Book Review: The Captive by Jenny Foster

 

Book Description

Cassie Burnett

I’m one of the few people who has yet to give up the fight against the Sethari.

I would rather die than surrender to the aliens who have enslaved us humans for more than one hundred years.

Then the unthinkable happens: a different race of aliens land on Earth and offer a trade to the humans. In exchange for healthy women, they will destroy the tyrants.

The leader of the aliens claims me as his to bear him healthy, viable children.

He’s strong. Powerful. Terrifying.

I saw how he destroyed the Sethari, and I’m prepared for anything.

Khazaar Drasurq

A life for a life—that’s the agreement.

We fought and won. 


Now I’m taking the reward our people deserve: healthy human women who will give us children to save my people from extinction. The exchange brings Cassie into my possession. She is one of many who will bear my people viable children.

But when my spaceship crashes on hostile territory, she becomes desirable prey in the eyes of my enemies. I won't let anything happen to her. Nothing and no one will stop me—I will defend what belongs to me.

Even if I have to destroy the entire planet.

She is mine.

My Review

This trope is one I usually like. Bad aliens invade Earth, good aliens help us and in return they ask for healthy women to be their mates so they can have children. Our government is usually the bad guys and instead of asking willing women to go with the aliens, they make it something women have to do even if they have families they're leaving behind, as was the case with this book. But I like alien romance stories so I keep reading them. 

After the Sethari invade, the humans are willing to do anything to get rid of them. So when Khazaar's people help and get rid of the bad aliens our government has to do what they said they will and hand over healthy human females as mates for these aliens. Cassie is one of those women and Khazaar has claimed her as his. 

Cassie has psychic abilities that allow her to leave her body and even inhabit others bodies for a time. She can psychically talk to some others so this comes in handy when their spaceship crashes and they are kidnapped by other aliens who want to sell both of them into slavery. But the leader of this new race of aliens finds out about Cassie being psychic and uses her abilities for himself on his people. He's power hungry and an awful ruler. 

There was a lot going on in this book, maybe too much. The book starts out great but then Cassie and Khazaar get separated and she has to use her abilities to help rescue them both. That whole middle part of the book of them separated and trying to escape lasted too long and hurt the story in my opinion. 

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. 

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