I would like to throw my 5 cents (of Euro) in the frying pan ....

As you know I am an Italian and I live in Italy. I learned english at school and improved it working in West Africa (but with a germancompany). I believe that my understanding of written english is rather perfect (not so my ability in writing by myself).
My cultural background is quite good, coming from a humanistic oriented family (I was the black sheep that became engineer) and I enjoy reading BDSM novels in english since some years.

After these foreword, I must say that there are novels that I run through like a train, some where I start jumping whole sentences and others where I am not able to read over the first paragraph.

This depends on several factors: content, style and even tipographical format.

Just a word to the last point: stories without paragraphs and good punctuation are non readable ....

As fas as the content id concerned, this story was not among my favourites .... I like more or less consensual BDSM, no mutilations and snuff, no peculiar fetishes .... This story was very hard, snuffy, non-consensual (to a certain extent) and it contained a perticular fetish about depriving somebody of the capability of seing.

Nevertheless I read it with growing interest and appreciation.
I think it was not just a good BDSM story .... it was an excellent short novel, very well written, containing some hard, but good, SM pages (the electric torture and foot-whipping, for instance).

I agree with those who said it was a horror story .... Roald Dahl passed through my mind, and the old movie "the collectioner" ...

It was not an ordinary BDSM story, because when reading it, you could not enjoy the perils of the main character, but rather sympathize with her and suffer for her cruel destiny .... A happy ending would have been out of question ....

The story was well balanced and perfectly closed as a musical composition, while most BDSM stories, even the better ones always loose rythm and invention in the course of the narration ... and often get completely lost before the end.

Bravo, una storia emozionante e ben scritta

Kurt