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

4.0

I don't wanna give this a five stars rating because I feel there's just issues in this book that can't go ignored.
When I started reading I even had a sick feeling in my stomach because it just made me so damn unfomfortable - the way they showed slavery as something completely normal. Also the torture. I'm not squeamish, that's not it. Just the way the main characters were handling this kind of stuff...
It got better, though. I expected much worse from what I've heard from people that were talking about the book. In the beginning I hated Laurent but by the end of the first book I was absolutely hooked and couldn't wait to start the second one. Call it a guilty pleasure but... I just like that the characters in this world are far from perfect righteous men who fight for justice and blah blah blah. I mean Damien is a little on the righteous side.

Spoiler

But he killed Laurents brother, sooo... yeah.

What I found so damn interesting about this book was that there was no character I hated with a passion (except for Damiens brother), I could understand them all. Their motives, their goals.
And the lies! The schemes! The intigues! I usually despise politics in books but this is the very first time that I absorbed it like a sponge. C.S. Pacat really knows how to grip the reader tight until the very end and I was amazed by her writing style and plotting skills.

I fully understand why some people hate this book but I... I'm in love with it.