~MILD SPOILER ALERT and TRIGGER WARNING~
My co-authors and I purposely wrote our books for Human Surrender with the idea of "dark non-con" in mind. That had been Alta's vision for the set and we were all excited to try it out. I think I can safely say we all may have shocked ourselves with what came out!
At once point, while we were still writing, Sue Lyndon asked, "Okay, can I ask... what is the harshest thing your hero does to your heroine in your story?"
I confessed, "There is one moment that I'm a little nervous about where he yanks her leash and it pulls her off her feet and hurts her neck. I may have gone too far with that one..."
Aubrey Cara replied that she hadn't been bothered by those scenes when she beta read my book, but the face-slapping had surprised her, but she went with it.
Sue's concern in her own story was about the hero threatening to beat her bloody (that's common in her alien's culture). I told her it sounded hot as long as he didn't actually do it. :)
Alta said about her hero, "He doesn't exactly whip her, but the belt he uses to choke her out, he uses extremely harsh on her. Yeah...I'm taking this to a whole new level."
Kallista posted, "Are we all a little twisted? The twins capture my heroine and take out their pain and anger on her in the beginning, punishing her repeatedly, forcing her to give them blow jobs and fucking her in the ass because they think she was part of the pirate crew [who hurt them]."
Aubrey's response was to that, "Color me intrigued." LOL!
I had one beta reader tell me she couldn't get through the set because it was too dark. I was not at all offended-- I totally understand about not wanting to go there!
I'm curious, for those of you who have now read Human Surrender (or those who haven't, but have read books that pushed your limits)-- which scenes or elements were too much for you? Were they the ones we worried about, or was it something else?
As always, I love hearing from you.
Yours in kink, Renee |
