Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Why do I hate this book so badly? Because the guy isn't just a jerk, who comes around to be lovable. No, he's dehumanizing. He's abusive. He's the kind of guy you hear about on the news who locks women in cages, chains them up, leaves them sitting in their own waste. Xavier (Master) treats poor Mel (Pet) like an animal, covering her in body fluids, dirt, and sweat and then refusing to let her shower. He treats her like a mannequin, dressing her, shaving her, even changing her tampons while she is humiliated and doesn't want him to. The version of the book I have must have been amended because instead of a dog crate, he throws her in a pig pen for days, making her go to the bathroom in a corner, sleep in moldy hay, get rained on, and starve for about 5 days only drinking water, until she agrees to sit at his feet at the table and eat from his fingers. Not in a sexy way. She doesn't get a chair, or a plate, or even silverware. He feeds her fried eggs and makes her lick the yolk off his hands and smears it over her face. WHAT??! When she angrily tells him she feels degraded and like a dog, he laughs and pets her head and says, Yes you are my pet. He drags her around the yard on a leash and ties her up and tells her to "Sit. Stay." He puts a bridle and bit on her like a horse, and f-bombs her with a horse brush and the handle of a horse whip (instead of the handle of a pitchfork, like some of the other reviewers’ version read). She doesn't want it, she's tired and beaten down and just leans over and lets him do what he wants. But we're supposed to think it's hot because she eventually orgasms?! About 3/4 through the book a tragedy happens on his ranch and he reveals a bit of backstory. Suddenly we are supposed to love him and think he is just a sad broken man who needs Mel to rescue him. I know he is a "Beast" and we are supposed to love him in the end when the "Beauty" rescues him, but instead she just gets beaten down, broken, and a shell of her former self. The last few paragraphs of the book fast-forward a couple years, and the treatment is still the same. She is sitting on the ground under the table, with him stuffing pudding in her face, and she says she doesn’t even remember the last time she used silverware. So bizarre!