Lily Crozier

That's still kind of, I mean, I don't know how it was kind of back when Captive Prince was originally published.

I think pretty sure there is like a trigger warning in the author's note at the beginning.

Yeah, because I can imagine that a lot of people kind of picked it up thinking it was going to be one thing and then maybe were surprised by what kind of themes and the story that it was actually dealing with.

So maybe they were taken aback.

That's so interesting that you said that because that was kind of where my mind was going as well in terms of like dark romance now, how it's boomed so much.

And I know you said before that Captive Prince kind of really was ahead of its time.

And it has, yeah, it does have like a lot of dark themes.

I've read a lot of books that are being published recently that are quite dark.

And when we're talking about like power, like the conversation that I've heard a lot is that like oftentimes people

And oftentimes it's a female reader who's reading dark romance, not always, but often.

And there's kind of this thing about like the power imbalance that I've heard like people say that it feels safe to explore that in fiction, but not like in real life.

Like it kind of makes them feel more in control like in real life.

I don't know if that's fair to say.

Yeah, I think so.

I don't think you get a Laurent perspective until is it the end of book one or I think it's the end of book two actually.

I think it's the start of book three.

Oh.

Yeah.

Okay, yeah.

Really long time.