Big Sky Author Kitty Thomas By Kitty Thomas

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Veronica Cason lives in a small apartment with no clear view of the sky. It’s uncertain which might crush her first: her debt or the buildings squeezed in so tight that they surround her like ominous sentinels. She can’t breathe in the city. Her success is a lie, and her debt is coming to collect her—unless someone else gets there first.

When a stranger offers her a job at a ranch, it feels like salvation, but it could also mean her death if his motives aren’t pure. Which door has the tiger behind it? The claustrophobia of the city or ranch life under an open sky? Big Sky Author Kitty Thomas

How much do I dislike this book? Let me count the ways...

1. The heroine, Veronica, is so incompetent and disassociated from herself and her surroundings that she inspires nothing but contempt.

2. The hero, Luke, is equally as mental as Ronnie and disappointingly never managed to snap enough to kill her. Talk about let down.

3. The 70s bodice-ripper attitude of Please...please...no...no--orgasm. If you can't accept your own desires, you don't deserve good sex.

4. The utterly misguided/moronic understanding of feminism espoused. It's not about behaving a certain way, it's about having the rights and abilities to choose what you want in a society even if that choice is to give up choice for yourself.

5. The sex-- 'cause lets face it, it should be a significant factor in rating this book--was boring. Had to be the most uninteresting gangbang I've read. The non-con elements--boring. Lame D/s.

6. Read the status updates because I pointed out things that I'm not going to reiterate. But I categorize this under chronically stupid.

This book actually makes me wonder if Thomas is a misogynist. I think this is the final nail in the coffin as far as reading Thomas's books go. I've read several and while the storytelling was less mindnumbingly dull in others, all of her heroines are such wastes of space that I have zero interest in reading about them.

Overall, this book is a train wreck and a boring one at that.

Recommended to readers who think Wuthering Heights is a romance and think Every Breath You Take is a love song.

Favorite quote:

Let the fucker kill her. What difference did it make at this point? --my sentiments exactly

English Which door is the tiger behind?

First a warning – this is Dark erotica with a big old capital D and you should be aware of that before you embark on this one. If issues of dubious consent and all that goes with it are going to be an issue for you, don’t even consider reading it. It is intended for a mature adult audience.

Personally though, I love dark erotica – I love books that push my boundaries, books that shock me and force me to curl my toes in a kind of fascinated disgust and Big Sky most definitely ticked all those boxes. It’s challenging, will make you question long held principles as Kitty Thomas has this magical ability to turn scenes of very dubious consent into something deeply erotic. I have to say that Big Sky and what happens to our heroine is maybe a step too far even for me as a seasoned dark erotica reader and reviewer, but I firmly believe that Kitty Thomas’ wicked intention was to shock and my rating reflects the fact that she most definitely succeeded in that and also because I was completely unable to put this book down – it’s so incredibly compelling.

So, to the story – our heroine is Veronica Cason, a big deal ad executive earning a six figure salary in New York but she’s a complete shopaholic and is struggling under crushing debt. We join her as she is staring out of her apartment window staring up at the sky – just a grey sliver that she can see in the gap between her building and the next. She wishes for a bigger sky and I just wanted to yell at her ‘Be careful what you wish for!’

She meets Luke Granger in a diner when he attempts to hold the door open for her and she is incredibly rude to him. She can’t help her attraction though as he looks a little like the Marlborough Cowboy. Veronica is a hard-assed, ultra feminist and much too stubborn to accept help from anyone. When Veronica loses her job, Luke is on hand to offer her work at his Ranch in Vermont but she turns him down, again. When her financially destructive ways find her homeless, Luke is once again on hand to offer help – she flatly refuses but he decides an intervention is in order and abducts her and takes her to his ranch.

When she gets there, it’s apparent that he intends to keep her barefoot in the kitchen as some kind of sex slave and is to be shared with the ranch hands. Worse, she’s the image of his dead ex-girlfriend and slave, Trish, and he wants her to replace her and assume her role in his life.

Veronica is horrified at first and wants desperately to escape but she realises she has nothing really to fight to get back for. Despite her outrage and indignation at what Luke is doing, her body is betraying her with arousal. She’s always had bad vanilla sex in the past, going out with men with the pathological need of a nymphomaniac to be fucked even though the act brought her no satisfaction – a form of masochism in itself, perhaps.

She’s a warring mass of contradictions – the part of her that hates and mistrusts men is being won over by the part of her wants to surrender, to be owned and dominated as she is now faced with the embodiment of all her sexual fantasies. The wrongness of it all is what is arousing her as half of her wants to rebel while the other half craves the glimmers of kindness that Luke shows her, if she behaves as he wants. She struggles against her mind which wants her to escape as her body instinctively craves to submit and please her Master. His inexplicable pull on her is so strong, the proprietary way he treats her as if she has been brought into the world solely for his use is so arousing to her despite her long-held principles. She soon begins to believe that this is not about imprisonment and misogyny but more about pure and raw animal lust.

