[Book] The Comfort of Strangers

The major theme of the novel is sado-masochism in the context of sexual fantasy, so there is a lot of twisted stuff going on in the book. The writer McEwan explores the dark side of sexual imagination and the roles of gender in the sexual games of the predator and pray. The book has a gothic undertone and the chilling aspect of the story is gradually and subtly developed and eventually comes to the climax (no pun intended) at the end of the novel.

McEwan's writing is definitely good but not to my taste. The story is interesting but again not really my thing. I also have mixed feelings about his take on sex, violence and gender relationships.

6/10