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A review by mollyreadsandcrafts
Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat
2.5
Check content warnings and trigger warnings - rape, sexual slavery, sexual assault, physical assault, pedophilia
You think with all of those content/trigger warnings it would be mentioned somewhere before you started the book? It's not. Everything from the prologue up to 70%ish was unnecessarily awful. There's rape and nonconsensual sex everywhere. You can write sex work and slaves into a fantasy/historical/whatever this is trying to be without the amount of non-consensual acts
I was invested in Damen, and that was about all I took out of this. There was barely an overarching plot, and anything similar to one only started in the last third. There's no romance at all, and I would say it's the opposite of romance.
I'm extremely on the fence about continuing the series, even with the glowing reviews. I don't love the authors style either - I hate when authors use big, uncommon words just for the sake of it, which seemed to be the case here.
So why not 1 star? Just because I wanted to see how Damen would get out of the situation, and he seemed to be the only one with any common sense and morals.
You think with all of those content/trigger warnings it would be mentioned somewhere before you started the book? It's not. Everything from the prologue up to 70%ish was unnecessarily awful. There's rape and nonconsensual sex everywhere. You can write sex work and slaves into a fantasy/historical/whatever this is trying to be without the amount of non-consensual acts
I was invested in Damen, and that was about all I took out of this. There was barely an overarching plot, and anything similar to one only started in the last third. There's no romance at all, and I would say it's the opposite of romance.
I'm extremely on the fence about continuing the series, even with the glowing reviews. I don't love the authors style either - I hate when authors use big, uncommon words just for the sake of it, which seemed to be the case here.
So why not 1 star? Just because I wanted to see how Damen would get out of the situation, and he seemed to be the only one with any common sense and morals.