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Taming the Beast

by Emily Maguire

A return to a destructive first attachment

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A return to a destructive first attachment

Sarah Clark’s relationship with her English teacher begins when she is fourteen, and the publisher’s description identifies the affair as illegal and damaging. In its aftermath, Sarah seeks to recapture its intensity through further sexual encounters; seven years later, Carr’s return draws her back into the same volatile bond. The novel’s central concerns include the lasting imprint of an exploitative relationship, grief and longing, and Sarah’s struggle to understand her own desires and agency. The source frames the story as adult historical erotica, though its premise is set in a modern context.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adult readers interested in fiction about the long-term effects of an exploitative relationship.
  • Readers seeking adult fiction that examines sexual desire, grief, and agency.
  • Readers interested in stories about a character revisiting a formative, damaging attachment.

Themes

Exploitation and power imbalanceGrief and longingSexual desire and self-understandingAgency and harmful attachments

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Book overview

At the tender age of fourteen, Sarah Clark is seduced by her thirty-eight-year-old English teacher, Daniel Carr, and becomes entangled in an illegal, erotic, passionate, and dangerous affair—a vicious meeting of minds and bodies that ends badly. Devastated by grief and longing, Sarah embarks upon a series of meaningless self-abasing sexual encounters, hoping to reclaim the intensity of that first relationship. Then, seven years later, Carr unexpectedly returns and Sarah is drawn again into a destructive coupling. Now that she is no longer an innocent young girl, is she strong enough to finally tame the beast within her?

A modern Lolita, Taming the Beast is an emotionally unflinching and alluring tale that introduces a powerful new writer.

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