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Captive
A full length STANDALONE book.
She's his captive.
He's her captor.
Their relationship is a volatile push and pull.
He plays the villain, and she plays the victim; each play their roles to a tee. One buries the past to forget, the other fights to remind the other how they began.
She is desperate to escape.
He is desperate to keep her.
One thing is clear:
Only one will be left standing at the end.
She's his captive.
He's her captor.
Their relationship is a volatile push and pull.
He plays the villain, and she plays the victim; each play their roles to a tee. One buries the past to forget, the other fights to remind the other how they began.
She is desperate to escape.
He is desperate to keep her.
One thing is clear:
Only one will be left standing at the end.
597 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 10, 2020
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R.J. Lewis
33 books3,021 followersNew York Times and USA Today bestseller, R.J. Lewis, is the number one bestselling author of the Ignite series, the Loving Lawson series, the Borden series, and numerous other titles. She has been writing all her life and looks forward to sharing her stories with readers who are interested in character growth and romance of the unconventional kind.
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December 23, 2020
Lowered to 2 STARS because even months later, I still hate this stupid heroine.
This book is a prime example of how ONE character can ruin a whole (amazing) reading experience. This book was nearly perfect. I absolutely LOVED our hero Nixon, so much. He’s definitely going to my favorite heroes shelf and he’s gonna stay in there. The devotion and love and respect and pretty much everything he had and did for the heroine was all I could have ever asked for and so much more.
But I’m so bitter, y’all. Because while our hero was top notch, the heroine absolutely ruined this book for me. RUINED IT. She’s probably my least favorite main character I’ve ever read about.
Now don’t get me wrong, I love it when in captive/captor themed books the captive fights back. I NEED them to do that or otherwise the book simply won’t work for me. But it becomes a problem when it’s all that seems to be happening. Meaning, no development occurs.
Nixon is NOT your average captor. He is not cruel. He does not abuse the heroine, does not force her to do anything she doesn’t want. He’s obsessed with her, absolutely loves her to a point of madness. He’s like a mixture of a loving boyfriend and a criminal with psychopathic and OCD tendencies. Which IMO makes a great hero in romance books. And what I love about him is the way he loves Vixen. Like this guy seriously adores her.
And the heroine, Vixen? She doesn’t deserve him. AT ALL. I honestly think a man like Nixon deserves someone so much better than what he got. I’m actually really pissed about this, because while Nixon was breaking for her, dying for her, killing for her, sacrificing anything and everything for her, the heroine did not care.
I needed her to do so much more. I needed her to stop being on the defensive all the time, I needed her to stop fighting the obvious. I needed her to show me her love for Nixon and I’m sad to announce that I failed to feel it, y’all. And it pisses me off because it’s one of my biggest pet peeves to finish a book and think ”Oh, they did not love each other in same measures”. And I do understand the game these two had going on, a game where she’d mean the opposite of what she was saying. And I respected that when it occurred when they were having sex. I thought it was hot, but when it started to extend to the emotional side of their relationship is when my bitterness started to take root. I also felt like the heroine only cared about sex & craved only that from the hero. She didn’t care about his feelings or heart as long as he was sexing her up the right way!
It’s simply impossible for me to not loathe a character that tells their significant other ”I hate you, I loathe you, I wished I’d never met you” etc. to the very last pages of the book. And the hero WAS affected by her words, very much so. He admitted several times (up until 90%) that he never knew she loved him and always thought that she would never be able to reciprocate his feelings. And I think that was the most heartbreaking part of it all.
I finished a nearly 500 page book feeling sad and forlorn, feeling like the hero deserved someone who loved him unconditionally, someone who wouldn’t have abandoned him like Vixen did (several times). I wanted him to end up with someone more mature, someone way way less annoying. Someone who deserved him. And this heroine was not it.
So yeah. I’m pretty disappointed. Vixen is one of my least favorite heroines I’ve ever read about. I actually really hate her. Whereas at first I thought she was entertaining and I liked her well enough, her absolute lack of development was such a disappointment and I cannot stress that enough.
Nixon baby... marry me instead?
This book is a prime example of how ONE character can ruin a whole (amazing) reading experience. This book was nearly perfect. I absolutely LOVED our hero Nixon, so much. He’s definitely going to my favorite heroes shelf and he’s gonna stay in there. The devotion and love and respect and pretty much everything he had and did for the heroine was all I could have ever asked for and so much more.
But I’m so bitter, y’all. Because while our hero was top notch, the heroine absolutely ruined this book for me. RUINED IT. She’s probably my least favorite main character I’ve ever read about.
Now don’t get me wrong, I love it when in captive/captor themed books the captive fights back. I NEED them to do that or otherwise the book simply won’t work for me. But it becomes a problem when it’s all that seems to be happening. Meaning, no development occurs.
Nixon is NOT your average captor. He is not cruel. He does not abuse the heroine, does not force her to do anything she doesn’t want. He’s obsessed with her, absolutely loves her to a point of madness. He’s like a mixture of a loving boyfriend and a criminal with psychopathic and OCD tendencies. Which IMO makes a great hero in romance books. And what I love about him is the way he loves Vixen. Like this guy seriously adores her.
And the heroine, Vixen? She doesn’t deserve him. AT ALL. I honestly think a man like Nixon deserves someone so much better than what he got. I’m actually really pissed about this, because while Nixon was breaking for her, dying for her, killing for her, sacrificing anything and everything for her, the heroine did not care.
I needed her to do so much more. I needed her to stop being on the defensive all the time, I needed her to stop fighting the obvious. I needed her to show me her love for Nixon and I’m sad to announce that I failed to feel it, y’all. And it pisses me off because it’s one of my biggest pet peeves to finish a book and think ”Oh, they did not love each other in same measures”. And I do understand the game these two had going on, a game where she’d mean the opposite of what she was saying. And I respected that when it occurred when they were having sex. I thought it was hot, but when it started to extend to the emotional side of their relationship is when my bitterness started to take root. I also felt like the heroine only cared about sex & craved only that from the hero. She didn’t care about his feelings or heart as long as he was sexing her up the right way!
It’s simply impossible for me to not loathe a character that tells their significant other ”I hate you, I loathe you, I wished I’d never met you” etc. to the very last pages of the book. And the hero WAS affected by her words, very much so. He admitted several times (up until 90%) that he never knew she loved him and always thought that she would never be able to reciprocate his feelings. And I think that was the most heartbreaking part of it all.
I finished a nearly 500 page book feeling sad and forlorn, feeling like the hero deserved someone who loved him unconditionally, someone who wouldn’t have abandoned him like Vixen did (several times). I wanted him to end up with someone more mature, someone way way less annoying. Someone who deserved him. And this heroine was not it.
So yeah. I’m pretty disappointed. Vixen is one of my least favorite heroines I’ve ever read about. I actually really hate her. Whereas at first I thought she was entertaining and I liked her well enough, her absolute lack of development was such a disappointment and I cannot stress that enough.
Nixon baby... marry me instead?
November 21, 2022
hi y’all! 🙈
forgive me, my GIF game is rusty as hell, i mean
but i’m back. this will be really awkward if no one remembers me so please pretend you do. 😬
4 Nixon 💫
“Carpe Diem, he’d learned once.
And he’d Carpe Diem’d the shit out of it the day he decided she was his.
Song : Kodaline - All I Want
i’ve been incredibly overwhelmed with the urge to review this book ever since i read it. it consumed my thoughts to the point where i had to come here and purge this out of my system.
this is the story of Vixen, a woman kidnapped and held in isolation on a private island for two years by a mysterious man with criminal ties. she’s trying her best to hold her own against this magnetic force of a man hell-bent on loving and worshipping her. 🙃
💢 Nixon. Nixon. Nixon.
that man was so incredibly perfect. flawed, but so incredibly perfect. the most caring, loving, devoted, sweet and filthy hot kidnapper of all time.
straight to my heroes/anti-heroes hall of fame.
“As long as I’m breathing, you’re safe.”
My heart squeezed. “Then don’t stop breathing.”
“So long as you’re mine, I never want to.”
Nixon can definitely step on me anytime and i’d be honored.
this man tugged at every heartstring that I had, and i don’t have words to describe how much i loved him.
“I let you go, and I destroyed myself so you wouldn’t.”
💢this was my first read by this author, and while i found that starting the story in the middle stole the tension/impact from certain key moments, i really enjoyed the writing style. it was straight to the point in a refreshing way. it didn’t rely on beautiful metaphors and elaborate descriptions but had a rather raw, real feel to it that i really appreciated.
💢 now that these two very important facts are out of the way, let’s get to the thing that truly haunted me.
we all have our fears. for some it’s those hairy eight-legged little monsters, for others it’s the elevator doors closing in on you. some of our fears are rational, you can trace them back to certain experiences, unresolved trauma or good ol’ common sense (rollercoasters fall under common sense. y’all who ENJOY getting on those death machines, i’m judging you 😭). other fears are irrational, though. you just know you develop this intense reaction to a specific object or event.
if you’re lucky, you can go your whole life without feeling the tell-tale sinking feeling in your stomach, the all-consuming dread spreading through your body and the painful, vice-like grip on your heart. if you’re like me, however, you stumble across a book about a bad man kidnapping an innocent woman, and it triggers one of your worst fears.
