Captive Desires

Torhtremer Saga #2

by Diane Whiteside

The national bestselling mistress of erotica returns to the fantasy world of Captive Dreams --and she?s raising the temperature even more.

Danae Livingston is an author of scorching tales about a fantasy realm inhabited by her favorite hero, Alekhsiy. Now an obsessed fan wants her to rewrite her novels to his own twisted liking and have the legendary villain win. Little does she realize, but Alekhsiy is more real than she dreamed, and he?s the only one who can save her as fantasy and reality merge, swords and sorcery cross, and the sensual world of her vivid imagination becomes the most impossible one of all to resist?or escape.

Genres: Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Erotica, Adult, Supernatural, Fiction

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

By day, Diane Whiteside builds and designs computer systems for the government. By night, she escapes into a world of alpha males and the unique women who turn their lives upside down. Noticing the lack of a husband to keep Diane in line, her Tibetan Terrier stepped up to the plate and makes sure that Diane does everything The Right Way which means lots of walks and dog treats. For more information about Diane plus her alpha males, unique women, and Tibetan Terriers, her website.

Reviews

[Cindy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun read - it's a sequel to Whiteside's half of Captive Dreams which she wrote with Angela Knight. [Having read Dreams is not necessary, it stands well on it's own.:] Like Dreams it has an action based plot but most of this one takes place on our earth at a very large Atlanta science fiction/fantasy/combat convention. [I'm assuming this is a thinly veiled reference to the real DragonCon.:]

The hero, the king's brother and general of his armies, has been sent to eliminate the threat caused by Azerbhai's [the big, bad Imperial Beast introduced in Dreams:] efforts to bring a new catalyst into their world from ours. Alekhsiy is sworn to prevent this at any cost.

The heroine, Danae who is a famous dancer, is a writer of fan fiction for Torhtremer. Her stories all have one hero, Alekhsiy, so it doesn't take her long to figure out who the hunky guy in the outstanding armor is. He is equally taken aback to recognize the dancer from his dreams.

Lots of page turning suspense, charming characters, and the setting of a quirky SF/F convention? Who could ask for more?

[Rebecca]

DNF I know this was the second in a series (and I got it randomly at a discount book story) but the author wasn't even trying to make sense of what was going on. Even when the reader is in our world, I felt like I was missing potentially three earlier books.

[Lynnette · Rating 1 out of 5]

Could not connect with the characters.

[Debbi Rattunde · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was really not my kind of book. It started out very slow. It is more for people who like fantasy books. There was some action that kept my interest.

[Sheilah · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've read the First book called Captive Dreams and LOVED it! With the first book I was a bit on the confused side storyline wise. But once I got into it and re-read it I wanted to read more of Diane Whiteside's Torhtremer storyline. It wasn't until a few months later last year I found out there was indeed a 2nd book out for it. Sadly it was a bit of a disappointment. I've been with my b/f for almost 12 years and i know a lot about LARPing since my boyfriend gets together once a week for Amtguard. That didn't even confuse me in this book nor the convention the book is taking place at. It was the characters that turned me off. I tried reading it a 2nd time and just could not connect with the characters. A lot of times there's chaos going on in the minds and the settings around them for the Heroine and Hero. The villain just was more worst and had me shaking my head a lot. Hands down the book itself isn't worth $15 to get via e-books, not even worth 2 bucks to read. Your better off just reading the first book Captive Dreams. Normally I always give positive reviews on books I read and this is the first review I've done with a neg on it and low rating.

[TINNGG · Rating 2 out of 5]

Finished...finally. Heroine travels a lot and makes habit of picking up men to scratch itch. Don't we have a term for men who do this? Purple prose rampant. Classified as erotic yet language mild and only sex scenes at beginning with objectionable wordings. Have read more mainstream romance with cruder language. Heavy-handed borrowing from various old world characteristics - Russian names, Japanese katana, Indian references - forms less than believable world within world.

Also, sloppy editing -______ drew in a sharp break a break for example.

Book is sequel to novella in Captive Dreams duology.

[Gayle · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm sure this was a decent story line but what got me was how difficult it was to read. The story was jumping too fast between characters that I was unsure who was saying what, it was fast paced and slow at the same time. I couldn't picture much of what as going on for lack of good detail. The story was predictable, and I'm not even sure how it all played out but I do know how it ended. Like I rated it was okay. Just lacked the necessary detail to make it a good read.

[Karmen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Send up of Comicon and LARP. Overlap of dedicated followers of an alternate world incl fanfic/dancer author Danae with actual resident of alternate Alexei.

Lots of interesting turns and the author of the original 6 books about the world is from that world ...

[Christine · Rating 2 out of 5]

I haven't read the first book, so the world was difficult to get into. I found the thinly veiled references to DragonCon amusing, but beyond that, the story didn't hold my interest. I think reading the first book and getting a better feel for the world would've helped.

[Darcy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just couldn't get into this one. I know in the previous book I had a hard time with it but did finish. This one just couldn't hold my interest.

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantasy, romance, dancing, sex, other worlds, a fanfic author and a general, and a convention! Once the book got going, it got incredibly interesting.

[Kathy Davie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Incredibly terrible.

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

I probably wouldn't have picked this book up is it hadn't been for the Borders store closing clearance sale. It wasn't very enjoyable.

[Karen Desmond · Rating 4 out of 5]

4

[Jessica · Rating 1 out of 5]

yikes got as far as page two and put it down. didnt have high hopes for this on but i amassed more than enough unpronouncable words in those two pages...on to the next

[Nancy · Rating 2 out of 5]

In the first chapter they
threw a lot of back story
out. maybe it should have
been in a prologue

[Normal]

#N/A

[S. Rutherford · Rating 1 out of 5]

I never finished it, so it's safe to say that after all this time, I'm not going to. Maybe one day I'll attempt it again, but it reads like a fanfiction of itself. I've been out of that field for far too long to enjoy something like it.