Reviewed by Kimberley
TITLE: Pure Innocence
SERIES: Pure #3
AUTHOR: Victoria Sue
PUBLISHER: Dark Hollows Press
LENGTH: 140 Pages
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They’d finally caught the madman who had been kidnapping, torturing and murdering submissives. Damon had sat in that warehouse, clutching Oliver, the boy barely alive, and somehow in the weeks that followed Damon never seemed to be able to let him go.
Oliver was broken, in body, mind, and spirit. And for the first time since he had brought him home from the hospital, Damon started questioning himself. Was he going to be enough for Oliver? If he could even find all the pieces of Oliver’s broken soul, could he mend them? Had the horrors that had ripped through Oliver left too many holes for Damon to repair? And finally, if he was going to be able to put Oliver back together, could he stop his own heart shattering in the process?
REVIEW:
In this third installment of the Pure series we read about Oliver’s journey towards psychological and physical healing after his horrific ordeal at the hands of the sadistic madman who kidnapped and tortured him.
The journey for Oliver is a hard one but he doesn’t have to go through it alone. He had Damon, the one who rescued him by his side. The healing process is long and hard. Oliver not only struggles to overcome what happened to him at the hands of his kidnapper, he also had a lifetime of abuse to overcome.
Of all of the characters in this series, Oliver’s story touched me the most. This young man has had such a hard life filled with abuse—physical, emotional and sexual, first at the hands of his mother and then this madman. If anyone deserved a HEA or even a HFN, it was Oliver.
Here is this young man who has gone through a great deal of physical, sexual and emotional abuse first at the hands of an alcoholic and drug addicted mother, then later at the hands of this madman in the guise of being a Dom practicing BDSM. Even though the BDSM lifestyle isn’t about abuse, it shouldn’t even have been considered at that point in his healing journey; shouldn’t have been a part of their time together and it wasn’t. I’m not saying that it shouldn’t have been a part of their lives ever, just not at that particular time. The author realized this and so concentrated more on Oliver’s healing process than the romance between him and Damon; she did an exceptional job with that.
Overall, Ms. Sue did a damn good job of integrating his mental and physical health and well being into the storyline in conjunction with the romantic development between Oliver and Damon.
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