Captive held me Captive

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	• Captive Bride Johanna Lindsey Avon, 1999 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 79 reviews view larger image
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Captive held me Captive

Captive Bride was the first JL novel I ever read and that was (good God I'm showing my age here!) back in the 70's when the book was first released and I'd just turned 20. Up until then I'd been reading Barbara Cartland's and it was, to say the least, quite a change...from warm to sizzling!

I've had the book for almost 30 years. As she was one of my favorite authors I kept it over the decades and it's survived various moves without getting misplaced, lost or heaven forbid...traded for other books.

I finally sat down a day or so ago and re-read the book. I love it just as much now as I did then. I adored her characters Phillip Caxton and Christina Wakefield and was transported to England and Egypt through the pages of the novel. She brought both countries alive for me, so much so that I experienced the hot desert wind on my face and the sweltering temperatures of Cairo on my skin, and the frigid air of an English winter. Although the book isn't PC, I have to say I'm a secret bodice-ripper fan. I suppose I've always loved strong male characters and Phillip Caxton is definitely a strong male but with a soft heart.

While Captive isn't one of her BEST novels, (which is why I only gave it four stars out of five) I still find it a fun read and will probably read it again in several years. I had forgotten everything that had taken place, so it was as fresh to me now as it was when I first read it.

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good enought

The reason why I bought this is because this reminds me so much of my teen years. I first read this when I was 13 (my classmate way back in high school loaned it to me) and was enthralled by it. Now, more than 13 years after, I wanted to read it again and remember why I was so fascinated by it. As soon as I got my copy, I realized how different my taste was. The scenes in this book are too dramatic and the characters' reactions were too over the top. Example, instead of describing the character as being impatient, at times, the author would say they character was shouting. Totally inappropriate. The reactions were too severe and extreme.

Nevertheless, I still Loved the plot. I have to give it to her, this was her first book (I think?), having published this in the 1970's. I have read her other works and those were definitely a lot better, as far as characters' descriptions are concerned. Still, the PLOT and STORY OF THE CAPTIVE BRIDE IS STILL ONE OF MY FAVORITES.

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The irresistible call of adventure brings lovely Christina Wakefield to the alluring Arabian desert. But fate imprisons her after she encounters Sheik Abu, the strikingly handsome though arrogant adventurer, whom she had known in England as Philip Caxton.

Once Christina had rejected Philip's fervent offer of marriage. But now she is to be his slave -- desperate for the freedoms denied her...yet weakened by her heart's blazing desire to willingly explore her virile captor's most sensuous cravings.