Captured (Captivity Collection)

I really appreciated the “creativity” 😉

Wow!! When I heard about this book, I had to read it! This is a very dark romance with heavy trigger warnings (READ THEM) but so dang good! I can't wait to read more by Lauren Biel

Definitely not for the weak of stomach. Had to take a few moments where I needed to pause and take a min before continuing to read. Please read the trigger warnings before reading. This was a hard book to get through, but I had to finish it. This was such a captivating and fucked up story but worth the read.

*This is a DARK NONCON book.*

*I am not excusing the actions portrayed in the book but I really think the author did a wonderful job writing these scenes. I didn’t feel shameful for reading it. She wrote some challenging sht and it’ll def trigger people but I believe she highlighted the type of trauma and violence that most folks shy away from and she did it WELL.*

My god on today! This is a dark book. Not gray. This is a morally black MMC and a traumatized FMC. I loved this book. I will ride for this book. I have so many words but I talk faster than I type lol so bear with me:

1. Alex is torn and has been conditioned into this unfeeling beast. He has never seen humanity. I love this man. Does he do terrible shit? Yes. Is he a murderer? Yes. Is he a predator? Also yes. But will I defend him? 100% yes. I love him.

2. Ophelia is strong. I love her.

3. During her captivity, there were brief glimpses into his mind. We got to see the scared and scarred child. We got to see his longing and his hurt. We got to see him fearful and cowardly, and then brave and courageous. His actions are deplorable and he knows that, he can’t even understand how she can face him. I love this man. He was so poetically broken. He fought with himself at every turn and he couldn’t figure out if he was a victim of his environment, a product of his circumstances or if he was just truly a monster. His reckoning with himself was wonderful to read.

3. This story is really a tragic tale of one man’s fight to come to terms with how he was raised, reconcile his actions and impulses with his fears and desires. It was a look into what toxicity and trauma and conditioning does to its victims.

This is a phenomenal book. However, THIS IS A DARK BOOK. Almost all spice scenes were noncon. There is murder. It’s misogynistic af. It is NOT light at all. There is nothing gray here. But, if you can get past the grape, it’s a good fkn book.

Holy Batman! This was my first Lauren Biel book and I devoured it!

There were some parts that were disgusting but they fit so well with the book that dimming it down wouldn't get the right message across.

I couldn't close this book, I stayed up to finish it in one sitting.