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Page count: 203
This is an advance reader copy given to me by the author for an honest review. As with all of my review, these are my own opinions.
Basic Plot:
Liam flies home to Mississippi to go to his grandmother’s funeral, only to have his parents commit him against his will for gay conversion. Liam’s partners rush to his rescue bringing in their FBI from Sam Graves.
How will they save Liam and shut down this conversion operation and save others as Sam finds his own love.
Relationship:
This book is really a set of two relationships all revolving around the kidnapping of Liam. This is book two in the Bound in Love series. The relationship of Liam, Chris, and Greg is developed in book one, so don’t expect a lot of relationship development here. What we get in this book for development lies within how Greg and Chris physically and emotionally support Liam through the legal processes.
While this plot continues on, we also get a new relationship flourish with Sam and Hudson. There is a little mystery behind their relationship that should not be spoiled here. We do get to see the beginning of a BDSM relationship here.
Strong Points:
- Drama: We got to see a lot of exciting drama in a short book of 203 pages. There is a ton of sex and a lot of external conflict to keep the pace fast.
What Could be Better:
- Too Much Sex: This is a short book at 203 pages. So to have so many sex scenes in BOTH sets of relationships made me start skimming.
- Too Many Relationships: This goes with the “Too Much Sex”. This felt like at the end of the first book the author had just a bit of relationship development to go, so York added the secondary relationship as filler. So I had no committment to Sam and Hudson’s relationship.
- Too Fast into BDSM: I know that in the gay leather community, sex and relationships can move very quickly, so to some degree Sam and Hudson was very believable. But the Sounding that quickly in a relationship? As far as we know, they have not played together, they have no mutual friends within the community to vouch. That does not seem very safe or sane to me.
- Does this really happen, even in the south? Listen, I understand that gay conversion is a thing, and I can agree that living in the south gay bashing and religious persecution happens. But I doubt that ADULTS are committed that quickly with the AID of police officers and an entire division. It was laughable and an insult to southerners to stereotype them like this. If the author wanted to talk about this very real gay conversion issue, then they should have made it more realistic.
Conclusions:
We had the happy ever after that I wanted when I started to work. Getting to see Liam, Chris, and Greg again was great. But I would have really rather have spent some time learning about Sam and Hudson if they were going to be characters I was supposed to care about.
But this book felt more like a gay soap-opera rather than any hard-hitting crime drama. So, if you are interested in shallow sex and action with a happy ending, then this is for you.
Bea
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