I doubt I'll finish this. It's a cool premise and I generally love hard-core slave-training stories; the characters are well-conceived, especially Ares, but the writing is rough and the story-telling/plot development pretty perfunctory. But by far my biggest problem is the unsignalled head-hopping, which in this book occurs not only from paragraph to paragraph but frequently from sentence to sentence within the same paragraph. I find in my cantankerous middle age that I can no longer tolerate this.