Then, of course, Kitty Thomas takes it even further than I think she’s ever taken it before and there a couple of plot lines which I believe will ensure this book will thrive on its notoriety – not things I was entirely comfortable with but it sure didn’t stop me from reading and devouring this book in one sitting! Let’s just say that Luke Granger is no fluffy kitten even though parts of me really did adore him but I do think he is a little unhinged by his grief.

The opportunity for escape does present itself to Veronica and you have to wonder if she has just traded one form of slavery for another. Before she was a wage slave, a life dedicated to the nine to five dressed up as free will – now she has a roof over her head, will never go hungry and has all the sexual pleasure she could ever have hoped for but she is not free. What will she choose?

Once again, Kitty Thomas has found the means to shock even the most jaded erotica reader, I feel and I warn you – I did find this one really SHOCKING but I think this is right up there with Comfort Food for me as a favourite Kitty Thomas.

4 darkly shocking erotic stars

With kind thanks to the lovely Kitty Thomas for a review copy of this book

For more of my reviews, please visit my Sinfully Sexy Book Blog English 3 stars!



Oddly arousing but disturbing to the nth degree, Big Sky is a boundary-pushing, vomit-inducing, WTF-was-that!!! kind of book. It’s twisted, it’s kinky, and it’s downright filthy.

For someone who’s so independent and haughty, Veronica just can’t stop spending money and has accumulated over $200,000 in debt. And she thinks she's all that...





What a smartie. Anyways, she’s fired from her job, evicted from her apartment and has nowhere to go when all of a sudden, she meets Luke and he offers her work at his ranch but she turns him down. Not one to take no for an answer, Luke kidnaps her and takes her to his ranch to work as a sex slave. It’s there that Ronnie truly learns how depraved and sick Luke is.



Here's a list of things you might want to know about the book:



- Orgies: M/M/M/M/F. Oh and some F/F action. Yum. (Not)
- Kinky BDSM – most are M/F but some involve the ranch hands.
- Breast milk obsession: weird kink but ok, these guys love drinking breast milk. They inject Ronnie with hormones so she produces milk. My problem with this involves the medical concerns. I mean, what if she was allergic or the hormone injection negatively affected her health? Plus the milking machine they created for her? *shakes head* This whole thing couldn’t be more irresponsible and unrealistic.
- Strong animal imagery: calling Ronnie a cow after they drink her breast milk, branding her with the Ranch’s symbol, etc…

What’s worse is that Ronnie is the spitting image of Luke’s dead ex-girlfriend Trish and he kidnapped her so she could replace Trish and take up her role in his life.



I think Kitty Thomas is a strong dark erotica writer and she’s great at shocking the reader; however, I’m finding that I dislike her endings. Similar to Comfort Food, I’m left heavily dissatisfied with Big Sky’s ending – it was rushed, tad bit unrealistic, and didn’t even read like an ending (I thought I was missing a few chapters) but maybe that’s just me.

If you’d like to be shocked and disgusted out of your mind, then give this book a go!


English Wow, that was udderly crazy .. .


. . . ..Nuff said. :-) English
KITTY THOMAS MARATHON!

** 4,5-5 STARS **

“Please what, princess? Please stop? Please keep going? Please treat me like the livestock I am? (...) You’re going to give me milk like a good little animal, aren’t you?”

Holy f*ck. That was disturbing.

I LOVED IT!
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I imagine Luke's tagline to be FLORIDA MAN....
Such a complex character, I can't help but FEEL for him! He does this awful thing- kidnapping a woman who was practically homeless- he knows its wrong by HER definition. HE FEELS and he cares. He wasn't a cruel lover to her (imo), but my goodness he sure did know how to push her limits.

I LOVE RONNIE. The girl is making a six figure salary, drives herself in debt and she can't even afford a shrink, even WITH co-pay.
Also, if you really want Manolo Blahniks you need to put it on your dad's credit card and tell him its a gift for your mom. DUH!

I can see why all my GR friends are in love with this author, I think I love her too. The writing is so beautiful, I love everything about it. To the characters, the scenes, her mentioning the fucking sky and the fucking dialogues. HELLO SO GOOD.
The ending isn't a HEA exactly. I think it is because from the opening scene, Veronica talks about how she wants to see the sky, out there in the ranch she sees it. Gets lost in it. She gets the thing she wanted from the very beginning. Also, I never realized how the word Moon is so beautiful in every language. I guess what I am trying to say is wait for me, I will be finding this ranch.

English 4 mindfucking stars

Just give in. Whatever he wants. Just do it.

Ronnie once had it all, the perfect job and home, but her need for useless things brought her perfect little world crashing down. Now jobless, homeless and utterly alone, she is taken against her will to a place where the sky is big and blue, and a man who makes all the rules.

No family. No friends. No one to miss her.

What can she do, run & scream? and where will she go, she has nothing...at least with him she has a roof over her head and food on the table, even if it means going against every single belief she has. When you have nothing else to live for, to fight for, what would you do???

“I want everything, Ronnie. Not just your body. I want your soul, your every thought and desire. I want it all. By the time I’m finished, you’ll give it to me.”

Luke is a broken man, who lost the love of his life, but finding Ronnie has given him a second chance to make it all right, to live the life that he was supposed to live, happy and free. How do you know what you feel is real when you don’t even know what you want or need; when the rules you used to play by no longer pertain … is it all a lie or are you just making your self believe that everything is ok???

