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Beschreibung
There is no consent under capitalism.
To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future.
Elisha Wilder’s family has been ruined by debt, handed down to them from previous generations. His mother never recovered from the Dociline she took during her term as a Docile, so when Elisha decides to try and erase the family’s debt himself, he swears he will never take the drug that took his mother from him.
Too bad his contract has been purchased by Alexander Bishop III, whose ultra-rich family is the brains (and money) behind Dociline and the entire Office of Debt Resolution. When Elisha refuses Dociline, Alex refuses to believe that his family’s crowning achievement could have any negative side effects―and is determined to turn Elisha into the perfect Docile without it.
Content warning: Docile contains forthright depictions and discussions of rape and sexual abuse.
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If you are going to buy a fake ID, why buy one with your real name on it? If he is trying to save his family, why doesn't he just buy them all fake ID's with different names on them? Then they can hide from the debt police! Especially if people in this world can just assume large amounts of debt to buy things they can't afford. Any reasonable person would just assume a new identity, not buy an ID with their real name on it. The start of this book made no sense to me. Also, how is a life of sex slavery different from going to debtor's prison? This book is saying that the slavery is better, because then you can fall in love. I did not understanding why when the guy was being interviewed by possible slave owners he didn't want to be picked by someone who would not be mean to him. The one woman wanted to buy him for her daughter, and asked him if he knew how to handle a woman. That clearly sounded like an opportunity where he would be more in control, because he is a man so he wouldn't get raped and could be less abused, but he didn't seem to want that. It went against common sense to me. This book seems to suffer from confusion about how you treat a lover vs. how you treat a slave, which is something that would never actually happen in real life. If you are having sex with a slave or even a prostitute why would you care what they thought? Especially when all the slaves are supposed to be on drugs to make them just do what you want. The slave owner is trying to teach the slave that the sex is all about the owner, but no one sensible would think otherwise so it's not a lesson that is needed. And the owner is just so burdened by all the work he will have to do to train his slave. And apparently it's the hardest job in the world, and it will be just so humiliating if he fails. I won't get to enjoy the sex with him because I have to teach him so many lessons in bed! This book is called Docile, about slaves who just do whatever you want. And I am confused, because the man has sold himself into slavery, but he keeps having thoughts about why are these people just touching me however they want, and do I really have to stand here and do what he just told me?
This book is really hard to rate. It wasn't a book you enjoyed in the way that you had fun while reading it (maybe some people think differently and that's okay too), more so that you were so invested in that world and characters, that you were feeling everything they were. Cause every time Elisha was hurt or sad my heart just broke. I think this book definitely had some weak parts. Like how can a drug exist for years, but nobody sees the side effects. And I would've loved to see a bit more of the old-Elisha before he went to be a Docile. Because every time his dad said he wanted the old-Elisha back, I was thinking 'Hmm don't really know him before'. The rating for this book isn't how much I enjoyed it but more how much I was feeling with the characters while reading it.
