First off, it's a teacher-student age-gap romance, with heavy BDSM undercurrents.
So if that triggers anyone, here's your chance to skip the review.
Now, with that trigger warning out of the way, let's dive into an erotic tome that's perfect for those who like to think and get themselves off at the same time... I wish I was joking. This book was... a lot, and I mean that in many ways. Let me explain.
For one thing, I mean it literally. It weighs in at 316 pages, which is not what you'd expect from the "oh-look-it's-a-brainless-erotica" cover art and campy title. Eleven chapters and an epilogue, and each chapter averaged 26 pages. There's a lot of story here.
For another thing, it's "a lot" in terms of really, really dark spice. The FMC, an 18-year-old prep school student with a history of suicide attempts and SERIOUS daddy issues, spends about half of the book either on the edge of an orgasm or denied one (that might count as a spoiler, actually), thanks to the oh-so-deliciously cruel machinations of her sadistic (and apparently rich, somehow?) literature teacher, who has rather handily figured out that she's both a masochist and a nymphomaniac.
Also, there's "a lot" of really heady, really deep psycho-philosophical discourse on gender psychology in between orgasms-in-print. It's like... watching a feminist and a misogynist debate one another in between sessions with her bent over his desk (and spoiler alert, the misogynist wins), though considering the FMC hates women, including herself, I'm not really sure if that analogy holds up. Anyway... the way the MMC weasels literature assignments on real-world erotic classics into his illicit game where he's slowly getting inside the FMC's mind, and the way the characters actually have pretty provocative debates about them in his classroom (before heading off to his office for, well, exactly what you'd expect from the cover) was a little surprising from what I thought was going to be a "turn-off-your-brain-and-enjoy-a-bunch-of-steamy-rough-sex-scenes" book. And to be honest, I kind of liked it...
...once I got used to it.
The first chapter's a little slow I'll admit, and I certainly would not recommend it to anyone who likes "girl power" literotica. Oh, and the plot -yeah, it has one- takes a SERIOUS left turn into mystery/horror/psych-thriller territory as soon as a yearbook from an earlier year comes into play. But it does actually manage to end with what the characters would all consider a happy ending (and a joke so campy I actually groaned out loud, though the truth is I wish I'd been the one to come up with it).
In short, if you like teacher/student age-gap erotica, lots of spanking, and a heavy dose of the "messed up girl needs to get her mind right the hard way at the rough hands of an older man" trope a la 'Black Snake Moan,' this book puts them all in one place and manages to give you a literary commentary on Nabokov, De Sade and Reage while it's at it.