Read as the Aussie Book Club May 2016 book of the month! 
 I'm a little bit meh about this to be honest. 
 My general reaction after finishing: -\_(tsu)_/- 
 I mean, I didn't dislike it, mostly because I had a pretty reasonable idea what to expect going into it. It was described to me as 'the prince porn book', the blurb makes it pretty clear that the main character is sent into sexual slavery (and it's fairly obvious what that entails) and I had been warned that it featured somewhat... shall we say... graphic scenes that edge into darker territory. 
 Unfortunately I also didn't absolutely love it, despite the amount of hype I've seen for this series. It's definitely a book that will not be for everyone, and is deserving of trigger warnings for rape/non-consensual sex, torture scenes, sex slavery and even paedophilia. So not for kiddies, that's for sure. 
 It's also the first time I've really read anything marketed as a M/M explicit (erotic? I dunno) romance story as well, so I guess I don't have much of a reference point to base anything on either (point of note, I've read plenty of books featuring gay relationships but not those that are written from a smuttier/romance standpoint). Not that there was really any 'romance' development in this story. Which was actually refreshing and more plausible than a slave/master relationship going from rape scenes to romance in the space of just 262 pages. So there is that, I guess. 
 However, on the whole it did more or less what I expected, and I was pleasantly surprised that there was a reasonably solid and intriguing story line rather than simply a barrage of bad fanfic style tropes and smutty sex scenes (though I'm led to believe that this comes later?). It's actually a really quick and easy book to read. The thing that really grabbed me was the court intrigue, secret agendas and political games that were being played, as well as the gradually revealed layers to many of the characters. There are a lot of fairly despicable people in this world (I wouldn't even describe the main character as a wholly 'good' person as he also previously had his own slaves prior to becoming one himself), but they make sense within the context of the medieval style setting where things like slavery are commonplace (still abhorrent, but common and expected for a book like this). 
 On the whole this was more intriguing than I expected. It's unlikely to ever be a favourite of mine, but I'm curious to see how things play out in the sequel. 
 The only thing I could have done without was the paedophilia aspect, which personally was just a bit more prevalent (though fortunately not graphic) than I would have liked.