Ok so like I actually do not have the energy to write a well thought out review, but please know that I am insane about this. I expected a lot from this book and it delivered so well!! I really loved the first half, the second half was a little less interesting to me (even tho I am a law student lol but yeah the trial things were a little too long imo) but the ending pulled me back in :) i just. Unhealthy people doing unhealthy things i love to see it! And maybe i am not a romance hater (it's not a romance book but uhm sue me for not turning my shipping brain off), but yeah i just really liked Alex and Elisha :] re reading certain passages as we speak because they make me insane!! I'm sure there's a few things that I didn't like about it, but also, this is the fastest that I have ever read a 500 page book so I think the 5 stars are warranted anyways
This book probably robbed me of a few years.My girlfriend was the one who picked this book up and she made me abgeschlossen it. I finished it before her, in a matter of three days, at best.Docile by K.M. Szpara is a dystopian story about a society plunged in debt. You now inherit all your family’s debt and if you can’t pay? You’ll have to go to prison. A place no one wants to go. Instead you can also sign a contract with a rich person, sell yourself for a set amount of time, getting a set amount of money in return. You are now a Docile. Basically a slave. You still have rights, but only a handful. One of the rights allows you to demand Dociline, a drug making you follow all orders but it also makes you forget.Elisha, the protagonist sells his family’s debt in exchange for a lifelong contract. He doesn’t plan to take the drug that crippled his mother. Not even when he becomes the Docile of the man behind it, and refusing seems like the most improper thing to do.Okay, the story is…not everyone’s cup of tea, I get that. It had a lot of typical slave-fic elements, a well-known genre of fanfiction. But you know what? I didn’t mind. Tropes are tropes for a reason – because they work. I found it more inspiring that a story like this – queer, explicit, dealing with topics often considered too much of a taboo – got published. It’s that kind of steamy queer literature that I always wanted to write myself. Not a YA book but something written for adults.I found the characters very, very lovable in their own ways. They weren’t black and white but all shades of morally grey. They were well-built. They irked me, they made me laugh, cry, scream, and all the things in between. The writing was so beautiful, and the premise was something I imagine not too absurd to happen – especially not in the US. It wasn’t just mindlessly indulging in sex (though that was a part I liked quite a lot) but also criticizing a system, too. And the conclusion? I loved it.Of course, there were things that annoyed me. Maybe things went too smooth, were too predictable at times, but nevertheless I treasure this book. I abgeschlossen – like always – reviews on goodabgeschlossens and many I just couldn’t understand. Maybe people expected something from the book that it never planned on delivering. Maybe people didn’t know what they were getting themselves into. Even with the caption “There is no consent under capitalism” this is by far no anti-capitalism manifest, though it deals with the problems that arise from it. I think many people expected the book to be something else than it is. It’s more about the characters and less about pointing out the flaws of a system. Though, if you abgeschlossen between the lines, it delivers a lot of criticism. Just not straight-forward but through the suffering of the characters. 4.5/5
Beschreibung
There is no consent under capitalism.
To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future.
Elisha Wilder’s family has been ruined by debt, handed down to them from previous generations. His mother never recovered from the Dociline she took during her term as a Docile, so when Elisha decides to try and erase the family’s debt himself, he swears he will never take the drug that took his mother from him.
Too bad his contract has been purchased by Alexander Bishop III, whose ultra-rich family is the brains (and money) behind Dociline and the entire Office of Debt Resolution. When Elisha refuses Dociline, Alex refuses to believe that his family’s crowning achievement could have any negative side effects―and is determined to turn Elisha into the perfect Docile without it.
Content warning: Docile contains forthright depictions and discussions of rape and sexual abuse.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
If you are going to buy a fake ID, why buy one with your real name on it? If he is trying to save his family, why doesn't he just buy them all fake ID's with different names on them? Then they can hide from the debt police! Especially if people in this world can just assume large amounts of debt to buy things they can't afford. Any reasonable person would just assume a new identity, not buy an ID with their real name on it. The start of this book made no sense to me. Also, how is a life of sex slavery different from going to debtor's prison? This book is saying that the slavery is better, because then you can fall in love. I did not understanding why when the guy was being interviewed by possible slave owners he didn't want to be picked by someone who would not be mean to him. The one woman wanted to buy him for her daughter, and asked him if he knew how to handle a woman. That clearly sounded like an opportunity where he would be more in control, because he is a man so he wouldn't get raped and could be less abused, but he didn't seem to want that. It went against common sense to me. This book seems to suffer from confusion about how you treat a lover vs. how you treat a slave, which is something that would never actually happen in real life. If you are having sex with a slave or even a prostitute why would you care what they thought? Especially when all the slaves are supposed to be on drugs to make them just do what you want. The slave owner is trying to teach the slave that the sex is all about the owner, but no one sensible would think otherwise so it's not a lesson that is needed. And the owner is just so burdened by all the work he will have to do to train his slave. And apparently it's the hardest job in the world, and it will be just so humiliating if he fails. I won't get to enjoy the sex with him because I have to teach him so many lessons in bed! This book is called Docile, about slaves who just do whatever you want. And I am confused, because the man has sold himself into slavery, but he keeps having thoughts about why are these people just touching me however they want, and do I really have to stand here and do what he just told me?
