Release Date: March 14, 2016
Length: Novel (250 pages)
Genre: BDSM M/M Romance
Cover Art: Paul Richmond
Links: Dreamspinner Press Amazon Goodreads
Blurb: Tek Cain & Jamie Ryan work at the Guards of Folsom BDSM club. After two years on the run from their old motorcycle club and the Feds, Tek & Jamie are finally able to relax and enjoy their new life in New York City. But the past won’t stay buried, and when the MC resurfaces, it’s Jamie who pays the price. Tek and the rest of the members at the Guards of Folsom must work together to get back one of their own.
In this, the final installment in the Guards of Folsom series, everyone must come together, bound as one in their quest to find Jamie and bring him home once and for all.
Review:
3.5 Hearts rounded up because the series as a whole is outstanding. While this book isn’t nearly the strongest in the series (Pup, anyone?), it is in many ways a fitting the end. Before I go any further, Bound is NOT in any way a stand-alone story. If you haven’t read the rest of the series, especially Roped, do yourself a favor and go back to the beginning before you try and tackle this one. I promise you won’t regret it.
I love all of the Guards of Folsom characters and it was wonderful to catch up with everyone, but I wish the check-ins with everyone had been integrated into the Tek/Jamie storyline rather than the individual snippets. While we are on the subject of the characters, the subs from the previous books get short shrift here. They all could have been given more substantive contributions to both Jamie’s rescue and recovery. For example, Mason would have been the perfect person to help Tek/Jamie after their anxiety/ panic attacks. I know Max is a shrink and all, but still.
Bound is framed in the blurb to be the story of Jamie’s kidnapping, but it isn’t. Not really. It’s more the story of Jamie and Tek’s recovery from the kidnapping and that’s not a bad thing, just not what I unexpected. As in Roped, Tek’s journal entries killed me dead. The love, devotion, and heartbreak were manifest in every entry, but it was Jamie’s final contribution to the journal that closed the book on Tek and Jamie for me. I’d have been happy if the story had ended right there. The rest was unnecessary.
I lived each and every one of the events written here, but to read about my life through your eyes was the greatest gift I’ve ever been given. Each time I read it, I would come to this blank page and it mocked me, the story unfinished. But perhaps that was the point. Our story didn’t end the day you gave me your journal. It was simply yet to be written.
The BDSM in this one is pretty superfluous and unlike the other couples, Tek and Jamie have never lived the lifestyle 24/7. Their rope bondage kink is actually off the table for most of the story. I honestly think Tek could have used an extended period in submission where he could learn to lay down his burdens and responsibilities for a little while. I have to admit that the sex got a little repetitive by the end, but it was still pretty hot.
Jo Peterson is a talented writer and a master storyteller. Those skills are laid plain on each and every page of all five stories in the series. A fitting end to a phenomenal series.
The cover is excellent as are all the covers in the series. Clean and simple with an urban feel that is evocative of the story and definitely a Cover Love.
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