alta la carica di erotismo; le scene di sesso sono esplicite, ben scritte, mai volgari. C'è una componente di violenza che potrebbe disturbare gli animi più sensibili, ma ben presto si comprende la vera natura del rapporto fra le due. La narrazione in terza persona racconta i fatti in modo onnisciente, senza, però, apparire fredda o distaccata. Le descrizioni sono evocative, grazie alle parole usate sono riuscita a immaginare alla perfezione ogni dettaglio. Le ambientazioni sono curate, nonchè uno sfondo perfetto per le vicende. Mi sono calata sempre più in un'atmosfera cupa e rarefatta. La scrittrice ha uno stile che è raffinato, eppure mai eccessivo. Col trascorrere del tempo però, Persefone si rese conto che, suo malgrado, si stava affezionando alla Dea degli Inferi, nonostante le prevaricazioni e i divieti ai quali costantemente la sottoponeva, mettendo a dura prova anche la sua resistenza fisica. There is a plot-and-character related whipping scene (nonsexual) which didn’t strike me as unnecessarily violent, but might upset readers whose tolerance is lower than mine. Persephone is her victim. She is forced into a marriage without her knowledge or consent, she is humiliated, routinely physically hurt in various ways, and sexually abused in various ways.

Caleb is a man with a singular interest in revenge. Kidnapped as a young boy and sold into slavery by a power-hungry mobster, he has thought of nothing but vengeance. For 12 years he has immersed himself in the world of pleasure slaves searching for the one man he holds ultimately responsible. Finally, the architect of his suffering has emerged with a new identity, but not a new nature. If Caleb is to get close enough to strike, he must become the very thing he abhors and kidnap a beautiful girl to train her to be all that he once was.The cover is beautiful, the writing is excellent, the narrative is well-paced. The main weakness is the timeline and time skips. Since the characters, for the most part, are gods and goddesses, the story spans over centuries, not years, and I sometimes had a hard time keeping up. Also, the romance itself isn’t as developed as the sexual relationship, and I think had the author delved deeper into that aspect of the relationship, the whole story would have benefited from it. I would have been happy with more magic and special effects too, but that’s just me being greedy. Table of Contents Chapter 1 ONE : TWO : THREE : FOUR : FIVE : SIX: SEVEN : EIGHT : NINE: TEN: ELEVEN : TWELVE : THIRTEEN : FOURTEEN : FIFTEEN : Chapter 17 Though the ending may seem abrupt and jarring to some, I appreciate that the final scene ended with just a simple conversation between Persephone and her mother, in which she finally becomes empowered and breaks ties with her once and for all, despite her mother's final attempts to gaslight her and make her feel like she must remain with her forever. There's no complexity, no moral gleamed from this mess. It's basically just snuff for people I would not want to associate with. Persephone was always going to be the annoying heroine in the story so I was hoping that Hades would of made up for it. Unfortunately she did not, her character was always straddling that line of being Great but never really crossing it.

I liked Persephone a lot. Life just keeps beating her down at every turn but she was so resilient and strong. I appreciate that she stood her ground and was not afraid to go toe to toe with Hades. Hades herself is a whole different thing. She’s an enigma and so hard to figure out. Again, she does awful things to Persephone so I can’t say that she was someone I particularly liked but she made for a very interesting character. There’s some damn hot sex scenes in this and I did like seeing them bond.When our hapless protagonist Olivia happens to walk out of the drugged slumber she was forced into, she realizes that her life has taken as sharp a turn as she could ever have expected. She is bound to her bed with a rope. In her general proximity is a complete stranger that refers to her as his pet, while he is to be regarded as the Master. urn:lcp:captiveindark0000robe:epub:29686ab7-b4c4-4e8d-9a66-a541cabf2045 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier captiveindark0000robe Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9s30rx8h Invoice 1652 Isbn 9782290130162

Caleb is a man with a singular interest in revenge. Kidnapped as a young boy and sold into slavery by a power-hungry mobster, he has thought of nothing but vengeance. For twelve years he has immersed himself in the world of pleasure slaves searching for the one man he holds ultimately responsible. Finally, the architect of his suffering has emerged with a new identity, but not a new nature. If caleb is to get close enough to strike, he must become the very thing he abhors and kidnap a beautiful girl to train her to be all that he once was. Besides the fact that it was just porn, you only get half a book. Thinking that it might pan out in the end, you reluctantly buy the other half of the book, only to realize, it too is just ridiculous porn. I really don't mind adult themes, if there's an interesting story to go with it.

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A hot love interest. Tan effectively makes the transition from “early book” Hades, who is quiet, sexy, and dangerous, to a more sympathetic, open character later on. To be quite frank, if Hades had just stabbed Persephone to death somewhere in the first third of the book, it would have been a happier ending than this deplorable... thing. Tess Snow’s life is amazing. She’s got one more semester left of school, a loving boyfriend, and a bright future full of happiness. Until her romantic trip to Mexico with said boyfriend turns into a nightmare when Tess is stolen. Drugged, transported, and ultimately sold, Tess’s life is obliterated in the blink of an eye. And the man in whose hands she finds herself, the man who calls himself only Q? He’s an enigmatic monster with dark secrets and an even darker soul. Tears is the first in Winters’s Monster in the Dark series, and the books just get darker as they go along people. Captive in the Dark by C.J. Roberts