The Flesh Cartel by Rachel Haimowitz
General Genres & Darkness Level - Basic info & Content
Darkness Level 6
Cartel
Contemporary
Gay M/M
Horror
Human Trafficking
Pitch Black
Psychological/Mind Fuck
Tropes & Triggers - Although I try my hardest not to include any spoilers, these tags may give away a little more of the story. If you don't want to risk the possibility of knowing a wee bit extra about the type of content and aren't too bothered anout exact tropes then don't click here 🙂
Abduction
Abused Hero
Anti-Hero
Auctioned Off
BDSM
Brutal Violence
Butt Stuff
Captive
Cartel
Extreme Violence
First Time Gay
Fucked Up & Intense Mix of Emotions
Human Trafficking
Humiliation/Degradation
Non Consent/Rape
Pitch Black
Psychological/Mindfuck
Sexual Torture
Slavery
Stockholm Syndrome
Super Disturbing
Darkness Level – 6 out of 6
My Rating is 5 Stars
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Blurb
In this first installment of the exciting psychosexual thriller The Flesh Cartel, orphaned brothers Mat and Dougie Carmichael are stolen in the night from their own home. Taken to a horrifying processing facility, they are assessed, microchipped, and subjected to unspeakable brutality — all in preparation for sale to the highest bidder.
In a world where every person has a price, the beautiful and subduable PhD student Dougie is highly prized. His brother, a rough-edged MMA fighter, is less desirable—and potentially too dangerous — but he still has his own appeal.
Abused and locked up under round-the-clock surveillance, with no idea where they are or even why they’ve been taken, escape seems impossible, which leaves staying together their only hope. And after being separated once by the foster system, they’ll do anything to keep it from happening again. Anything at all.
Reader discretion advised.
My Review Of The Flesh Cartel by Rachel Haimowitz
So, when I asked for the darkest of dark and twisted book suggestions from my readers I was not disappointed when I received a recommendation for this book.- shout out to Jill!
And boy did she hit the nail on the head!
This book was intense and very twisted but at the same time, I found parts almost amusing. Do not get me wrong, rape and abuse is not something I find amusing. Ever. Let me make that clear. And the parts I found amusing were not the abusive scenes at all. Nope, those ones had me needing to take a break from the book in fact. The parts I found amusing were the character’s internal thoughts sometimes. Not ‘laugh out loud’ kinda funny but enough to make my mouth curl up a little.
Which I have to say I find impressive. If you can make me feel nauseous in one paragraph and then amused in the next then you are indeed skilled.
And, yes I’m now questioning my moral compass.
MAT
So this lad is hot. He’s a cage fighter / MMA guy, so he’s ripped and can take a beatin’. He and his brother were left without parents ten years ago when an accident took their lives.
Ever since then, Mat has taken on the role of provider and protector for Dougie.
He does whatever he can to make money for Dougie to be able to go to university etc. Unfortunately not only is he a legit fighter, but he also does illegal fights to earn money for them both as he’s desperate to give his brother everything he possibly can to better himself.
He’s also gay (aren’t all the hot ones?).
He comes home after losing another fight to find his brother being raped by four huge men and he loses his mother-fucking mind, of course!
However, it’s pretty much a lost cause because he’s then taken, along with his brother, to some special level of Hell where unspeakable acts of torment and abuse ensue.
He tries his hardest to make himself the victim instead of his brother but it really doesn’t work and what happens in that prison is…I don’t even have the words.
DOUGIE
Dougie is the younger brother and in a way, he’s the opposite of Mat. He’s academic, whereas Mat’s a fighter, he’s soft and gentle whereas Mat’s rough end edgy. He’s been looked after and protected most of his life however Mat’s ability to keep him safe comes to a very sudden and painful halt.
Dougie hears movement in the house while he’s in the shower and assumes it’s Mat but nope. It’s four huge dudes and he is utterly defenceless as they repeatedly rape and beat him.
But that’s not the end. Nope. Once they’re done with him they stuff him and his bro into a van and transport them to the aforementioned Hell.
It’s a slave training facility that prepares these men and women to be sold off on auction to the wealthiest sickos around.
Dougie just isn’t up for this kind of thing and crumbles immediately willing to do anything and everything they tell him to in order to stop the pain…not that it helps.
Mat, on the other hand, fights them tooth and nail every step of the way…not that it helped either.
SEX SCENES
Fair warning…it’s pitch fucking black.
All he could see of Dougie was his legs, spread wide and pointing to the sky, ankles swallowed up by huge, grasping hands. Blocking him off was a man in all black, grunting and thrusting. Another stood farther away from Mat, and though Mat couldn’t see him, there was only one explanation for that angle: he was standing by Dougie’s turned head, fucking his face with deep, punishing strokes. The guard was still walking Mat forward, slowly, leash pulled taut. Mat was still playing along, at least for now. But as they got closer to the scene at the center of the stage, Mat realized that although Dougie was horizontal, he wasn’t lying on the couch. He was lying on top of a third man, Dougie’s back to the man’s chest. The man’s hands were wandering up and down Dougie’s chest, pinching his nipples, rubbing and tugging his balls and cock. Two cocks inside his ass. No wonder he was crying. “Tell the nice people how it feels, hole,” one of the men growled. The reply was a muffled howl. Sucking sounds. Mat stared, horrified and frozen, as the cock popped out of Dougie’s mouth. “Say it.” “It hurts, sir!” Dougie wailed. The man laughed—laughed—and squeezed Dougie’s balls until he screamed. Next Mat knew, he was across the stage, a knee in someone’s gut, a fist to someone’s throat, the heel of his palm driving right through the creepy porcelain mask to someone’s nose. He blinked, breathed hard, stared blankly at the carnage around him. All three of Dougie’s rapists writhing on the floor, broken and bleeding, and poor Dougie huddled up beside them, crying into his knees and shielding his head. Sound came back into Mat’s world, and he realized the audience—God, what a freak show, everyone in weird white masks and black suits—was applauding. Fuck them. He’d kill them all.
Final Thoughts on THE FLESH CARTEL, SEASON 1 by Rachel Haimowitz
Man, this one had me feeling all kinds of…off.
This one was sick, twisted, depraved, pitch black, horrific. So it was exactly what I asked for. Proceed with caution though, okay?
5 Stars
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