Ensnared
- Rita Stradling
- Feb 11, 2017
- 2 min read
Release Date- Dec 1st 2017
New Adult-Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Publisher-Kindle Press
Kindle edition-514 Pages
All Opinions Are My Own
May Contain Spoilers.
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FOUR STARS
A Near Future Retelling of Beauty and the Beast Alainn's father is not a bad man. He’s a genius and an inventor. When he’s hired to create the robot Rose, Alainn knows taking the money is a mistake. Rose acts like a human. She looks exactly like Alainn. But, something in her comes out wrong. To save her father from a five year prison sentence, Alainn takes Rose’s place. She says goodbye to the sun and goes to live in a tower no human is allowed to enter. She becomes the prisoner of a man no human is allowed to see. Believing that a life of servitude lies ahead, Alainn finds a very different fate awaits her in the company of the strange, scarred recluse.
Now out of all the Disney Tales Beauty & The Beast has got to be my all time favourite story, I'm a sucker for the plucky maiden and the misunderstood disfigured hero, so it stands to reason Ensnared and myself would fit together like a cuppa & biccy, a dog & a bone, and it did.
From the moment I started reading I was fascinated by this totally different and somewhat weird retelling of a futuristic beauty & the beast. It shouldn't have worked but it did.I found myself cheering on Alainne as she pretended to be Rose 76GF and I got very caught up in the whole tale.Alainne herself I found to be a very unselfish individual, all she wanted was to help her dad and if that meant putting herself out well, so be it. There was also some past issues that she still has trouble coming to terms with, this gives her a bit of a hero complex as she wants to save everyone, even at the cost of her own safety.Now Lorccan Garbhan, mmm what to make of him as a character, I would say that our Mr Garbhan is quite a strange fella, isolated from society by what i surmise where very paranoid unloving parents, Lorccan has evolved into a eccentric anxious individual, afraid of the outside world, he is also heavily scarred which adds to his apprehension of outsiders. Lorccan Wants a robot to help teach him to interact with others mainly a love interest Shelby who he has only spoke to on the phone.I don't want to give much more away I will just say, that I couldn't help smiling as these two emotionally scarred people fell for each other, It was lovely watching them both discover each other a calm before the storm. there is action, love,drama, psychotic robots and cute robot monkeys.
I would have liked a slightly different ending, not as open-ended, but that in no way takes away from this marvellously inventive tale and is just a personal preference, give this whimsical story a go, you might be pleasantly surprised at how much you enjoy it, I devoured Ensnared in one sitting, it hooked me like a duck.I received a free e-arc of this e-book from NetGalley for a review and this is my own honest opinion.
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