The Wild

You can buy the book from the authors website. Both Amazon and Barnes & Noble has banned it.

Title: The Wild
Author: K. Webster
Publisher: Self Published
Genre: Erotic Romance
Rating: 3***

My Thoughts: I am glad that I got this book finally to read. I wanted to read it cause the book was banned even though it was a top seller. What could possibly be that bad about it? This book for me didn't live up to the hype.

You are warned this book is not for the faint at heart or the sensitive. You are warned that it is dark and I guess by many peoples opinions it is but not by my definition.

Yes, the book is Taboo but if you consider the circumstances that these characters find themselves in, it can be understood how boundaries could be crossed even though in main stream society they aren't. In fact such Taboo things can get you put away in jail for a very long time.

I have read a lot of different erotica. And while this has a few select scenes where it gets rough it is not enough to cross boundaries. It is not even enough to be considered non consensual. Once again falling short of hearing how dark and twisted this tale is. I expected MORE out of this book. While the author does go into internal wars of the characters with themselves when you forget about the taboo part of it, this is truly nothing more than another love story like all the rest out there.

To me a dark book consist of non consent, violence, murder maybe without a just cause in it. Someone hanging on the edge of society that cant necessarily be explained away by reason. Something that shows a truer side of human nature at its darkest moments, fearful but unable to escape it and yet we are left with just enough to be able to sympathize with the character.  To still call them human.

The darker basic instincts make us uncomfortable because we know as humans we can reach that level. We have heard, we have seen it, there have been just causes for it but it still makes us cringe and want to deny such things.

 I enjoy K. Websters writing style and talent. Do I think she's a bad person for writing such a taboo story? No. I think she is a brave woman for writing a story that wanted to be told and shared with readers. Do I think it's right that her book was banned? No, because I don't believe in others having the right to censor what I read. This country isn't a dictatorship.  You are warned that this book is taboo and might not be for you, therefore you as an adult you have a responsibility to yourself whether or not to read it but you don't get that right to decide for me.

This book though is well written, the characters are extremely believable and likeable. They go through hardships that would make anyone feel defeated and want to give up and yet they conquer and survive and love thrives even in ways that it shouldn't that it makes you happy for them.