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Narrated by:
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Mark Sanderlin
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Vikas Adam
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By:
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K. M. Szpara
About this listen
K. M. Szpara's Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles.
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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com
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The nation as we know it is a thing of the past. With the male species on the verge of extinction, a society called the End Men is formed to save the world. Folsom Donahue is one of 12 men whose sole purpose is to repopulate the Regions. The endless days spent having sex with strangers leaves Folsom with an emptiness no amount of women, money, or status can fill. Until Gwen.
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- By Sassy Tiffany on 02-04-20
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Santori
- By: Maris Black
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Michael Kage Santori has just inherited a thriving hotel and millions of dollars. He’s poised to become an MMA champion. Things couldn’t be better between him and his college boy lover, Jamie Atwood - especially in the bedroom, where Jamie is more than eager to let Kage take out his aggressions on him. Kage seems to have it all, but success and happiness have come at a steep price. After all of the childhood trauma he endured at the hands of his controlling uncle, Peter Santori, it’s a miracle Kage has any shred of sanity left. And now, because of him, Jamie is a murderer.
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Oddly constructed but compelling serial installment
- By Cranky Reader on 04-13-19
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The Kiss Quotient
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- By: Helen Hoang
- Narrated by: Carly Robins
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Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases - a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with as well as way less experience in the dating department than the average 30-year-old. It doesn't help that she has Asperger's and that French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. She decides that she needs lots of practice - with a professional - which is why she hires escort Michael Phan.
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- By Emily Kenny on 08-22-18
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Fixed on You
- By: Laurelin Paige
- Narrated by: Carly Robins
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Stalking and restraining orders are a thing of Alayna Wither's past. With her MBA newly in hand, she has her future figured out - move up at the nightclub she works at and stay away from any guy who might trigger her obsessive love disorder. A perfect plan. But what Alayna didn't figure on is Hudson Pierce, the new owner of the nightclub. He's smart, rich, and gorgeous - the kind of guy Alayna knows to stay away from if she wants to keep her past tendencies in check. Except, Hudson's fixed his sights on her.
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- By karen on 06-04-14
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Sugar Daddy
- Sugar Bowl, Book 1
- By: Sawyer Bennett
- Narrated by: Christian Fox, Lucy Rivers
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Sela Halstead lost her innocence in a way that no 16-year-old should ever have to endure. She's spent years trying to forget that night, even while wondering about the identities of the monsters who brutalized her - until a telltale tattoo flashes across Sela's TV screen. The incriminating ink belongs to Jonathon Townsend, the millionaire founder of The Sugar Bowl, a website that matches rich older men with impressionable young women. Obsessed with revenge, Sela infiltrates Townsend's world....
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Hurt so Good!!! Holy Cliffhanger but SO worth it!
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 07-20-16
By: Sawyer Bennett
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Misadventures of a City Girl
- Misadventures, Book 1
- By: Meredith Wild, Chelle Bliss
- Narrated by: Jennifer Mack, Lance Greenfield
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Fresh off a divorce from a Hollywood hotshot, Madison Atwood needs an escape. With the paparazzi fresh on her heels and her love life splashed on every tabloid, she runs away to a swanky retreat in Northern California. Avalon Springs is the mountainside haven she needs to find herself again. Luke Dawson lives off the grid, preferring solitude to society. When he finds a beautiful woman soaking in the hot springs on his property, he can't stop himself from watching her. She captures his attention, but she's just a city girl - a beautiful distraction disturbing the peace.
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- By Cathy Landerman on 09-21-17
By: Meredith Wild, and others
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Dubious
- The Loan Shark Duet, Book 1
- By: Charmaine Pauls
- Narrated by: Lee Turner Smith, Adara Stevens
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I'm a loan shark. Breaking people is in my blood. The Haynes were supposed to be a straightforward job. Go in and pull the trigger twice. One bullet for Charlie, one for his sister. But when I saw Valentina, I wanted her. Only, in our world, those who owe us don't get second chances. No way in hell will my mother let her live. So I devised a plan to keep her. It's depraved. It's immoral. It's dubious. It's perfect. Just like her.
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This book is racist.
