I'm rating this series at 3 stars for the moment. It would probably be 4 if each book didn't end with the dreaded words 'to be continued'.

Told purely from Jonas' pov there are times when I just wanted to slap him upside the head. But the tale is engaging and Noel and Jonas are sweet together.


There are some editing issues, mostly for wrong word usage (peak instead of peek, due instead of do).

I want Grant to get his HEA, btw.

I'm enjoying the story but it is more serial than connected novellas. Each story ends with more questions than answers.

Bearing in mind there was a 4 year wait between the first and second books, that style of publishing isn't doing this story any favours.

I want to recommend it but I can't while the story is so unfinished and with no end in sight.

Jonas was conned into becoming a sex slave, but he found himself warming Prince Noel's bed exclusively. He's happy enough with what turned out to be an okay life, although the problems with being owned by the man he's falling in love with do keep cropping up. Worse than that, though, is the secrets Jonas is keeping from Noel, secrets, it turns out, that aren't as dire as the ones Noel has been keeping from Jonas.

I figured out how to read this series without automatically being disappointed. If I mentally force myself to see the stories in this series as individual chapters in a serial-style release, I can forget the fact that there isn't a defined beginning, middle, or end to either book in this series. This story starts soon after the cliffhanger from the previous book and ends a few chapters later at a cliffhanger that will no doubt be picked up in the next book.

All the character building occurred in the first book of the serial, which left Into the Passageways to really begin focusing on the plot. The introduction to the political intrigue was clumsy, but enjoyable, and I liked reading about how Jonas is slowly figuring out how to navigate in the world of princes and kings when he's wearing the sash of a slave. However, the theme to this series is definitely providing a jarring ending. Just as the plot really begins to take off with all the twists and turns growing into the climax of the story, the book ends. As a serial-style book, the cliffhanger works as it forces me to click the link that will bring me to the next part, however as a proper book it really, really does not work at all.