I didn't know what to expect from this book when i went into it as the boyfriend rushed the buying decision (by wanting his PC back, pfft). It was available for free on Amazon at the time so I decided to take a chance on it. I'd been reading fairy tale retellings and had linked Captured to Beauty and the Beast in my mind. After having read it, I can say that it's not really Beauty and the Beast, though there are faint resonances. 
 Aria is a human rebel caught by her society's vampire oppressors while saving a young boy. She finds herself up for auction alongside the other human captives and soon becomes a blood slave to the crown price of vampire society. He's nothing like what she expected, though. Rather than playing with her - drinking her blood, using her body, harming her as she'd been led to expect - he's pretty aloof and seems more interested in being her friend than her evil captor. She doesn't know how to react to this. 
 Braith is not like many of his vampire brethren: he doesn't see the interest in subjugating the already defeated humans. When he suddenly regains his sight around a dirty, scraggly human girl, he decides that he needs to get to the bottom of the phenomenon. He never expected her to turn his life upside down, though. 
 Captured is essentially a long prologue to the rest of the series. A fair amount of world building takes place as the reader is introduced to the depravities of vampire society. This said, as most of the book takes place in Braith's apartments I found that a lot of world building is overlooked. Had the PoVs been handled differently, Braith could have been used to better illustrate the world he's living in. Instead, the emphasis of the story is setting the foundations for the building relationship between Aria and Braith. Though well presented, unfortunately this was done to the detriment of the actual story around them. Fans of romance are more likely to enjoy the book as, really, that's what it's all about. 
 Eventually, towards the end of the story, a few plot twists are thrown in to spice things up and change the scenery in anticipation of the sequel. By this time, it was sorely needed. 
 Though I did enjoy the story to a degree, I recognise that it was a guilty pleasure read and it was missing real substance. There's a fair amount of repetition of various points throughout the story, which was starting to frustrate me as I wanted advancement, not dithering about over the same points again and again. Furthermore, on a language use front, there are a fair number of weird mistake peppered throughout the book, and it was would that the grammar rules governing the use of apostrophes are alien to the author. 
 Despite the negative, the positive intrigued me enough to want to continue with the series.