Daring Doesn’t Make it Good

Yes, a bit more of the S/M lit­er­a­ture. While it’s a genre that holds a cer­tain inter­est, this was nowhere near as com­pelling as Car­rie’s Sto­ry.

A few things both­ered me about it. First, I felt that Ms Corum crossed the line between dom­i­nance and bru­tal­i­ty. So sure, maybe that’s the point of fic­tion, to go beyond what we’d be com­fort­able with in real life, but it was more than just dis­com­fort, it was dis­taste I experienced.

Ms Corum’s writ­ing style seems to betray a cer­tain lazi­ness. Plot ele­ments appear sud­den­ly as though they were after­thoughts. After­thoughts are fine in writ­ing, where a writer has the oppor­tu­ni­ty to go back and weave the after­thought in to the rest of the sto­ry. Break­ing the Girl read like a first draft, full of promise if some­one would just go back into it and build on what’s good and make con­sis­tent what is not.