Enslaved
The Brides of the Kindred, No. 14
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Enslaved is book number 14 in the Brides of the Kindred series. It is a plus-length novel of around 168,000 words
Anything for you Mistress…
Thrace S’ver is an unwilling slave. Drugged and bound, he is taken to the Flesh Bazaar and put up for sale to the highest bidder. But this is not the first time Thrace has been on the auction block—he has a past full of horrors he doesn’t intend to repeat. Desperate to be free, he swears he’ll kill whoever buys him.
Lonnara Trin is the Captain of a merchant ship from the all female planet of Zetta Prime where sexual relations with a male are considered unnatural and wrong. She has no use for males personally, but she needs a big, muscular slave or her business will suffer—Thrace fits the bill.
Soon Mistress and slave are embroiled in a desperate conflict which draws them intimately together. To her surprise, Trin actually begins to have feelings for her slave. And though Thrace swore to be free, he finds himself devoted to his new Mistress. When their differences threaten to tear them apart, Trin tries to grant Thrace his freedom. But she doesn’t realize that his heart has already been…Enslaved.
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Enslaved
Wonderfully written romance that shows what true devotion is all about. Love that surpasses all!
Way too much shame and self-hate
Evangeline Anderson’s books are a guilty pleasure read. Though I skip around to avoid ones with themes that are not “my thing”, every book has had immense creativity, strong world building, and dynamic characters. Unfortunately, I ended Enslaved feeling unsatisfied and hating one of the main characters.
Trin is a ship captain from an all female society with misguided views about men. Thrace, tricked into a slave market, is saved from death by Trin at considerable expense. To pay back his life debt, Trace agrees to be Trin’s slave until he can help her close a dangerous but profitable deal. This leads to an enjoyable first half of a book. However, at the point when you expect Trin to start growing or developing as a character, she instead plummets down a self-harming pit of shame and self-hate. And worse, she stays down there the entire book, all the way through to the “happy ending”. At first I appreciated the almost parable like theme, but the fact that Trin doesn’t climb her way out of the shame pit made for an unlikable character and an ultimately depressing read.