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Monday, December 10, 2018

Review: The Darkest Captive by Gena Showalter

 

The demon possessed beast wants his beauty back, and he’ll do anything to win her. Even war with a god king.

From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Gena Showalter, comes THE DARKEST CAPTIVE, a new novella in her addictive bestselling Lords of the Underworld Series, brought to you by 1,001 Dark Nights! Be sure to grab your copy today

 

About THE DARKEST CAPTIVE:

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Gena Showalter comes a new story in her Lords of the Underworld series…

For centuries, Galen the Treacherous has been the most hated immortal in the Underworld. With good reason! This bad boy of bad boys has lied, stolen, cheated and killed with abandon. Possessed by the demons of Jealousy and False Hope, he has always lived for a single purpose: destroy everything.

Then he met her.

Former demon turned human femme fatale — Legion Honey — sought to kill Galen, but ended up parting with her virginity instead. Afraid of their sizzling connection, she ran away…and ended up trapped in hell, tortured and abused in the worst of ways. Now she’s free, and a shell of herself, afraid of her own shadow.

Galen’s hunger for Legion has only grown. Now the warrior with nothing to lose must help her rekindle the fire that once burned inside her. But as desires blaze white-hot, will Legion run again? Or will the unlikely pair succumb to love at long last?

 

Grab your copy of THE DARKEST CAPTIVE today!

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Today, she wore a plain white T-shirt and nothing else.

For a moment, his thoughts derailed. Look at those bronzed, mile-long legs, ready to wrap around my waist. Or my shoulders.

“Are you hungry? You must be hungry,” he said. He wanted to watch her eat again. And yeah, okay, staring at someone as they savored a meal was probably creep-city, but Leila was his addiction, the sickness in his blood, and there was no cure. Symptoms included:

Acute swelling in the groin—Check.

Night and day sweats—Check.

Total lack of concentration—Check.

“I’m not hungry,” she said, and sniffled.

Sniffled? He forced his gaze back up her body, only to curse. Red rimmed her eyes, and tears glistened on her cheeks. Clench. He cupped her jaw and demanded, “What’s wrong?”

“Everything! You’ve been so good to me, but now our test drive month is over. You probably want to sleep with me just so you can be done with me and and and—”

Not knowing what else to do, he pressed a swift kiss to her lips. She gasped, the pulse at the base of her throat hammering.

Could the month’s end be the reason for his foreboding? “Do you want to know my favorite day in all the eons of my life? The day you doctored me. And the day after that, when you smiled at me. And the day after that, just because you were at my side. I wouldn’t change anything that’s happened between us—except asking for more than a month of your time.”

Her eyes widened. “Really?”

Nod. “How about we extend the test drive another month?”

“Yes. Absolutely.” She leaned against him, resting her cheek against his pec. An intimate pose, one she’d instigated. “You are becoming my favorite part of every day, too.”

The rightness of her words…the fit of her body against his… He nearly howled with triumph. Steady. Moving slowly, languidly, as if he hadn’t a care, he wrapped his arms around her. She offered no protests, and didn’t tense, so he took things a step further and ran his fingers through her silken curls.

Sighing, she cuddled closer.

The scent of wildflowers ignited little fires inside him. “Get changed and meet me in the gym,” he said, kissing her temple. “I’m going to give you a self-defense lesson.” And put my hands all over your delectable body.

“That would be amazing.” With a squeal of happiness, she leaped up to kiss his cheek. Then she backtracked and shut the door in his face, leaving him shocked to his core. 

How easily she’d just touched him. How easily she’d offered affection. So different from the frightened girl he’d found in that cabin.

I voluntarily accepted a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

5 STARS

Holy crap this book. I went into The Darkest Captive with low expectations because honestly, neither Galen nor Honey/Legion were favorites of mine. I requested to review because I will read anything, absolutely anything, that Gena Showalter writes. I would read her grocery lists if they were published. 


That being said, I really didn't expect much from The Darkest Captive. I expected Galen to be macho and chauvinistic. I expected him to kind of strong arm Legion (it's weird to call her Honey, I just can't) into accepting him and trusting him that he wasn't going to hurt her. I never expected him to hurt her, but I wasn't prepared for how supportive and understanding he was. 

You were hurt in the worst possible way, your spirit broken. But you are putting the pieces back together, and that makes you my hero.

Your worth was not tarnished by what they did.


If I wasn't overly turned on by reading this book then I was fighting back tears because of Galen. As someone who battles with depression and anxiety on a daily basis, his supporting words and the way he lifted Legion's spirits spoke to me on a base level, to the deepest reaches of my soul. I never expected to be affected so personally by a work of fiction.


Once Legion was able to come out of her shell more and trust Galen more, the banter between the two of them was fantastic.

"Galen," she said. "You're putting me up on a pedestal...and I like it. Never stop."
"I put you on a pedestal so I can look up your skirt."

The Darkest Captive was everything I didn't know I needed in a book. 


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 About Gena Showalter: Gena Showalter is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of the spellbinding Lords of the Underworld series, two young adult series–Everlife and the White Rabbit Chronicles–and the highly addictive Original Heartbreakers series. In addition to being a National Reader’s Choice and two time RITA nominee, her romance novels have appeared in Cosmopolitan and Seventeen magazine, she’s been mentioned in Orange is the New Black–if you ask her about it, she’ll talk for hours–and her books have been translated in multiple languages. She’s hard at work on her next novel, a tale featuring an alpha male with a dark side and the strong woman who brings him to his knees. You can learn more about Gena, her menagerie of rescue dogs, and all her upcoming books at genashowalter.com   

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