--- product_id: 36979403 title: "Power Play: Resistance: Power Play (Volume 1) Paperback – October 7, 2012" brand: "rachel haimowitzcat grant" price: "€ 1379.58" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 4 category: "Books" url: https://www.desertcart.it/products/36979403-power-play-resistance-power-play-volume-1-paperback-october-7 store_origin: IT region: Italy --- # Power Play: Resistance: Power Play (Volume 1) Paperback – October 7, 2012 **Brand:** rachel haimowitzcat grant **Price:** € 1379.58 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Power Play: Resistance: Power Play (Volume 1) Paperback – October 7, 2012 by rachel haimowitzcat grant - **How much does it cost?** € 1379.58 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.it](https://www.desertcart.it/products/36979403-power-play-resistance-power-play-volume-1-paperback-october-7) ## Best For - rachel haimowitzcat grant enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted rachel haimowitzcat grant brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Review From USA Today:"Rachel Haimowitz ... ah, I adore her from Counterpoint, and she and Cat write darkly twisted heroes. Power Play: Resistance was a treat for me. If you want a real dominant man, one who is genuinely dark, go for Jonathan.""This book is BDSM at its best." --Hearts on Fire Reviews"[A]n exceptionally intense story of what it really means to have a power exchange between two people. [A] stunning book." --Mrs Condit & Friends Read Books"[T]he most intense [BDSM book] I have ever read."--Joyfully Jay Read more About the Author Rachel is an M/M erotic romance author, a freelance writer and editor, and the Managing Editor of Riptide Publishing. She's also a sadist with a pesky conscience, shamelessly silly, and quite proudly pervish. Fortunately, all those things make writing a lot more fun for her . . . if not so much for her characters. When she's not writing about hot guys getting it on (or just plain getting it; her characters rarely escape a story unscathed), she loves to read, hike, camp, sing, perform in community theater, and glue captions to cats. She also has a particular fondness for her very needy dog, her even needier cat, and shouting at kids to get off her lawn. You can find Rachel at www.rachelhaimowitz.com and tweeting as @rachelhaimowitz. EPIC Award-winning author Cat Grant lives by the sea in beautiful Monterey, California, with one persnickety feline and entirely too many books and DVDs. When she's not writing, she sings along (badly!) to whatever's on her iPod shuffle, watches lots of movies, and fantasizes about kinky sex with Michael Fassbender. Where to find Cat: Website: http://www.catgrant.com Blog: http://catgrant.blogspot.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cat.grant Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/CatGrant2009 Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1912055.Cat_Grant Read more ## Images ![Power Play: Resistance: Power Play (Volume 1) Paperback – October 7, 2012 - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51BqQ6yCGDL.jpg) ![Power Play: Resistance: Power Play (Volume 1) Paperback – October 7, 2012 - Image 2](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51WrqmydkEL.jpg) ![Power Play: Resistance: Power Play (Volume 1) Paperback – October 7, 2012 - Image 3](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/314lUof-QYL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐ This book still makes me mad *by B***K on March 3, 2014* I finished this book a few days ago, but I can't seem to get it out of my head. Normally that's a good thing, because I enjoyed the book so much. But not in this case. The more I think about this book, the more upset I get. I'm not complaining about the intense level of BDSM in this book, because I think the book description and reviews do a good job warning people that this isn't for the faint of heart.However, to me the dom, Johnathon, crosses a line from acceptable BDSM behavior over to torturer and rape. The more I think it over, the more upset I become. (SPOILER ALERT) It would be one thing if by the end of the book, the sub, Bran, realizes what a horrible person Johnathon is and leaves him. But that's not what happens. Bran does leave, but then goes back and actually asks for forgiveness. Bran has nothing to ask forgiveness for. Yes he was quite rude during a conversation he had with Johnathon (the only actual conversation he was allowed to have the whole month he was there). But Johnathon told him he could speak freely without fear of reprisal, so he did.What followed was several days of torture that finally forced Bran to give up and break their contract. Johnathon deliberately caused too much pain and suffering in order to force Bran to leave. To me that violates at least the spirit of the contract. And the thing is Johnathon NEVER apologizes for it. Bran is constantly groveling and begging for forgiveness for every little thing. When Johnathon screwed up to a monumental level, the very least he owes Bran is a heartfelt apology.I also don't understand the motivation for why Bran got himself into this situation. I could understand if he had a sick child or something and needed money for surgery. I think we would all do things we wouldn't normally do to save our children's lives (including resort to