Captive of the Night by K. Loraine

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Roslyn Blackthorne is dead.

I should know, I watched it happen.

My twin and I didn’t believe we’d ever meet our mate, and then she showed up in our bar and the world as we knew it changed. Fate hadn’t been kind to us. Not once. So it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that we lost her as soon as we claimed her.

I spent so much time worried about her manipulative demon, I didn’t anticipate it would be my own sordid past that killed her.

It was our fault. They should have blamed me and Remi. Instead, for the first time since Rosie turned our lives upside down, we are united:

Her vampire husband
Her hybrid hacker
Her alpha wolves

I thought I’d give anything to see those amber eyes of hers again.

I was wrong.

So wrong.

Because the moment I got my wish, it wasn’t my sugar staring back at me. It was a monster.

And now I’ll never be the same.

Captive of the Night

I’m getting a bit bored of the series, a book too soon.

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: 🙂🥰😎🥹
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet Narration ✨Full Cast✨

The heroine: Rosalyn Blackthorne (a.k.a. Rosie) – she ran away from the danger her husband’s family posed to her loved ones. Ran as far away as a supernatural community in Alaska. She grew up as the princess of the Blackthorne vampires, though she thought she would never turn to a vampire herself since she hadn’t turned while she was a teen. She was now in love with two shifters, a hybrid hacker, and her husband, Gavin who followed her to Alaska. She also had recently broken her deal with a demon, to whom she had given her virginity. But that was all before she died.

The Heroes: Asher Henry – he is a hacker cursed by a witch. He thinks he is dying of the curse which is shown by a tattoo slowly crawling up his arm. He is some kind of hybrid. Half human, half something else.
Bentley Mercer – an alpha wolf shifter and twin to Remington. He loves to care for Rosie. He and his brother were beholden to a demoness, because he tried and failed to kill her for murdering their parents. She wanted revenge and got it through Rosie.
Remington Mercer – twin brother to Bentley, he loves Asher as much as he loves Rosie, who is his mate as well as Ben’s.
Pandemic (a.k.a. Pan) – he is a huge purple demon, who had a deal with Rosie. He was working for his mother, Pestilence to jump start the apocalypse. He found he has the ability use Asher as a vessel, and unlike other vessels he has used, Asher didn’t die or decompose.
Gavin – he is a vampire, and Rosie’s husband. She is also his fated mate. He is a Sadist and Rosie is his submissive masochist. He originally wanted her all to himself but has opened to the fact that he shares her with Asher and the twins.

The Story: This one started with a bang, as Pan took over Asher’s body and wore him like a costume. This is the third book in the series, and I still don’t quite like the relationship between Pan and Rosie. Pan, I suppose, behaves like a demon should, but definitely not like he cares at all about Rosie. He is still following his mothers’ orders, and he didn’t seem to care at all when he heard that Rosie died. The two of them can’t keep their hands off each other when they are together, but when they are not, they don’t care about each other much at all.

Like the previous two books, this one was super steamy and there were plenty of sexy scenes. I guess it just wasn’t like the reverse harem romances that I usually like. For the most part, Rosie was with each of her men separately, and I don’t mind that. However, I like it when the group becomes a family and, in this series, Rosies relationships with each of her men was so disjointed. I just like it better when the group all ends up working together. I also think that five men is a bit too many. I like three or four for a reverse harem. I think she was spreading herself way too thin and it didn’t feel like she had a real relationship with any of the guys, only sex.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view via duet narration with a full cast of great narrators. J.F. Harding, Jacob Morgan, James Joseph, John Hartley, Stella Hunter, and Teddy Hamilton narrated it. They did a terrific job, and I love most of these narrators. Though I don’t really like the overacting (Pan and Gavin). I did love the narration of Rosie, Bentley, Asher and Remington quite a lot, I just wish Asher and the twins were more present in this story. Gavin and Pan seemed to be nearly every other chapter.

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