Review: the story continues for Natalie
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2012
Enslaved - An Erotic Paranormal Thriller (The Fire and Ice Series)Kim FaulksI was supplied with this copy by author but as always on the basis that my opinion is honestly held and not influenced by whether the book was free or paid for. Integrity of reviewers is important to me, and false reviews do no favours to authors or readers.Well, onto the third instalment. I'd loved the first two so was looking forward to what would happen to Natalie next. We meet her when she's been caught captive by yet another supernatural being. She thinks it may be Marrah, the last supernatural who she recently escaped from but it turns out to be someone else, Kaige, a ruthless and cruel vampire. She thinks she's finally broken Natalie by keeping her in captivity chained in the dark, and fed very little, and finally she allows her out to join the rest of the gang where she becomes a plaything for a horrific band of supernaturals. There are some quite atrociously cruel scenes both in her capture and her escape attempt that are a bit stomach churning if you're a feeble wimp like me! My kids laugh (and the grand kids) as anything remotely gory makes me cringe and get out of the room so it could just be me that finds these scenes a turn off. They do fit the story well though - I just wish I didn't paint such a graphic mental image when reading them...I missed Alexander and Malik in this book - we only see them via dreams sadly - but given the book was so short that's unavoidable. I want to commnet on the lenth here - I think 1.97 for just 54 pages is too expensive. I know we can pay more than that for a magazine that gets thrown away but there's so much competition on ebooks that this seems a little too much money. A longer book would have been better too - the last book was 239kb compared to this at 153kb for the same price. I note the next book is back to 242kb for the same price and I'm looking forward to what happens next to Natalie- I have the book already but needed to get this review written before I started as I don't want to muddle the two books. Now I can crack on with her and see where she has got to and hopefully catch up with Malik and Alexander too. One thing Natalie can safely say - her life is never boring!Stars: well edited once again, and thankfully Kim writes quite quickly so readers don't have to wait a year for each new instalment, but- and its a big But - I do feel its priced wrongly, I missed seeing Alexander and Malik - the stories have been as much about the as Natalie so far and I felt the lack of their presence so I'm going for 3 and half stars this time.