What a different follow up story to The Initiation of PB 500 and loaded with a plethora of perversions. I have to agree with Vivian Archer that this book should have some warnings in the blurb. The torture that Micah/Chento went through at the hands of Kerdas went from scrotal ballooning to scat and this was all done because Kerdas was jealous of Attlad. I have to admit that only the scat squicked me and bestiality is not my thing but the other tortures hit my kinks well. Everything in the story was done either out of a twisted sense of jealousy or for political gain and what may offend a reader was all considered perfectly socially acceptable. Dadani and her little cadre of women playing with the pearl boys were not much more than bored, spoiled little children. The cock bobbing done to the pearl boys so that they could not impregnate the women was different and it made me wonder how it was done. I liked Bar and the arrogant Grir. Their bodies were messed with but they were characters of some depth. The mysteries of the Cave of Truth were interesting showing a society built on both technology and the esoteric. I found it a bit incredulous that Micah/Chento was in any kind of physical condition to escape from the secret dungeon, go through the rigors of the ritual of Truth and then set Attlad free. Seriously? The man was near dead from abuse, dehydration and starvation. Yes, this fiction and primarily a vehicle to see how many kinks could be crammed into a story but there needs to be a touch of reality. The role reversals and the HEA ending were very much a surprise to me. I recommend this book not for its story value but more as a test to see how many exotic kinks you can take in one sitting. ( )

Warning: ATM, urolagnia, urophagia, scatophilia, coprophagia (in other words, eating poop, drinking urine). Underage(?) dubcon, body modification mutilation, slavery. Torture porn.

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While torture porn doesn't bother me, in fact 5 stars for that,
and I can ignore the gross bits,
the Pearl Boys predicament really disturbs me; I would gladly give it minus 5 if that were an option.
Which in the end makes it easy to rate. It all evens out - no stars.