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Reviewer: Tobias Tanner
Gina, tenacious and conniving, is an in-control Washington DC reporter with the looks and sex appeal to bulldoze her way through any number of politicians and power brokers. She's used to getting what she wants, when she wants, and will do whatever it takes to get the story. The rich and famous are her meat and potatoes. Nothing and no one intimidates or deters her--until Ward, that is. He intrigued her. She asked about him, nosing around to get a name and address, and had not the faintest suspicion that it was, to all intents and purposes, the last normal thing that she would ever do.
Ward is also intrigued. He has Gina kidnapped. She wakes in the midst of a slave auction, chained upright and naked. Helplessly, she listens to negotiations over her future. A Middle Eastern Sheikh wants her, and is willing to pay an enormous amount of money for the privilege. But, Ward intervenes, not in her behalf, but in his own. He wants her for himself. "These are the rules," he tells her. "In the future, I will treat you like an animal. On the surface, your life will not change...unless I decide differently...but you will become my property." And then he tells her that it is the last choice she will ever make.
Gina is horrified, but, unbelievably, the only other option is to be sold and taken out of the country. She agrees to Ward's conditions, mentally reserving the right to retake command of her own destiny when the opportunity arises. What she could not suspect was that by the time such opportunity presented itself, it would be far too late. Gina, as she was, would have long since disappeared, to become an entirely new kind of woman, one whose body and mind are changed in unimaginable ways. And the new woman, the Milk Bitch, would be so much more than her younger self--so very much more.
These novels are complex and disturbing, taking lessons from the headlines we read every day, and twisting them into a deliciously convoluted tale of intrigue, power and politics, and a new vision for the world. Bennett writes comfortably about the presumption of privilege that marks the truly wealthy and powerful. Plot and story are intricately woven so that the world he provides for us is complete, its denizens moving throughout with the single minded purpose of feeding sharks. Each novel rides on its predecessor's shoulders, forming a clear line from start to finish.
Depravity is applauded in the Milk Bitch's world. Women are property, and he who gets the most screams, wins. Intricate bondage, strict discipline and outright torture are just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. There is nothing the imagination won't do, ergo, there is nothing Ward (and many, many others) won't do to Gina and the other slaves in her world. In fact, looking back on it, I'm hard pressed to think of a single thing that wasn't done to these women.
My advice? Read these books. You're going to have a ball. Hell, you might as well. Everybody else sure is.
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