Fell short of expectations
Sigh...I just ran into a bunch of books that didn't do it for me...
This one had "the beast" just about shredding beauty to death while in the middle of bloodletting sex.
But the erotica and the details were so muted it really destroyed the "erotic" nature of the book.
There is a right way and a wrong way to deal with consensual torture sex....This was the wrong way.