RobertCloud
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The following email came to me after the reader read the post from here and purchased the book. Mr. Cloud, I purchased your book today as an eBook through black velvet and it's a wonderful read. I'm on page 482 already. well I took many speed reading courses when I was in college for comprehension purposes, but now it's a godsend because I read a few books a week. I love the characters , their inner strength, faults, and beauty. truly you have captured the spirit of what the beginnings of relationship is like, not to mention the slight darker sides too. I loved how you show both characters points of views through different chapters and the whole rollercoaster abduction ride was definitely hot to read. I hope you will continue your writing so I may purchase another after this one, which will be done inside another hour or two. I tend to read more darker stories in regards to BDSM, especially the s & m, and was happily surprised how much I am enjoying this read you written. best regards, Lara This is from another BDSMer who has read the book... also a reader not a professional reviewer... Robert, I personally have read your book from front to cover ... TWICE .... As you were told by our publisher and as someone who does read quite a bit of BDSM writings. Most who read this type are looking for porn and not a true story. That is the BEAUTY of your book.... it has depth and builds on the relationship of David and Toy. It's not just about the sexual expeiences of the two. It's a fresh and welcome change for people like myself who like BDSM type romances/erotica, but are often looking for a much more meaty story. Which you gave. Sarah I have received some strong critical and abusive responses as well. Outright personal attacks from some in the BDSM community that are not used to reading a BDSM Erotic Romance.. They were looking more for the BDSM Porn, or Smut that many BDSM books are, (no I am not saying all, but many are two dimensional, you never get to know the characters, they are all dialogue, no description, and all sex from cover to cover, or all scening cover to cover, DO NOT BUY MY BOOK if that is what you are looking for). This so called reviewer never bothered to even read a third of the book, she calls herself a Mistress on the BDSM review site but on her personal site she is a submissive. I do not mind switches, but be honest about it, and as a reviewer keep your personal life out of your professional life. She gave a critique not a review which no reviewer should ever do, especially when not completing the book, and then she insulted my intelligence saying the vocabulary of my book was a third grade level when she could not spell one sentence without at least one spelling error. Not only in her emails were there spelling errors but all over her two websites, where she could go back and correct them at any time. Yet she is not even capable of seeing that they are wrong. Okay, my rant is done. I learned my lesson. Not all those who claim to be reviewers are real, just as not all those that claim to be in the lifestyle are real. There are fakes everywhere even in the professional world or literature. This woman has had three books published. I feel truly sorry for her editor for the spelling errors that that poor person had to weed through in reading her work would have made me ill. By the way, I did have a chance to read an excerpt from one of her so called novels, and I was right... SMUT!!!
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