prostitution, which is what this arrangement is. Both characters may say it's not, but the fact is, it's sex [and submission] for money.) Bran, even when he was homeless, refused to resort to prostitution. So what's changed? I know he wants to buy this business, go back to school and have financial freedom. We all want some of these things. But the torture he was willing to endure to get it, I just don't see that as realistic. It's made very clear that Bran does not enjoy pain. So the whole arrangement is truly agonizing for him.The thing is, if he didn't live in one of the most expensive cities in the country, he could easily be saving a couple grand a year to buy his own business. There are construction jobs in just about every city in America. With the exception of New York, every city in America is also cheaper to live in. If he'd just lived somewhere else for the past ten years, he'd already have a down payment put together, and be a lot more likely to qualify for a business loan to buy or start his own business.I wanted to like this book. I went in expecting to enjoy it. I can tolerate a lot of imperfections from the main characters. I can also tolerate a lot of painful scenes that I myself might not actually enjoy. But I was so angry that this book seemed to be saying that the dom's behavior is acceptable, when it's clearly not. Things do get better in the second book (I was so upset after the first book, I had to see how things were resolved). They both start communicating more, something they seem to have completely forgotten exists in this book.But, in my opinion, all the communication in the world can't make up for the horrible way Johnathon treated Bran in this first book. And it's not just the torture. Johnathon is an experienced dom. He should know better than to take a total newbie to the lifestyle and expect him to just adapt the day the contract starts. That's ridiculous. He should have either better prepared him for it ahead of time, or given him a period of time to adjust. Bran didn't know any better to state what his limits were ahead of time, because he didn't have any concept of what he was getting into. I think Johnathon really took advantage of Bran. Johnathon got mad when Bran didn't get all the rules right immediately. Johnathon was ready to give up after a couple of weeks. Bran wanted to keep going, and when Bran wouldn't agree with him about ending the contract early, Johnathon behaved like the spoiled child he accused Bran of acting like, and forced Bran to leave through too much pain and torture. The whole thing was just wrong on many levels.I don't normally take the time to sit down and right a review much less a bad review, but I really felt like something needed to be said about this book. ### ⭐⭐⭐ this is a difficult one... spoilers ahead *by A***1 on May 9, 2012* Spoilers in this reviewI read this from beginning to end, so that's an automatic 3 stars from me, but I was really angry with Jonathan the entire time. I thought he was a really bad dom, and he took a difficult situation and made it much much worse. It was disingenuous in the extreme to say that Brandon was willing, and not factor in the money. That Jonathan set up the relationship with such weird parameters shows how he has intimacy issues. He never looked to what bothered Bran, he just wanted him to bend to his own needs, no consideration of the subs needs. I feel myself rambling but I was so enraged about that. He actually felt sorry for himself and he was using a stun gun on that poor man!! He was awful to Brandon and no experienced sub would have put up with it. I didn't like him and though he had a flash of insight at the end, it wasn't enough to satisfy me. So while I was engaged the entire time I read, it was mainly to shout at Jonathan (in the same way one shouts at the TV...) about all the terrible choices he was making. ### ⭐ what was that, really. *by R***S on November 13, 2013* This book is schizophrenic, just like the title. I would say there was Yin & Yang, but there wasn't. The Dom was selfish. The author gave us some history, telling us he had previous submissives. They moved on. 3/4 of the way through the book you can see why.I actually tried to like this book, I did have a problem with Zero to 24/7, especially when the sub naively says No Blood and the Dom lets him sign contract and vroom, away we go. I don't think the sub was ever properly briefed on Consent. It didn't appear that the Dom thought Consent was an issue. He was paying $3,000,000 for a plaything it would appear. Really, this book could have gone a different way and it would have been a scorcher.I believe the authors must have realized that no one would volunteer for what the sub went through and had to have the scene stop to allow a reset. A week to cool off. If the Dom wanted a lasting relationship, he would have tried harder after the starvation. The sub was new to this, he was willing, he had limits but there was a threat ($3 million) which figured more in his reasoning than reason. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.it/products/36979403-power-play-resistance-power-play-volume-1-paperback-october-7](https://www.desertcart.it/products/36979403-power-play-resistance-power-play-volume-1-paperback-october-7) --- *Product available on Desertcart Italy* *Store origin: IT* *Last updated: 2026-05-06*