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    MANGA: The Wolf’s Gratitude

    June 3, 2019 / No Comments

    The Wolf’s Gratitude – Lan Lin

    This is a story about a famous underworld gangster who become an unconventional housekeeper of a lawyer.

    I hate the lawyer. He’s a manipulative bastard.

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    REVIEW: Sweating Lies by Emma Jaye

    June 3, 2019 / No Comments
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    Criminal Delights: Taken: Sweating Lies

    “Gladiator or toy?” Kaspar asks, as if it’s the easiest choice in the world.

    It might be an easy answer for someone branded, brainwashed, and who remembers no other life. But that’s not me, not yet anyway. I’m a cop—or at least I was until my cover got blown. 

    Now, I’m one of the trafficked people I vowed to save.

    Kaspar’s a toy —a pleasure slave— content to warm our sadistic owner’s bed; he laps up the abuse he’s conditioned to associate with affection.

    He’s my only way out. To gain our freedom, I must play the hardest undercover role of my career and be everything his fractured mind needs: a more controlling bastard than the man who turns people into grateful slaves for a living.

    Officer Jiao Sweatt thinks I’m a victim. 
    He has a lot to learn. 
    And it’ll hurt.

    This book is part of CRIMINAL DELIGHTS. Each novel can be read as a standalone and contains a dark M/M romance. 
    Warning: These books are for adult readers who enjoy stories where lines between right and wrong get blurry. High heat, twisted and tantalizing, these are not for the fainthearted.

    Hmm…I don’t know why this has such a high rating because quite frankly, I was bored.

    But if dark is what you want, this is as dark as it can get. Human trafficking, brainwashing, slavery, cattle prods up the ass and that damn parrilla made me shudder. It was sickening so if you want your limits pushed, this is it.

    However, the book lost me when it dumped a boatload of information on the workings of the orta, a secret criminal organization specializing in bespoke slaves. I needed the backgrounder but it was just too much info for one scene and the way it was delivered by Kaspar, I think it was unnatural that he would suddenly give a lecture on the orta’s business model just because a captive asked him.

    I couldn’t care less about Jiao and Kaspar. I didn’t feel the chemistry. I liked the story better when Jiao was still undercover with Maksim’s gang and I was definitely more interested in Maksim and James. But after Jiao was tasered and handed over to the orta, it became boring despite all the disturbing implications. The pace was slow going. It took a while to get to anything interesting and I have no motivation to stick around and wait for things to perk up.

    So Sweating Lies wasn’t working out like I wanted it to but definitely YMMV because many people liked it.

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    review of other Criminal Delights books here

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    June 3, 2019 / No Comments

    Slave screams he think he knows what he wants
    Slave screams thinks he has something to say
    Slave screams he hears but doesn’t want to listen
    Slave screams he’s being beat into submission

    Don’t open your eyes you won’t like what you see
    The devils of truth steal the souls of the free
    Don’t open your eyes take it from me
    I have found
    You can find
    Happiness in slavery
    Happiness in slavery

    Slave screams he spends his life learning conformity
    Slave screams he claims he has his own identity
    Slave screams he’s going to cause the system to fall
    Slave screams but he’s glad to be chained to that wall

    Don’t open your eyes you won’t like what you see
    The blind have been blessed with security
    Don’t open your eyes take it from me
    I have found
    You can find
    Happiness in slavery
    Happiness in slavery
    Happiness in slavery
    Happiness in slavery
    HappinessI don’t know what I am I don’t know where I’ve been
    Human junk just words and so much skin
    Stick my hands through the cage of this endless routine
    Just some flesh caught in this big broken machine

    Happiness in slavery
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    Happiness in slavery (slavery)
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    Happiness (slavery)
    Happiness (slavery)
    Happiness (slavery)
    Happiness (slavery)
    Happiness (slavery)
    Happiness (slavery)
    Happiness (slavery)
    Happiness (slavery)
    Happiness (slavery)
    Happiness
    Happiness (slavery)
    Happiness (it controls why
    )

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