A Surprisingly Riveting Read.

If you could sum up Captive Prince in three words, what would they be?

Romantic. Tense. Addictive.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Damianos, because he is a great man whose story is always interesting to follow.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

The rooftop escape scene.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

This book made my heart flutter and also tense up, waiting for the romantic tension to reach a climax.

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At times good, at times awkward

Captive Prince is one of my favourite books ever and I had to listen to the audiobook. The narrator, Stephen Bel Davies, was a good choice for the most part, but there were times his narration wasn't that great. I loved his voice for Damen but felt his voice for Laurent was too old. Laurent's only 20 years old but he sounds in his 40s sometimes. His voice for The Regent was great, but then his voice for Nicaise was wayyyyyyyyyy too deep. Nicaise is a 14 year old boy but his voice sounds like a 50 year old man. Was quite disappointed by this. Also at times it felt like Bel Davies was just reading the book as opposed to performing the book. Some of my favourite book narrators really get into the story and it feels like they're acting it out for you; sometimes Bel Davies did that but more often than not it felt like it was just being read to me. I could have just read the book myself to be honest.

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Fabulous introduction to the series

This book does a great job setting the scene for the 2 following novels. The pace is slow and the characters and politics are well developed.
I think the narration is very solid. The narrator manages to distinguish the main characters' dialogue fairly well.

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I have thoughts.

This book I found a great read apart from the rape scene that seemed to be glorified.

The book ended in way that makes me want to listen to the next in the series but I am troubled by the glorification of sexual abuse.

The writer is clearly very very talented, I think a sensitivity editor may have been needed to re word those few scenes that seemed to blur the lines a little bit to much. These are just my thoughts

The narration was fantastic.

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Terrible narrator

The book itself is definitely not for everyone. Reading from third person is already a challenge, let alone such an intense book. Unfortunately the narrator made this unlistenable and I ended up reading it myself at chapter 4. His voice is dull and almost robotic. Siri could’ve done better. I’ve been enticed enough by the ending to pick up the second one. We shall see how it goes :)

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Not great

There isn't much action in it. There is however a lot of mentioning of slaves, rape and pedophilia.

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Crude fanfic with no filter. Made me feel sick. How has this gotten so much publicity?

It was an interesting concept, but it was more a crude fanfic with no filter, it can’t be taken seriously just bleh fantasy, not really sexy, also crosses lines. It has a lot of ‘bad grapes’ and torture in it, i couldn’t finish reading it. Made me feel sick.
And I mean the premise, that they get closer together over 3 books. Really?
I dislike it, it’s not even sexy. While it’s got good structure and writing, the plot and characters were more silly, not in a great way. Not even intrigue in character development. Plot, bleh.
While it was a little spicy it was majoritively crude.

To anyone wondering if this good for a YA EROTICA OR ROMANCE? I would not recommend this book to anyone. Toxic also crosses lines, in a bad way.

And if anyone rebut my review. I do not want to hear it. Know that we can have our separate opinions. Because consent and respect is required. Is that not obvious.

I recommend don’t read this.

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Not the best

Didn't like voice actor's narration. The story had little plot going on until the second half.

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well written but no plot

Nothing of actually happened, there was very little in plot. Not my kind of book.

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