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April 23, 2018

REVIEW: Her Claim by Rebecca Grace Allen

KaetrinB Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book ReviewsBDSM / Contemporary / enemies to lovers / Erotic-Romance / kink / rape fantasyComments Off on REVIEW: Her Claim by Rebecca Grace Allen

Dear Rebecca Grace Allen, I read and liked His Contract a couple years ago so when you reached out to me and offered a review copy of Her Claim, the second book in the Legally Bound series, I was happy to accept. Overall, Her Claim was more successful for me ... more >

December 6, 2016

JOINT REVIEW: Brutal Game by Cara McKenna

KaetrinBook ReviewsBoston / Contemporary / Erotic-Romance / joint review / rape fantasy3 Comments

*Spoiler Alert & Trigger Warning: A major plot point, which is not revealed in the cover copy, is discussed in this review. Also, per author: This book contains consensual but intense rape role-playing scenes that some may find upsetting.   A note to readers: Hopefully, by now, every reader who ... more >

September 10, 2015

REVIEW: Begging for It by Lilah Pace

KaetrinB ReviewsContemporary / Dark / domestic abuse / Erotic-Romance / Rape / rape fantasy3 Comments

*all the trigger warnings*   This book features rape fantasy and themes of rape and abuse.  There is reference and depiction of sexual assault in the book but it is not perpetrated by the hero or the heroine. What happens between the hero and the heroine is all consensual.  (This was ... more >

June 15, 2015

REVIEW: Asking for It by Lilah Pace

KaetrinB ReviewsContemporary / Dark / Rape / rape fantasy6 Comments

*all the trigger warnings*   This book features rape fantasy and themes of rape and abuse.  There is reference and depiction of sexual assault in the book but it is not perpetrated by the hero or the heroine. What happens between the hero and the heroine is all consensual.  (This was ... more >

April 27, 2011

REVIEW: Petals and Thorns by Jennifer Paris

JanineBook Reviews / C- ReviewsBDSM / Beauty-and-the-Beast / Fairy-Tales / forced-seduction / Rape / rape fantasy / Reader Opinions30 Comments

Dear Ms. Paris, Around the time we were having the discussion of rape fantasies here at DA, Jane asked for recommendations of books similar to Cara McKenna’s Willing Victim, and your novella, Petals and Thorns, came up on Twitter. Reader MaryK, who hadn’t read it, thought it might fit the ... more >

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