Deep, Dark & Dangerous

I mean, I finished it, but couldn't get into it. I was willing to suspend my disbelief, but it was too preposterous. From the impossibility of growing food without sunlight, to the notion that someone could fall in love with not just their captor, but the person who stole them from pizza delivery, antibiotics and anything approaching gender parity, within a week, was too much for me to swallow.

I mean, I finished it, but couldn't get into it. I was willing to suspend my disbelief, but it was too preposterous. From the impossibility of growing food without sunlight, to the notion that someone could fall in love with not just their captor, but the person who stole them from pizza delivery, antibiotics and anything approaching gender parity, within a week, was too much for me to swallow.

So the sex scenes were pretty hot in a "Me Tarzan, you Jane" type of way, much more explicit than what I was expecting as I haven't read anything else by this author but it takes a lot of effort to ignore the unbelieveably inane plot. Not really a book to be read for the story but light and amusing in its way.

A star in a world of wealth and privilege....

Fed up with Hollywood backstabbing, famous movie actress Madalyn Simon decided to escape the spotlight. Her new back-to-basics existence in an Alaskan cabin did take getting used to, but at least she was in control of her own destiny -- or so she thought. While snowmobiling on the frigid coast with her sister, the pair is taken hostage by a band of rough men who want them -- for reasons beyond imagining.

A captive in a world of inescapable seductions....

They are neo-Vikings from a hidden underworld, in search of women Outsiders to breed for the New Sweden clan. Their sexy leader, Otar, wants only one woman: Madalyn. Overpowered by his masculine strength and unmasked desire, Madalyn must show more become Otar's wife or face the marriage auction block. Now, in a world beyond dreams and as real as the hot flesh of her enticing warrior-husband, Madalyn discovers the power of an all-consuming passion -- as the fires of revolution threaten all she has come to love... show less