Review: Another Great Book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2013
Maya is hauled away bound and gagged and dumped unceremoniously over a horse.  She rants and threatens and vows vengeance and forces her captors to treat her like a prisoner of war or a slave just to rub their noses in how wrong and unethical their actions are.Ms Roseau is adept at the gradual love story.  Maya, the protagonist of this story, changes her mind and her state incrementally.  The change is so slow, so gradual and driven by events so much that the reader is inevitably pulled along with her.There is no Stockholm syndrome here, Maya does not give her captors respect or affection until they earn it.  The reader is not left thinking that Maya is weak or easy to give in to her situation.  The story of how Maya comes to slowly believe in, and finally trust and love those who brutalized her is an amazing evolution.Even though the theme of falling in love with one's kidnapper is the same as the theme of Familiar,Tresjolie and Privateer, the plot is not the same at all, this is its own story with its own characters. Maya learns that actions which are immoral or which appear to be done without honor or conscience, might have mitigating circumstances.  There is no sudden jump from injury to love in this book.  Maya holds her insult and injury close and dear and nurses it until the reader is ready to move on.  The author skillfully brings the reader along for the ride as Maya's world is shaken and everything gradually changes.I love the way this lady writes.  Romance is essentially escape fiction, and Ms Roseau writes so well that she allows the reader to  become absorbed into a new and plausible world, into a new and plausible plot.  it is everything I ask for in a plot.