The Starlight Rite--Cherise Sinclair

Description:

“Genre: BDSM Futuristic Science Fiction
Her voice is known throughout the galaxy; her face is completely unknown.
Fleeing her monstrous husband back on puritanical Earth and the police assassins he's hired, singer Mella Archer becomes stranded on the frontier planet of Nexus. Desperate to survive, she picks the wrong target--Dain, the head of planetary security.
Dain is amused by the attempted theft, and when Mella is sentenced to serve time indentured as a bedroom slave, he buys her contract. As he introduces the repressed Earther to the pleasures of sex with a dominating warrior, he slowly comes to realize that the little thief has stolen his heart.
When the monster arrives on Nexus and has lunch with Dain, Mella is panic-stricken. Her owner must be part of the conspiracy to kill her, and it will only be a matter of time before the monster discovers that she’s still alive. She attempts to escape. She fails. Embittered by her lies and mistrust, Dain returns her to Indenture Hall to be sold again.
Now the monster has found her. And she has nowhere left to run...

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, BDSM theme and elements (including/not limited to: bondage, caning, spanking), dubious consent.”

I loved this book. I mean the genre says it all “BDSM Futuristic Science Fiction”. Obviously from the genre we can imply that this NOT SUITABLE for those under the age of 18. It definitely is not, nope, not suitable. Cherise Sinclair is probably one of the best BDSM writers out there. I originally found her though her Shadowlands series. Those are addictive and wonderful, but once I was finished with those I looked into her other books.  This one sort of fills all the requirements for a random afternoon/evening read. A hunky Alpha male, a different world with different cultures, a young woman unwilling to conform and sex. Really well rounded in that sense.

Now to the nit-picking.  Mella comes from Earth but is charged of a crime on Nexus where she becomes an unshuline or sex slave. Well in the first moments with Dain, he goes through her body parts and tells her the word in his language.  BUT then we come to find out that sex is almost taboo on Earth and Mella (who was married) hadn’t actually seen or felt any of the goods. So how on earth (heehee) do the translated words mean the “dirty words” (cock, pussy, etc.)?  For a society so sexually repressed they sure do get off on some of the more vulgar words. I mean they could have called it “her precious flower” or something like that but NOOOO.  That is really the only issue I found while reading this book. It was like she wanted to be “dirty” while using the different language but it didn’t fit in with how her worlds were described. Like I said before, it was the nit-picking.

Just a little bit more on the story, I thought that the romance developed in a way that eliminates Stockholm Syndrome, which I feel like a lot of sex slave stories go in that direction. Dain is a very strict law-abiding man and he does right by Mella. Their relationship while starting out sexual expands to more than that. Quite a bit of it due to his dominant personality, he wanted to know her concerns and fears. In doing so they both opened up to each other, reaching a level of trust that neither expected and of course that trust was tested by being pushed to it limits.  The story is beautifully woven for a storyline focused mainly on the sex. There was also more storyline in this book than some of her others. Sex may be a main part but it is not the storyline, whereas some of her books sex is the story line.