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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
This was a good book. I loved it and read it quickly. I will read book #2 as well. With that being said, it was much like other books in the captive/captor genera. If you are someone who reads many books about this topic this book is pretty predictable.
Terrible! I wont be reading the rest of this series. One man becomes a notorious sex trafficker with the end goal of getting revenge on ONE other man, that's not noble, that's fucking stupid.
Very problematic. It eroticizes non-consensual sex acts of abuse and rape. It fetishizes crying, which the MC does non-stop through the first three quarters of the story. It's Stockholm Syndrome. I think of this as rape fantasy with added emotional elements.
I did find the book compelling, even if annoying at times. It's a tough book to review.
I did find the book compelling, even if annoying at times. It's a tough book to review.
This book is DARK! I love books that deal with severely messed up people on the road to redemption. That is the only reason this book appealed to me. Caleb is a severely disturbed man. I read somewhere, if Christian Grey is 50 shades of f*cked up, then Caleb is 150 shades. That statement is SO TRUE. Christian has nothing on Caleb.
I felt for Caleb and for Livvie. Honestly, Livvie is taken against her will, how could you not feel for her? I am not sure I could wrap my head around her developing feelings for Caleb. Was it because she met him briefly before the kidnapping? Was it because he was insanely good looking? I don't know if she would have felt the same, had he been hideous. Regardless, the attraction is INTERESTING!! I was fascinated, because I don't know if I could have felt the same in her position. However, who knows?
The one thing I could truly not wrap my head around is the fact that Caleb, having been severely sexually abused, is willingly doing the same thing to other women. Yes, he is doing it as a means to an end, but how does this make him any better than the man he is out to get? It takes away any sympathy I have for him.
My one complaint with this book is I didn't think very much happened in the 200+ pages. It could have moved a little faster. I am still looking forward to the sequel though. I need to know if Livvie and Caleb end up together.
I felt for Caleb and for Livvie. Honestly, Livvie is taken against her will, how could you not feel for her? I am not sure I could wrap my head around her developing feelings for Caleb. Was it because she met him briefly before the kidnapping? Was it because he was insanely good looking? I don't know if she would have felt the same, had he been hideous. Regardless, the attraction is INTERESTING!! I was fascinated, because I don't know if I could have felt the same in her position. However, who knows?
The one thing I could truly not wrap my head around is the fact that Caleb, having been severely sexually abused, is willingly doing the same thing to other women. Yes, he is doing it as a means to an end, but how does this make him any better than the man he is out to get? It takes away any sympathy I have for him.
My one complaint with this book is I didn't think very much happened in the 200+ pages. It could have moved a little faster. I am still looking forward to the sequel though. I need to know if Livvie and Caleb end up together.
Such a disturbing book Im speechless...there's fantasies and then there's this, absolute filth. Once again a Hot guy makes it all ok and horny. Sad.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
OMG i don't understand my feelings for this book.
Im so lost and torn between my feelings for Caleb and Livvie. Do i want them together? Maybe ! Do i want him to suffer? a little! Do i think he deserves to be left by the one person he might ever love? Kind of. I'm so torn for my feelings for him! I want him to be thrown away by Livvie and stepped on by her, because of what he has done to her and others. but at the same time, i can see them together and that makes me really happy, i want them to be together. I want them to both be able to look past this and live a happy life full of love. I know in my bones i should hate him, loathe him, and a big part of me wants to. But there is also a part that maybe have stockholm's syndrome. I think that my final feelings for him will be discovered in the next book (which I'm ordering as we speak) if he lets her go to Demitri i swear to god! I'm gonna find him and kill him myself - not before ridiculing him on the fact that he has just threw away his only chance at redemption. But if he mans up like i hope he will, then i wish the two of them luck in there life together. These are the only two options i believe i have for this book.
I was torn throughout this whole book, it was short, sharp and sweet. He is a monster for what he has done, but i feel sympathy for him, i can't help it.. Livvie was great, so strong, even through she was so upset and broken throughout the book, i felt i could relate and i urged her onward, wherever that might be. either way i love the fact that she was a fighter, it gave me faith in her and even Caleb.
Like i said, my feelings for thing book are confused, i haven't really got an concrete emotion to hang onto. I feel conflicted because of the situation present in the novel. I want to love him but i feel she deserves someone better, but i also feel she should get him. AAARRRGGGG i can't take this indecisiveness!!! it's gonna drive me crazy. I need the next book so i can (hopefully) make some sort of decision.
