Review: Swept Off My Feet ... by a book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2013
Every now and then a book comes along that just sweeps you off your feet, capturing your heart in the process.  Willing Captive is one of those books.Delilah Flynn (Lily) is twenty-one and lives a sheltered life.  Her self-made, successful, Irish-immigrant father is over-protective-on-steroids ... aside from school and work she doesn't leave her parents' sight.  Her father does have his reasons though and they are revealed as the story progresses.Lily finds solace as well as an escape in books and is content with her lonely life.  Her quiet existence is shaken when she and her sister are kidnapped from their home.  During her time in captivity, Lily forms unique bonds with her captors - Boo becomes a best friend, Boo's boyfriend Rock becomes a brother-like figure, and she eventually falls hard for Nox, the no-nonsense, hot and sexy guy in charge.  Lily and Nox have their ups and downs ... or downs then ups rather.  Lily has every reason to not fall for Nox and vice versa.Placing my hand on his chest, he pulls me closer to him and runs his hand through my hair gently.Thinking a millions things all at once, I feel the need to let him in on one of those thoughts.  "I trust you, Nox.  You won't hurt me.  I know it."  I whisper, "I trust you."The hand at my hair stills a moment before he sighs, "Maybe you shouldn't, Lily."Falling in love is exactly what they do though.  And they do it well.  Their journey to being together is perfection .... I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the ebb and flow of their relationship.  I love their words.  I just love them!!!As things play out and Lily learns more and more about why she was taken, things aren't at all what they seem.And that's where I'm stopping ... I don't want to spoil any of the story because it's so stinking good!There's usually one thing you really love about a book ... the hero or the heroine, the love scenes, their love story, fantastic writing, funny writing, strong secondary characters ... most books are usually good at one of those things, maybe two.  Willing Captive rocked each and every one!  Seriously, I loved everything about this book.  I can't remember the last time I loved both the hero and heroine this much.  Lily is hysterical.  Whenever the book was being told in her POV, I felt just like I was sitting down with my funniest girlfriend, having drinks and she's telling me the story.  Belle Aurora writes a phenomenal heroine in Lily.  And Nox ... he's now on my book boyfriend list.  He is everything a strong alpha male should be and then some."A man like Nox is wild.You can't tame him.  You don't want to even try.  His ferocity is gorgeous.  There is a beauty in every single scowl and glare he shoots my way.  Things won't ever be the same for me.  And I'm grateful.I never realized how much I hated my life.  Not until he showed me beautiful."- LilyI read most of this book on a flight next to my snoozing hubby.  I laughed out loud (many times) and I cried both happy and sad tears.  Freaked my hubby out a little when he woke up and I was balling.  Poor guy, he never knows what he's going to get with me and my books."I read a lot, so I know that words hold power.  They can bring you from the lowest low to an ultimate high in a matter of moments, and just the opposite too."  - LilyAnd that, my friends, is exactly with Belle does with Willing Captive.  There are heart-breaking lows and heart-bursting highs in the story ... and a whole lot of laughs in-between.