Review: Mixed emotions
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 20, 2013
Madeleine Abducted is set on The Estate, a place where a group of criminals called the Network live.  It is run by Joseph Carmichael, a man who everyone fears, even his own son Aaron.  As a birthday gift to Aaron his father kidnaps a young woman who Aaron is infatuated with, the young cellist Maddy.  He puts her in a gift wrapped box and presents her to Aaron telling him that Maddy is his slave.  Aaron is outraged that an innocent woman has been taken but in order to save Maddy's life he must treat her as the slave she is supposed to be otherwise his cruel father with kill her."You are not allowed thought anymore, your choices are mine, your actions are mine, everything you think or do will be because I have allowed it."This book started out extremely well and I really enjoyed the characters and story.  Aaron is delicious, dark, dangerous and intimidating, Ian Somerhalder would be perfect to play him.  He is a bad man, after all he is the Estate's executioner but he also has a conscience, escpecially where Maddy is concerned.  Maddy is an ok character, although her emotions didn't come across as strong as what they should have for me.I warn you now that this book does have extreme violence in it.  I love dark books but this did push my limit at times, so think twice before buying.It is a good book and I did enjoy it but it doesn't live up to the Dark Duet series which is my bench mark for Dark Romance.  As the book progressed the story changed direction somewhat and the writing leaned towards a contemporary romance book which kind of spoilt it for me, therefore I am giving Madeleine Abducted 3.5 stars.