Review: Captive- Original Idea
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 30, 2013
It was love at first sight for Ben and Hugo and within two years they had a civil partnership ceremony in London and a honeymoon in Cape Town. While Hugo was being unfaithful, Ben was being kidnapped. Hugo and a few new friends search the more seedy side of Cape Town and are warned by the gay mafia not to interfere in their business. Before long a video of Ben turns up. Soon another, worse video is delivered and a ransom demand is made. I really don't want to give anything away after that. This is not a cookie cutter story. It was an original and fresh idea.Captive by David Ellis is a 246 page suspense story written in third person, past tense. This book is sexually graphic and has violence. The pacing of the story is perfect, it unfolds slowly and you are completely immersed into the kidnapping. It has an almost sinister feel to it as more and more is revealed and things get worse.