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Forbidden Captor (Harlequin Intrigue)

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In the fourth installment of the Big Sky Bounty Hunters series, a mission gone wrong leaves bounty hunter Bryce Martin and his team the hostages of a mad militia leader. When he falls for servant Anastasiya Belov, he will do anything to keep her safe, but he knows his men and his mission come first. Julie Miller's FORBIDDEN CAPTOR (4 1/2*) is a roller coaster of suspense and tenderness with a gentle but steel-spined heroine and a scarred and courageous hero in a race against time.

When Tasiya Belov was blackmailed to save her father's life, she was taken to America where she would be a cook for a madman, and a spy and mistress for her blackmailer. But as a cook, she was ordered to feed a bunch of prisoners, one who scared her and captivated her heart.

A promising idea but a poorly written novel. At first, the story had a lot of similarities to "Beauty and the Beast" which has always been my favorite fairytale. Tasiya's love and devotion to her father reminded me of the Beauty's love for her father in the fairytale, and it helped that Tasiya was very beautiful and Bryce was very ugly. However, that's where the similarities to my favorite fairytale ended. The characters were very flat and rather stupid at times. I didn't like how the good guys were made to look perfect, and the bad guys had nothing good about them, it was childish in that sense. Tasiya was made to look like she was absolutely perfect, but her innocence and naivety were rather silly. Bryce was at times very manly, but at other times he was a cheesy lover boy. The characters were poorly developed. The plot itself was not even close to realistic. Personally, I don't like books that are overly realistic, but it's nice when the book has some reality to it. In here, bounty hunters were made to look like CIA agents. Also, the plot didn't have enough intrigue. Everything came too easy for the characters and there weren't enough setbacks. All in all, I think this novel was pretty boring, but I think that after like 10 years, the author should improve and be good at her craft. But for now, she needs lots, and lots of practice.