A Shade Better

The Fifty Shades of Grey tide got my interest and I bought the entire trilogy. I can understand what captured the imagination of the many buyers, but, in my opinion, the story was overwritten and, as we now know, a derivative from the Twilight (Stephanie Meyer) saga. I’m happy for E. L. James, the phenomenal sales and, what’s more important, the dialog it created. I know the titillation value attracted many buyers, but the story is not really that complex, almost didactic in scope.

Last night, I finished reading Edge Play X by M. Jarrett Wilson. Take Fifty Shades and ratchet it up a few notches, add better vocabulary, more complex characters and a story requiring  you to think, and you’ll get closer to Edge Play X.

Edge Play X also uses BDSM as a device, but here it’s much more part of the story. The central character, X, a Dominatrix, is also an artist, but ‘allows’ herself to be hired out by those wishing to rôle play a submissive. We meet her as she’s being kidnapped by a CIA agent, who asks her to set up a multi-billionaire for possible blackmail.

While it seems the main theme breathes as class wars: authority figures, the extreme rich and recognition, there are other forces working behind the scenes, which wrap the above within its confine.

Edge Play X is a much more cogent book, than what you may expect and it takes the reader on an intelligent journey, one requiring the reader to think and not be passive.