Review: Lethal Obsession: Caged by Michele L. Montgomery
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 11, 2010
**REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS**This was an amazing story; emotional, angst-filled, horrifying in parts, and sweetly endearing. I was captivated by the protagonists's love for one another and their determination to get their happily ever after.Christian St.James Davenport and Lucca is-so-hot Renaldo (Ok, it's possible that is not the name the author came up with, but it's the one I'm giving him.) meet when Christian is just 16 years-old and Lucca is 23. For two years, they pine after one another, falling a little more in love all the time, until Chistian's 18th birthday, where, with a little nudge from Christian's fathers, Lucca finally makes a move.The two spend a few years blissfully in love, until shortly after Christian's 21st birthday, he's kidnapped by an ex-boyfriend, Dwight, who was actually the boy Christian was dating when he first met Lucca. That boy is now a man, filled with rage, bitterness and a very warped sense of what a D/s relationship should be. Christian is thrown into a room, filled with cages containing young men, much like himself, who were kidnapped, lied to, or mislead into being the play things of Dwight and his brother, Evan.For a good portion of the first half of this book you are taken through the torment and humiliation Christian and the other men trapped with him endure at the hands of Dwight and Evan. You're also shown the sorrow, helplessness and determination Lucca experiences in his fight to free the man he loves.Lucca does find Christian, but by the time he gets there it's almost too late. Christian heals physically as anyone would, but as so often is the case in real life, his mental and emotional health take much longer to recover. It's a long battle back for Christian and I cried for his character more than once during this book, but Lucca steps up when Christian is falling apart and slowly and determinedly puts his pieces back together for him. In the end, theirs is a relationship formed of trust, love and unwavering faith in one another.This isn't an easy read by any stretch of the imagination, but it is an incredible one and one well worth reading.