Review: Demon's Captive
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2014
I decided to read this book, because of the reviews and I was curious. I was thinking this was not my normal type of book, but gave it a shot. By the description I was expecting there to be more torture. And because of the people who were disgusted and gave it a 1 star, because they were upset about rape, I was expecting worse than the book had.  I do want to say, that the people who gave it a 1, and complained about rape, shouldn't have read it, when the description clearly said she was to be torture sex slave. So they should have expected something like that. With that being said I will say this is not really a BDSM book, nor is it a bad rape book.  What I say next are SPOILERS: Melmanon mostly treats Charity well and even gently with a couple of exceptions. When he first takes her, she is submissive because she has seen what was done to her people, and is afraid he will torture her, which he leads her to believe he will. However he sees her naked and realizes she turns him on so decides he wants to have sex with her. He is big so it hurts her some, but he is not really cruel to her or hurts her unjustly. He makes sure she has an organism, because at first he knows she finds it demeaning to respond to him, but he also is already realizing he doesn't what to hurt her. As long as she does what he wants he will make sure she finds pleasure. After they have been together a month, he gets insanely jealousy and this is the one time he does hurt her. He whips her hard, and then straps her to a device that she has to bend over on. He puts in an anal plug and some claps on her boobs, both which hurt her, and has rough sex with her. She is crying when it is done. He releases her and walks out. He is in a really bad mood for an hour, and then realizes he is upset that he hurt her, and is afraid she is badly hurt so he goes back and takes extremely gentle care of her with a cream that heals her by the morning. The next time he gets upset is when he realizes she intends to escape or dye trying. He starts to strangle her and then stops as he realizes what he is doing. He wants to prove he can make her happy and show how gentle he can be, because he loves her. Which from there on, he tries to prove. So as stated, really he is not too horrible to her except for the one slip up. I did expect that there would have been rough or dominate sex at the end. Not hurtful necessarily, but rough, however there wasn't. I figured once she accepts him, and comes to love him, then they would go back to the less gentle sex. It doesn't say if they do or do not, since it cuts away before they have it. So the ending is kind of quick. She should have thrown in another sex scene.As far as some other reviewers go that appear to want Melmanon to still be mean by the end, I will say he goes from being the most brutal, meanest alien to the nicest to her, too fast, which is  something that is not in his nature. Also people called her a wimp and a coward. I do not think necessarily that she is a coward. You have to also remember this is a BDSM dominate/submissive type story. She has seen what he is capable of, and if you were being held, would you rather be submissive and have sex that is not horrible to you or be tortured. For most of us I think self-preservation kicks in. It is not like he treated her horribly. She was only afraid he was going to kill her when he was done with her, which he was, but she did not know that for sure, and he told himself he would do it quickly, because of all the pleasure she gave him. Instead he grows to care for her, and by that time has done a complete 180. However from the beginning with her, he was already over half way to that 180. This doesn't bother me, but some people it apparently does. Also the person who complained about character development should not really have expected any. There was some, but this is a 91 paged book. There is not a lot of character development that can be done in that short of time, and still have some sort of story. That is usually why I do not read books that are under 200 pages. I did however think some things didn't make sense like what his race considers sexual perversion. Maybe it was just not explained well enough to me. Plus for those you do not like this type of thing, there is some talk about male on male sex, as it seems it is not forbidden for the different races that conquered earth. I say that as Melmanon race has only men now, and the warriors that conquered earth are from different conquered races. Or so it seems as none of this is clearly talked about. Who the original conquerors were I have no idea. Which all goes back to the short story thing, and not enough time to get into detail. Also I could have done without the shark teeth also. People who have tongues should not have sharp teeth. They would always be cutting their tongue up. It also makes it hard when they kiss, but in the point there are no issues with either.Anyway I thought it was a good book still. It is definitely not for everyone. It wouldn't be hard core enough, or enough BDSM for some, and too violent enough for others.Sex content medium/high. Several scenes, but not excessive scenes like some think, descriptive, but not excessively descriptive. This is not erotica.