Comfort Food by Kitty Thomas

Book Review

Title: Comfort Food by Kitty Thomas

Genre: Dark, Romance, Erotic

Rating: 4.25 Stars

Comfort Food was a dark story that looks into the psychology of ownership through a twisted romance and I found it to be gripping and engaging from the first page to the last. We are following a self-help guru, Emily Vargas after she is kidnapped and essentially trained to be a sex slave for the unnamed Master. At first Emily is obviously afraid but she quickly settles into a routine with her Master and begins learning what he wants and expects from her and consequently deals with both the rewards and punishment. Unlike most BDSM based romance novels the pain isn’t the punishment it is the lack of human contact so for Emily, chicken noodle soup the food she is fed in her cell becomes a symbol of punishment while any physical contact, pleasurable or painful becomes the rewards.

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Their relationship continues for months with Emily settling into life as a slave and becoming happy with her routine and her life with Master although he never speaks to her and we later find out this is because he is mute and uses sign language to communicate which Emily actually knows because her sister was deaf. However, the time eventually comes where Master is letting her go and Emily doesn’t want to leave but he explains through a journal why he took her and his perspective on everything that has happened since he kidnapped her. Emily does end up leaving and returning home despite being declared dead and finds that even though she is in therapy and taking drugs she feels more caged than ever and wants nothing more than return to her Master.

As Emily made reverse directions from where Master held her she eventually makes the decision to return to him and convinces him that he is what she really wants and he relents as he never stopped wanting her as he only wanted what was best for her and they return to their previous arrangement although with more communication between them now he knows that Emily can understands sign language even if she doesn’t use it as much. Emily doesn’t just disappear again though, she actually writes a letter to her parents explaining how she has felt being separated from her Master and how she longed to return to him which she has now done and that she will not be contacting them again. Overall, Comfort Food was a dark but there were a lot of psychological elements explored that made the book very gripping to read and I did enjoy the disability rep with Master being mute and how Thomas explores their relationship over time was amazing.

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