ExodaI by Elizabeth Hendrick

Thank you @litpr for letting me be part of this tour and reviewing this book. Exodal is a non-fiction about Elizabeth Life, being a lesbian and talks about S&M relationships. Wow, this book took me a day to read. I loved how open she is about her sexual relationships and S&M. I feel Elizabeth opens you up to this world, and it really opens my eyes to it. If you are reading this there is trigger warning due to abuse, torture and Slave relationship. I really felt for Elizabeth with everything she went through, and I hope she has finally found love. Elizabeth writing style is gripping and will hold your attention to the end. I found ExodaI an extraordinary read that made me gasp at times but also blew me away.ExodaI is an intense read and can be shocking due to what she goes through, but it is defiantly amazing read and the ending is very powerful. I don't read many Memior, but I am glad I read this. Brilliant 5 stars Blurb Elizabeth’s drives and desires have always been unusual. Beginning in early childhood, her need for love and suffering took her from the prim surroundings of a Norfolk girls’ school to the secret, latex-clad, rope-bound, whip-lashed delights of the Tokyo role-playing scene. For Elizabeth, torture was not about sexual gratification – it was about love. In this frank and open memoir, she tells the story of a remarkable personal journey. Attracted to other girls from an early age, Elizabeth struggled to come to terms with her sexuality. As a schoolgirl, her fantasies of torture – always for the benefit of whichever girl she was in love with – were rooted in her own inability to accept herself as a lesbian or reconcile her desires with her Christian beliefs. Before finally realising that connection, Elizabeth would go through years of emotional and physical pain. Having experimented at university, Elizabeth discovered a whole new world when her career as a high-flying headhunter took her to Tokyo. There she was inducted into the Japanese fetish scene and learnt what real role-playing was all about. When she fell in love with a gorgeous Japanese dominatrix called Tomo and became her slave, she began a descent into hell. Tomo proved to be an irredeemable sadist who took torture far beyond the accepted limits. Elizabeth went to the brink of destruction for Tomo. Not for the faint-hearted, this gripping memoir describes what she experienced there and how she found her way back. Bio ELIZABETH HENDRICK was born and raised in East Anglia. She graduated in mathematics from Durham University in 1994 and began a career in financial services in London. In 2004, she left finance to enter the risky world of entrepreneurial start-ups. During her first project to launch a film magazine, she developed the practice of keeping a diary of events. It was her cathartic response to dealing with the stress of heading up an underfunded start-up. Since then, she has kept records and written memoirs covering all her remarkable life experiences, including being a contestant on a reality TV show in 2007. After four fateful years as an entrepreneur, Elizabeth returned to financial services. Then in 2016, she left the corporate world altogether and moved into the education sector. Over the course of her life, she has lived and worked in London, Paris, Tokyo, and Dubai. She currently works and resides in Tokyo, and she doesn’t stop writing! EXODAI is the first memoir Elizabeth has published. She was compelled to write about her struggles with her sexuality and narrate the story of how she eventually learnt to love herself, placing particular emphasis on her S&M relationship with a Japanese dominatrix. Elizabeth believes her story will be of value not just to LGBTQ+ and BDSM communities, but to all individuals who have been ostracised during their adolescence and whose lack of self-love is sabotaging their adult lives. It’s also an intriguing peek behind the curtain of Tokyo’s exotic and sometimes shocking BDSM underworld. ELIZABETH HENDRICK is the author pen name for ELIZABETH HACKFORD