It is either included to demonstrate power, and who thinks he has it, or it is intensely intimate and about so much more than the sex. It was even easier to forget that Prince’s Gambit is a male on male erotic fantasy novel because there is very little sex and none of it is gratuituos. I still have suspicions that refuse to be silenced but they certainly haven’t been answered either. These characters and the situations they find themselves in, or put themselves in as the case may be, are complex they are multi-faceted and hard to get an accurate read on. The characters that we came to know in Captive Prince are all here again and we get to know them a little better, in Laurent’s case only a little bit better.

The company is small and it is soon apparent that it was supposed to self destruct. His personal pleasure slave Damen is with him, riding unchained though still sporting his slave cuffs. The book opens with Prince Laurent riding out to try and avert a battle at the border. I was captivated and am now left wondering how I am going to hold out until the third book is released early next year. It has a different feel, a different pacing and an earth shattering ending.

I found this second book in the trilogy to be completely different. Prince’s Gambit takes us far from the Veretian court and much deeper into the political intrigues at work.

I was left waiting impatiently for the release of Prince’s Gambit to find out where the story would lead us and I’m not sure that was what I expected either.Ĭaptive Prince was all about the decadence and opulence of the Veretian court, with the intrigue of court politics. I went into Captive Prince not quite sure what to expect, and I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.

The prince's gambit