This book's writing was not terrible, it would probably warrant a 2 star on it's own. The story is pretty much, "modern day ladies dragged against their will into a regressive world where they are treasured as a rarity (fertile women) as well as subjected to patriarchal rules and norms. They are forced to marry hunky, dreamy warrior men."

Ok, that sounds like a pretty common/believable fantasy for some people to have, so I wasn't going to critique or judge the book for reinforcing stereotypical gender norms or sexism. I don't see fictional fantasy fulfillment as particularly troublesome or anything.

But... for some reason the author decided, toward the end, to just suddenly attack gay men. Yeah. It was completely out if the blue. Why the attack on homosexuals?  And not only did the author attack  homosexuality---but  she wrote that forcing women into prostitution was not as bad as men choosing to consensually have sex with each other. Yeah.  WTF is wrong with this author? 

The hero's culture was supposedly good and healthy; so it had no bi/homosexuals in it or situational homosexuality :/ (yeah I think someone needs to explain to Autumn Dawn how homosexuality actually works...) the culture with homosexuals, however, was completely obliterated.

That honestly just sickened me when I read it. I was also squicked when the author wrote that men who had engaged in same-sex acts would not be allowed to have 'pure women' given to them.

From the book: "'Just because they're learned to debase their bodies doesn't mean they won't desire women, if they are offered. Unfortunately for them, they won't get the chance. Our laws and beliefs won't tolerate giving pure women to a twisted culture.'"

That just lost the story for me. Sorry, that's too much. It's just sickening and gross. Having women's bodies reduced to punishment/reward for men because Dagon's culture hates homosexuals? Not sexy. There were some other problems; especially with the writing and character development. There were a lot of editing mistakes as well, but since they may be corrected in future editions I didn't take them into account in my rating.

I would not recommend this book be read by anyone.