I am not rating this book badly because of the contents. The story was interesting. The BDSM type sexual theme and too young people there are not my taste but I am not being a censor and not giving a bad review because I chose the wrong book for me. (However there are also being some bad continuity errors in this book). 
 I an annoyed because as a student, this is expensive for me, but the story is not at all complete. It is only 250 pages and I see no reason to be splitting it into three books except to fool people and try to force them to buy all books to get the money. There are many books less expensive and the same size as these three books added together as well as being much better. 
 If you want to read this book, my advice is to calculate the cost of all three books and think if it is worth it because the first book isn't a complete story. I'm not going to read the other two. 
 Also, since I have written a bad review, I should be completing it. This is another book in the genre of "MM" romance written by women for women. The characters and sex are being completely unrealistic to me as a gay man. The scene with the red haired slave though I found it to be being a bit sexy when I read it, is just now stupidly unrealistic. 
 The character "Laurent" is a women. She looks like a woman, behaves like a woman and isn't "Laurent" even a woman's name? I don't intend to read the other "volumes" of this book, but I would be very surprised if in the end, Damen and her don't have sex and Laurent is the "bottom". It is being written like the author has written a hetero-romance and then done a find and replace on gender pronouns to be tapping into the MM market. 
 And in the short story added to the end, the sheets of the slave are inspected for blood to see if she has had her first period. Except it is a boy. So ummmm, the sheets are inspected to see if he has had his first wet dream? Sickeningly stupid. 
 A real classic of the PE (penis envy) Genre. Loved by straight women who have sexual fantasies about being men. It has nothing to do with gay men.