CAPTIVE TRUTH by Karen Stary

CAPTIVE TRUTH

KAREN STARY

CAN'T PUT IT DOWN BOOKS

APRIL 11TH 2019

SYNOPSIS:

A mercenary, a gambler, and a warlord are drawn together for a high stakes poker game. The trophy: a woman, Christine. They are men of unquestionable wealth, indomitable power, and overwhelming guilt; each is enchanted by Christine’s alluring beauty and each relentlessly desires to have her for himself. 

Life has left Christine unable to form meaningful emotional relationships. However, without the ability to appeal emotionally to her male captors she is not only jeopardizing her own fate, but also the fate of other women as well. Alone, with only the three men who have come to mean so much to her, Christine must use not only her wits but her compassion to extricate herself. Will she become one man’s prized possession, or can she regain her sense of self?

Stary’s complex plot keeps the reader guessing as she explores some of today’s most controversial issues for women.

THOUGHTS/REVIEW:

I enjoyed this beautifully written book - the prose and imagery that Stary writes is just brilliant! I read this book in one afternoon because the book is literally unputdownable. I enjoyed the poker reference as the overall theme of the story with the book chapters being divided, beginning with the Deal, the Flop, the Turn, the River and finally the Showdown. What a crazy ride this story was with brilliant plot and an ending that really surprised me. I also enjoyed how Stary was able to immerse the the readers and are transported into these characters' most inner thoughts. You really get to know the character well. The dialogue was superb and the pacing of the story was quick and kept my interest and me turning those pages as more characters and plot is introduced. 

It was a beautiful story told overall on how our childhood issues affect and carry on through our relationships into our adulthood. I loved the overall themes that addressed the main characters' life long friendship, love and acceptance. I enjoyed this for the romance, the thrill and suspense.

I do want to caution the readers with trigger warning: Rape and child abuse.

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT:

Author Karen Stary is a resident of San Diego, California, and a native of New Jersey who spent her summers on the Jersey Shore. She writes about the fragile relationships between women and men in today’s world. Stary asserts that women have yet to realize their true potential: to achieve something greater than any woman who came before them.