”Maybe the world couldn’t handle that much love.”
when I read romance novels, i want to release that satisfied sigh at the end, to feel like i just witnessed a moving, earth shattering love story. when i finished this book, my heart was bleeding through my eyes. i had a horrible, sinking feeling in my stomach that in some parallel universe where books came alive, Nixon was living the rest of his life with someone who didn’t deserve him. who didn’t love him as he loved her. worst. feeling. ever. i was so triggered. i didn’t see Nixon or Vixen. i didn’t see the inner conflict of the heroine or the complexity of the situation. all i could see was young me, watching as the most important person in my life gave and gave and gave so much of her, and yet never got anything in return. how the cups of those around her overflowed with her love, and yet no one ever refilled her draining one. how i would look at her and think some people are just destined to always give more love than what they receive. and how, most of all, i was terrified of being like her.
Always he tried to touch my soul.
Always he longed for it in the depths of his eyes.
Always I denied him.
it was soul crushing to see Nixon destined to the very same thing. it was excruciating seeing him yearning for just a look that would convey she felt anything for him. even when he was dying, he knew deep inside of him she never wanted him.
Tears slid down the side of his face. “Do you think she loved me the same, Tyrone?”
The plea rattled Tyrone to the core. He gripped Nixon’s hand and held him tight. “I think she did, buddy.”
“Funny,” he whispered, shaking his head a little. “I don’t think she did…”
i. was. sobbing. i went back and read so many reviews for this book, i tried to understand her perspective and see her in a different light, i really did. i guess we are our experiences at the end of the day, because all i felt was rage and hurt.
“My time’s over,” he forced out. “But I got to have you. I got to have something real in the end. I got to love with all my heart. I got to feel a person capture my soul. Not everyone can say they’ve loved so whole before. I was your captive, baby, right from the start.”
she left him. time and time again. even when he was dying, she still left. she could’ve fought, she could’ve stayed. but she didn’t. she never did.
💢 after reading all the reviews and feeling like i still might’ve been too harsh on Vixen, i decided to push my personal feelings to the side and examine her character with different lens. the conclusion i came to was the following :
and so was Vixen’s character.
Vixen was kidnapped, held in a cage (i would pay to be held in cage by Nixon but that’s just me) with no perspective of freedom in sight. i get that. and if you know me, you know i love my heroines strong and feisty, but you know what i also love?
no character development whatsoever here. even the fact she repressed those memories for two years didn’t make any sense to me. like…what?
Vixen was always blaming Nixon. she blamed him for kidnapping her. she blamed him for letting her go. she was always the one betrayed, deceived. she was so fucking SELFISH. so so so selfish and self absorbed. i desperately wanted her to come back to him (only because i wanted him happy at all costs) but by the time she did, i just wanted her to stay the fuck away from him. like i get that she was kidnapped and denied her freedom, and i understand how Nixon needed to realize she couldn’t be locked away forever. so I did admire her fight for a while, but where was the character development? two years and 98% of the book later, she was still pretty much the same. fuck that. he deserved so much better.
that man did everything for her. killed for her. almost died for her. had his entire island burned and he was only running after her. she never, NOT ONCE, returned ANYTHING that even comes close to that.
In the end, all he wanted was for me to want him back unequivocally.
My poor Nixon.
I’m sorry I chose to forget.
then she had the AUDACITY to say
I was unwanted. Rejected. He was throwing me out like he seriously didn’t give one ounce of fuck.
and to add insult to injury, she fucking moved on during their separation. she was with someone else, only remembering Nixon when she couldn’t orgasm. that was such a slap to the face. it made things so much worse for me because it left me feeling like all she ever wanted him for was sex. it also reminded me of one of the worst reading moments of my life - when Dean smiled at that woman after Rosie’s death. it shattered me.
💢 all this being said, i would still encourage y’all to read the book. even if we don’t agree on the heroine, Nixon alone makes it well worth the 500+ pages. and who knows, maybe in a few years when my wounds aren’t so raw and this doesn’t feel so personal, i’ll re-read this story and appreciate Vixen’s character for what it is: someone who just wants the freedom to make their own choices. 😇
💢 in the meantime, justice for Nixon.
💢 updated list of my enemies:
1. Vhagar (House of the Dragon)
2. Sabrina (Hell’s Kitchen season 8)
3. The word ‘’operationalization’’
4. Vixen
February 14, 2020
4 The Power of Fear Stars ⭐
I was his toy. Still fresh and new. Still unbroken.
I started this story, and with every page I grew a little more uncomfortable and a little more unsure as to where this story was heading. Because it didn’t feel like a love story as our heroine is being held on an island against her will, with no real freedom insight. However Vixen isn’t just a toy, she is a woman who is being obsessively loved by her captor.
“I think you missed me,” he went on, amused.
I ground my hips, lost to the feeling, grating out, “No, I didn’t.”
He chuckled. “I think you’re lying. Your body’s telling me something different, baby.”
“No.”
Nixon doesn't hide his criminal activities, unscrupulous morals or unsavoury acquaintances. He is unremorseful of his actions and he will keep Vixen because he desires and needs to. He treats her well and caters to all her needs, and that is enough justification in his twisted little mind. And in part she could survive this, if Vixen kept her soul intact or acknowledged the truth...
I could let him fuck me, toy with me, suck me to orgasm – it didn’t mean I cared for the bastard. It just meant I wasn’t a victim in all this mess, and I liked that.
Captive is broken into three parts starting with the present, the past and future. Just when Nixon is reassessing his actions and looking at ways at normalising their situation, fucking BOOM. Because when you're at the top, nothing or nobody is safe. And even though their relationship may be a case of Stockholm Syndrome, their is so much more to Nixon and Vixen; especially how they came to be together.
This is an epic saga of criminal activity, dubious consent, despair but also love for an unlikely pair. It will consume you. So good!
"That was the game we played.
I pretended not to care, and he fought to prove otherwise.
And I was…tired of it.
My soul was weak and craved something deeper."
I was his toy. Still fresh and new. Still unbroken.
I started this story, and with every page I grew a little more uncomfortable and a little more unsure as to where this story was heading. Because it didn’t feel like a love story as our heroine is being held on an island against her will, with no real freedom insight. However Vixen isn’t just a toy, she is a woman who is being obsessively loved by her captor.
“I think you missed me,” he went on, amused.
I ground my hips, lost to the feeling, grating out, “No, I didn’t.”
He chuckled. “I think you’re lying. Your body’s telling me something different, baby.”
“No.”
Nixon doesn't hide his criminal activities, unscrupulous morals or unsavoury acquaintances. He is unremorseful of his actions and he will keep Vixen because he desires and needs to. He treats her well and caters to all her needs, and that is enough justification in his twisted little mind. And in part she could survive this, if Vixen kept her soul intact or acknowledged the truth...
I could let him fuck me, toy with me, suck me to orgasm – it didn’t mean I cared for the bastard. It just meant I wasn’t a victim in all this mess, and I liked that.
Captive is broken into three parts starting with the present, the past and future. Just when Nixon is reassessing his actions and looking at ways at normalising their situation, fucking BOOM. Because when you're at the top, nothing or nobody is safe. And even though their relationship may be a case of Stockholm Syndrome, their is so much more to Nixon and Vixen; especially how they came to be together.
This is an epic saga of criminal activity, dubious consent, despair but also love for an unlikely pair. It will consume you. So good!
"That was the game we played.
I pretended not to care, and he fought to prove otherwise.
And I was…tired of it.
My soul was weak and craved something deeper."
August 2, 2022
– 3.5 stars
When I started this book I fully intended to love the hero and hate the heroine, cause that’s basically every review says across the board. And surprisingly Vixen (h) didn’t get on my nerves as much as I thought she would. Nixon (H) is just top tier obsessed! When is it my turn to be kidnapped by someone like Nixon? 🙇🏻♀️
─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─ THE GOOD ─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─
➵ Nixon. If there is one reason and one reason only to pick up this book then it would definitely be for Nixon, cause he is the most swoonworthy kidnapper ever. The way he loves, protects and whorshippes Vixen is too good. My respectful asshole kidnapper king. 🛐 I love him and does he deserve better? A thousand times yes, and I don’t really understand what he sees in Vixen that made him so enamored with her, but well he deserves all the best.
─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─ THE OK ─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─
➵ Vixen. She has her annoying moments where she’s acting like the biggest ungrateful brat and I can understand why her character could ruin the book for someone, but at the same time I can’t really blame her for her pissy attitude. Vix was kidnapped and taken to an island where she had to stay for almost two years without any choice so her pride is all she has left. And good for her girl, stay strong queen, cause I’d be Nixon pet after 2 days. He can have all my holes, but unfortunately he only wants Vix. 😔
─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─ THE MEH ─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─
➵ The storytelling. I’m not a fan of the way R.J. Lewis choose to tell the story starting with the middle of Vixen and Nixon’s relationship when Vix is almost two years into her captivity, then jumps to their beginning in the middle of the book told through flashbacks and then we go back to a two year time jump for the ending of the story when these two need to find each other again in the ‘real’ world. Something about that was just too chaotic.
