Swallow it Down by Addison Cain
I’ve seen the way he looks at me.
The Captain. The unquestioned leader of this ship.
A ship I wish to be free of. A man I want to be as far away from as my legs might carry me.
The society he’s designed, the rules, the endless battle of wills…
Yes, I’ve seen the way he looks at me.
I’ve felt his fingertips brush my skin. Heard his laugh. Experienced his smile.
One that’s only for me, and only in secret.
And I know what he wants.
He told me himself that everyone has to pay; that all who survived the fall of civilization were culpable. That’s how he justifies the decisions he’s made, the necessary evils he allows to take place on this ship… all in the name of a greater good.
And it’s why I resist the starved way his gaze drinks me down. Why I can’t be had at any price.
SWALLOW IT DOWN is an angst-ridden, enemies to lovers romance, boasting a strong female lead and a swoon worthy hero. This standalone features an HEA that will keep you turning the page all night.
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- Original Title:Swallow it Down
- Creator:Addison Cain
- Language:en
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- Date:2020-08-11T18:30:00+00:00
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Table of Content
- 1. Swallow it Down
- 2. Chapter One
- 3. Chapter Two
- 4. Chapter Three
- 5. Chapter Four
- 6. Chapter Five
- 7. Chapter Six
- 8. Chapter Seven
- 9. Chapter Eight
- 10. Chapter Nine
- 11. Chapter Ten
- 12. Chapter Eleven
- 13. Chapter Twelve
- 14. Chapter Thirteen
- 15. Chapter Fourteen
- 16. Chapter Fifteen
- 17. Chapter Sixteen
- 18. Chapter Seventeen
- 19. Chapter Eighteen
- 20. Chapter Nineteen
- 21. Chapter Twenty
- 22. FREE BOOK! BORN TO BE BOUND
- 23. Addison Cain
Definitely, reading causes different reactions in people, depending on who each reader is. To me, none of the qualities of the lovesick Captain could offer redemption for his character. The truth is, I felt a lot of wrath and powerlessness. Perhaps, because impotence is the fuel for my wrath in real life too, knowing that I live in an environment that is easy to manipulate and implicitly submissive for daily survival. I suppose that this wrath is one of the borders that separates the survivors from those who quickly exploit themselves, mowed down by anger and the inability to live in submission. Not all of us have this capacity within us, although we all like to think that we would survive in an A..., B... or C... event. I think I am a very strong person, but I also know that the concept of strength is very subjective, just as subjective as the discussion about suicidal capacity... Is it for the strong or the weak? The ability to voluntarily reject your own existence is NOT, in my opinion, for the weak. I think I recognize in this book many similarities with the other stories by this author, in terms of the survival of a woman subjugated and chained by an obsessed man. There was no surprise in this regard. The only change has been the slightly more visible effort to "deck out" the hero with more redeeming and attractive traits. In my case it didn't work...
Dark delicious and twisted. Walking Dead on steroids. A romance with a Negan known by another name. I fell down the rabbit hole and could not stop reading until the end. I throughly enjoyed this story.
This didn’t feel like a complete story. The ending felt rushed. It was full of errors that made it hard to read. Also it felt a bit.. flat. I’m Addison said she wrote this in 3 weeks and it reads as so. I wasn’t about to pay for it.
This is a fantastic story! If the commenter that was upset had stuck with the book she would have found out that there was a reason for her reluctance. I've read it 4 times and am now going to go buy it because the author deserves money for this book.
I read the Born trilogy and was very disappointed with all three books. I would tell anyone considering reading the series to know there is no happy ending and ends in a cliffhanger with no mention of a continuation.
The author does have a creative mind for the unusual so I thought I'd try this book and see if I'd continue further reading her work. I definitely will not. I could only manage reading half of the story before I simply had to dismiss it.
The heroine, Eugenia, is an unbelievably naive and irritating character given the circumstances she finds herself in. She really is in a situation that certainly isn't what most people would choose but.....with the world having been mostly destroyed, she is still in a much better situation than if she were not on the boat.
She has shelter, food, clothing, and a chance to live. If not on the boat, she'd surely die. But rather than be grateful, she bellows with anger and has a relentless sanctimonious attitude toward everyone.
I get that she doesn't want to give in to the idea of being a sex toy but seriously.... She doesn't have much choice. I absolutely do not condone any measure of sexual slavery or abuse to women, however, this is fiction and it just seems to me, any woman in her right mind would understand the gravity of her situation and learn to choose her battles. Live and have meaningless sex or be thrown off the boat and die.
Also, it's not like the women on the boat would be gang-raped. They actually were in a controlled environment. It's just s.e.x. I'd rather give in than know the alternative was death but, hey, that's just me.
This book is a remainder of our society, how woman are treated like an object, for sexual pleasure, free laibor. Society should change.
L Davis lol your comment made me laugh..... that's all I really wanted to know as well was the good book or not lol.
Oh stop. Was it good or not?