Reviews for Captive Bride

The average rating for Captive Bride based on 2 reviews is 1 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-18 00:00:00 frankie eubanks This checks my boxes like you wouldn't believe! V A handsome Arabian male V Arrogant, dominant prick (a sheik even!) V Abduction V Humiliation/degradation V Great age gap V Dub con/ non con V Stockholm Syndrome (?) V Wonderful reviews Buddy read with Jenna, Angelica and Rebecka, with much appreciated mockery moral support from Mammarella. 7/1/14: post buddy read gone wrong Well then, all my buddy read partners have bitten the dust, so I'm sure no one objects to me DNF'ing at 65%. It looks like I dragged my innocent, unsuspecting friends into another painful disaster with me. I dare not check if any of them has unfriended me... Fuck. Should've stuck to M/M. This looked so good! Look at all those 1 star reviews luring us in with the promise of dub con/non con, pedo bear drool, an Arabian alpha Dom and what not. All the elements for a trainwreckalicious old school romance seemed to be present. For example, the author made me squirm with sweet anticipation when she shared the heroine's angsty rape-obsessed train of thought: Oh God, what is this man going to do with me? Will I be raped brutally first? Oh man, for her sake I hope she'll at least be raped gently! Of course -they'd be going into the desert. What better place to rape a woman than the desert - where her screams could not be heard. And there seemed to be several men riding with them. How many rapes would she have to endure before they killed her? Building excitement... Unfortunately, everything soon spiraled down into long descriptions of the heroine's blond manes, full breasts and otherwise unearthly beauty. This I could handle. I'd put my cards on the hot 'n hairy Arabian dude after all. ...only to discover that he was a brat who stamped on the floor and stormed out of his tent angrily whenever his 17 year old blondie didn't appreciate his naked desire. When she, all too soon, reluctantly submitted to the hardness between his legs, the deflowering this resulted into was so anti-climatic that even she couldn't be bothered keeping up an air of unwillingness and quickly changed her game plan by crying out "Take me, please!" to have the hero's straightforward humping over and done with. It worked. With more than three quarters of the book to go, the rape-y tension was replaced with "will he kill me and when will he do so?" angst, and it just wasn't the same. To think that the hero was supposed to make us women swoon and sigh dreamily... I certainly hope the author didn't draw on her own experiences with men. Instead, I'd like to think that she wrote Captive Bride in malicious delight, assuming that her audience of ladies trying to escape the daily grind and their boorish husbands for a few hours, probably wouldn't know better anyway. In which case I'll graciously bow to her cunningness and don't even mind having rewarded that with €€€€€ I'll never get back. Hell, who am I kidding? 1 star. Because I'm a sore loser.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-12-09 00:00:00 Krista Thomas Suck, suck, suck, suckity suck, suck suck. That's what this book did all the way through. In the 70's, it appears there was a trend for rape or almost-rape romances, where a male was sexier the more dominant he was. Ugh. If someone tried kidnapping me and telling me I would lust after him and I would obey, I'd be guilty of murder in the 1st degree.