I am concerned over the fact that its a incredible missrepresentation of BDSM and lifestyle like it. The Dominant in this is more of a manipulative and obsessive stalker then a Mentor/Teacher/Master.. A person who exorcises his own inner demons as leviathan put it. The person who wrote it had at the moment of writing, no real experience in it and just wrote what essentially was her rapefatnasy and flavored it with BDSM, trying to pass of knowing about it. What Leviathan and OP wrote is correct. I had a terribly uneasy feeling reading the thing and I know the book led to alot of women getting the wrong image of what a D/s relationship is about. I myself have been in the lifestyle for years, and there has been a recent influx of people that while welcomed, had a really skewed view of it. Granted, it isn't usually to difficult to speak with them and provide some insight to how things are meant to be. Pretty much everyone agrees Trust and agreement in a mutual benefit relationship is far more alluring then being a piece of meat for some domineering emotional tyrant.