─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─ CONCLUSION ─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─
For a 500-600p book where the whole plot is the heroine and Hero fighting with each other and having sex, it was fairly entertaining. Nixon just carried the whole book anyway and he needs to get more recognition. 💅
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CAPTIVE SERIES
#1 Captive – 3.5 stars (Nixon x Vixen)
#2 Stolen – tbr (Eman x ???)
┕━»•» «•«━━━━━━━━┙
When I started this book I fully intended to love the hero and hate the heroine, cause that’s basically every review says across the board. And surprisingly Vixen (h) didn’t get on my nerves as much as I thought she would. Nixon (H) is just top tier obsessed! When is it my turn to be kidnapped by someone like Nixon? 🙇🏻♀️
“I was dead,” he told me. “There was nothing left inside me.”
“And now?” I prodded frantically. “What’s inside you now?”
His face went cold. “Not you.”
─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─ THE GOOD ─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─
➵ Nixon. If there is one reason and one reason only to pick up this book then it would definitely be for Nixon, cause he is the most swoonworthy kidnapper ever. The way he loves, protects and whorshippes Vixen is too good. My respectful asshole kidnapper king. 🛐 I love him and does he deserve better? A thousand times yes, and I don’t really understand what he sees in Vixen that made him so enamored with her, but well he deserves all the best.
─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─ THE OK ─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─
➵ Vixen. She has her annoying moments where she’s acting like the biggest ungrateful brat and I can understand why her character could ruin the book for someone, but at the same time I can’t really blame her for her pissy attitude. Vix was kidnapped and taken to an island where she had to stay for almost two years without any choice so her pride is all she has left. And good for her girl, stay strong queen, cause I’d be Nixon pet after 2 days. He can have all my holes, but unfortunately he only wants Vix. 😔
─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─ THE MEH ─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─
➵ The storytelling. I’m not a fan of the way R.J. Lewis choose to tell the story starting with the middle of Vixen and Nixon’s relationship when Vix is almost two years into her captivity, then jumps to their beginning in the middle of the book told through flashbacks and then we go back to a two year time jump for the ending of the story when these two need to find each other again in the ‘real’ world. Something about that was just too chaotic.
─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─ CONCLUSION ─ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─
For a 500-600p book where the whole plot is the heroine and Hero fighting with each other and having sex, it was fairly entertaining. Nixon just carried the whole book anyway and he needs to get more recognition. 💅
┍━━━━━━━━»•» «•«━┑
CAPTIVE SERIES
#1 Captive – 3.5 stars (Nixon x Vixen)
#2 Stolen – tbr (Eman x ???)
┕━»•» «•«━━━━━━━━┙
February 2, 2022
I fell in love with this book 😍
And the herooo!!! How dare he be sooo perfect
I just loved every part of this book
And the herooo!!! How dare he be sooo perfect
I just loved every part of this book
September 28, 2021
Drop her skunky ass like a hot potato and marry me, Nixon!
Hero - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Heroine - 🚮
Overall 3.5 stars
Hero - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Heroine - 🚮
Overall 3.5 stars
November 3, 2020
4.5 Stars
I’d read another book by this author before and it didn’t go well at the time so reading a 600 pages story by her was a huge risk for me (considering me having a page phobia and 597 pages literally put me out of my comfort zone) but reading this, I didn’t feel the time. I liked the writing so much. it was a bit uncommon, contains 3 parts, and begins from the middle, then the beginning, and then the end. I’m sure if it was written otherwise I wouldn’t read it till the end. Loved both main characters and also the secondary ones. I wish I could read all of their stories. Loved Nixen & Vixen banter especially when he went for short answers and she became spiteful. Loved their push and pull, their chemistry, loved seeing them loving each other, fighting each other, being at war with themselves. They were perfect for each other (but they had a very long way to see it thoroughly). All in all, loved it and hope you enjoy it as well!
I’d read another book by this author before and it didn’t go well at the time so reading a 600 pages story by her was a huge risk for me (considering me having a page phobia and 597 pages literally put me out of my comfort zone) but reading this, I didn’t feel the time. I liked the writing so much. it was a bit uncommon, contains 3 parts, and begins from the middle, then the beginning, and then the end. I’m sure if it was written otherwise I wouldn’t read it till the end. Loved both main characters and also the secondary ones. I wish I could read all of their stories. Loved Nixen & Vixen banter especially when he went for short answers and she became spiteful. Loved their push and pull, their chemistry, loved seeing them loving each other, fighting each other, being at war with themselves. They were perfect for each other (but they had a very long way to see it thoroughly). All in all, loved it and hope you enjoy it as well!
November 7, 2021
-3.75 stars-
on one hand i loved this couple... like legit loved them omg i need more couples like this. unconventional and toxic but in a way that's so seamless and makes so much sense. nixon really is just.... daddy.🔥 how can one man be so full of contradictions but in the best way possible? like the way he is murderous but respectful but an asshole but noble but a captor all at once i'm just-- and don't even get me started on his dedication to sharpening that knife ✋🏽👅😂 mans could get it x1000 and i say that w my full chest
so aside from the couple, which i obviously adore, something was missing and it's why i can't rate it higher. when i got further into the story i realized it was the choice to start the story from 'the middle'. basically the book opens 2 years into the heroines captivity and that lasts until around 40% of the book and then we go back to their beginning. this didn't work for me cause being thrown into the middle of their relationship took away a lot of the buildup or idk tension and excitement. i understand why it was done this way but i don't think 'the middle' needed to last quite so long, especially cause when we went back to the beginning is when i was so hookedddd in their story and legit ready to die for the hero. so while i liked the couple from page 1, i wish i felt more ensnared by the opening of the book. other than this tho, i fucking loved it and will def reread
on one hand i loved this couple... like legit loved them omg i need more couples like this. unconventional and toxic but in a way that's so seamless and makes so much sense. nixon really is just.... daddy.🔥 how can one man be so full of contradictions but in the best way possible? like the way he is murderous but respectful but an asshole but noble but a captor all at once i'm just-- and don't even get me started on his dedication to sharpening that knife ✋🏽👅😂 mans could get it x1000 and i say that w my full chest
so aside from the couple, which i obviously adore, something was missing and it's why i can't rate it higher. when i got further into the story i realized it was the choice to start the story from 'the middle'. basically the book opens 2 years into the heroines captivity and that lasts until around 40% of the book and then we go back to their beginning. this didn't work for me cause being thrown into the middle of their relationship took away a lot of the buildup or idk tension and excitement. i understand why it was done this way but i don't think 'the middle' needed to last quite so long, especially cause when we went back to the beginning is when i was so hookedddd in their story and legit ready to die for the hero. so while i liked the couple from page 1, i wish i felt more ensnared by the opening of the book. other than this tho, i fucking loved it and will def reread
March 7, 2020
5 Stars.
Now THAT is what im talking about!!! A dark romance that doesn't suck and make me depressed! A dub con romance book done the right freaking way! Reminds me of books back in 2014 where you were reading a completely fleshed out story with sex scenes throughout, instead of just one lackluster one at the 89% mark. This was mad sexy with even better characters.
Also really appreciated the change in how a linear story is told. Told in three parts, this story starts with "The middle" then follows with "The beginning" and finishes with "The end." Just a really genius way to tell this kind of story, because the book starts with the hero and heroine already in a turbulent relationship with the h still being held captive by the H. I just found this aspect of the book to be really unique and really easy to dive into. Well done!
Safety:
No cheating
No OW drama. Slight OM drama - a few instances of attempted rape and one man the heroine dates after 2 years of thinking the hero is dead. She doesnt have sex with him.
No other people after meeting.
Seperation of 2 years (see above)
Very possessive/obsessed alpha hero.
Dub con, rough sex
Heroine is a virgin
Hero is a previous man whore
Now THAT is what im talking about!!! A dark romance that doesn't suck and make me depressed! A dub con romance book done the right freaking way! Reminds me of books back in 2014 where you were reading a completely fleshed out story with sex scenes throughout, instead of just one lackluster one at the 89% mark. This was mad sexy with even better characters.
Also really appreciated the change in how a linear story is told. Told in three parts, this story starts with "The middle" then follows with "The beginning" and finishes with "The end." Just a really genius way to tell this kind of story, because the book starts with the hero and heroine already in a turbulent relationship with the h still being held captive by the H. I just found this aspect of the book to be really unique and really easy to dive into. Well done!
Safety:
No cheating
No OW drama. Slight OM drama - a few instances of attempted rape and one man the heroine dates after 2 years of thinking the hero is dead. She doesnt have sex with him.
No other people after meeting.
Seperation of 2 years (see above)
Very possessive/obsessed alpha hero.
Dub con, rough sex
Heroine is a virgin
Hero is a previous man whore
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 1, 2020
5 New Book Boyfriend Alert Stars!!
MILD SPOILERS
Yaasss I LOVED this book! I went in expecting a darker book, and more of a captive/kidnapper plotline like what the blurb insinuated, and was pleasantly surprised that I didn't really get that vibe or story at all. The actual story was a lot different than what I thought it would be and I was living for it! Even with how long the book already was, I wanted more and more and was sad when it actually ended.
