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Guttersnipe (Guttersnipe)
by
Isa K. (Goodreads Author)
The City is sexless. The City is absolute. She will provide you with everything you could ever need, banish the uncertainty of hunger, disease and unemployment ... As long as you follow one simple rule: stay pure.
For three years Derek has been a sexual outlaw. He has evaded the police, escaped the elite who hunt him for sport, and supported himself with the help of powerfu...more
For three years Derek has been a sexual outlaw. He has evaded the police, escaped the elite who hunt him for sport, and supported himself with the help of powerfu...more
ebook, 1st Edition, 259 pages
Published
June 30th 2012
by Isa K. via Smashwords
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Guttersnipe is a speculative master-slave M/M fiction about a rebel turned sex slave named Derek who learns that he has been a pawn between feuding masters.To make matters worse, he learns that the feud has risen to a conspiracy which threatens the foundation of a society where sex is heavily regulated. With twists and turns and mind games, I expected the book to be full of excitement.
That expectation was not met.
The Characters
+++ Derek
He was the protagonist. Barring 1 or 2...more
Guttersnipe is a speculative master-slave M/M fiction about a rebel turned sex slave named Derek who learns that he has been a pawn between feuding masters.To make matters worse, he learns that the feud has risen to a conspiracy which threatens the foundation of a society where sex is heavily regulated. With twists and turns and mind games, I expected the book to be full of excitement.
That expectation was not met.
The Characters
+++ Derek
He was the protagonist. Barring 1 or 2...more
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The thinking human's m/m dub-con slave-fic
Guttersnipe is a nice subversion of slave-fics (Ai no Kusabi particularly) remixed with social commentary on (some facets of) Western culture’s approach to abstinence and purity.
This seems topical, with the growing US Republican war on women’s sexuality. Even here in NZ our fundamentalist Christian Family First political party just sponsored Dr Miriam Grossman to visit and critique NZ’s sex education programme in an effort to spook parents into supportin...more
Guttersnipe is a nice subversion of slave-fics (Ai no Kusabi particularly) remixed with social commentary on (some facets of) Western culture’s approach to abstinence and purity.
This seems topical, with the growing US Republican war on women’s sexuality. Even here in NZ our fundamentalist Christian Family First political party just sponsored Dr Miriam Grossman to visit and critique NZ’s sex education programme in an effort to spook parents into supportin...more
At some point, I lost my ability to suspend my disbelief and I kept looking askance at things.
There were also some missing punctuation marks here and there that kind of bothered me.
And while I'm at it, people "peek" over the arms of couches. "Peaking" over them would be rather odd, though potentially entertaining to witness.
It's interesting because the Marco thing is what yaoi tries and ultimately fails at - the sliding scale of Jerkass-ness. (hooray for tropes~!)
Yaoi attempts the rape-love fant...more
There were also some missing punctuation marks here and there that kind of bothered me.
And while I'm at it, people "peek" over the arms of couches. "Peaking" over them would be rather odd, though potentially entertaining to witness.
It's interesting because the Marco thing is what yaoi tries and ultimately fails at - the sliding scale of Jerkass-ness. (hooray for tropes~!)
Yaoi attempts the rape-love fant...more
Jul 03, 2012
Kate
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This book obviously defies non-spoilery reviews. Heh. Just as much as it defies being stuck with a neat category label. Those are both strengths and weaknesses, because here you have a lot of pieces of genre fiction trying hard to be something other than that. Is it dystopia? Is it slave fic? Is it romance? I would say "Yes, kind of" to all those questions. But then again I would have to say "No, not really" at the same time.
The story revolves around Derek, the poster boy for Angry Young Man. He...more
The story revolves around Derek, the poster boy for Angry Young Man. He...more
Mindfuckery is definitely involved.
I'm an emotional reader. To win me, you have to win my heart. To have me for life, you have to tug on my heart strings, then trample and beat on my heart, before slowly, gently and carefully rebuilding me.
Eve's review is pretty spot on, and I don't have too much to add. I found this piece to be more of a social commentary than she did, as I frequently found myself reflecting on various passages. No doubt about it, this book is Smart. I enjoyed having to think a...more
I'm an emotional reader. To win me, you have to win my heart. To have me for life, you have to tug on my heart strings, then trample and beat on my heart, before slowly, gently and carefully rebuilding me.
