3.5 stars 
 It's pretty well written, though the prose is a bit on the pedestrian side. The cruelty got repetitive even for me--and that's saying a lot ;-p The villains kind of spent the whole story twirling their mustaches. The ending was so abrupt I was trying to flip the page on my Kindle and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. 
 I realize those are all negative things, but I actually did rather enjoy this story. Plus, it's free, which is great. God knows it pushed all my kinkarific buttons and pushed them hard :D And once the Neko was free, the story got really compelling really fast. His traveling companion was by far the most fleshed-out and interesting character in the whole book. I'd love to read more about them as a couple.