The story is separated into three parts, and normally I don't care for when books have this, but I actually really liked it. I loved the first part the most and it is pretty much about how the couple was currently. When you read it, it does have more of the blurb tied into it, but it's not really what you think either until you get to the second part which shined more light on how their relationship started and how it works. Then the last part was a continuation of the first part, and my only complaint was that I wish that it was longer.
I loved the hero sooo much and he is officially a part of my book boyfriend crew. The heroine was great too, at first I didn't really know what to make of her, but I actually really enjoyed being in her head and seeing her actions. Their relationship dynamic is a bit weird and different, but it just showed how much the hero cared for her. He was always calm, took her anger in stride, and when she would have fits he always knew how to calm her down. My favorite was her lamp fits and how she was constantly throwing them and he always treated it with humor. Or how he always picks out what she wears for the day because she can never decide. I also literally don't think I've ever been this obsessed by a hero calling the heroine "baby". I melted a little everytime he did. Really, I can go on and on about why I love the hero so much.
There were a couple mistakes, none that bothered me though. There were some spelling and grammar, and a couple of POV changes that didn't technically make sense, but again it was so small that they didn't take away from the story.
Overall this was an amazing book and I would definitely recommend it. There were some dark themes, but I wouldn't say this is really a "dark" book. There was some humor throughout which I also didn't expect and loved it too. All of the side characters were meaningful and amazing and they also brought in more humor. There was absolutely no OW drama, a tiny bit of OM, but it wasn't annoying. They do have a separation of two years, the heroine tries to move on with a boyfriend but only really gets as far as kissing him, and the hero doesn't move on at all and has no other partners. He was only ever with her since they first meet (just another reason to love him). This was a great book and my first read by RJ Lewis and will definitely check out more by her.
MILD SPOILERS
Yaasss I LOVED this book! I went in expecting a darker book, and more of a captive/kidnapper plotline like what the blurb insinuated, and was pleasantly surprised that I didn't really get that vibe or story at all. The actual story was a lot different than what I thought it would be and I was living for it! Even with how long the book already was, I wanted more and more and was sad when it actually ended.
The story is separated into three parts, and normally I don't care for when books have this, but I actually really liked it. I loved the first part the most and it is pretty much about how the couple was currently. When you read it, it does have more of the blurb tied into it, but it's not really what you think either until you get to the second part which shined more light on how their relationship started and how it works. Then the last part was a continuation of the first part, and my only complaint was that I wish that it was longer.
I loved the hero sooo much and he is officially a part of my book boyfriend crew. The heroine was great too, at first I didn't really know what to make of her, but I actually really enjoyed being in her head and seeing her actions. Their relationship dynamic is a bit weird and different, but it just showed how much the hero cared for her. He was always calm, took her anger in stride, and when she would have fits he always knew how to calm her down. My favorite was her lamp fits and how she was constantly throwing them and he always treated it with humor. Or how he always picks out what she wears for the day because she can never decide. I also literally don't think I've ever been this obsessed by a hero calling the heroine "baby". I melted a little everytime he did. Really, I can go on and on about why I love the hero so much.
There were a couple mistakes, none that bothered me though. There were some spelling and grammar, and a couple of POV changes that didn't technically make sense, but again it was so small that they didn't take away from the story.
Overall this was an amazing book and I would definitely recommend it. There were some dark themes, but I wouldn't say this is really a "dark" book. There was some humor throughout which I also didn't expect and loved it too. All of the side characters were meaningful and amazing and they also brought in more humor. There was absolutely no OW drama, a tiny bit of OM, but it wasn't annoying. They do have a separation of two years, the heroine tries to move on with a boyfriend but only really gets as far as kissing him, and the hero doesn't move on at all and has no other partners. He was only ever with her since they first meet (just another reason to love him). This was a great book and my first read by RJ Lewis and will definitely check out more by her.
October 25, 2021
“I’m going to finger you,” he told me, tightly. “You’re going to grab at my arm and try to pull me away from your neck. You’re going to plead for me to let you go, but I want your hips to grind against me. Got it, little vixen?”
This consensual non consensual sex kink was a first for me and at times it was kinda exhausting. I enjoyed it at the beginning but then I got to a point where I was like can't they just admit their true feelings for one another and have normal sex.
This is divided into 3 parts. Part one and three deal with the present and part 2 deals with the past. Part 1 was filled with the leads alternating between fighting and having sex. Part 2 was amazing, I really enjoyed it. Part 3 was okay I guess. The ending was not that satisfying but also realistic cuz you just don't get to walk away from shit like that and live hea, I mean there is a hea with them being married but I wanted more. Overall Nixon is the sweetest hero that I have come across in the dark genre.
This consensual non consensual sex kink was a first for me and at times it was kinda exhausting. I enjoyed it at the beginning but then I got to a point where I was like can't they just admit their true feelings for one another and have normal sex.
This is divided into 3 parts. Part one and three deal with the present and part 2 deals with the past. Part 1 was filled with the leads alternating between fighting and having sex. Part 2 was amazing, I really enjoyed it. Part 3 was okay I guess. The ending was not that satisfying but also realistic cuz you just don't get to walk away from shit like that and live hea, I mean there is a hea with them being married but I wanted more. Overall Nixon is the sweetest hero that I have come across in the dark genre.
June 3, 2022
3.75 stars 🏔
ohmygod nixon is was sO FUCKING HOT I WANNA SCREAM
this book is split into 3 parts, so ill break down my favorite lines 😍
the beginning
rating: 3.75 stars
the book jumps right into the heroine having been the hero’s captive for 2 years already. vixen (h) is extremely defiant and does everything in her power to try and withstand nixon’s (H) advances. but DAMN
it was honestly kinda frustrating to watch vixen push nixon away at every turn…LIKE JUST ACCEPT THAT YOU LOVE HIM ALREADY! he would do anything for you and has done anything for you…the amount of people he’s killed for her is insane
the middle
rating: 4.5 stars
by far my favorite part of the book. i usually hate flashback scenes, but the way this was done was so good! we jump back 2 years to the day vixen was first kidnapped by nixon and DAMN IF IT ISN’T THE HOTTEST THING EVER.
so early in vixen’s “captivity” she and nix decide that they’re going to fuck, but he wants vixen to fight him as if it’s a non-con type situation HFJWJCJSJA—
i literally wanna barf that’s so fucking mmmmm. on top of that, nixon is literally THE BIGGEST FUCKING SIMP EVER. the way he fell in love with her in the weeks (idek how much time passed) they were together in this part of the book and vixen never knew till later 😭😭
are these butterflies i’m getting or are they PMS cramps 🥹🥹
the end
rating: 3 stars
my least favorite part because there’s a 2 year time jump from ‘the beginning’ and it just annoyed me. i didn’t like how little nixon and vixen were together. this part of the book was 90% plot driven and more so set up the next book in the series, which is for a character named eman
anyway, literally have no drive to write a better and more descriptive review 😔
ohmygod nixon is was sO FUCKING HOT I WANNA SCREAM
this book is split into 3 parts, so ill break down my favorite lines 😍
the beginning
rating: 3.75 stars
the book jumps right into the heroine having been the hero’s captive for 2 years already. vixen (h) is extremely defiant and does everything in her power to try and withstand nixon’s (H) advances. but DAMN
“How do you want it?”
“Dirty.”
He groaned with approval. “Anything for what’s mine.”
it was honestly kinda frustrating to watch vixen push nixon away at every turn…LIKE JUST ACCEPT THAT YOU LOVE HIM ALREADY! he would do anything for you and has done anything for you…the amount of people he’s killed for her is insane
“As long as I’m breathing, you’re safe.”
My heart squeezed. “Then don’t stop breathing.”
“So long as you’re mine, I never want to.”
the middle
rating: 4.5 stars
by far my favorite part of the book. i usually hate flashback scenes, but the way this was done was so good! we jump back 2 years to the day vixen was first kidnapped by nixon and DAMN IF IT ISN’T THE HOTTEST THING EVER.
so early in vixen’s “captivity” she and nix decide that they’re going to fuck, but he wants vixen to fight him as if it’s a non-con type situation HFJWJCJSJA—
“Do you think you won’t be a victim anymore if you let me touch you?” he asked me. When I nodded, I felt his hands grip my thighs tighter. “Tell me no, then, baby, but open your legs for me when you do.”
i literally wanna barf that’s so fucking mmmmm. on top of that, nixon is literally THE BIGGEST FUCKING SIMP EVER. the way he fell in love with her in the weeks (idek how much time passed) they were together in this part of the book and vixen never knew till later 😭😭
She was so sweet, and he was so…so…
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are these butterflies i’m getting or are they PMS cramps 🥹🥹
the end
rating: 3 stars
my least favorite part because there’s a 2 year time jump from ‘the beginning’ and it just annoyed me. i didn’t like how little nixon and vixen were together. this part of the book was 90% plot driven and more so set up the next book in the series, which is for a character named eman
anyway, literally have no drive to write a better and more descriptive review 😔
March 7, 2020
I would have given this a 4* but the heroine really annoyed me and I didn’t like the fact that she left him when he was “dying”. I believe in true love and no way could I have just left the man I loved dying alone. She should have insisted on taking his body with her at least! She was also too immature and selfish about a lot of things and honestly speaking I didn’t like the fact that she had a boyfriend. The romantic in me shrivelled up in revulsion at her actions. So the 3* is for the H as he was the perfect definition of a besotted and faithful character.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 17, 2021
3.75 stars
December 14, 2021
Nixon … dreamy sigh.
