“As a slave trainer, he had trained at least a score of girls. He tells her, “I am your master.” Caleb calls her “Pet.” But Livvie is hardly his typical slave, she has fight, she is brave, but he needed to bring out the submissive in her. When she finally comes too, she is blindfolded, in pain and tied to a bed. Her captor strikes her in the face and darkness again comes. She panics and kicks one of her captors in the face. When Livvie wakes up, vision hazy and confused, she finds herself in a dark van and not alone.

He also knew the only way to truly be safer was to accept the dark, to walk in it with eyes wide open, to be part of it.

Underneath, the whole world was drenched in darkness. Oliva (Livvie) Ruiz, a girl that Caleb has been watching, a girl that Caleb is surprisingly intrigued with, and a girl that he “casually” runs into to help her when she is in trouble, is taken as a pawn in his game of revenge. Revenge, twelve years in the planning and only a few months away in its execution.”Ĭaleb plans to kidnap a girl and train her as a pleasure slave in order to reap revenge on a person from his past, Vladek Rostrovich. The book begins with Caleb, a slave trainer, reminding himself about revenge… You wonder how anyone could read 261 pages of this… Well you can, You will. So what’s it about? Oh, you know the classic story of boy meets girl, boy kidnaps girl, then trains and sells girl as a sex slave. She brings new meaning to the term “range of emotions.” Absolutely .down. You are immersed in what the characters are feeling… disgusted, angry, happy, hopeful, hopeless. She vividly strikes a picture in your mind of what you are reading. Her style is uniquely mesmerizing, seductive and expressive. CJ Roberts is one of those gifted authors. Jackson’s emotional honesty, Sophie Kinsella’s easy humor and Amy Bartol’s heart-attack-inducing style to name a few.

There are few authors whose writing truly impacts me… A.L. But before I get to what this crazy book is all about, I also want to talk about the writing. Everything you think you feel along the way teeters and totters, leaving you unable to solidify your thoughts and feelings about Caleb. It aggressively shoved you way past the boundaries of what makes you uncomfortable and had me wondering if there was something wrong with me for being so captivated by it. There’s no comparison really, but will definitely tell you it was darker (in a whole other way) than 50 shades. Right off, I’ll tell you I’ve NEVER read a book like this. Please excuse my potty mouth, but this book is crazy! And crazy good!

Main Characters and Casting: Caleb and Livvie.

Captive in the Dark by C.J. Roberts