Either way it was a very interesting book to read, it was unique. I liked it. I would recommend this to anyone, it was easy to read, some bits easier than others, but I could not put this book down for the life of me (honestly some bits even scared me). I finished this in one go, which is exciting :)
Im so lost and torn between my feelings for Caleb and Livvie. Do i want them together? Maybe ! Do i want him to suffer? a little! Do i think he deserves to be left by the one person he might ever love? Kind of. I'm so torn for my feelings for him! I want him to be thrown away by Livvie and stepped on by her, because of what he has done to her and others. but at the same time, i can see them together and that makes me really happy, i want them to be together. I want them to both be able to look past this and live a happy life full of love. I know in my bones i should hate him, loathe him, and a big part of me wants to. But there is also a part that maybe have stockholm's syndrome. I think that my final feelings for him will be discovered in the next book (which I'm ordering as we speak) if he lets her go to Demitri i swear to god! I'm gonna find him and kill him myself - not before ridiculing him on the fact that he has just threw away his only chance at redemption. But if he mans up like i hope he will, then i wish the two of them luck in there life together. These are the only two options i believe i have for this book.
I was torn throughout this whole book, it was short, sharp and sweet. He is a monster for what he has done, but i feel sympathy for him, i can't help it.. Livvie was great, so strong, even through she was so upset and broken throughout the book, i felt i could relate and i urged her onward, wherever that might be. either way i love the fact that she was a fighter, it gave me faith in her and even Caleb.
Like i said, my feelings for thing book are confused, i haven't really got an concrete emotion to hang onto. I feel conflicted because of the situation present in the novel. I want to love him but i feel she deserves someone better, but i also feel she should get him. AAARRRGGGG i can't take this indecisiveness!!! it's gonna drive me crazy. I need the next book so i can (hopefully) make some sort of decision.
Either way it was a very interesting book to read, it was unique. I liked it. I would recommend this to anyone, it was easy to read, some bits easier than others, but I could not put this book down for the life of me (honestly some bits even scared me). I finished this in one go, which is exciting :)
I have made a mistake and the consequence was wasting three hours of my life. Especially with an ending like that.
4.5 very disturbing fantastic stars
I'm not even sure where to start with this book that i didn't want to read. It was referred to me by a friend with a promise that i would read it at soon as possible. I didn't expect to like it much less fall in love with it so quick I was rushing to get to book 2.
Stockholm syndrome doesn't begin to describe what happens in this book. It's fucking disturbing. Everything you've been telling your mind is wrong and you should hate will be torn to shreds, ripped away by the raw abusive power of a love that is just so fucked up i'm still a little dazed.
Don't want to give too much away but hell here goes:
Caleb is a beautiful monster who is hell bent on revenge.
Olivia is a naive little innocent who makes his balls ache and is the perfect pawn in his destructive pursuits.
Caleb kidnaps Livvy
Livvy is tied up beat down, just about all the messed up stuff you'ld expect a kidnapper to do to a captive.
but wait!!!!!!!!
Caleb has a heart?
He can't seem to resist Livvie and it's just a fricking whirlwind from there.
This book has shooting and killing and hot sex and spankings and darkness and Doms and hot fricking sex.
My mind was completely blown after reading this book and i felt so dirty and frazzled afterwards that i felt like i needed a hug and maybe to say a few hail marys for liking it so much.
Fantastic
I'm not even sure where to start with this book that i didn't want to read. It was referred to me by a friend with a promise that i would read it at soon as possible. I didn't expect to like it much less fall in love with it so quick I was rushing to get to book 2.
Stockholm syndrome doesn't begin to describe what happens in this book. It's fucking disturbing. Everything you've been telling your mind is wrong and you should hate will be torn to shreds, ripped away by the raw abusive power of a love that is just so fucked up i'm still a little dazed.
Don't want to give too much away but hell here goes:
Caleb is a beautiful monster who is hell bent on revenge.
Olivia is a naive little innocent who makes his balls ache and is the perfect pawn in his destructive pursuits.
Caleb kidnaps Livvy
Livvy is tied up beat down, just about all the messed up stuff you'ld expect a kidnapper to do to a captive.
but wait!!!!!!!!
Caleb has a heart?
He can't seem to resist Livvie and it's just a fricking whirlwind from there.
This book has shooting and killing and hot sex and spankings and darkness and Doms and hot fricking sex.
My mind was completely blown after reading this book and i felt so dirty and frazzled afterwards that i felt like i needed a hug and maybe to say a few hail marys for liking it so much.
Fantastic