Easily the yummiest bad boy of the year and probably one of my favorite anti-heroes ever. He was a criminal—a killer, even—but had enough redeeming qualities to make him sympathetic and he easily won me over.
Yes, this book is long, but don’t be daunted by that. A lot of authors would have released this as 2 books or maybe even milked it for a trilogy, but instead you get the whole story in one nice package with no cliffhangers. It took me a while to read through not because I grew bored, but because I got very emotionally invested in the story and wanted to draw it out rather than speed through it like one of my quick reads. When I was done, I actually wanted more. Not because it left off in an unsatisfying way, but just because I was really into it and was sad to see it end.
I wasn’t sure how I'd feel about a story going from middle --> beginning --> end, but it worked out very well. As the past is revealed, you realize not everything was what it seemed to be and I ended up liking the way things were uncovered.
As some have pointed out, the heroine is challenging to relate to at first—she comes off as bitchy and difficult to love. I was wondering what the hero saw in her, to be honest. His devotion and patience with her, despite her attitude toward him, showed what kind of person he really was at heart. The author does a good job of showing how and why the heroine became that way, however, and the heroine has some good development as she comes to terms with what happened in her past and her true feelings for Nixon.
Most of the book is told from Victoria/Vixen’s first-person perspective, but there are times we see things from Nixon’s PoV from a third-person perspective. I can’t remember another author switching from first to third like that. It seemed like an odd choice, but it didn’t bother me when reading it.
This is definitely one of the better kidnapping/captive stories I’ve read and I think it will stay with me for a while.
Easily the yummiest bad boy of the year and probably one of my favorite anti-heroes ever. He was a criminal—a killer, even—but had enough redeeming qualities to make him sympathetic and he easily won me over.
Yes, this book is long, but don’t be daunted by that. A lot of authors would have released this as 2 books or maybe even milked it for a trilogy, but instead you get the whole story in one nice package with no cliffhangers. It took me a while to read through not because I grew bored, but because I got very emotionally invested in the story and wanted to draw it out rather than speed through it like one of my quick reads. When I was done, I actually wanted more. Not because it left off in an unsatisfying way, but just because I was really into it and was sad to see it end.
I wasn’t sure how I'd feel about a story going from middle --> beginning --> end, but it worked out very well. As the past is revealed, you realize not everything was what it seemed to be and I ended up liking the way things were uncovered.
As some have pointed out, the heroine is challenging to relate to at first—she comes off as bitchy and difficult to love. I was wondering what the hero saw in her, to be honest. His devotion and patience with her, despite her attitude toward him, showed what kind of person he really was at heart. The author does a good job of showing how and why the heroine became that way, however, and the heroine has some good development as she comes to terms with what happened in her past and her true feelings for Nixon.
Most of the book is told from Victoria/Vixen’s first-person perspective, but there are times we see things from Nixon’s PoV from a third-person perspective. I can’t remember another author switching from first to third like that. It seemed like an odd choice, but it didn’t bother me when reading it.
This is definitely one of the better kidnapping/captive stories I’ve read and I think it will stay with me for a while.
October 30, 2021
10/5 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐒
“𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆, 𝑵𝒊𝒙𝒐𝒏?” 𝑰 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅, 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅𝒍𝒚, 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒇-𝒂𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒔.
“𝒀𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆, 𝑽𝒊𝒙,” 𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆, 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒍𝒚. “𝑨𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔 𝑰’𝒎 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈,𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆.”
𝑴𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒛𝒆𝒅. “𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈.”
“𝑺𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆, 𝑰 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐.
The 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 !!!𝐈 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞!𝐍𝐢𝐱𝐨𝐧 and 𝐕𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠!
I don't want to give away the story by reviewing it so just going to spill my thoughts on this book.I saw people not satisfied with the heroine of this book but I wanted to say something.Despite of Nixon's obsession over Vixen,she doesn't know anything beyond that and the real motive behind his actions that made her question his love for her because he did not let her see the danger lurking behind the shield Nixon has created.And hence she thought she was held captive for his mere pleasure,but actually Nixon is the one who was held captive by her!I loved his character so much.The way he loved Vixen was everything,he treated her as his biggest possession.
“𝑴𝒚 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆’𝒔 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓,” 𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕. “𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆
𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑰 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅. 𝑰 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕.𝑰 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍. 𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚’𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅
𝒔𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆, 𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒚, 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕.
He was so selfless when it came to Vixen.He was ready to protect her at any cost that he bought a damn island for her,killed people and what not?🥺I loved the angst and the grovelling because she wasn't in the position to understand any of this!Anyone in her position would have reacted the way because she was held captive for 2 goddamn years!!
Overall this book was a 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞!𝐀 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬!
“𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆, 𝑵𝒊𝒙𝒐𝒏?” 𝑰 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅, 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅𝒍𝒚, 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒇-𝒂𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒔.
“𝒀𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆, 𝑽𝒊𝒙,” 𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆, 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒍𝒚. “𝑨𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔 𝑰’𝒎 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈,𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆.”
𝑴𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒛𝒆𝒅. “𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈.”
“𝑺𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆, 𝑰 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐.
The 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 !!!𝐈 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞!𝐍𝐢𝐱𝐨𝐧 and 𝐕𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠!
I don't want to give away the story by reviewing it so just going to spill my thoughts on this book.I saw people not satisfied with the heroine of this book but I wanted to say something.Despite of Nixon's obsession over Vixen,she doesn't know anything beyond that and the real motive behind his actions that made her question his love for her because he did not let her see the danger lurking behind the shield Nixon has created.And hence she thought she was held captive for his mere pleasure,but actually Nixon is the one who was held captive by her!I loved his character so much.The way he loved Vixen was everything,he treated her as his biggest possession.
“𝑴𝒚 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆’𝒔 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓,” 𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕. “𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆
𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑰 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅. 𝑰 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕.𝑰 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍. 𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚’𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅
𝒔𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆, 𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒚, 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕.
He was so selfless when it came to Vixen.He was ready to protect her at any cost that he bought a damn island for her,killed people and what not?🥺I loved the angst and the grovelling because she wasn't in the position to understand any of this!Anyone in her position would have reacted the way because she was held captive for 2 goddamn years!!
Overall this book was a 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞!𝐀 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬!
May 5, 2021
4.5 ⭐
I decided to up my rating to 4.5 stars on my reread because... Nixon... *sigh* 😍😌💋💕
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4 Stars!
This book really got me hooked! Although I had some minor issues with it, I really enjoyed it! And I liked the supporting characters as well! Such as Hobbs, Doll, and the other crew!
Btw, I don't think it is a standalone.. I feel the ending wasn't really satisfying. So,
I hope there is another book about Flynn since I'm so curious about him!
I decided to up my rating to 4.5 stars on my reread because... Nixon... *sigh* 😍😌💋💕
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4 Stars!
This book really got me hooked! Although I had some minor issues with it, I really enjoyed it! And I liked the supporting characters as well! Such as Hobbs, Doll, and the other crew!
Btw, I don't think it is a standalone.. I feel the ending wasn't really satisfying. So,
I hope there is another book about Flynn since I'm so curious about him!
April 24, 2023
This guy gets me every. fucking. time !
“I’m already building a house for us.”
Of course, he was. I smiled. “Is it on a mountain?”
“At the very top.”
“Will I have my own horse drawn carriage?”
“Yes,” he said. “And you’ll leave in it whenever your heart desires.”
September 3, 2020
I’m thinking perhaps R. J. Lewis may be one of my favorite authors…
Her books suck me in from page one and bring out all sorts of emotions in me. Being a single working mom means I am constantly busy, with a million different things on my mind, and over the years I’ve found that things that used to make me emotional just don’t anymore. Maybe that’s something that happens to many of us with age, though, so who knows?
Anyway, this book definitely made me feel stuff. This roller coaster ride tells the story of Nixon and Vixen, and is told in dual perspectives. The book opens with the middle of the story, a year after Vixen was taken by Nixon to live with him in a hotel he owns. I felt that starting in the middle was a unique take, setting this particular book apart from the typical captive romance. We’re thrown right into their story, and immediately, the chemistry between the H and h is tangible. They have a “game” of push and pull, wherein Vixen pretends to fight Nixon, and he seems to absolutely love this game. She does, too - but her feelings are understandably much more muddled than his, and it confuses and scares her when she feels herself falling under his spell. At these times, Vixen truly does try to fight Nixon, having temper tantrums and demanding to be released. He is gentle with her, though - never abusive. Well, aside from the fact that he has stolen her, of course.
NIXON
It’s obvious pretty early on that Nixon is deeply in love with Vixen. He doesn’t specifically say as much, and there is definitely obsession, but there’s also something deeper. Similar to most other heroes of the captive romance genre (sub-genre?), Nixon is active in the criminal underworld. He is well-known among his cohorts, with whispers of something that went down at a cabin, and no one dares to mess with him. His weakness, of course, is Vixen, and he does anything he can to protect (and keep) her. He has eyes for no other woman, and he just wants her to return his feelings. There is one part in the beginning section of the book where he bares his soul to her by utters a few words - - and it is just so simple and heartbreaking.
