Claimed

Imprisoned #3

by Victoria Vallo

If you commit a crime on Vaharis 6, there’s more than one way to work off your sentence…

Grim prepares for his prison sentence after his family abandons him, knowing he’s going to have to make lots of tough choices in order to survive. But then someone comes for him, and Grim’s shocked to find that he knows his new keeper. He’s even more shocked when he learns why Duncan was willing to pay for his freedom.

Duncan fell first in lust and then in love with Grim years ago, but his status as a servant kept him from acting. Now, he’s the one with the money and power, and Grim is going to learn to obey and submit the way Duncan has always wanted him to.

Genres: Science Fiction, M M Romance, Erotica

64 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 17, 2016

About the author

Victoria Vallo has written under many names and ventured into almost every genre. When darker and spicier tales beckoned, she decided to follow.

Reviews

[⋆｡°✮ Lucy InTheSky ✮°｡⋆ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Duncan, a former servant selling a punchline to Grim, trying to persuade him why it was such a good idea that he bought his freedom with the intent of his longlife crush coming to fruition;

"I'm a very skilled lover and so are you, so we'll be amazing together."

Duncan telling Grim he loves him and wants to be with him and how he won't do anything to harm him, nothing against his will, because he's just that important to him;

"You forget who has the power here. Our roles are reversed. Now you have to obey me."

So... which one is it?

Again, the dialogues are not engaging, are again very stiff, completely no background of their prior lives, or the world they lived in and how they felt about each other before, when Grim was a young, rich master and Duncan was his personal servant.

I will say the spice is quite decent, but the lines are very blurry , the reader has no idea if the prisoner decides for intimacy with the buyer out of dispair or if he really feels something, at least for me that was a problem, because the prisoner is put in a position where he has noone and nothing left , he doesn't have a way out, no money, nowhere to go. So is this really free will?

With this novella it was about a power dynamic changing, but it really made no difference, because the plot wasn't really based on that at all, Grim seemed like a drunken gambler and Duncan seemed like a sick individual who wants what he can't have, so he's pining, he's having lovers that look like Grim and then he finally buys him .



I know for a fact that a lot of pining, explaining, angst, emotions and great sex can be put into mere 50 pages of a short novella and this just isn't happening here.


🔵 Where is Sully and Eron's book? Now that is a true monster romance that I'd read in a hearbeat!

[Niumi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Definitely not what I expected from the blurb. No dominating or possessing, more like whining and constant declarations of love.

I had to laugh at the MC tho, he would rather go back to prison to be tenacled rapedh than let someone love him. And this is after he states he has an open mind and would do anything to stay safe lol

The story was kinda rushed and seemed more of a cliffsnotes of the story than an actual story. Didn't hate it but didn't love it. It was a fast enough read that it didn't annoy me with the sloppy writing/story so I'm giving it 3 stars.

[Theresa · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF. Disliked Grimm.

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DNF @9% ... honestly, this series has not become anything like what I thought it would be, and it's pretty disappointing. This one just doesn't interest me and I don't personally care for the premise. The author has some solid storytelling skill IMHO, but doesn't seem able to decide if she wants to lean into the dubcon/sex slave aspect that the series seemed to promise in the beginning, or keep it all sweet heart-eye romance... and the middle ground she's chosen falls short of truly satisfying either one of possibilities. But still, these books are short, easy reads and I've already got a few of the other ones on my Kindle, so I'll keep picking away at them as "filler" reads until some of the new releases I'm waiting on this month come out 🤣

tl;dr a series that's not bad... but also not good; would not recommend, but also won't delete off my Kindle unless there's something better to replace it with. 🤷‍♀️

[Stella Gladden · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you so much...

I really enjoy reading the 3rd book in this series. It was as good as the others. I'm hoping there are more books to follow.