Take Unchained (Men In Chains, #3) Edited By Caris Roane Depicted In Digital Copy

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I'm on a roll with this Men in Chains series by Caris Roane so I figured I continue on when I received this book which is Bookin the series.
I did not finish BooksitelinkChains of Darkness but it didn't really seem to matter too much,

Shayna was an okay heroine, She's a graduate student in Seattle, going about her daily life when a stranger stops her outside her apartment building and changes her worldview.
I think she was supposed to be likable because she was a fish out of water in this vampire world and I think we were supposed to feel like she did.
But I didn't like her for probably at least half of the book, though because I thought she seemed very selfish.
The vampires need her help because she has some kind of latent abilities and they think she can help locate a device that could destroy the vampire world and then eventually the human world.
The man who wants to do the destroying is a major player in the human trafficking and sex slave business.
When Marius, a vampire, shows her the HUMAN women who are abducted and then tortured and forced into sex slavery, she was still mostly concerned with getting back to Seattle.
. . to continue on with her education, I mean, I can see how maybe taking care of a sick parent or being the guardian to a young sibling would make a person hesitate if someone were to ask for help in saving lives.
. . saving worlds. But a degree And of all things, a degree in cultural anthropology! I mean, it's not like she was going to cure cancer! In addition to her hesitation, she was also REALLY hung up on a relationship that ended over a year ago and that only lasted six months! I understand that she was traumatized by something he did in the bedroom, I totally get it.
But why then was she not more moved by the plight of the women that she saw who were bound, tortured and/or raped right in front of her! Obviously, she eventually agrees to help but after all that, I just didn't care and I definitely didn't like her.


Marius was a little better than Shayna, At least he seemed to have his priorities a little more straight, He was strong and handsome and everything great, He cared for Shayna and regretted that he had to take her away from Seattle before she could actually think it over or agree.
He felt like he had taken away her right to choose for herself and he hated that, I really liked that he felt so adamant

about it, But then, he never really let it go, Sure, Shayna never made it easy for him to let it go but his guilt was so oppressive that it was just really depressing.
In fact, I'm trying to think of some other aspects to his character that I really liked and I can't pluck anything out of my brain that isn't a spoiler or something about him feeling so damned guilty.
Guilt for what happened before he was imprisoned by his father, guilt for taking Shayna, guilt, guilt, guilt, It was a little too much for me,

Eventually, Shayna and Marius were a pretty decent couple, They were definitely very hot in the Sexy Time area, for sure, One thing that I saw that I thought was pretty cool, if sad, was that they had this one significant thing in common: They both have extremely negative self images/self esteem.
Shayna's problem is due to that six month relationship, where the guy belittled her and criticized her, He did it often enough that she started believing some of what he said, without realizing that she was believing it.
Does that make sense Because I thought it was brilliant, And Marius's issue is because of his past deeds, which I don't really want to say anything about in case its a spoiler.
. . sorry! But both Shayna and Marius manifest that negativity by subconsciously blocking their inherent powers, or their specialness in Shayna's case.
Which is sort of doubly weird because they each ARE special and have unique powers but those powers never emerged clearly because of the self doubt!! I mean, talk about a vicious circle!

This wasn't a bad book but I'm on the fence about whether or not I'd recommend it.
I didn't really have issues with the story but I just couldn't get over my problems with Shayna, No matter what good deeds she did later in the book, nothing ever made up for her selfish behavior at the start.
And I think it pretty much ruined the book for me, Also, I feel like the writing style is a little strange, I haven't been able to put my finger on it and really, I still can't quite pinpoint what I mean.
The best way I can describe it is that the characters maybe say some things that people just wouldn't normally say.
And they say them in a way that people wouldn't normally say them, Maybe like they were overly poetic Like, there were A LOT of times that it felt like they were making these grand declarations super dramatic and it just sounded/read very strange.
And they said things that didn't need to be said, Restating things over and over again, Like I said, I can't put my finger on it and I had felt this a little in the previous books but it was much more noticeable here.
It's entirely possible that my dislike of the heroine had a part in noticing it but I'm not sure.
I guess if you've enjoyed this series up to this point, you'll like this book just as much, But I would not recommend starting this series here, Marius Briggs was the last of Daniel's three imprisoned sons to escape he still isn't free from the feeling of guilt and sense of responsibility that he's carried with him far longer than the year he spent in the hellhole where he and his brothers were tortured incessantly.
Now, he's trying to focus his energy on putting an end to his father and everything that he stands for plus finding yet another extinction weapon that Daniel is after.
The thing is, in order to track the extinction weapon, he's going to need the help of a human.


Shayna Prentiss is getting read to head over to Malaysia as part of her anthropological studies, but when a vampire abducts her and takes her back to his world to help him on his mission that will save not just vampires but humans as well, Shayna's plans change.
Her curious nature sees how fascinating the world of vampires is but her curiosity appears to be most piqued by the one she's now bound to with blood chains.
The anthropologist in her can't fully comprehend what it is that's going on between the two of them,

Like his brothers Adrien and Lucian and their tracking, and now lifetime, partners, Lily and Claire, Marius and Shayna experience the bond between them because of the blood chains, except that theirs appears to be on a higher and more powerful plane.
With their powers and feelings even more magnified, Marius and Shayna need to work together to figure out what Daniel's endgame really is and if they're prepared to risk everything to finally put a stop to the greatest threat that both their worlds will ever have to face.


Unchained is the third novel in the Men in Chains series by bestselling author Caris Roane.
I'm not sure if this is the final book in the series since all three Briggs brothers now have their stories told.
I would be interested to read stories on the supporting characters that were featured in all three main novels, but am still satisfied if this is truly the end for the series.
I enjoyed reading about Marius and Shayna, especially since it appears that their particular combination was much more potent compared to the first two.


I'm going to honest and say that Shayna was not my favorite heroine and that I found her chemistry with Marius a bit lacking at times.
Of course, Lily and Claire and even Angelica from the novella compilation set the bar high, and while Shayna did shine a great deal, it still took me awhile to warm up to her.
Marius, on the other hand, was a strong but sensitive hero, someone who loved his brothers unconditionally and had unbelievable potential to be greater than he thought possible if he would only see himself as worthy.


I truly did enjoy reading the four books in the Men in Chains series and devoured them in less than two days.
The books were highly addictive and now I feel myself going through yet another series hangover, something that only happens when I've fallen in love with an entire series instead of just one particular book.
If you're looking for paranormal romance books that take the stories and characters up a few notches, I recommend you check out this series.
Four for Unchained and,for the series!.