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A review by lit_lady
Eternal Captive by Laura Wright
2.0
I'll start this review by saying I've not read the previous novels in the series and I took this novel as a stand alone by my mistake.
This being a romance novel, the steamy bits and tension building between our main characters felt satisfying and well paced, though it will leave your inner feminist crying in a dark corner.
Lucian's character can't decide if he's an Irish gentleman or a crass college bro. He's extremely dominating and possessive of Bronwyn and there is a point that it is in a rape-ish way.
Bronwyn was not intelligent enough, especially considering the line of work she carries and she was not a strong leading lady, and while she tries to act independent and strong, her character also flip flops because she constantly needs protection, from the strong males around her.
When it comes to the plot there are really 3 story lines followed. Lucian & Bronwyn, Synjon, and Dillon.
Most of the novel is spent with Lucian and Bronwyn and exploring their feelings and loins and "relationship building" with them.
Synjon's whole subplot was fitting since he played a major roll in the first few chapters and it kind of tied up the whole "he's looking for Bronwyn so whatever happened with him, but everything towards the end left me crying out "oh come on really?!"
Dillon's whole plot really just felt tacked on and could only be one chapters worth of pages when all mashed together (the book tends to blip around). Dillon's part of the story also was just to pave the way in the epilogue for the next book, as well as fill a HUGE plot hole at the end of how the villain's secret layer got found by Alexander and Nicholas (How they got in through the magic wards still a mystery). How Dillon even knew where the villain was is also unexplained (perhaps a previous book).
In short very a predictable "everything works out for everyone in the end" fun read that left me feeling very disappointed in my purchase.
This being a romance novel, the steamy bits and tension building between our main characters felt satisfying and well paced, though it will leave your inner feminist crying in a dark corner.
Lucian's character can't decide if he's an Irish gentleman or a crass college bro. He's extremely dominating and possessive of Bronwyn and there is a point that it is in a rape-ish way.
Bronwyn was not intelligent enough, especially considering the line of work she carries and she was not a strong leading lady, and while she tries to act independent and strong, her character also flip flops because she constantly needs protection, from the strong males around her.
When it comes to the plot there are really 3 story lines followed. Lucian & Bronwyn, Synjon, and Dillon.
Most of the novel is spent with Lucian and Bronwyn and exploring their feelings and loins and "relationship building" with them.
Spoiler
The novel leaves the impression that their love is to be bitter sweet and short lived, but magically hey there is a cure that can allow their dysfunctional love to continue. This is because Lucian is destined to become The Breeding Male, which basically is a vampire male with no true soul mate that is just hormones and instinct and has to be chained up because he'll rape every female on the spot, he'll even be able to decide the sex of the resulting child. This is genetically destined for him, and there is no known cure for him to remain "himself" so to speak after to goes through the transformation.Synjon's whole subplot was fitting since he played a major roll in the first few chapters and it kind of tied up the whole "he's looking for Bronwyn so whatever happened with him, but everything towards the end left me crying out "oh come on really?!"
Spoiler
At the end of the novel his previously "murdered" lover is actually still alive and captured at the very location he believes his new wife to be held. It felt this fact was only included to add some kind of emotion to a very anti-climatic conclusion to the novel. Which also bothers me because nothing really happened on the plot until the last 30 pages, and it was over before final chapter. Way to much time character building.Dillon's whole plot really just felt tacked on and could only be one chapters worth of pages when all mashed together (the book tends to blip around). Dillon's part of the story also was just to pave the way in the epilogue for the next book, as well as fill a HUGE plot hole at the end of how the villain's secret layer got found by Alexander and Nicholas (How they got in through the magic wards still a mystery). How Dillon even knew where the villain was is also unexplained (perhaps a previous book).
In short very a predictable "everything works out for everyone in the end" fun read that left me feeling very disappointed in my purchase.