3.5 Stars
CAPTIVATED has a great feminist heroine and sexy MMF menage romance but it's all wrapped up just a tad too neatly for my taste.
I like Izzie for her non-labeled feminism. The author isn't heavy-handed saying Izzie is a feminist but shows how Izzie believes she's equal to any man and is a self-determined person who happens to be female. This self-confidence is displayed in her sexual liberation in exploring her attraction to Jayce and Damian, who have been committed lovers for years.
I also liked the balanced romance between the three leads. Jayce and Damian are clearly as in love with each other as with Izzie and I like this balance as it's more believable than some menage where the men just suddenly turn gay for the menage's sake.
But what I had a difficult time with was the convenient, neatly wrapped ending. The issue of women's rights and the public relationship between the three is resolved so neatly and quickly at novella's end that I felt a tad cheated. Yes, I want a HEA as much as the next reader but I could have done with a little less perfection.
CAPTIVATED is a good MMF romance with plenty of well written sexual intimacy and a nicely liberated heroine.