routine. It felt too repetitive to me. Wake up, shower, kneel, crawl, warm Master's cock, eat, warm Master's cock in the office, go to bed. Wash, Rinse Repeat.
📌 Carter was too easily convinced that he was NOTHING, just a set of holes.
📌 I didn't buy the speed at which Master fell in love with Carter. Why did he fall for Carter? 🤔 They had nothing in common. Not even the kink, since it was non-consensual. The feelings Master developed towards Carter felt more like a Stockholm syndrome in reverse.🤷‍♀️
📌 And finally, I really dislike when authors use similar names when characters are interacting. Carter and Casey shared a chunk of heavy stuff when the story started and it was very distracting to follow what was happening to whom since we were not familiar with them yet.
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Someone grabs Carter from behind. He gasps, trying to remember how to fight. All he can think is that this is it. This is when he’s going to die.
​But then his eyes focus, and his lungs recognize the air they’re getting, and the world tilts back to where it belongs, and Carter sees that it’s Casey who has him. The young man is running his hands over Carter’s skin, calming him. When Carter starts to sob, Casey pulls him in and holds him close. He lets Carter sob uncontrollably until he has nothing left inside himself. When they pull apart, he sees tears on Casey’s face as well. He thought maybe he’d feel better knowing Casey isn’t as unaffected as he pretends to be, but it feels even worse. ​Carter goes to sleep a while later, the thought in his mind that maybe it’d be nice if he doesn’t wake up again. ​But Carter does wake up.

** This book has lots of great reviews, you better ignore my thoughts and give this a go.