Book: Captive
Series: Beautiful Monsters #1
Self Published
Publication date: August 5, 2016
Length: 316 pages
Reviewed by Meredith
Synopsis
Matthew Callahan has spent seven years struggling against the insatiable hunger for blood consuming him. Unable to stop the vampire inside from preying on humans, he keeps himself confined to a lonely existence.
Everything changes the night he is lured into a trap and taken prisoner by High Lord General Tarrick—a seductive incubus who feeds off sexual energy. Forced into the middle of a war between vampires and incubi, Matthew is used as a weapon against his own kind. Although he's desperate for freedom, he is unable to deny the burning desire drawing him to the incubus general he now calls Master.
Review
Every so often I get lucky. Lucky like rain on a really hot
day, or winning something from a scratch off, or in this case; being blown away
by a book and author unexpectedly. Captive is my pleasant surprise.
This is not a love story so don’t go into it expecting
Prince Charmings, happiness, and HEA’s. This story focuses on Matthew. When it
starts he's alone, and sadly he remains this way through the whole story. You
know that saying, “You can be in a room full of people and feel utterly alone?”
Yeah that’s sort of Matthew’s life.
It opens and we know he’s a vampire. But
through this story we realize he’s so much more.
Matthew is no stranger to abandonment. He’s an orphan, then
his Sire abandons him, and again, through this story we come to realize Matthew
is on his own. I’m not sure who to trust in this book and therefore we know
Matthew doesn’t either.
I don’t want to give a single shred of information out
because I really want you all to read it. It’s book one of what I have no doubt
will be one of the best series’ written. The creativity, plot, characters,
every little facet of this book is brilliantly fleshed out. There’s a plan that
this author has and I know it’s going to be amazing. I wouldn’t miss a single
second of it.
I am cheering Matthew on 100%. I am on his side and no way
all of you won’t be too. He’s powerful beyond words and I can’t wait to see him
make all who have hurt him cower and beg for his mercy.
From page one of this book I couldn’t put it down. I slept
but that was it. I didn’t eat, drink, barely breathed! It’s that good.
Yes there’s both M/F and M/M pairings in this book BUT you
need not shy away from it for that. It’s every pairing Matthew has that makes
him into the character the author needs him to be.
So buy it, read it, and wait impatiently with the rest of us
for the next book.
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Besides Sire Beautiful Monsters 2 The book I was most looking forward to the second book in the School of The Seven Bells series by Devyn Dawson.
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