Eve's review is pretty spot on, and I don't have too much to add. I found this piece to be more of a social commentary than she did, as I frequently found myself reflecting on various passages. No doubt about it, this book is Smart. I enjoyed having to think a...more
I don't have a shelf for this...
The blurb is very accurate, no need to give away anymore of the story. Just that it's brilliant, and outside the box. Now excuse me while I go read Lords of the Gutter because I NEED MORE! LoL!
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What happens when a society takes a wrong turn, even if possibly for good reasons? Of course the upper echelon become corrupt, and horrific abuses happen, but how would one even begin to grasp the enormity of reigning it in?
There's not...more
The blurb is very accurate, no need to give away anymore of the story. Just that it's brilliant, and outside the box. Now excuse me while I go read Lords of the Gutter because I NEED MORE! LoL!
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What happens when a society takes a wrong turn, even if possibly for good reasons? Of course the upper echelon become corrupt, and horrific abuses happen, but how would one even begin to grasp the enormity of reigning it in?
There's not...more
2.5 stars
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This is a hard book to review. There were parts of it I enjoyed a great deal and parts of it that just left me feeling confused. Derek was not a hero in the traditional sense. He had a lack of empathy with other people, his behaviour (particularly at the start of the book) was selfish and cruel and bordering on sociopathic. During the course of the book, I couldn't feel him make any kind of emotional contact with anyone (view spoiler)...more
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The reason I’ve never been drawn to civil war fiction or to non-fic slave narratives, is that I’m not especially interested in social commentary on slavery. I like a slave fic that looks honestly at the underlying hypocrisy of the system and doesn’t threat slavery solely as a vehicle for romance, but to be honest, I read slave fic to satisfy my kinks, and really not for any other reason.
This book is not quite mm romance (although it is a little), not quite social commentary (although it is a lit...more
This book is not quite mm romance (although it is a little), not quite social commentary (although it is a lit...more
I've downloaded a 20% sample from Smashwords, but haven't even finished the 20%. The non-con scenes didn't arise any strong emotion in me, because I couldn't connect with either character. The descriptions concentrated on what they felt physically, but not much about their psyche. Derek as an 'defiant slave' was also disappointment. After three years of a life as one of the most wanted criminal I expected him to be smarter. To learn the world he was thrown in, to research his resource, to keep c...more
Dec 29, 2012
~Lei ~ Reading Is An Adventure~
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4 of 5 stars
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ee-2013-a-z-challenge,
ee-2013-rrrt-challenge,
character-abuse-survivor,
character-bad-boy-girl,
character-counselor-psychologist,
character-damaged-body,
character-rape-survivor,
character-older-guy,
genre-dark-erotica,
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outcome-bittersweet-ending,
outcome-unknown-unresolved,
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sexcontent-anal-play-sex,
sexcontent-bareback,
sexcontent-bdsm-elements,
sexcontent-masturbation,
sexcontent-menage-scene,
sexcontent-oral-play-sex,
sexcontent-public-sex,
sexcontent-rough,
sexual-mix-m-m,
sexual-mix-multiple-partners,
taboo-sex-slaves,
taboo-sexual-content-rape
3.5
I didn't find Derek particularly lovable but he's a pawn in more powerful men's cat and mouse games and I definitely found the story interesting and enjoyable.
As I read the book, I was reminded of the quote: “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”
― Lord Acton http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/40058...
Some editing quibbles. If you read this and enjoy, I highly recommend also reading
because you get a deeper understanding of Zack and Marco, Nick and Evelyn's and lastly Derek a...more
I didn't find Derek particularly lovable but he's a pawn in more powerful men's cat and mouse games and I definitely found the story interesting and enjoyable.
As I read the book, I was reminded of the quote: “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”
― Lord Acton http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/40058...
Some editing quibbles. If you read this and enjoy, I highly recommend also reading
because you get a deeper understanding of Zack and Marco, Nick and Evelyn's and lastly Derek a...more
Through no fault of the author, there are certain themes that just don't work for me. If I had realized this was slave fic, I wouldn't have even started it.
The only thing that keeps going thru my head is fucking amazing book! I love when that happens.
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