Big Sky was a darker read, full of mind fucks and some kinky ass shit, but I liked it, no surprise there… The story has a lot of triggers that may make most uncomfortable, their brand of kink isn’t for everyone, but it was theirs, it’s what made the story unique. In a twisted way, I understood why she did what she did, to me the author was convincing enough, that there was no other choice but to submit, making everything seem alright. The scenes are not overly erotic, this story was more about fucking your mind, than the actual act.
English I’m kind of at a loss for words.
Did I hate it? Yup.
Did I love it? Yup.

So this will work for now until I can figure it all out.


In a few short moments of reading:
Now this is getting interesting!



Whoop! Here we go!!



Hmmm, where is this going?



OK. So, WHAT is this guy's damage!?!?




A little over half way thru ! I was like umm, say what now?




Oh then I went to full blown:




But quickly went to a stronger reaction of : Aw Hell No!




The End:


English Kitty Thomas is a hit or miss author for me. I enjoyed Guilty Pleasures and Comfort Food so much I keep coming back for more.

This wasn't a hit, but it wasn't a miss for me either.

It was okay.

The mmc, Luke, creeped me the hell out. I'm okay with mmc's previously having spouses...but how Trish was constantly brought up made this book go into creepy-weird territory for me. I'm ok with creepy, but I'd rather a Kitty Thomas book feel dark and twisted to me vs. creepy-weird.

I had problems suspending disbelief with all the ranch hands, dead wife biz, and kidnapping exploits.

I'm ok reading about taboo kinks, but how the erotic scenes were written came across as a bit dull and lackluster to me? The last two books I've read that explored kinks like this were Trent Evans books that dipped fully into TPE and then after reading Owned and Owner by Anneke Jacob...the bar is high. I don't know it's like I read a different book than all my friends who five starred this. So many people have recc'd this book to me; I was expecting something truly twisted and ended up with a slightly boring creepy weird book.


When it comes to dark erotica/bdsm kink I'm learning I do prefer the old school authors: Annabel Joseph, Anneke Jacob, Claire Thompson, Trent Evans, CP Mandara and Kitty Thomas. Besides having a large backlog of quality books, the authors that were writing from 2010s to 2015 have marketing that is classier than the newer authors coming into dark romance. There are less ploys/author shenanigans. I can just read a good book if I go to any of these authors. My intelligence doesn't feel insulted by OTT marketing schemes. I can call myself a fan without feeling like I'm joining a cult. So, Kitty Thomas is still a go-to author for me. I plan on reading Tender Mercies & A Mafia Captive next. Then I seriously need to read more Annabel Joseph. English Veronica aka Ronnie is an advertising executive who is shallow, spiteful, insecure and beyond vain. Honestly, other than her looks, she's a worthless excuse of a human. She earns a wage of 6 figures yet she's in hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and she's homeless. How is this possible? This is obviously a woman who wasn't spanked as a child and has absolutely no impulse control. I can't stand people like this; I want to smack them upside the head - repeatedly.

She hits rock bottom and what happens? A handsome, 6'5 cowboy SAVES HER! How does this happen? Why is she so lucky? Well, Ronnie doesn't think she is lucky. Destitute and homeless, Luke finds her and basically kidnaps her. This non-con story just takes off! Thank goodness, because the first couple of chapters reading about Ronnie was painful to say the least. It was cruising at a 1 star for me. Even though it was well written, the character was just so disgusting for me. Her hatred of men which seems to stem from some Daddy abandonment issues *rolls eyes* was too much for me. Her self sabotage was unpalatable for me - what a wasted space.

Back to the good stuff! Luke save Ronnie only because of her looks. She resembles someone he knew before and wants again. The entire story of it is so sad. It makes me want to cry. Yes, Luke does a bad thing, but good golly he's so hot. I melt just thinking about it. And, this is a good question on if the ends justifies the means. In this case, I'd say yes.

The branding in this story was unexpected and totally turned me on. Actually, everything kinky in this dark erotica turned me on. I'm not a waterplay fan for myself, but reading about Luke doing it to Ronnie was so good. Personally, I think Luke needs to exert more corporal punishment for Ronnie. Ronnie definitely flourishes and becomes a better person under Luke's care. She's literally been given a new life. And she's still not exactly grateful for it.

What really caught me off guard was the cow play which ended up as milking/lactation fetish. I love this one. It was so hot. The added humiliation and with another woman too was so bloody hawt! I do love how Ms. Thomas writes her BDSM fantasies. The progression of Ronnie as she slowly submits to Luke is a lovely journey. Ronnie becomes someone I can now stand and even at times feel pity. The ending of this story is rather bittersweet. I'm not sure if it is a happily for now or completely an unhappy ending. I can see it both ways. I will say, it is a perfect ending and I enjoyed it. I also wish there will be follow up scenes with Ronnie further humiliated, used and abused. Because Ms. Thomas does these so well and in a manner that just always arouses me. Love it! This dark erotica is recommended from bdsm readers who enjoy the fantasy and particularly the darker ones with hot lesser know fetishes.

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