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Bound To Please (2010)

by Kimberly Gardner(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

MLP Press

series

Playing for Keeps

review 1: Sweet story about 3 guys who are all necessary to the relationshipWarning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS. Rating: 7/10PROS: - The 3 main characters complement each other well. This is a threesome relationship in which I really feel that each of the guys is necessary--there aren’t two main guys with one who’s a third wheel emotionally. Naturally, each of them FEELS at one point or another as though he’s a third wheel, but those feelings simply lead to a healthy amount of angst (without going overboard, in my opinion).- Most of the sex scenes are well done, and some of them are pretty dang hot.- There’s a decent amount of drama in the story--miscommunication, struggles to understand other characters and/or oneself, ugly experiences from... more the past, etc.--but for whatever reason, I didn’t feel while reading the book that there was TOO much drama. I guess it’s not terribly realistic, but it didn’t strike me as melodramatic, either.- Gardner has a writing style that flows well and is easy to read quickly. I breezed through this book, not because it’s a heart-pounding page-turner all the way through, but because the writing is well-paced and for the most part, clean.CONS:- The relationships moved maybe a little bit too fast for me. For example, Rain refers to Jason as “Master” pretty much right from the start, before they’ve established much of an emotional connection, and it isn’t much later before Rain says that he wants to devote himself to Jason as his slave.- I found the ending just a little disappointing. I liked the way the story ends with the three main guys, but there’s no final sex scene once they’ve reconciled and we see them all happy and living together (there’s no sex scene for the last 90 pages of the book, in fact). In addition, several secondary characters’ stories are left unresolved. Maybe Gardner’s planning on sequels, though.- This has little to do with the story itself, but it should be said: the blurb on the back cover of the book doesn’t capture the true essence of the plot--not to mention the fact that it doesn’t even MENTION Rain--and the author’s last name is misspelled on the book’s spine. As typos go, that one’s bad.Overall comments: In case you’re thinking that this book is about a couple after reading the publisher’s blurb…it’s not. This book is about a threesome. The BDSM element is not as heavy or as pervasive as I thought it would be (not really a complaint; just a fact). Still, I thought it was an enjoyable read, and Gardner has an easy-flowing writing style that’s not amazing but is conducive to fast reading.
review 2: 1 star and a half. (because the cover looks sexy.)Ok, I began reading this because I was really curious how the menage was going to play with a dude who wasn't into Submission.The beginning was good even thought some parts were overdone, like the attraction Benny felt for Mario, then all flows easily until the scene when the first threesome happens, the video was almost overlooked, i would have liked it if it had played more in the scene, but it was ok.Then we move on and little by little all begins to fall apart, Characters begin to act too dramatically and too many plots are put on game, plots we don't actually see the resolution of, but it was still bearable.When the story moves just after the the gallery exposition it turns in to a dramafest, everything is drama, drama and more drama, specially from Rain and Benny, Rain, from being the character i liked the most in the beginning turns into the character i hated most in the end, and what's up with the setup? Rain is the Sub be in all the scenes involving him and Benny, he's always the dominant and the one doing the fucking, the only time when Benny fucks Rain was faded to black, and Dear lord, the scene with Rain's "manager" was wrong, i mean is a private club isn't there security? why the hell didn't they helped Jason and why the hell did they let the bad dude run away?, and the actions of both Rain and Benny are Harlequin worthy, I did skip pages due to all the drama which was over the top.and What I hated the most is the quantity of unanswered questions/plots left in the air, what happened with Shanon's ex-boyfriend?, What was the true reason behind Mario closing his dungeon/club? Did Adam and his boyfriend resolved their issues regarding the house?And the thing that drive me to read this book wasn't handled in the way I was expecting, if you ask me hierarchically was Jason/Rain/Benny, I was expecting something different, but the author took the easy way, in the end Benny was treated like a sub, the only difference between him and Rain was that Rain was a "pain-slut" as he and Jason denominate him and Benny wasn't, it wasn't at all what I was expecting. less

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