- By Tayboobear on 09-26-19
By: Charmaine Pauls
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Royally Not Ready
- By: Meghan Quinn
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An unexpected steamy yet laugh-out-loud royal romance.
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✫✫ 4 Stars ✫✫
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 08-12-22
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The Ending I Want
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Taylor Shaw had the perfect life - until she was 16. That was when everything changed. From that moment on, life went from bad to worse...to the worst. After recovering from a brain tumor, months later, she suffers the tragic loss of her whole family. Since that fateful day, she's been coasting through life. Now the brain tumor has returned, and Taylor decides she's had enough. She's going to take her fate into her own hands. No more hospitals. No more surgeries. No more anything.
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- By Smitten with Reading on 07-06-17
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Toxic
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Phoebe St. Claire has devoted herself to saving her family's hotel empire, but her best efforts have not been good enough. With her whole world in turmoil, the tenacious go-getter turns to the once love of her life. Far from innocent, Jeremy McQueen was the guy from the wrong side of the tracks who her parents would never have approved of. Their years apart have only made the sexy bad boy more irresistible than ever-and their reunion is explosive.
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One InTOXICating love story!
- By Laura McMillin on 10-09-15
By: Kim Karr
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The Wrong/Right Man
- By: Aurora Rose Reynolds
- Narrated by: Maya Starling
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Waking up to a text asking why you stood up your blind date is not the best way to start the day, especially when the man in question is standing half-dressed in your kitchen. Maybe Dakota Newton shouldn’t have assumed the gorgeous man with a devastating smile standing outside the coffee shop was her date. She probably - okay, she definitely shouldn’t have slept with him, regardless of how hot the chemistry between them was. But how could she have known Mr. Right was actually Mr. Wrong?
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the Right Man
- By bookcrazy_heather on 11-05-20
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Betrayal
- Infidelity, Book 1
- By: Aleatha Romig
- Narrated by: Samantha Prescott, Brian Pallino
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One week. No future. No past. No more. Alexandria Collins has one week to live carefree - no ghosts of her past or pressures of her future haunting her. Reinventing herself as "Charli", she is knocked off her feet by a sexy, mysterious man who brings her pleasure like she never imagined. With her heart at stake, she forgets that decisions made in the dark of night reappear in the bright light of day.
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AR IS A MAESTRO AT COMPLEX COMPELLING STORYTELLING
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 04-06-16
By: Aleatha Romig
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Nappily Ever After
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- By: Trisha R. Thomas
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Venus Johnston has a great job and a long-term, live-in boyfriend who happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous doctor. She also has a weekly beauty-parlor date to keep her long, nappy hair slick and straight. But the tedious hours and harsh chemicals in the salon have long grated on Venus. One frustrating day, she trades in the long hair for a dramatically short, natural cut and sends her commitment-balking boyfriend packing. It's a bold declaration of independence and one that has effects she never could have imagined.
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Great
- By Laura K. on 08-21-09
By: Trisha R. Thomas
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Beautiful Oblivion
- Maddox Brothers, Book 1
- By: Jamie McGuire
- Narrated by: Phoebe Strole
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Trenton Maddox was the king of Eastern State University, dating co-eds before he even graduated high school. His friends wanted to be him, and women wanted to tame him, but after a tragic accident turned his world upside down, Trenton leaves campus to come to grips with the crushing guilt. Eighteen months later, Trenton is living at home with his widower father, and works full-time at a local tattoo parlor to help with the bills. Just when he thinks his life is returning to normal, he notices Cami sitting alone at a table at The Red.
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Boring, Cliched, Annoying
- By Allison on 07-14-14
By: Jamie McGuire
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- Elain
- 06-13-20
Not sure about this one.
The first third of this book kept reminding me of Rieko Yoshihara's "The Spaces Between". But, strangely enough the characters in her twisted world of forbidden emotions are much more alive. The punishments are immediate and brutal, and when rape happens, noone is left to doubt it. And still practically everyone manages to stay themselves and constantly break the rules. Here, I found the quick disintegration of Elisha's personality almost unbelievable. I guess, the story demanded it, but still...
