Review: 3.5 out of 5 Stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2014
This is the story of Lily and Nox, them being put together in an extraordinary situation and finding love through it all.  It starts out pretty action packed a nice quiet night at home and then things take a dramatic turn. I felt like the book was a big whirl wind of activity that left me trying to figure out what was going on, in a good way.Willing Captive definitely had some 'issues' that left my heard reeling but the story was written in a way that I wanted to keep reading so I could find out how the story ended. For most of the story I could pretty much guess the events, but I wanted confirmation.Lily wasn't my favorite heroine but she wasn't my least favorite either. She just kind of was. I understand Lily was put in a very difficult situation and she was trying to understand and make the best of it, but that girl is no Rock Chick. She seems to spend quite a bit of time either crying or feeling sorry for herself. Which again I understood, remember she's not in a great situation, but at the same time I wanted to just yell at her "suck it up!". But she is a reader and a lover of books so Lily did score some bonus points with me on that one.We are also offered Nox's point of view at times. You all know how I love having the male point of view especially in stories like this. Being able to see his side of things helped me understand what was going on not only with him but with the general events in the story. It really helped to make me feel the connection between him and Lily.I was really liking the story in the beginning. I thought it flowed well and made me want to read quickly, but over time there were more and more things I started to notice were just a bit off. It's one thing to push aside some disbelief because we're reading fiction, but Willing Captive asked for too much. It came to the point where I could no longer over look things as easily and started to question the story all together.I think I can list some of my complaints here without giving away any spoilers, those of you who have not read the book yet just might be left scratching your head. The 'raids' on the house left me confused. The first one seems to have really good timing. Also why are they going to hotels and coming back if the house has been discovered? Who discovered it? Why? What did they do? None of these questions are ever really answered.I was doing with my ability to push aside my doubt but somewhere around 70 to 80 percent I just couldn't do it anymore. The story seemed to go downhill quickly and became completely unbelievable.  At this point I felt like anything could happen during this book and because of this I was cut off emotionally during the ending which should have been a shocker. The book was riding high with a rating of 4 or 4.5 up until this point and then as I continued reading and things just kept getting crazier (but not in a good way) it continued to lose stars.I know there were parts in this ending that were suppose to be sad, but i just couldn't muster up any tears because I knew the ending was going to be predictable.  And then we reached the ending which was nice. It was so nice in fact I might have a cavity. Do you think my Dentist will believe me if I tell him it was caused by sappy book endings?While I didn't love Willing Captive I am going to check out Belle Aurora's other books. I've heard some good things about Raw and the Friend Zone series as well.