Comfort Food by Kitty Thomas
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 explores what happens when all expectations of pleasure and pain are turned upside down, as whips become comfort and chicken soup becomes punishment.
DISCLAIMER: This is not a story about consensual BDSM. This is a story about “actual” slavery. If reading an erotic story without safe words makes you uncomfortable, this is not the book for you. This is a work of fiction, and the author does not endorse or condone any behavior done to another human being without their consent.
“the most twisted form of psychological conditioning, I’ve ever read . . . will stick in your brain for days after you read”
Wow – This book was intense.
MY REVIEW
Really well written it tells the story of Emily who is basically kidnapped and left in a room bare of essentials, not even a bed. She is subjected to silence and no human contact by the man who kidnapped her, he knows what she craves and he takes pleasure in denying her.
He doesn’t talk but everything is done by a thought or an action. He brings Emily chicken noodle soup and crackers every day.
He does nothing without her permission, he doesn’t force her but rewards her for her “good” behavior with a nice room full of beautiful things. He is messing with her mind, her thoughts, her feelings. Poor Emily really has no choice but to comply.
This book is not for the faint hearted, there is humiliation, BDSM and extreme sexual situations, but for some reason I really couldn’t hate her kidnapper. It is a strange feeling to feel some sort of compassion for this man.
Told from Emily’s perspective except for the sexual scene’s and they are told from a third perceptive, I read this in nearly one sitting. Addictive and thoroughly enjoyable, this book is one of those books that you are thinking about for hours after and turning things over in your mind. Loved loved the ending and it was totally unexpected, at least for me. A thoroughly recommended read !!!
The only complaint I have Is that just once I would like to see these women fight back.
Extreme situation I know, but this man kidnapped her, Stockholm Syndrome at it’s worse.
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