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Summary: An Exciting Fantasy
Review: Claire Thompson's writings began as a romantic exploration of the BDSM life style in her first novel, 'Sarah's Awakening'. However lately she has begun to veer out into some 'rough stuff', things like abduction, degradation and rape in 'The Stalker' and 'The Toy'. I wouldn't want anyone to actually experience such things in real life.
When I read a novel, often I want to read something less ealistic and more of what is something like a forbidden fantasy. In 'Toys' the girl abducted was a frumpy, plump little prude raised in a strict religious environment. In 'Stalker' the target is a glamorous movie star who could make men feel rage with desire. These are kind of people you meet in real life hence it is thrilling to meet their fate in Claire Thompson's fantasies. As she says in 'Frog', for some women grace, composure and self-control are distancing devices, used to keep other people at bay. In 'Frog' Jane is stripped bare. Her pride is stripped away in the face of fear and survival. She is stripped of all her dignity. It is as if dignity were a shell or a wall, another defense, another barrier to intimacy and connection. Her debasement allows her to experience something overwhelming through intensely powerful and intimate acts. Of course all this required suspension of disbelief on my part! Frog is well written and has a plot and characters you would enjoy reading about. Jane is a 24-year-old female who hardly had any friends and she really preferred her own solitude. She had been protesting all advances of her boy friend Brian and remained sexually immature. She was not even romantic! Robert and his wife Brenda kidnap her from a grocery store and teach her the needed lessons! They force her to dress in stockings, garter belt, stiletto high heels and apply the much-needed makeup. Description of the play with needles and pinpricking is quite interesting specially since Jane is really horrified with even the sight of needles. At the end Jane manages to escape but not before reclaiming a precious life that she is determined to live. Claire Thompson's evocative and vivid writing makes us share every humiliation, every sorrow, every treachery and tenderness in the life of this woman who lacks any enthusiasm in life.
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Summary: Fun story but I would use other ending.
Review: I enjoyed most the book except the ending. What happen to Frog after the ending in the book? Did she became a "slave" owner or "love slave" to other master?
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Summary: Can Forced Abduction be Sexy? YES!
Review: I have read other Claire Thompson, and I love her stuff. But usually there's some aspect of romance in it. This one had none, ZERO. What it did have was some very very hot forced abduction and torture scenes, and forced girl/girl stuff. I liked that they kept the girl (they nickname her Frog) in a cage, naked, and deprived her of basic things like food and water as behavior modification. Why do I like this? Because as FANTASY it's VERY hot and sexy! I KNOW that it's not a real story, and not supposed to be real, but I love how Thompson develops the characters, making them all real, with motivations, insecurities and longings. I also love that the girl, Jane, starts out as a whiny sort of unlikable character, who, through what she has to endure, comes out a much better and stronger person. VERY HOT. READ IT and then go read the rest of her stuff. (...)
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Summary: not a Claire Thompson fan
Review: I started with Claire Thompson's Slave Girl, and was very disappointed, but this story sounded promising and I thought I'd give her another try. Shouldn't have... the author tries for a good story with good sex, and I found the characters to be a little shallow, but if the sex is good, then the characters aren't as important. Unfortunately, the sex wasn't good either. I was LOOKING for the promised BDSM and all the scenes felt rushed and poorly described. I won't be reading it again.
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Summary: not a Claire Thompson fan
Review: I started with Claire Thompson's Slave Girl, and was very disappointed, but this story sounded promising and I thought I'd give her another try. Shouldn't have... the author tries for a good story with good sex, and I found the characters to be a little shallow, but if the sex is good, then the characters aren't as important. Unfortunately, the sex wasn't good either. I was LOOKING for the promised BDSM and all the scenes felt rushed and poorly described. I won't be reading it again.
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Summary: A great forbidden fantasy from Claire Thompson!
Review: In this book-a dark scorcher from Claire Thompson, a plain, ordinary, not-even-especially-good-looking woman is kidnapped from a grocery store by an incredibly wealthy couple and forced to serve as their sexual toy and slave. Over the course of her forced servitude, she loses her "Jane" identity and becomes "Frog"-an unperson, a life support system for a sexual slave.
This is a tough one to review, I have to admit. It's not for everyone. This isn't even remotely consensual, it's not even the "consensual non-consent" that seems to float around the Usenet these days...Brenda and her husband simply kidnap Jane, rape her, beat her, and otherwise use her for their pleasure. She has zero say in it. And yet, for some reason-Claire Thompson's cutting, intelligent, sexy as hell use of language, as punctilious and precise as the clicking of three inch stiletto heels on a marble floor, maybe, or her ability to paint scenes so raw and evocative of basic human lust, such that you can see, feel and hear the action (she is actually so good at this in general that one almost doesn't need porn movies reading her) or maybe the fact that she has tapped into what Jung might have called an "erotic archetype"-the human need to dominate or be submissive to other people, taken to an extreme-because although she never "consents" to what Brenda and Robert do to her and she never "likes" it, she does end up enjoying some of it in spite of herself. It's powerful, hot, deep, and dangerous in the extreme, like a shot of sexual literary moonshine.
Generally speaking, don't read this book if you are a High School health teacher, someone who educates kids about sex for Planned Parenthood or some similar group, or someone who has the mistaken belief that all people are equal in the power they wield or desire to wield. Also don't read it if you are a fan of Camille Paglia. You won't groove on it. Oh, and the ending in this is FAR better than that of Julie's Submission. Deux ex Machina must have been burning solid rocket fuel to keep up production in this one, but I like it anyway.
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Summary: No Literary Merit
Review: The work has no literary merit. No plot, no clever dialog, no character development, no originality, no quality writing style.
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