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Captive in the Dark
by CJ Roberts
I’m not sure what to say about this book… I enjoyed it and feel like I shouldn’t have.
Livvie is kidnapped by Caleb who has the intention of breaking and rebuilding her into a sex slave. My reaction should be pretty cut and dry, right? Love and empathize with the heroine, despise the villain. Only it’s not that cut and dry, it’s not that black and white. Talk about fifty shades of grey… which, incidentally, led me to this book in the first place. While I did empathize with Livvie, at times I felt even more for Caleb. There was no excuse for what he did but I could see, through the retelling of his childhood and life up to this point, how he got to where he did. And I wanted him to be a good person…. I wanted him to just up and change and be the perfect prince, saving the heroine. But saving her from whom? It was his fists, his belt, his violence… he was her hell. And something else…
This book is disturbing, thought-provoking and made me feel uncomfortable. That’s why I enjoyed it. It’s not easily defined. I can’t put it into a proper review. I still don’t know, a week after finishing it, how I really felt about it. There was a lot of violence in this book but laced throughout was a sort of hope, for the characters and the reader.
It’s the first of a trilogy and I’m definitely looking forward to reading the next one, due to be published in September.
Livvie is kidnapped by Caleb who has the intention of breaking and rebuilding her into a sex slave. My reaction should be pretty cut and dry, right? Love and empathize with the heroine, despise the villain. Only it’s not that cut and dry, it’s not that black and white. Talk about fifty shades of grey… which, incidentally, led me to this book in the first place. While I did empathize with Livvie, at times I felt even more for Caleb. There was no excuse for what he did but I could see, through the retelling of his childhood and life up to this point, how he got to where he did. And I wanted him to be a good person…. I wanted him to just up and change and be the perfect prince, saving the heroine. But saving her from whom? It was his fists, his belt, his violence… he was her hell. And something else…
This book is disturbing, thought-provoking and made me feel uncomfortable. That’s why I enjoyed it. It’s not easily defined. I can’t put it into a proper review. I still don’t know, a week after finishing it, how I really felt about it. There was a lot of violence in this book but laced throughout was a sort of hope, for the characters and the reader.
It’s the first of a trilogy and I’m definitely looking forward to reading the next one, due to be published in September.