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Captive in the Dark
by CJ Roberts
Review for books 1 and 2 -- Warning: I don't see how I can write this without some spoilers. So be warned in advanced.
I really don't know what to say about this book other than I really just kind of hated it. I got through the first one out of morbid curiosity. I felt uncomfortable reading it the entire time. I didn't like I didn't feel that I had anyone to root for. In skimming the reviews, I feel like it's pegged as a love story. And the title of book 2, Seduced in the Dark, also makes it sound that way. But for me, I couldn't get behind any resemblance of a relationship between the main characters. I found it disturbing and terribly inappropriate. I mean, Caleb freaking butt rapes her but it's written like it's really okay since she came multiple times. Really!!!!!!!!!!!!????????? I mean, come on. He raped her!!!!!!!!!!!!! The only reason he didn't go the "traditional" route is because he needed her to be a virgin so he could sell her as a pleasure slave at a virgin auction to a terrible Russian mobster. Um. NONE OF THIS IS OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The worst part for me is the supposed feelings she developed for him. I understand stockholm syndrome, and I can get to an extent, but I feel like it's written in a way that the author wants the reader to have it too. Uh uh. Didn't work on me.
Okay. yes. I realize that the main guy, Caleb, had a terrible child-hood. I realize he was raped over and over in the butt my nasty old men that get off from that. I realize that he feels indebted to Rafiq for saving him. But he was so devastated by what happened to him that he wanted to kill his "pimp" and did without remorse. Instead of, Idk, turning around and getting away from that life, what does he do? He freaking does it other poor girls. He takes them and turns them into pleasure slaves over and over again. How the heck does that make him ANY better than the man who did it to him? huh? Yes. What happened to him was terrible. But it's no excuse for growing up and turning into the man he hated.
In book 2, we know she gets rescued and never made it to the auction. Thank goodness! But we are left with an emotional girl grieving her beloved "monster with a heart of gold". Gag me. We also get new characters with far too much of their own story line. I made approximately 1/3 of the way through before I had to just put it down. I thought maybe I'd eventually come back to it, and maybe it would end in a way that I could accept, but I just couldn't. It's been over a weak since I last picked it up and I have zero desire to return to it. So book 2 is officially dnf for me.
Part of me thinks I should have never picked this book up. And really, I shouldn't have when it comes down to it. I guess I finally did because 1) it was easy to find and 2) it had a lot of good reviews. So I thought hey, this can't be that bad or disturbing. No no no. It really is that disturbing.
So I'm rating book 1 only 1 star and not rating book 2 since I didn't finish it. That is me being nice.
I really don't know what to say about this book other than I really just kind of hated it. I got through the first one out of morbid curiosity. I felt uncomfortable reading it the entire time. I didn't like I didn't feel that I had anyone to root for. In skimming the reviews, I feel like it's pegged as a love story. And the title of book 2, Seduced in the Dark, also makes it sound that way. But for me, I couldn't get behind any resemblance of a relationship between the main characters. I found it disturbing and terribly inappropriate. I mean, Caleb freaking butt rapes her but it's written like it's really okay since she came multiple times. Really!!!!!!!!!!!!????????? I mean, come on. He raped her!!!!!!!!!!!!! The only reason he didn't go the "traditional" route is because he needed her to be a virgin so he could sell her as a pleasure slave at a virgin auction to a terrible Russian mobster. Um. NONE OF THIS IS OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The worst part for me is the supposed feelings she developed for him. I understand stockholm syndrome, and I can get to an extent, but I feel like it's written in a way that the author wants the reader to have it too. Uh uh. Didn't work on me.
Okay. yes. I realize that the main guy, Caleb, had a terrible child-hood. I realize he was raped over and over in the butt my nasty old men that get off from that. I realize that he feels indebted to Rafiq for saving him. But he was so devastated by what happened to him that he wanted to kill his "pimp" and did without remorse. Instead of, Idk, turning around and getting away from that life, what does he do? He freaking does it other poor girls. He takes them and turns them into pleasure slaves over and over again. How the heck does that make him ANY better than the man who did it to him? huh? Yes. What happened to him was terrible. But it's no excuse for growing up and turning into the man he hated.
In book 2, we know she gets rescued and never made it to the auction. Thank goodness! But we are left with an emotional girl grieving her beloved "monster with a heart of gold". Gag me. We also get new characters with far too much of their own story line. I made approximately 1/3 of the way through before I had to just put it down. I thought maybe I'd eventually come back to it, and maybe it would end in a way that I could accept, but I just couldn't. It's been over a weak since I last picked it up and I have zero desire to return to it. So book 2 is officially dnf for me.
Part of me thinks I should have never picked this book up. And really, I shouldn't have when it comes down to it. I guess I finally did because 1) it was easy to find and 2) it had a lot of good reviews. So I thought hey, this can't be that bad or disturbing. No no no. It really is that disturbing.
So I'm rating book 1 only 1 star and not rating book 2 since I didn't finish it. That is me being nice.