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A Beautiful Prison

de Jenika Snow

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WARNING: This is not a traditional love story. This book is fiction and contains material readers may find offensive. This is the updated version that contains the happily ever after epilogue. Ruby Jacobson wanted a new life, but it seems fate gives her a twisted version of it. Taken from her bed, and sold like an object, Ruby believes death is a far better outcome then what fate has in store for her. Or so she thought. Gavin Darris has always desired the darker pleasures in life. Normally not one to purchase his playthings, he needs a woman who will bend to his will, and derive pleasure from it, too. He sees Ruby, one of the many women for sale, and he wants her as he's never wanted anything else before. She has a fire in her eyes and a determination not to yield. She looks like a fighter and is exactly what he is looking for. Making her submit will be almost as pleasurable as finally sating the darkness inside of him. He is ruthless in what he wants, and what he wants is Ruby. The dark desires Ruby has felt inside of her are about to be tempted in the most horrifying of ways. She should hate Gavin and fear everything he represents, but she can't deny that her body aches for his touch. He tells her she is his; that he owns every part of her, and everything inside of her knows that is the truth. Faced with the ultimate decision, Ruby must choose to escape and gain her freedom, or stay with Gavin, the monster whose delicious punishment makes her yearn for more. Both are frightening.… (més)
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Ruby is kidnapped and put on an auction block for human traffickers. Gavin buys her because he sees her answering masochist to his sadist. Ruby fights him but she is as aroused and attracted to him as he is to her. Will she be able to leave him? Will he be able to let her go?

I enjoyed this book. This is not for the faint of heart. It is not a typical love story because it is so dark but it is a love story nonetheless. Both Gavin and Ruby are flawed. Both have a darkness in them. Both are able to let that darkness out with each other. Ruby has to learn that her kink is not bad nor does it make her sick. Gavin learns he is not a heartless monster, that there is gentleness in him. Where they learn that is beautiful.

I love the variety in Jenika Snow's books. I wil be reading more of her. ( )
  Sheila1957 | Aug 16, 2021 |
Readers of erotic dark romance will find a lot to enjoy this book, and I have to admit that I really did enjoy it, for what it was. The characters are spot-on, and the writing is intense and smart. At the same time, the book's one downfall is that it's a bit rushed. The scenes themselves are given plenty of time and attention to detail, with great progressions at each moment, but the plotting as a whole would really have benefitted from being slowed down quite a bit. As it was, I almost feel that what I get was the highlight scenes from a story, the bare bones, instead of all of the smaller moments that would have made things feel more real and given the book more impact. Simply, in almost every way, I just wanted a bit more. As the book went on and this effect seemed to be even more pronounced, part of the problem was also with Gavin's POV--he was too expected, too exactly what would be expected of the situation, nothing more and nothing less; I'm not sure when I've read a book where one of the main characters began feeling Less real as a book progressed, but that seemed to be the case here...

So, I suppose I have mixed feelings. I enjoyed the story and the characters and Snow's writing, but it was all over so quickly that I was left feeling like the book didn't come close to meeting its potential. I was also, I admit, sometimes distracted by little language errors that slipped through, pointing to the need for a better proofreader. ( )
  whitewavedarling | Sep 21, 2017 |
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WARNING: This is not a traditional love story. This book is fiction and contains material readers may find offensive. This is the updated version that contains the happily ever after epilogue. Ruby Jacobson wanted a new life, but it seems fate gives her a twisted version of it. Taken from her bed, and sold like an object, Ruby believes death is a far better outcome then what fate has in store for her. Or so she thought. Gavin Darris has always desired the darker pleasures in life. Normally not one to purchase his playthings, he needs a woman who will bend to his will, and derive pleasure from it, too. He sees Ruby, one of the many women for sale, and he wants her as he's never wanted anything else before. She has a fire in her eyes and a determination not to yield. She looks like a fighter and is exactly what he is looking for. Making her submit will be almost as pleasurable as finally sating the darkness inside of him. He is ruthless in what he wants, and what he wants is Ruby. The dark desires Ruby has felt inside of her are about to be tempted in the most horrifying of ways. She should hate Gavin and fear everything he represents, but she can't deny that her body aches for his touch. He tells her she is his; that he owns every part of her, and everything inside of her knows that is the truth. Faced with the ultimate decision, Ruby must choose to escape and gain her freedom, or stay with Gavin, the monster whose delicious punishment makes her yearn for more. Both are frightening.

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