VIXEN
The specifics of how and why she was taken aren’t revealed until the “Beginning” of the story, which happens in the middle. The thing is, Vixen herself doesn’t remember what happened, but is haunted by unexplainable flickers of images of blood in snow. She won’t allow herself to remember as a means of self-preservation. We do know Vixen lives in a troubled home. Her mother passed away, so she went to stay with her aunt, who is an alcoholic, and her aunt’s abusive, lecher of a boyfriend. She works several jobs and attends college. Her life is difficult. She’s broke and feels lost. Nixon cherishes her in his way, pampering her and trying as hard as he can to fulfill all her needs - without letting her ever go outside of the hotel.
Of course, it’s understandable that Vixen would get tired of being stuck indoors constantly, and early on, she encounters a new “colleague” of Nixon’s boss, a young, handsome man named Flynn. His presence confuses her, and from the moment she meets him, finds herself somehow drawn to him. Flynn presents her with a potential opportunity to escape, and she is surprised to find herself torn. It causes her to re-examine exactly how she feels about Nixon.
Of course, I don’t want to spoil anything here, but suffice it to say that each section of this book - the Beginning, Middle, and End - all equally captivated me. The end section, in particular, pulled me in so many different directions, I don’t even know where to begin.
I absolutely ~LOVED~ this book. I’ve already started and finished another R. J. Lewis book, and started yet another - which I might love even more than this one.
BEAUTIFUL!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Happy reading!!!
Her books suck me in from page one and bring out all sorts of emotions in me. Being a single working mom means I am constantly busy, with a million different things on my mind, and over the years I’ve found that things that used to make me emotional just don’t anymore. Maybe that’s something that happens to many of us with age, though, so who knows?
Anyway, this book definitely made me feel stuff. This roller coaster ride tells the story of Nixon and Vixen, and is told in dual perspectives. The book opens with the middle of the story, a year after Vixen was taken by Nixon to live with him in a hotel he owns. I felt that starting in the middle was a unique take, setting this particular book apart from the typical captive romance. We’re thrown right into their story, and immediately, the chemistry between the H and h is tangible. They have a “game” of push and pull, wherein Vixen pretends to fight Nixon, and he seems to absolutely love this game. She does, too - but her feelings are understandably much more muddled than his, and it confuses and scares her when she feels herself falling under his spell. At these times, Vixen truly does try to fight Nixon, having temper tantrums and demanding to be released. He is gentle with her, though - never abusive. Well, aside from the fact that he has stolen her, of course.
NIXON
It’s obvious pretty early on that Nixon is deeply in love with Vixen. He doesn’t specifically say as much, and there is definitely obsession, but there’s also something deeper. Similar to most other heroes of the captive romance genre (sub-genre?), Nixon is active in the criminal underworld. He is well-known among his cohorts, with whispers of something that went down at a cabin, and no one dares to mess with him. His weakness, of course, is Vixen, and he does anything he can to protect (and keep) her. He has eyes for no other woman, and he just wants her to return his feelings. There is one part in the beginning section of the book where he bares his soul to her by utters a few words - - and it is just so simple and heartbreaking.
VIXEN
The specifics of how and why she was taken aren’t revealed until the “Beginning” of the story, which happens in the middle. The thing is, Vixen herself doesn’t remember what happened, but is haunted by unexplainable flickers of images of blood in snow. She won’t allow herself to remember as a means of self-preservation. We do know Vixen lives in a troubled home. Her mother passed away, so she went to stay with her aunt, who is an alcoholic, and her aunt’s abusive, lecher of a boyfriend. She works several jobs and attends college. Her life is difficult. She’s broke and feels lost. Nixon cherishes her in his way, pampering her and trying as hard as he can to fulfill all her needs - without letting her ever go outside of the hotel.
Of course, it’s understandable that Vixen would get tired of being stuck indoors constantly, and early on, she encounters a new “colleague” of Nixon’s boss, a young, handsome man named Flynn. His presence confuses her, and from the moment she meets him, finds herself somehow drawn to him. Flynn presents her with a potential opportunity to escape, and she is surprised to find herself torn. It causes her to re-examine exactly how she feels about Nixon.
Of course, I don’t want to spoil anything here, but suffice it to say that each section of this book - the Beginning, Middle, and End - all equally captivated me. The end section, in particular, pulled me in so many different directions, I don’t even know where to begin.
I absolutely ~LOVED~ this book. I’ve already started and finished another R. J. Lewis book, and started yet another - which I might love even more than this one.
BEAUTIFUL!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Happy reading!!!
October 26, 2021
"Maybe life put you right where you needed to be."
"In the arms of a psycho who dragged me into the back of a van?"
"Into my arms."
i went into this book prepared to a. fully hate the heroine, and b. be disappointed with the love story
buuuuut guess what? i really REALLY liked it!
Captive is divided into three parts: the Middle, the Beginning and the End. right from the very start i thought this was a great decision from the author, because you get pulled into the middle of a story in which the characters already know each other and have a very complex relationship that keeps you guessing. how did it start? how did they meet? does she like him? is Nixon actually the villain here? 🔍 there's a lot of mystery surrounding the circumstances and i loved that the author took her sweet time to explain it instead of writing a more "typical" story in which boy meets girl, boy kidnaps girl, and girl ultimately falls for boy all in that order.
in a way, the way this book is structured reminded me of Manacled ✨ because you don't know anything about the beginning of the relationship between the H and the h until the middle. there's also a bit of "amnesia" from the heroine in this book as well, so until she doesn't want to think/"remember" what happened at the beginning, us readers are left in the dark. (
now, about the characters
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✨ NIXON ✨ a.k.a. the sweetest psycho ever
He would sell his soul to make her happy. He would drain his sanity one bit at a time, yearning for what might never be his.
Ultimately, the captor would become the captive.
i've come to realize there are two types of captivity romances out there.
a. the ones in which the girl is held as collateral because of a bigger conflict (usually mafia related)
b. the ones in which the guy is literally a psychopath/sociopath, becomes obsessed with the heroine and just, well, takes her for himself (Nixon's case)
the thing is i've never been a fan of the second type. i love a hero obsessed with the heroine as much as the next person (Christian Allister comes to my mind..) but to the point he'd just kidnap her? ehhh calm down. but... I absolutely loved Nixon. loved him with a passion. he's a crazy mofo but he's also so. fucking. sweet. 😭
"I let you out, and it went against everything in me. I know, without a shadow of a doubt, if given the chance, you'd leave me. Still, I let you out. Can't you see I'm trying?" Fresh tears fell from my sore eyes as I listened.
"My day begins and ends with you. You're mine, Vixen, wherever you are, wherever you go, your home is with me."
without spoiling too much, Nixon is a criminal who lives in an island with other fellow criminals and, well, his captive girlfriend, whom she lives with in an hotel.
yet as the story goes on you realize that these two characters have a history, and even though the heroine is not exactly free, something out of the ordinary happened between them a long time ago. Nixon is crazy, but he didn't just pick up some random girl from the street and took her to an island. you truly feel his love for this girl, his obsession with her. we don't know what happened, but we know he's not exactly the bad guy, either. this guy is so charming that he wins you over pretty fast 😳
"I killed for you," he cut in, unable to restrain himself now. "I saved you from an evil fate. Don't I get to keep you?"
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✨ VIXEN ✨
i've read so many reviews complaining about her that i came in prepared to hate her, but i did not hate her at all. i understand why some people don't like her, but i have to say i also really understood where she was coming from most of the time and what was going through her head.
this girl is thrown into a very messy situation and we get to see her struggle all throughout the story. she does not hate Nixon, far from it. she likes him, loves him even, and he turns her on, but he's also her freaking captor. if he had asked her to go with him to an island and be together, she may have said yes, may have given him (them) a chance. but that's the thing. he did not ask. he just grabbed her and took her because he thought it was the best choice for everyone. and while i, reader, forgave Nixon pretty easily, i completely understood why she struggled with it.
i obviously have to suspend belief when i read these kind of books, but i've become sort of used to heroines forgiving her captors pretty quickly, and falling in love with them in a matter of days. if this were to happen to you in real life, wouldn't you struggle with it as well? no matter how much your life sucks, and how much you like him, if he just decided to take you to an island and stripped you of your will, how would you feel? at the very least i feel i'd be confused, and would still want the freedom to make my own choices. well, this is Vixen in a nutshell.
"Though you don't like to admit it, I know you don't like to see me go," he would say, kissing the top of my nose. "I don't like it, either. I hate it, baby."
Of course, I never admitted that to him.
I was the one held against her will here.
I couldn't tell the man that imprisoned me in a hotel that I would miss him when he left.
