A review by merrrry
Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat

dark

3.5

Captive Prince has been on my radar for years, but I’ve never been particularly drawn to it because I'm trash for some basic hetero romance lol. I always knew that the first book isn't where it's (allegedly) gut-wrenchingly good so I went in not expecting much — and that's more or less what I got. This did a good job of setting up the world and introducing the conflicts and political intrigue, so it didn't have much time for much else. That being said, this was a fun read! I breezed through and didn't even cringe as much as I thought I would at the v explicit stuff. The prose is pretty nice tho which helps. Tbh, if I hadn't been informed repeatedly that the second and third books are much better than this one, I probably wouldn't bother continuing the series. I haven't really connected emotionally with anything yet, but guess we'll see if the second book will live up to the hype!