That part’s supernatural enough where it was bad for Matthew, but not necessarily difficult to read about, I think. There’s torture involved, and initially was just vampire-related (like withholding blood from a vampire). The beginning of this book where Matthew is kept under lock and key as a prisoner to Tarrick is hard to read and will definitely turn readers off. When he gets caught in an incubus trap, he narrowly manages to escape death when the incubus High Lord General Tarrick takes interest in him and takes Matthew as his prisoner.Ĭontent notes include graphic violence, torture, sexual abuse, and rape. He’s been lonely and hasn’t been able to interact with anyone who wasn’t his dinner during that time. Matthew was turned when he was thirty-two and has been living the past seven years on his own. Matthew is a vampire – a child by vampire standards. So, who are the characters? The story is told solely from Matthew’s POV. So, anything can happen, but the “love interest” is not my favorite at this time (or even remotely likable) and can die by book two if you want my stance on that character after reading this book. There’s currently three books published, and the author says on their website that this series will span between six to nine books.

I really don’t know how this is going to play out. The love interest is the captor and torturer and the main character develops Stockholm Syndrome for his captor. It’s still too early to say what the end-game for this series will be, because this doesn’t feel like a romance novel when there’s absolutely nothing redeemable about the presumed love interest. The story does contain a lot of problematic content that won’t be for everyone. I’ll start off by saying that this book did help get me out of a reading slump, and the actual plot is intriguing. This book contains dark themes, a captured bisexual vampire, and high heat. Although he’s desperate for freedom, he is unable to deny the burning desire drawing him to the incubus general he now calls Master.Ĭaptive is a full-length novel. Forced into the middle of a war between vampires and incubi, Matthew is used as a weapon against his own kind. Unable to stop the vampire inside from preying on humans, he keeps himself confined to a lonely existence.Įverything 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. Matthew Callahan has spent seven years struggling against the insatiable hunger for blood consuming him.

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