Review: 4 Blue Ribbons from Romance Junkies
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2010
Kidnapped from her world, Mari realizes that the only way to survive is to someone get the attention of her captors.  One captor in particular, Ekkatt, has been nice to her.  But is he nice enough to keep her from being sold as food?Mari has no idea what has happened to her.  One minute she was in a chicken coop collecting eggs and the next she is waking up in a cage aboard a space ship.  Finding out she is headed to a new world as food makes her panic but Mari refuses to give in her fears.  She knows that the only way to stay alive is to somehow convince her captors that she has a brain and is worth saving.  When one of her captors see her awake, he immediately tries to put her back to sleep but Mari talks him into letting her stay awake.  Her plan seems to be working - he brings her clothes, food, and if he is feeling magnanimous he will talk to her.  Surely by the time they land he will have changed his mind, right?Ekkatt does not know what is wrong with him.  He has been capturing and transporting females for years and never has a female affected him the way that Mari has in the short period of time he has been with her.  At first Ekkatt humors Mari when she wanted clothes, but the more time he spends with her the more he begins to realize that there may be more to human women than he thought.  Before he has time to think of his actions, Ekkatt manipulates his way into the holding pen and whisks Mari away to his home.  Ekkatt knows that to be caught is to face death for his actions - but the longer he and Mari are together, the more he finds out that every  stolen moment he and this special woman spend together is worth anything anyone could ever do to him.Stolen moments are two words that come to mind when I think of the love story between Mari and Ekkatt.  I loved watching and reading as Ekktatt's entire existence as a transporter comes into question - especially when he thought of Mari.  She was everything he was told women were not - she was smart, funny, loving.  My favorite thing that caught Ekkatt's eyes was the color of Mari's hair.  Quite simply, she was captured for the way her hair color made Ekkatt feel - and to be honest, I think he fell in love with her at that moment and didn't even know it.  Their life together is dangerous - they could be recaptured at any time.  But the most important fact that stands out is the fact that despite differences and preconceptions, these two loving people fell in love.  That is what made CAPTURED a tender and well told romance.Natalie S.