It's porn, so I don't really strongly oppose it. I wish people didn't take it as seriously as they do, since there's better researched BDSM novels out there. As long as most people don't take it as a serious example of BDSM, it's fine.

I enjoyed reading the book series! I'm on the 2nd one and although poorly written, it's just a fun read. I don't think the book is all about BDSM, I'm starting to get more of a ' how somebody can change for someone they love ' type of thing from it. I'm not into BDSM, but I don't think it gives it a bad name, nor a good one. The book has given me many ideas of things I do want to try, that I had never heard of like the silver balls. I've found new ways to spice up my own marriage.

Quite honestly, if people find reading as a hobby and do it for fun, and you enjoy a little erotic/romance/wtf because it's what you like to read, then awesome! I like it! I'm more so getting sick of everyone bashing it for negative reflections on the BDSM lifestyle

I posted this in the other '50' thread, but it probably makes sense to add it here as well. Katrina Lumsden is my new favorite reviewer.

I just find it painful to read and the relationship between the two main characters sends up so many red flags for me.

This explains my feelings.

I've found it to be unsettling and full of nonconsensual scenarios. I'm sad that it's shaping so many people's views of BDSM. This video expresses a lot of my feelings about it quite well: link

It is a love hate relationship with me, lol.

I've never read the series, and if I ever do it will only be for laughs. I just keep hearing how poorly written it is. I just want to scream to all the people I know who are reading it that there is much better FREE smut out there, and all they have to do is look for it.

It is obvious the books were not very well researched. She looked for the information she wanted and that was all. The books seem to have a very romanticized view of BDSM, and the whole "cured through the power of love" aspect is horrible, in my opinion, and gives the view that we, as a community, are all deviants who need to be cured.
There is no regard for health, either, and i often found myself wondering how she never got a UTI.
Most dominants I know, who care for their submissives and who respect their position as dominants, don't actively set out to attempt to *force* them to safe word. That isn't how things go.
And, in the last book, the last chapter, they describe flogging a pregnant belly. That is soooo not cool.

I have never read the book/series. I did pick it up in the store and randomly flip and read two pages. It drove me nuts. WAY too poorly written for my standards. I realize it is not written by a professional writer, but she is a published writer which means she had an editor and a publisher. . .

Since I did not read them, I can only go off comments from various sources as to my other problems with the books. I am a (mostly) bedroom submissive (I am total in the bedroom and I would say halfish out) and we are into BDSM. I have a problem with the way he cut her off from friends and family (this should never happen, even in a contracted relationship), she starts out fearing him (no one should fear their master. This is the person they should trust most in life), the "sex" scenes are repetative. I understand that there are only so many toys and that things do get repeated, for example when we find something we really like we will repeat it, expand upon it, etc for quite awhile. However, she wrote a book and in a fantasy the sky is the limit. Why would she be so lather, rinse, repeat? Anyway, that is just my two cents (which will get you nothing! LOL).

it's good in that it gets vanillas talking about kink, but the light in which it presents kink is not the best or very accurate. you win some, you lose some. hopefully after reading this, people will stay interested, but look for better written and more accurately portrayed kinky books.

to me, from what I've heard, it sounds like a 'twilight' for adults. I mean even the covers are similar. and they seem to be written equally poor.

I have only recently started to delve into the world of bdsm with my husband (NOT because of those books though!!) Even considering this, I don't feel an inclination to pick these books up. Maybe inspiration to write something BETTER than what everyone is chalking it up to be anyways. I think I'll label these books as a "Pass."

I can't understand how anyone would pay for something so terribly written. If you want fanfiction, there's tons of it for free right here on the internet! I might be snooty but for me no book is 'fun' enough to power me through such bad quality writing when there are books that are fun AND well written that I could be reading instead :0

I refuse to read something that started as a twilight fan fiction.

it's on my to read list- so I'm not sure what I think of it yet

I haven't read it, but everyone keeps making a big deal about it. People find it really good, I don't see what he big deal is. Everyone made a big deal about Twilight. I was the first movie and never watched the rest. I just don't see the big deal about getting worked up about something that may or may not be a flop. What is it all about?

It's a shitty book that pushes negative stereotypes about BDSM to people who don't know better. Not a fan.