This book is really hard to rate. It wasn't a book you enjoyed in the way that you had fun while reading it (maybe some people think differently and that's okay too), more so that you were so invested in that world and characters, that you were feeling everything they were. Cause every time Elisha was hurt or sad my heart just broke. I think this book definitely had some weak parts. Like how can a drug exist for years, but nobody sees the side effects. And I would've loved to see a bit more of the old-Elisha before he went to be a Docile. Because every time his dad said he wanted the old-Elisha back, I was thinking 'Hmm don't really know him before'. The rating for this book isn't how much I enjoyed it but more how much I was feeling with the characters while reading it.
Ok so like I actually do not have the energy to write a well thought out review, but please know that I am insane about this. I expected a lot from this book and it delivered so well!! I really loved the first half, the second half was a little less interesting to me (even tho I am a law student lol but yeah the trial things were a little too long imo) but the ending pulled me back in :) i just. Unhealthy people doing unhealthy things i love to see it! And maybe i am not a romance hater (it's not a romance book but uhm sue me for not turning my shipping brain off), but yeah i just really liked Alex and Elisha :] re reading certain passages as we speak because they make me insane!! I'm sure there's a few things that I didn't like about it, but also, this is the fastest that I have ever read a 500 page book so I think the 5 stars are warranted anyways
This book probably robbed me of a few years.My girlfriend was the one who picked this book up and she made me abgeschlossen it. I finished it before her, in a matter of three days, at best.Docile by K.M. Szpara is a dystopian story about a society plunged in debt. You now inherit all your family’s debt and if you can’t pay? You’ll have to go to prison. A place no one wants to go. Instead you can also sign a contract with a rich person, sell yourself for a set amount of time, getting a set amount of money in return. You are now a Docile. Basically a slave. You still have rights, but only a handful. One of the rights allows you to demand Dociline, a drug making you follow all orders but it also makes you forget.Elisha, the protagonist sells his family’s debt in exchange for a lifelong contract. He doesn’t plan to take the drug that crippled his mother. Not even when he becomes the Docile of the man behind it, and refusing seems like the most improper thing to do.Okay, the story is…not everyone’s cup of tea, I get that. It had a lot of typical slave-fic elements, a well-known genre of fanfiction. But you know what? I didn’t mind. Tropes are tropes for a reason – because they work. I found it more inspiring that a story like this – queer, explicit, dealing with topics often considered too much of a taboo – got published. It’s that kind of steamy queer literature that I always wanted to write myself. Not a YA book but something written for adults.I found the characters very, very lovable in their own ways. They weren’t black and white but all shades of morally grey. They were well-built. They irked me, they made me laugh, cry, scream, and all the things in between. The writing was so beautiful, and the premise was something I imagine not too absurd to happen – especially not in the US. It wasn’t just mindlessly indulging in sex (though that was a part I liked quite a lot) but also criticizing a system, too. And the conclusion? I loved it.Of course, there were things that annoyed me. Maybe things went too smooth, were too predictable at times, but nevertheless I treasure this book. I abgeschlossen – like always – reviews on goodabgeschlossens and many I just couldn’t understand. Maybe people expected something from the book that it never planned on delivering. Maybe people didn’t know what they were getting themselves into. Even with the caption “There is no consent under capitalism” this is by far no anti-capitalism manifest, though it deals with the problems that arise from it. I think many people expected the book to be something else than it is. It’s more about the characters and less about pointing out the flaws of a system. Though, if you abgeschlossen between the lines, it delivers a lot of criticism. Just not straight-forward but through the suffering of the characters. 4.5/5