The main character laments on his misfortune of being a sex slave and grandly proclaims his refusal to rape another slave while fondly recalling sex slaves he has 'enjoyed' as a royal.

You're going to have to go well past the midpoint to reach any sort of plot. I'm frankly quite surprised at all of the positive reviews. The narrator is not bad, though I don't necessarily agree wi I could sing praises forever about the book but I suggest people just read it if they're curious enough. The characters make such an incredible journey and they are such wonderful compliments of one another that keep you gripped and, especially in the first book, you wonder how things could possibly be different or change. It certainly isn't a piece for everyone but it is so incredibly satisfying when you read them through and through. Basically, if you managed to watch Game of Thrones, you should be fine here. It does have a lot of content in it that can be difficult to stomach (really only in the first book with slight smatterings in the second and third), but it never glorifies it and it's always presented to be interpreted as negative and as a plot point for future development. It has incredible reread value and where the summaries make it out to be far more scandalous than it actually is, it's an extremely immersive political thriller romance. This is one of my favorite trilogies I've ever come across.

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