Dragon’s Captive by Kara Lockharte

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Sammy O’Connor didn’t mean to steal a dragon’s necklace…she just kind of did.

Little did she know that the viciously hot and muscled Rax Janvier who would come to claim it — and her — would be willing to do anything to get it back. It’s a fragment of a key that opens up a lock to his past — and hers.

Can she survive being kidnapped by a dragon who’s obsessed with her? And what happens if she starts to want him back?

Dragon’s Captive

Didn’t quite live up to my expectations!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💚❤️
Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌏
Character development: 🤓😉☺️😍
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Sammy – her best friend Andi is getting married to a wealthy dragon shifter named Damien, and though Sammy is happy for her friend, their paths in life are moving apart and her friend moved out of their apartment. Sammy used to work in an auto parts store, since she knows a lot about cars and working on them. Though she now works as a hostess at a fancy restaurant. The pay is good, but the wealthy clientele is sometimes hard to work with.

The Hero: Rax – he is a dragon shifter whose dragon is locked away. He had been imprisoned for his brother’s crime, in chains as magicians pulled his dragon’s form from his body to wrap it around the gate below to keep it closed. His brother betrayed him and tried to open the gate after he had married a human girl who became their family’s downfall. Rax is now a very wealthy man and is going out to eat alone to celebrate 700 years of being free from his imprisonment.

The Story: Sammy opens a wedding gift that is sent to her apartment for Andi, it is a beautiful necklace, though Andi says via text that it isn’t something she would ever wear. It was sent anonymously, so Sammy puts it on and wears it to her restaurant job. When Rax comes in he is attracted to the pretty hostess and while studying her he sees the necklace and knows it belongs to him. It was buried with his brother’s wife and is a third of a key to the locked gate that his dragon protects. He wants to put that key back together and set that lock so he can reclaim his dragon before it is too late.

Rax needs to get back what is rightfully his, so he seduces Sammy when he sees how angry she is at her bosses and some unruly customers. They hook up in the wine cellar, getting her fired from her hostess job. Rax tried to break off her necklace while they were intimate, but it wouldn’t budge. Days later he ends up offering her a position at his casino, when she happens to show up for an interview as a bartender.

I usually never say any book is too long, especially an audiobook since they are so expensive. However, this one got quite boring in the middle. I had to back up a few times because my mind started drifting and I was afraid I missed some things. It turned out I didn’t. There was just too much of nearly nothing happening after he kidnapped her. He was going to work every day while she was stuck in his home, they weren’t sleeping together and she was just hating him for forcing her to stay there, and thinking he might kill her at any time.

When Rax and Sammy hooked up the first night they met at the restaurant where she worked, I thought this would be a super steamy one, but after that it became a slow burn, and it was quite a while before they got together again.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration. It was narrated by Matthew Holland and Bunny Warren. They are both good narrators and do a great job. Matthew Hollands voice is soft and works well for the wealthy shifter. Bunny has a deep voice for a woman, but it is pleasant, and it makes her male voice better than most.

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