Status Updates From Resistance (Power Play, #1)

Jonathan is not in control and is angry. Brandon remains stubborn. And this is not sexy, looking more like rape.

After Brandon’s rant, hate is very obvious. Jonathan hits him. This is meandering into abuse territory. No one is having fun here.

And again the money is the crux of the situation. To Brandon this is transactional and he feels like white so he won’t bend to Jonathan.

‘It’s my job to understand you, inside and out.’ Well he’s failing miserably. Instead of looking for another avenue to reach Brandon and break through his stubbornness, Jonathan keeps increasing torture threshold and starving Brandon.

Brandon is associating Jonathan with his abusive father. This is heading in wrong direction. Brandon needs to abandon ship for his mental health.

Geez more enemas. Is this erotic fiction or medical textbook?? And ‘water the grass’ constantly coming up. My patience is wearing thin.

Money should not have been brought into this equation. It’s driving force not the human connection or discovery of self/hidden desires. Sounds like Jonathan trying to brainwash Brandon into believing he’s submissive who likes pain. But Brandon only suffering because of the money.

Brandon has not eaten in 5 days and Jonathan can’t figure out a way to solve this issue. Is he a good Dom?? All he does is threaten to end contract.

Omg more enema talk.

And now Jonathan is breaking promises he made. Promised not to choke Brandon but that’s what he’s doing. How is trust supposed to build here?

“You don’t want to eat my food, fine. But you will take nourishment from me one way or another.” Caloric content in sperm is not enough to fulfill daily nutritional requirements. Jonathan failed to feed Brandon. For someone who is supposed to care about Brandon’s wellbeing he’s doing terrible job.

And now he decides what’s an involuntary reaction and what isn’t? Considering Brandon’s abusive past his involuntary reactions would be different.

Brandon safeworded but Jonathan deemed it invalid. Another red flag this is not looking good.

Sexy factor just dropped to 0. I don’t want to read about enemas and its results.

Jonathan is going about business as usual not taking time to explain anything to Brandon. He has no experience with newbies, he’s not teaching just doing things Brandon is unprepared for. Feels unsafe.

Stupidly Brandon agreed to slave contract because he wants that 3 million after contract over. Only thing he said no to was blood play. Contact is unfair. How can you ask newbie to set limits when he doesn’t know what the limits are?

Jonathan is sounding very cohesive pushing Brandon into 6 month slave contract. He gives Brandon safe word but Jonathan decides when it’s valid. Brandon is total newbie to submission, he keeps denying he is one but Jonathan wants a total power exchange set up. Lots of red flags Brandon should run fast and far.

F….

Jonathan is a mean motherf and bran is too proud for his own good

Damn this book is a lot.

This dude Johnathan is apparently a well seasoned dominant, however, he picks up Brandon who knows NOTHING about the BDSM world and has him sign a contract that he will live with him as a 24/7 submissive without even so much as a crash course in BDSM. I'm actually having a really difficult time stomaching this because Johnathan the sadist just ignored a safeword and I'm not loving that.