Without the catchphrase "there is no consent under capitalism" I would not have guessed this book was about capitalism. Though it definitely raises interesting questions about freedom of choice in any relationship and it is an engrossing read.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-30-23
Great performances
Really enjoyed the performances. The story was better on the first half than the second.
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- Unquietly Me
- 05-09-20
Best book I’ve read/listened to in 2020 so far
The more I think about this book the more I don’t know what to think about it. At the same time, I have so many thoughts about this book I don’t know how to express all those thoughts without writing a whole essay, because this is the kind of book that I believe asks for critical thinking and analysis to get a solid understanding of what it’s saying and what it means.
I can say for certain though that this is the best book I’ve read/listened to in 2020 so far. Unfortunately, I’ve only read 13 due to Covid making it hard for me to concentrate and sleep. I can also say that this book made me cry a lot and feel a lot of things. I can’t say it gave me “all the feels,” because I didn’t feel the happiness and elation a romance novel would produce. But I loved how this book made me feel big emotions and think about it days after I’d finished reading it.
I liked the ambiguous ending. I don’t know if Alex or Elisha should be together, but I do think Alex won’t ever hurt Elisha again. I think Elisha should take as much time as he needs to be a full human being and fully self-aware. What he went through was so sad and heartbreaking, yet I also felt Alex’s angst. I do understand how trapped Alex felt, but I hated how Elisha had to suffer because of Alex’s cowardice.
So, yeah, I think Alex was a coward. He was addicted to his privilege and afraid of his father. In the end, he may have stood up and fought for Elisha, freeing himself at the same time. It was a win-win for him. He wasn’t impoverished and he wasn’t “imprisoned” or institutionalized. He may have lost his job, but it wasn’t the end of the world for him. I kinda hated that his voice was stronger than Elisha’s in the end, that he got the last word, because it meant that Elisha wasn’t completely free and wasn’t completely able to speak for himself. But I think that was the author’s point.
I really liked the freedom and joy Elisha felt when he was with Onyx and their uncomplicated friendship, though their relationship began in such a disturbing setting. This book contained moral ambiguity in a horrifyingly one-dimensional, regimented world.
I feel so sad for Elisha, what happened to him and how he became, and hope he does regain complete self-autonomy and agency. The author did such a good job communicating what Elisha and Alex went through and how they felt that I couldn’t help but sympathize with both of them.
This book is like a horror story in some ways and could perhaps provide a lens through which we can view our own world and circumstances especially here in the United States during Covid. Where some Americans are forced to work in unsafe and life-threatening conditions just to survive, while others on the frontline are working in unsafe conditions due to poor public policy and a corrupt administration, whose only goal is to win re-election, stay in power, and enrich themselves, their donors, and their cronies.
Finally, I have to say, the audiobook narration completely sold the story to me and bumped my review up to 5 stars.
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- k93
- 01-28-23
Not for everyone, but I absolutely loved it
Finished listening to this a couple of weeks ago, and am still thinking about it. I normally listen to audiobooks during commutes; every so often, a novel draws me in so much that I continue listening for hours even after I get home. This was one of those. The dual narration was excellent, and very convincing; it really drew me into the minds and lives of the main characters. I found them both intriguing and likeable. I also really enjoyed how environments, clothing, etc. were described here - this is the type of thing that can get boring for me in a story when overdone, but it worked perfectly here for the world-building.
I understand how some could mistake this novel for mere BDSM erotica - indeed, there are a number of extended gay sex scenes - and I found them super-hot despite being heterosexual, LOL. But it's so much more than that. Another review, I think, called this a sexual parable of capitalism - and I couldn't agree more. Listening to this novel while considering it as a metaphor for the direction modern capitalism is taking is a perspective I found penetrating (pun intended, lol) and quite chilling. It is sci-fi, but it's... unsettlingly believable. If you ever worked exhausting, back-breaking labor that barely made a dent in your debts, while working for a billionaire, you may find a lot to relate to on a psychological level (or, I sure did, anyway.)
The only negatives I noticed were a few minor details that detracted from the believability of the story (I don't think anyone could realistically learn to play piano that well in 6 months... lol). But these were very minor flaws. Overall, this is an absorbing story with much more depth than may initially appear, and I will likely go back to it in the future. Definitely looking forward to hearing more from this author!
