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Safe Word (2013)

by Molly Weatherfield(Favorite Author)

3.19 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1573449350 (ISBN13: 9781573449359)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Cleis Press

series

Carrie’s Story

review 1: Safe Word is less titillating than the first book, but it's more saturated with smart references to literature, linguistics, movies, and TV. Carrie's observations are more snide and mocking. The contrast of her high I.Q. against her emotional immaturity is jarring, but feels essentially true about a young twenty-something who's consciously choosing to buck conventional mores.Jonathan reveals himself to be an overgrown boy who's pretending to be some distorted version of a man, a revelation that's repeated with almost every master/mistress/madam. Their obsessive search for sensational experiences is a conceit of privilege. Surviving everyday life is automatically challenging for people who are not educated, wealthy or connected to powerful networks of influence.For me, the ... moreidea that all these educated, wealthy people invest so much time, effort and money in creating this alternate society was ultimately sad because it seems like a waste of talents and resources. The extremely dehumanizing behavior by these jaded sophisticates is a killjoy.Carrie's philosophy about her specific safe word is brilliant. Being an engaging erotic novel of ideas about the politics of sexual indulgence and the nature of power, pleasure and pain generated my three stars for Safe Word.
review 2: Sequel to Carrie's story...Maybe I would have liked this better if I'd read it in one fell swoop, but as it happened I went away in the middle and so had to pick up the threads when I returned. POSSIBLE SPOILER!!!Somehow this one seemed much less convincing than the first, and the terrible "crime" Jonathan commits by giving Carrie a letter as she begins her year of "apprenticeship" is hard to credit. Likewise I felt the sudden turnabout at the end, with the introduction of a new character and Carrie's ultimate decision, undermined the devotion which went a long way towards explaining Carrie's acceptance or even embracing of her fate. Jonathan remains a pretty sketchy character - and this is exacerbated towards the end, I feel. less

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