Synopsis:
Emily Vargas
has been taken captive. As part of his conditioning methods, her captor refuses
to speak to her, knowing how much she craves human contact. He's far too
beautiful to be a monster. Combined with his lack of violence toward her, this
has her walking a fine line at the edge of sanity. Told in the first person
from Emily's perspective, Comfort Food is a tale of erotic surrender that
explores what happens when all expectations of pleasure and pain are turned
upside down, as whips become comfort and chicken soup becomes punishment.
My review:
Neither the
reviewer, the moderators of the N&N Book Blog or Kitty Thomas endorse or
condone the non-consensual acts portrayed in the book Comfort Food. The book is
a work of fiction.
Make no mistake;
this is not a romance novel. Comfort Food taps into the taboo sexual desires of non-consensual sex. I’ll leave it to the psychologist & psychiatrist to
argue and/or explain the theory of women & their desire to give up control
in sexual situations because they have to be in control of all the other
aspects of their lives.
Comfort Food
is part of the sub-genre of Erotica, called Dark Erotica. These stories are based
on turning forbidden taboos into erotic entertainment.
Kitty Thomas
is a master of the dark literary erotica. She has managed to take a subject
matter that makes society uncomfortable and make the reader squirm even more.
She injects humor into a situation that doesn’t provide much opportunity
without it being gratuitous. “You always want dismemberment to happen after
death.” She brings the story to life in such a way that you feel Emily’s
struggle.
The book is
written from Emily’s point of view. It does occasionally shift as part of the
plot to emphasis Emily’s emotional state or coping mechanism. Comfort Food is
the story of a woman who is kidnapped to be trained to become the perfect sex slave
to her Master. The book tells of her journey to survive and adapt to this
reality, while she wages an internal battle to merely survive or to accept and
give into her current state.
The mark of
a good book to me is that it makes you think. It stays with you for days,
sometimes weeks or months. The story sits in the back of your mind percolating
until you have to go back and read it again. I’ve read Comfort Food multiple
times. Each time I come away with the “What happened here?” thought.
Kitty wrote
such realistic characters and situations that I could empathize with Emily. The
story resounded so much with me, I thought I might need therapy. Comfort Food
has stayed with me since I read it over a year & a half ago.
I found
myself wondering if the story would have been different if Master had engaged
Emily when he first spotted her in the bar. Kitty purposefully sets the book up
for the reader to make the determination on how Emily’s story will unfold.
Reviewed by Liz Aguilar
http://kittythomas.com/
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