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Mindgames Kindle Edition
Gabriel, on a mission of mercy, is horrified by what he finds when he arrives in Riviera, a land far from his home. So-called “humans,” bored and decadent, amuse themselves with the senseless torture of their slaves. Yet Gabriel finds unexpected friends. An artist named Animal, who notices everything except Rose, his slavegirl. And Mariah, a slave foisted on Gabriel when he unwittingly prevents her from escaping.
Mariah knows that Master Gabriel’s talk of a different way of life, in which slavery does not exist, is merely the latest and cruelest of the mindgames that humans have inflicted on her for her entire life. She must play along, but actually believing in it would bring disaster to her and to everyone she cares about.
Mindgames is about love, and friendship, and the potential for redemption. It is about how one person can change the world, or be destroyed by it.
Reviewers online call Mindgames “absolutely amazing. The perfect balance of substance and sex and never a dull moment.” “Simply magnificent.” “The writing is spare, clean and sprightly.” The writer “proves that writing is an art form that possesses the ability to transfix and transform the reader to faraway lands.” “I LOVE this story, and I think about it all the time.”
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 18, 2019
- File size1.7 MB
Product details
- ASIN : B07TC4XWM7
- Publication date : July 18, 2019
- Language : English
- File size : 1.7 MB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 525 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1097992349
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,774,605 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #7,789 in Science Fiction Erotica
- #50,772 in BDSM Erotica (Kindle Store)
- #52,134 in BDSM Erotica (Books)
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2025Post-apocalyptic future-dystopian speculative-fiction romance-pornography. Yeah, that’s my best description.
I admit that the whole romance genre isn’t my thing, so it’s hard for me to know if Mindgames slots in there neatly or not. I’m going to guess not. You have a weird back and forth between most of the actions in the novel being horrifying and with most of the others being sexy. And, in fact, there’s not a single sexy bit for the first 25% or so. Then there is this vast liminal space where the actions are objectively evil (and explicitly stated as such) yet your brain knows it’s not real and it becomes fodder for later sexy imaginings. And people have gender preferences but most people are at least somewhat bisexual and sexism and racism are absent.
Whatever it was, I had a hard time putting it down. The characters are fully drawn and interesting and quite different from each other. There’s tension between characters (including the apparently mandatory romance trope where two characters don’t get along, realize they are in love, but have a big fight which torpedoes the relationship before either can tell the other). But the tensions seem appropriate to the setting and aren’t manufactured for the sake of having conflict (one of my pet peeves).
Let’s talk about that setting. Gold's worldbuilding is remarkably complex and, while there are definitely holes, to be honest, I’ve read acclaimed fantasy and science fiction novels with bigger holes. The most interesting element to my mind, and one that Gold doesn’t call out explicitly, is that this is a post-scarcity society without money. The minority population of masters work because adults ought to do something with their lives but no one is forced to. Each master (or family) has a home and access to goods and food as needed. Gatekeepers exist to make sure no one hordes or spoils resources, but no one has to earn them.
The result of this is that no one owns anything. There is no personal property. Things are allotted to you. Your home is yours and no one can just move in and kick you out, but you don’t pay the crown or a landlord or a bank. Ditto your belongings. And your slaves are yours too, except they’re not. Hall monitors (more gatekeepers) are there to make sure you are taking care of your things and can just walk in to your private space whenever they wish. They usually ask permission, but there are cases where they have invaded and sent people to jail for doing things wrong.
You may choose the slave or slaves you want but it’s all temporary (there’s no concept of a “forever home” like with modern Americans and pets) and they live with you and do what you want, but they’re not really yours. Any other master can borrow them for a few moments, hours, or in one case, a full week without letting you know. Masters can dissuade but not stop any random stranger from abusing their slave; not even the royal family’s slaves are immune from mistreatment.
For slaves, life is brutal and traumatic. They function (more or less) only because their childhoods are not normal or loving but not overtly abusive and ultra-regimented and their post-peak hotness lives are usually lived out on the farms where the children are. Every interaction screamed PTSD to me, but of course it’s not, because there’s no “post” to it, it’s just survival.
Yet we have real people underneath all the scars and somehow they are still capable of love. Because otherwise, this would be romance with slavery as a backdrop (something I’d never wish to read, though American literature is filled with books like that) or it wouldn’t be romance at all. Yet, at its heart, it is.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2024This novel is so, so good and well-written and unique and I keep checking back to see if this author has written a new novel
No new novels…can’t find out anything else online…is she using a different pen name now?
Anyways, this book is really good and I hope she writes more
- Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2021I'm unsure what to make of this book, but waht I will say is that it is UNIQUE and that is so rare to find now days. I picked it up expecting an erotic romance, and while there was a lot of sex in it, it was the normal descriptive type sex found in erotic book. Thankfully the story stood up on it's own and carried me through despite the sexy part not being what I had expected.
I hope this author can improve their description of sex, because I really look forward to their next book.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2020At first, I wasn't sure this story was for me. I do enjoy reading in this genre, and I was aware of the book's explicit content, but the very high level of sexual violence was off-putting. I almost put it aside. But then, something happened. I began to care about all the characters, and I wanted to follow them to their happy endings. I also began to see the social commentary embedded in the story.
I would love to give this book 4 stars, but there are so many typos in the text, I just can't. I highly recommend that the author pay for a professional line edit of the manuscript, then re-release the book.
If you are especially sensitive to explicit sexual violence, then this story may not be for you. If a lot of typos drive you crazy, then this book is not for you, or at least until/unless it is line-edited and re-released. But, if you can get past all that, or it doesn't bother you, then Mindgames offers a cast of very sympathetic characters who all fight against a horrible system in their own way, and ultimately triumph. It offers hope that a terrible system can be undone by a few brave people.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2019This debut novel, Mindgames, promises many more hot summer night readings. The author has created a post-apocalypse landscape that is unlike any other. Imagine Hunger Games with a whip master (and much more!). Unless Harvey Weinstein is somehow involved, Mindgames might not make it into the movie theatres. At least not Cinemax. Mindgames takes off where Fifty Shades just begins. Only Mindgames has much more depth and is set in an alternative world. The characters are finely drawn as the relationships grow between hero, heroine and their friends and enemies. I see the possibility of sequels, too, as this futuristic world unfolds. Captain Kirk would love to land on this planet. So will you.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2019This book is kind of like if you took 50 Shades, but made it incredibly well-written and character-driven, and set it in a dystopian future. It is an adult book and not for the faint of heart (trigger warnings apply), but I loved it.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2022Torture porn in desperate need of an editor.