But I did.
i got the impression from reading other reviews that she was an asshole to Nixon the whole book, but this was not the case at all. to me, she became pretty sweet around 30%, or at least significantly less bitchy. she takes her time, but she opens up to him, seeks comfort in him, and doesn't want anything bad to happen to Nixon. it's just, well, complicated. and i understand why.
i struggled with her more towards the end, because she realizes that her life with Nixon wasn't too bad when it's kinda too late. i was like reaaaally? it took you this long to realize your actual life without him was shit? but by this point i just loved Nixon so much it became harder and harder to empathize with her 💆🏻♀️🧘🏻♀️
there was also another situation with Nixon in which her behaviour was questionable at best.. SPOILER:
Vixen is not going to the list of my favorite heroines, but i liked her enough.
In the end, all he wanted was for me to want him back unequivocally.
My poor Nixon.
I'm sorry I chose to forget.
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aside from that:
⚡️ i liked the sex scenes. they were reaaaally hot. Nixon and Vixen have a bit of a dub-con situation going on and i loved how it was written. not usually a fan of this but i was sold here!!!
"Do you think you won't be a victim anymore if you let me touch you?" he asked me. When I nodded, I felt his hands grip my thighs tighter. "Tell me no, then, baby, but open your legs for me when you do."
As I let out a long breath of air, I relaxed my legs and whispered, "N-no."
The air sounded like it'd been ripped fom his lungs when he uttered, "Thank fuck."
🥵
⚡️ i wasn't a fan of the time jump at the end, and the epilogue was a little underwhelming. i guess i wanted to see more scenes of them being a normal couple and doing domestic stuff
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this review is already LONG AS FUCK so if you're reading this i applaud you. overall i just want to say that i really enjoyed this, waaaay more than i thought i would, and seriously recommend it.
i just know you're gonna love Nixon as much as I did so plz go ahead and read this 😍
February 15, 2020
I don't think words can describe what I felt while reading the book. The name 'Captive' is very fitting because the book imprisons you and enchants you with its writing.
After reading Captive,I am ready to try out more of this author's books🙃.
After reading Captive,I am ready to try out more of this author's books🙃.
July 30, 2022
With the five-star rating, you think I'd quote a very romantic line from the book but here goes one that aptly describes me after pulling an all-nighter just to finish this:
I'll have you know thought that it's ALL.WORTH.IT.
This book reminds me a lot of The Bad Guy, The Maddest Obsession and the Scarlet Scars series, Menace / Grievous. The story is unique in its own way but I just can't help but see certain elements that reminded me of the mentioned books, and while the hero here, Nixon, is a great combination of Sebastian, Lorenzo and Christian (yes, THE Christian Allister himself), he's also totally different... you know what I mean?? I really can't articulate it in words but one thing you need to know about him is that he's ✨perfect.✨ As perfect as an anti-hero with the softest of hearts for the heroine as can be. *sigh*
And it's sad because
Kidding aside... I could go on and on and gush over how I found this book really worth including in my favorites shelf, but it's best that you dive into this blind. So I'm just going to quickly list down things that I absolutely loved:
📍 Tropes (no-brainer, duh): Age-gap (11 years), close proximity, a villain for a hero 💀
📍 Insta-attraction - their connection was just visceral 🔥🔥🔥
📍 The Captor / Captive theme - while this book kept me constantly thinking who's captured who (whether it's the heroine or the hero), I've finally come to conclusion that it's the book that's captured me. Well-played, Ms. Lewis. 😏
📍 The DRAMA or more like the toxic dynamic and the exhausting relationship of the hero and the heroine - might appear OTT for some but I ate it all up 🤑
📍 The Badass crew - I loved the brotherhood of these villains who'd literally kill for one another
📍 Author's writing style and how the story was told. - THIS. This was what truly got me. I freaking loved how the story was structured. May not be appreciated by others, but it added to the excitement and the thrill imo. Made me wonder, ask, guess, react in a very passionate way.
📍 The HERO - Nicholas "Nixon" Cooper - just his name makes me wanna 🥵. His character is truly lovable though.
I can't emphasize enough how this book is not for everybody and you may find the heroine, Vixen, really annoying because she's just so whiny most times and if it's any other book I would've probably dnf'ed this just because of it BUUUT surprise, surprise I found that aspect really complementary to the whole story. Also made me swoon alittle LOT more over the hero... I actually urge you to read this just for him. 🥺🖤
Dear Nixon,
You're like a living oxymoron to me. You're bad but you're kind. You're brutal but gentle. You curse like a sailor and yet you're also maddeningly sweet. You give zero fucks about things but also you're really really passionate in helping people. You... you...
xo, your new fan
I blinked at the mirror and shuddered. I looked like a gargoyle on acid. My hair was everywhere, the bags under my eyes were absolutely criminal. No girl should look so bad in the mornings.
I'll have you know thought that it's ALL.WORTH.IT.
This book reminds me a lot of The Bad Guy, The Maddest Obsession and the Scarlet Scars series, Menace / Grievous. The story is unique in its own way but I just can't help but see certain elements that reminded me of the mentioned books, and while the hero here, Nixon, is a great combination of Sebastian, Lorenzo and Christian (yes, THE Christian Allister himself), he's also totally different... you know what I mean?? I really can't articulate it in words but one thing you need to know about him is that he's ✨perfect.✨ As perfect as an anti-hero with the softest of hearts for the heroine as can be. *sigh*
And it's sad because
Kidding aside... I could go on and on and gush over how I found this book really worth including in my favorites shelf, but it's best that you dive into this blind. So I'm just going to quickly list down things that I absolutely loved:
📍 Tropes (no-brainer, duh): Age-gap (11 years), close proximity, a villain for a hero 💀
📍 Insta-attraction - their connection was just visceral 🔥🔥🔥
📍 The Captor / Captive theme - while this book kept me constantly thinking who's captured who (whether it's the heroine or the hero), I've finally come to conclusion that it's the book that's captured me. Well-played, Ms. Lewis. 😏
📍 The DRAMA or more like the toxic dynamic and the exhausting relationship of the hero and the heroine - might appear OTT for some but I ate it all up 🤑
📍 The Badass crew - I loved the brotherhood of these villains who'd literally kill for one another
📍 Author's writing style and how the story was told. - THIS. This was what truly got me. I freaking loved how the story was structured. May not be appreciated by others, but it added to the excitement and the thrill imo. Made me wonder, ask, guess, react in a very passionate way.
📍 The HERO - Nicholas "Nixon" Cooper - just his name makes me wanna 🥵. His character is truly lovable though.
I can't emphasize enough how this book is not for everybody and you may find the heroine, Vixen, really annoying because she's just so whiny most times and if it's any other book I would've probably dnf'ed this just because of it BUUUT surprise, surprise I found that aspect really complementary to the whole story. Also made me swoon a
Dear Nixon,
You're like a living oxymoron to me. You're bad but you're kind. You're brutal but gentle. You curse like a sailor and yet you're also maddeningly sweet. You give zero fucks about things but also you're really really passionate in helping people. You... you...
xo, your new fan
July 10, 2021
This book was a nice suprise .
I loved how possessive the hero was and how he was truly obsessed with our heroine .
It's a captive story but not really one. He kept her to protect her and because he was so obsessed with her .
I adored his povs. reading then you could truly see how much he loves her .
Safety: the hero and heroine have consensual non consent sex .
There's no ow . The hero was totally devoted to the heroine .
There's some om drama .she dated a man for six months after when she tought the hero was dead . There's a scene where she tries to have sex with him but she can't . Hero was heroine only lover .
I loved how possessive the hero was and how he was truly obsessed with our heroine .
It's a captive story but not really one. He kept her to protect her and because he was so obsessed with her .
I adored his povs. reading then you could truly see how much he loves her .
Safety: the hero and heroine have consensual non consent sex .
There's no ow . The hero was totally devoted to the heroine .
There's some om drama .she dated a man for six months after when she tought the hero was dead . There's a scene where she tries to have sex with him but she can't . Hero was heroine only lover .
April 9, 2020
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
This was crackalicious.
I could not put it down. It wouldn't let me!
This was crackalicious.
I could not put it down. It wouldn't let me!
Want to read
February 3, 2020To be released this week! Waiting for final copy.
February 15, 2020
this is the first book i read from this author.
It's the first time i see a book divided in this order:
The middle
The beginning
The end...
Well i'm not a fan of books that go back and forth usually
i rather see it trough as it goes ...
basically i read
1 chapter in the middle (trying to see if i could do it, without reading the beginning first) but then i gave up and i wanted to know how it started so i skipped and start reading from the beginning
and that part of the book was really really good and amazing but then...the continuation would be the end...and instead of going at the start and read the middle of it i continued to read the end cuz was like the 70% of the book and i was curious...and well going on with the chapters i was glad i didn't lose my time reading "the middle" first because i would be beyond pissed !
let me explain why :
this story was about this girl being in the wrong time at the wrong place.
2 guys kidnapped her and bring her in the woods,when they tried to abuse her,Nixon our hero
(from the same group as them) saved her and bring her in a cabin where other 2 guys where there...
well those 2 wanted to have their way with her too, but before that happened Nixon killed them too...then slowly her and him started being intimate and i loved all of it!
then he decided to keep her with him.
(now keeping in mind that i didn't read "the middle part" i didn't know what happened exactly in that 2 years he kept her with him)
from what i get is that she was cold with him and gave him the cold shoulder but still being intimate with him (saying she didn't want him but low key loved every part of intimacy with him).
