Gamble Everything

Waites did a wonderful job writing some fucked up characters. Archer, his assistant, lawyer, and brother are all sick bastards, but Archer is the sickest. This book was one fucked up moment after another, and Danny's reactions were completely realistic and believable (mirroring my thoughts quite well), until the first time Archer fucks him. Danny suddenly and without prodding calls him Daddy, when earlier that day Archer had for this first time mentioned “Daniel” doing what his daddy says and Danny had thought he was referring to his father. I just don't see him going from not even knowing that Archer was referring to himself as the daddy to suddenly thinking of him as Daddy only hours later, during sex...on a child's bed, with rockets and shit on the bedcovers. This is after he's been placed in a child's bedroom, been dressed in children's clothing, given children's books to read and color, and children's meals to eat. He's been utterly sickened by this freak turning him into a child and doing sexual stuff to him, then he decides to call him Daddy while the guy is fucking him for the first time? Uhh, no, I don't buy it. Danny's transition from freaked out to accepting the situation was just too quick for me to believe. If I can't make the mental transition with him and stop thinking of Archer as a creepy pedophile then it just doesn't work. I was wondering why the hell he didn't just kill everyone in the room at the end cause that's where my head was at! That failure to convince me is why I'm going to go with, fuck, I don't know, let's say 2.5 stars and I'll round up to 3.