Review: Transcends the romance category
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2014
I haven't read a good romance novels in many years, mostly because they all started to sound alike.  Leave it to Sara King, a writer I discovered through reading Scifi, to write a romance novel that was anything but boring.  To The Princess Bound brings a whole new dimension to the romance genre by adding a layer of mysticism to it.We've moved on in our understanding of the 'other side' and some writers are charging ahead, giving the reader a new more modern romance that includes our new understanding of empaths, psychics and so forth.  I love the way Sara used deep space travel and exposure to radiation to explain the changes in the characters in this story.  So smart and so logical.Here's the story in a nutshell, Princess Victory comes back to the castle after six years of rape and torture by the rebels of the planet Mercy, and in her father's quest to make her whole again, he chains a man to his daughter to show her that there's nothing to fear.As the story progresses we learn more about the planet that has been taken over by the Imperium, enslaving the locals who'd settled the planet hundreds of years before.  Victory learns how things really are in her father's kingdom, and of course is shackled to the hunkiest empath the planet has to offer.  And like any good romance, they start out hating each other, but in the end learn to love each other.  I don't think I'm giving anything away because this is the romance novel formula. What's different about this book, is the psychic angle, and of course Sara's amazing writing and wonderful characters.What I love about romance novels is that you learn so much about history from them, and aside from all the bodice-ripping, high school kids would learn more than reading the dry history books that they now have to learn from.Yes this book has rape scenes, but so did a lot of the romance novels I'd read in my day.  This romance novel is original, and is well-written and has not cardboard characters in it.  I would recommend this book to any of my romance reading friends.