Well here is where i'm beyond pissed...
A guy tried to save her ,and tried to take her away from the island she was kept.
there were a fight etc, and Nixon once again due to all the book was in love with her and kept her safe,so now he got a bullet and was bleeding out,and he told her to take the boat and leave him die in his island, yes she did tell him sorry for her shitty attitude and that he loved him but , BUT , no woman in love can LEAVE HIS LOVED ONE DYING IN A FREAKING ISLAND AND GO AWAY EVEN IF HE SAID SO! AT LEAST STAY WITH HIM AND DO ALL YOU CAN, HECK STAY UNTIL HE DIE LOL, TO SEE IT YOU KNOW!!!!!!!!!! BUT NOOO SHE Get AWAY.
Then if that wasn't enough the book continues 2 YEARS LATER
AND this is another THING I CAN'T STAND IN A BOOK, WHEN THEY ARE APPART
AND NOT ONLY THAT, SHE FREAKING HAVE ANOTHER BOYFRIEND.
WELL now i don't freaking care anymore, i don't freaking care i didn't read the first part of the book (the middle) because that end was shitty.
i don't stand this stuffs. i'm disappointed because the writing style was good, and the story was good,but that "the end " part ruined it for me.
:'(
It's the first time i see a book divided in this order:
The middle
The beginning
The end...
Well i'm not a fan of books that go back and forth usually
i rather see it trough as it goes ...
basically i read
1 chapter in the middle (trying to see if i could do it, without reading the beginning first) but then i gave up and i wanted to know how it started so i skipped and start reading from the beginning
and that part of the book was really really good and amazing but then...the continuation would be the end...and instead of going at the start and read the middle of it i continued to read the end cuz was like the 70% of the book and i was curious...and well going on with the chapters i was glad i didn't lose my time reading "the middle" first because i would be beyond pissed !
let me explain why :
this story was about this girl being in the wrong time at the wrong place.
2 guys kidnapped her and bring her in the woods,when they tried to abuse her,Nixon our hero
(from the same group as them) saved her and bring her in a cabin where other 2 guys where there...
well those 2 wanted to have their way with her too, but before that happened Nixon killed them too...then slowly her and him started being intimate and i loved all of it!
then he decided to keep her with him.
(now keeping in mind that i didn't read "the middle part" i didn't know what happened exactly in that 2 years he kept her with him)
from what i get is that she was cold with him and gave him the cold shoulder but still being intimate with him (saying she didn't want him but low key loved every part of intimacy with him).
Well here is where i'm beyond pissed...
A guy tried to save her ,and tried to take her away from the island she was kept.
there were a fight etc, and Nixon once again due to all the book was in love with her and kept her safe,so now he got a bullet and was bleeding out,and he told her to take the boat and leave him die in his island, yes she did tell him sorry for her shitty attitude and that he loved him but , BUT , no woman in love can LEAVE HIS LOVED ONE DYING IN A FREAKING ISLAND AND GO AWAY EVEN IF HE SAID SO! AT LEAST STAY WITH HIM AND DO ALL YOU CAN, HECK STAY UNTIL HE DIE LOL, TO SEE IT YOU KNOW!!!!!!!!!! BUT NOOO SHE Get AWAY.
Then if that wasn't enough the book continues 2 YEARS LATER
AND this is another THING I CAN'T STAND IN A BOOK, WHEN THEY ARE APPART
AND NOT ONLY THAT, SHE FREAKING HAVE ANOTHER BOYFRIEND.
WELL now i don't freaking care anymore, i don't freaking care i didn't read the first part of the book (the middle) because that end was shitty.
i don't stand this stuffs. i'm disappointed because the writing style was good, and the story was good,but that "the end " part ruined it for me.
:'(
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 1, 2021
La Grey Eagle ci porta una nuova autrice a mio parere straordinaria, RJ Lewis, inedita in Italia.
Prigioniera è stata una lettura davvero sorprendente ed emozionante, un bel libro lungo e corposo, ma così ben scritto che ho divorato le pagine.
Dalla trama mi aspettavo il solito dark, mai mi sarei aspettata di leggere una storia così potente e coinvolgente, piena di colpi di scena e misteri che si chiariranno solo più avanti nella storia. Ho amato tanto sia Nixon che Vixen, due protagonisti fuori dal comune, distruttivi e complimentari. Ho provato un amore folle per Nixon, ho adorato il suo struggimento per Vixen, la sua sofferenza e possessività, cosi protettivo e capace di qualsiasi cosa per la sua "volpe" sono stata travolta dalla loro follia.
Ho apprezzato davvero tanto lo stile della Lewis, molto originale come ha impostato il racconto diviso in tre parti, la prima parte è la vita dei protagonisti dopo due anni di prigionia, la seconda parte è il rapimento (cioè l'inizio di tutto) e la terza parte è il finale tanto sofferto e commovente.
Non mancano le scene d'azione mozzafiato e violenza, e le scene di lotta passionali e giochi perversi tra i due protagonisti sono davvero caldi e trascinanti. Introspettivi e ben caratterizzati.
Insomma, per me è stato un indimenticabile!! Il dark più bello del 2021.
Amanti del genere non perdetevi la storia contorta, sofferta e passionale di Nixon & Vixen💘
Prigioniera è stata una lettura davvero sorprendente ed emozionante, un bel libro lungo e corposo, ma così ben scritto che ho divorato le pagine.
Dalla trama mi aspettavo il solito dark, mai mi sarei aspettata di leggere una storia così potente e coinvolgente, piena di colpi di scena e misteri che si chiariranno solo più avanti nella storia. Ho amato tanto sia Nixon che Vixen, due protagonisti fuori dal comune, distruttivi e complimentari. Ho provato un amore folle per Nixon, ho adorato il suo struggimento per Vixen, la sua sofferenza e possessività, cosi protettivo e capace di qualsiasi cosa per la sua "volpe" sono stata travolta dalla loro follia.
Ho apprezzato davvero tanto lo stile della Lewis, molto originale come ha impostato il racconto diviso in tre parti, la prima parte è la vita dei protagonisti dopo due anni di prigionia, la seconda parte è il rapimento (cioè l'inizio di tutto) e la terza parte è il finale tanto sofferto e commovente.
Non mancano le scene d'azione mozzafiato e violenza, e le scene di lotta passionali e giochi perversi tra i due protagonisti sono davvero caldi e trascinanti. Introspettivi e ben caratterizzati.
Insomma, per me è stato un indimenticabile!! Il dark più bello del 2021.
Amanti del genere non perdetevi la storia contorta, sofferta e passionale di Nixon & Vixen💘
June 24, 2020
This book is brilliant! I admit I didn’t think that at the beginning when the book began in the middle of the story. It was a little slow, and I was a little lost. In fact that is how the story is told, 3 parts - The Middle, The Beginning, and The Present. When it shifts to how everything came to be I was hooked, and now that I’m finished I can appreciate how unique and necessary this approach was. I’m not sure I would understand the dynamics of all the characters and how it all pieces together without it being told this way. This is brilliant writing, that’s for sure. I love the story, love the characters, especially Nixon. He’s made my list of favorite villains? Anti-hero? Hero? I highly recommend this just to meet him. Great story! 5 stars!
March 6, 2020
Unexpected
This book. I was not prepared. I came into this thinking it was going to a certain type of book based on the blurb. However, the blurb was like bait because it only loosely was somewhat like it but not in the typical sense of captive romance books are. Add in the title and it almost became a foregone conclusion. It wasn't and I was wrong.
What happens when the bad guy is good and the good guy is bad? If the person you are supposed to have actually is endearing and unexpected. Nixon is that guy. The conversations and interactions with Biden are not only engaging but were also swoon-worthy. He reminded me why it is important to not judge a book by it's cover. Both him and Vix were delightful. They fought as beautifully as the loved.
I'll definitely be looking for more from this author. There was a twist at the end and the ending ended abruptly which was weird considering this is a big book. I didn't want it to end as it was that well written. I hope this continues in other books as it truly was astounding and had great secondary characters.
This book. I was not prepared. I came into this thinking it was going to a certain type of book based on the blurb. However, the blurb was like bait because it only loosely was somewhat like it but not in the typical sense of captive romance books are. Add in the title and it almost became a foregone conclusion. It wasn't and I was wrong.
What happens when the bad guy is good and the good guy is bad? If the person you are supposed to have actually is endearing and unexpected. Nixon is that guy. The conversations and interactions with Biden are not only engaging but were also swoon-worthy. He reminded me why it is important to not judge a book by it's cover. Both him and Vix were delightful. They fought as beautifully as the loved.
I'll definitely be looking for more from this author. There was a twist at the end and the ending ended abruptly which was weird considering this is a big book. I didn't want it to end as it was that well written. I hope this continues in other books as it truly was astounding and had great secondary characters.
March 8, 2020
I’ve read some reviews about how this was so amazing but I wonder if I read right book. Cause I’m sorry this was not. I didn’t like either of the main. I didn’t like the storytelling and the set up either. Maybe these Dark books are not for me. They promise crazy in love and obsessed Hero’s but I don’t see that. Romance is dead.
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