The book starts out a bit like a car accident that you can’t look away from. But the great plotting and the characters kept me glued to the pages.
I’m typically not keen on romances involving slavery - I could not enjoy Justine Davis’ Skypirate books, or Song of Scarabeus, which so many readers loved a few years back, because I found the slavery too disturbing.Īnd it was disturbing as hell for me in Volume 1 of Captive Prince, too, I don’t want to imply otherwise. At first, it appears to have the trappings of erotica, but then it veers off in a totally unexpected direction and what it really becomes is a story of political intrigue and machinations in the vein of Dorothy Dunnett, with an epic, towering, impossible romance at its center. Lest all this master/pleasure slave stuff mislead anyone, I hasten to add that this is not, in the main, a BDSM or D/s story. But as the fledgling trust between the two men deepens, the truth of secrets from both their pasts is poised to deal them the crowning death blow. With their countries on the brink of war, Damen and his new master Prince Laurent must exchange the intrigues of the palace for the sweeping might of the battlefield as they travel to the border to avert a lethal plot.įorced to hide his identity, Damen finds himself increasingly drawn to the dangerous, charismatic Laurent. Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent to survive and save his country.įor Damen, there is just one rule: never, ever reveal his true identity.
But Volume 2 is where it’s really at, because there the story gets mind-blowing.ĭamen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.īeautiful, manipulative and deadly, his new master Prince Laurent epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. Volume 1 is disturbing, but good, and must be read before Volume 2. The online version has some differences from the published version, but it is still available here for free. It is not fanfiction in the sense that it’s not based off of any other author’s characters, but it was written for an online community. I understand that there will be a third volume out in 2014, and I will wait with bated breath until then, because I’m dying for more of these characters and their story.Ĭaptive Prince has an interesting provenance. I thought about reviewing the two volumes of Captive Prince separately, but came to the conclusion that since they are two parts of the same story and absolutely must be read in order, this made no sense.
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