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- Casey
- 07-05-20
Graphic, insightful & nuanced. Read review first!
Let’s get it out-of-the-way first, yes this book has MANY scenes of graphic male non-consensual gay sex/rape, so if that is not something you can read, move on immediately!
The story is a highly topical and a chilling future vision of what capitalism, the medical industry, consent and the incredible selfishness I’ve seen in Americans, especially during this pandemic, could foretell. It's complex and propelled me at a rate of reading I haven’t experienced in months. I was invested in all the characters, even the ones with questionable or down right horrific motives. The world that is created is textured and the style of writing visceral (down to the descriptions of clothes, skin, environments). I haven't felt this immersed in a world in quite some time and I'd say one the books best attributes.
As I listened to the audiobook, the narration is some of the best I’ve heard hands-down. The story is told from two POVs and two readers are used to voice the main characters. The voice actors were perfectly selected and really helped in conveying the characters physical and emotional attributes as well as the inherent power differentials. At first I was disarmed by one of the readers, when this happens I find that after finishing the book I realize this is a sign that Im going to love it. This really added texture to the book that I wasn't expecting and I was constantly excited to hear the voices change.
I find it hard to find LGBTQ science fiction books that are written with subtly and nuance and that focus on world building as well as character development (what I want from sci-fi). I put this book on par with the excitement I feel for TJ Klune or Becky Chambers books where character development is everything but the world that is built is highly realized and transporting.
This book is graphic, but very insightful and nuanced and the point of the highly sexualized environment is the ultimate storytelling device and is not just for titillation, although there is some of that too. I cannot recommend it highly enough if the subject matter and themes interest you and you can deal with or are interested in the graphic sexual nature of the book.
I did however have one issue: I found the way people of color were constantly called out as "black" when describing characters very odd. This was not done for apparently Asian characters (last names being typical of Asian decent) or white characters. I found this very perplexing and questionable. I’m unsure of the motives for calling this out more than a couple of times in the book. I'm trying to be more sensitive in this arena, and not someone who was normally looking for issues, so it was very obvious for me to have noticed this. Hopefully the author will hear the comments about this and amend this book as it would be a shame to an otherwise excellent story.
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- Brittany Dorkin
- 06-21-20
all over the place
the book went from a dystopia to a steamy romance to talks of consent. it's a rollercoaster.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-14-20
More than it seems
An interesting exploration of consent and capitalism, and not to be dismissed at first glance. It explores many different things (abusive relationships, the exploitation and dehumanization of the poor, recovery and more) in away that seems meant to draw in people who maybe normally wouldn’t think too much about it. Even the sex scenes are written in such away that one is completely there with the main characters and his emotions about it, be they confusion/conflicting, disgust and fear, or playful confidence and comfort with a friend.
A hugely relevant book for this age and an important reflection on today’s America.
Not just a porno nor a piece of watt pad self inserted fanfic, though easily dismissed as such on first glance. Please don’t dismiss it.
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- Kindle Customer
- 05-09-21
I hate writing here
I really enjoyed this book. it had ne in a roller-coaster of emotions. I just hoped for a better ending...for Alex. but still not bad.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-26-21
Amazing book
This is 1 of the best books I’ve encountered. The 2 actors were dead on right for these roles. Their voices are perfect & their abilities allowed for nuances from both regarding the mix of emotions felt by both characters. I cannot recommend this book enough!
You will be enticed, enthralled & yes, a bit guilty for enjoying the flood of sensations
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- Donald
- 08-27-21
Surprisingly awesome...
So, when I began listening to this story I instantly did not like the premise of the story...but, I could not stop listening. As the story developed I became enthralled with Elisha and the tenacity he garnered to help his family out. As Alex was introduced, I thought initially he was going to be a good guy but he turned out to be a rotten person...well, not so fast there bucko. The emotional rollercoaster that this author put me on had me all over the place. At the end of the day, the only thing I was certain of was I wanted to smack the father...all the other characters presented with such an emotional and complicated conundrum...I just don't know. What I do know is that this was a great story and I am glad that I ignored my inner critic and mustard through...I am better now for having included this work of fiction into my internal library. Awesome!!!
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