The Captive Series (Book Three)

Refugee

Rating

3 stars +

Date Read

3/6/15 - 6/6/15

Age Group

14+

Summary/ General Thoughts

Omg. The ending was just.... Wow. OK. Didn't expect that.

Aria and Braith and William and Ashby go into a search for powerful exiled vampire aristocrats to form alliances with for the upcoming war.

After a few boring chapters in the Barrens - something of a desert in the dystopian world, a place that civilisation has abandoned - we finally get to meet Gideon, an eccentric used-to-be noble that, after being exiled for having teamed up with the losing side (aka the him race) found shelter in these lands and created a city where vampires and humans lived together, unafraid.


Yeah, he sounds saintly. He's not. But he's not bad either. After rallying him and a few other aristocrats in similar conditions to their cause up, the protagonists move back into the forest to find David and whatever troops he managed to gather.

All through that, the bond between Aria and Braith is strongest than ever, which leads Aria to the shocking realisation that there are no boundaries he wouldn't cross to ensure her safety. And their relationship, or better yet her mortality, will be the end of him.

So what does she decide? What every seventeen-year-old, forest-raised, martyr-wannabe, righteous and selfless girl would decide. When this is all over... there can be no "them". He has to rule. And she has to die (hopefully after living out her human life).

(Full summary here.)

XOXO

Aggie Pearson