Chasing Cats

The continuation of the story that began with Indoctrination is a masterpiece of enveloping darkness, definitely more intense and truly mind-bending. My personal take is that Tony and Alex's story isn't a classic romance; it's not a romance at all, but a story of unhealthy obsession that is turning from dangerous to deadly. Watching Tony's struggles and adaptation as a part of the hidden society Alex was born into, was painful and heartbreaking. Because being kinky and craving the flavour of mild submission in the bedroom, was definitely something entirely different than the cruel, harsh reality Tony landed into and something he didn't have the strength to withstand and wield for his own gain. I admired his ferocious efforts and tenacity to prove himself as a submissive, I really do - but his efforts were actually a wide open window to the terrified boy,hidden inside him, so terrified of being discarded as useless and not enough, so naive and gullible, that Dominic was playing with him as a fine tuned instrument. A reality where human compassion is a foreign concept and every act of kindness or selfless sacrifice are just a way to dig yourself deeper and suffer more. Dominic's paranoid strive to assert his absolute dominance in the internal games and power dynamics between all the masters, Doms and owners was tearing Alex and Tony apart.
The author has built an impressive and really terrifying maze of psychological twists that leave the reader hovering over the abyss of heart-stopping HFN with the foreboding feeling of something even worse to come.