Reviewed by Donna

TITLE: Bonded 2

SERIES: Bound in Love #2

AUTHOR: Sara York

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 194 Pages

BLURB:

Liam Muller’s passion for life, mixed with his abusive past created more problems than Greg Peterson could handle on his own. When the pair meet Chris Edwards, everything changes. Both Greg and Chris keep Liam even, but when Liam’s parents plot his kidnapping, Chris and Greg can do nothing to keep him safe without the help of Chris’s new friend, Agent Samuel Graves.

Samuel is all about the job, but he craves a connection like Liam, Chris, and Greg have. When Sam meets Hudson Radcliff, he’s thrown off balance with attraction. His normally cool demeanor is set aflame with lust and need. Hudson and Sam burn for each other, but their passion is tested when everyone is put in danger.

Chris, and Greg fight Liam’s demons after they are reunited, but Liam’s parents won’t give up without a fight. Three men together may challenge people, but Liam, Chris, and Greg will fight to the end for their love.

REVIEW:

When I read the blurb for this book, I knew I recognized those characters from somewhere, so I looked up Bonded (#1) and discovered that I had in fact read the story last year. It was one of the M/M Romance Goodreads group’s 2014 Love’s Landscapes stories. It can be downloaded for free from Amazon here. I would really recommend that you read the freebie first, and well, why wouldn’t you? Free…

Liam Muller has some serious issues, issues that can be traced back to his crazy-assed homophobic parents. If not for the intervention of his first love, Greg, he would likely have ended up dead a long time ago and now that the two men have added Chris to their relationship (first story) he feels better about himself than he ever has before. So of course, his parents have to go and fuck it all up for him. They’ve decided that Liam needs some pray the gay away therapy to save him from his life of sin, and they aren’t willing to take no for an answer. Enter, Agent Samuel Graves – FBI.

This story is in some ways quite similar to another book I reviewed a couple of weeks ago. The plot is entirely different, aside from the fact that both had a BDSM element, but both books followed the romance of more than one couple (or threesome) and both books seemed to have a very high sex to plot ratio. But for some reason, while that other story didn’t really work for me, I thoroughly enjoyed this offering from Sara York. And I think the main reason for that, is what was going on in the story while the characters weren’t having sex. I found the plot here was interesting and more eventful than the characters simply interacting with each other. I think if the moments of plot development are going to be mere flashes between bouts of sex (hot sex, mind you) then you have to make them count. Which, in my opinion, is what the author did here.

It also doesn’t hurt that I’m a slave to a good ménage, and I found this one to be of particular interest. This is the first ménage that I’ve read where two of the men actually marry each other and then have a commitment ceremony to include the third. If you asked my view on that before I’d read this then I wouldn’t have hesitated to say that I hate the thought of it. But I absolutely loved that the author sold me on the idea and made it work. One of the things I appreciate most about a book is having the author change my opinion on something, because I can assure you – I am very opinionated and I am extremely stubborn.

The ending felt a little anti climatic but overall I very much enjoyed this book. I hope that this isn’t the end of this series, because I think Sam and Hudson still have so much kink and love to share before their story is finished.

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