The series has since been expanded to include a series of novels by Sarah Rees Brennan and was nominated for a GLAAD award in 2019. In 2017 she revealed that she was working on a new comic series Fence, about the world of fencing. The series was short-listed for the Sara Douglass Book Series Award, part of the Aurealis Awards. The sequel Prince's Gambit was released in July 2015, and the final novel in the trilogy Kings Rising was released in February 2016. Self-published in February 2013, Captive Prince was then acquired by Penguin Random House, and published commercially in April 2015 in multiple territories. Pacat's first novel Captive Prince began as an online serial of original ' slash' fiction on LiveJournal, where it garnered viral attention. Pacat wrote the Captive Prince trilogy around her day job as a translator while training as a geologist. She lived in several different cities including Perugia where she studied at Perugia University, and Tokyo, where she lived for five years. Pacat was born in Melbourne, Australia, and was educated at the University of Melbourne. Pacat is a bestselling Australian author, best known for the Captive Prince trilogy, published by Penguin Random House in 2015. When the walls went up, it was with Damen inside them.C. Having made the decision to let Damen in, Laurent had not gone back on it. I loved this, and can’t wait to read the other short stories! And of course, all Damen can focus on is that Laurent wasn’t in the proper attire, for it. I wouldn’t mind a short about something between Nikandros and Laurent that was mentioned in this book. It’s an epilogue, but it just leaves me wanting to read more shorts about Damen and Laurent leading their peaceful lives in blissful happiness. This story is sweet, hilarious, and even a little bit sad. There’s a lot of reflection from Damen’s POV about what role they played in each other’s lives from the start of Captive Prince. “The Summer Palace” is really just the loveliest story about Damen and Laurent after the events in Kings Rising. I never did read Drarry fics or read any yaoi manga, so this series was a really intense way to start it all off.

It’s really the series that got me reading m/m novels. I realize that I never did move my Captive Prince reviews over to my blog from Goodreads, but that’s only because there’s really nothing of note in my reviews besides me rambling (more than usual) about my love for the books and the characters.

It’s an epilogue of sorts to the Captive Prince series. Set after the events of the Captive Prince trilogy, The Summer Palace is a story about Damen and Laurent.

“When all this is over, we could take horses and stay a week in the palace…”

Cs pacat the summer palace