[ SECRET POST #6323 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6323 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

Re: Captive Prince

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like most (not all, but most) of the negative reaction is coming from non-fandom people who are easily horrified by romantic or sexual content that would be bad IRL. Almost all of whom quit after or during book one, and therefore have no idea what they're talking about, despite their intense conviction that they do.

That said, as much as I'm always happy to recommend this series to new readers, I don't know if it's really the best fit if dark kinks are what you're after. Pacat likes playing with power dynamics, which can get a little twisty and dubious in places, but I don't perceive the kinks in her stories to be particularly dark. The circumstances are dark, and sometimes the characters do dark things, but the eroticism isn't violation-based. (I mean, there are a couple of scenes in book one of CaPri which are absolutely violation based, and can definitely be read as erotic if that's what you're into, but it's not the prevailing mode that the story leans into; it's the mode the story climbs up out of.)

Re: Captive Prince

[(Anonymous)]

See, that's what feels so strange about it to me. The premise is very much something I find dark, but then the eroticism doesn't lie there, and the story moves past the initial premise? And the series is romantic? Which gives me pause, since I don't like romantic or fluffy takes on dark kinks. But it's apparently not done in a straightforward "falling in love with abuser/captor" narrative way... I guess I would have to read it to find out how that all fits together, lol.

Re: Captive Prince

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's definitely romantic overall. I wouldn't call it fluffy, personally. True fluff tends to bore me and I def wasn't bored. It's pretty common to hear fans of CaPri say it's a story that defies description, and yeah, it pretty much is.

I don't think there's any way I can clarify any of your quandaries about it without spoiling things, and IMO it's really better to go in without spoilers. Take the ride, you know?

It may also be helpful to know that, despite being sold as a trilogy, it's very much one story broken into three parts. Like, I get why the publishing house wanted it broken into three, but IMO it actually does the story a bit of a disservice to do it that way. It's a single, one-thousand page story where the dynamics and our understanding of them grow and shift over time.

Re: Captive Prince

[(Anonymous)]

SA - Also, for the record, I don't want to, like, oversell what you're getting here. I like it a lot, a lot. But I don't think it's like, omglifechanging. I think the people who are like, "THIS SERIES CHANGED MY LIFE" are mainly younger, and also probably also not fanfic readers. Because I feel like CaPri is good in a really similar way to how very good fanfic is good—except with the added element of original characters and a whole-ass original plot. So if you've been reading fanfic for years and years, it's a lot less likely to blow your mind, than if you're like twenty and have been surviving on bland mainstream romance dynamics.