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Bound by Aveda Vice

9 reviews

bashsbooks's review

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adventurous emotional fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Bound is hot. It's steamy. It has werecreatures and pack dynamics and hate sex, and it's a kinky fucking good time. It's a little novelle to whet your appetite for the main novel, which I will probably read at some point.

What else can I say? It's not that deep. Check the content warnings linked at the front of the book.
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shector1's review

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adventurous fast-paced

4.0

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maybephasing's review

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dark fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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tab_reads's review

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adventurous dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

 
3⭐️ 4🌶️
MOOD: dark, violent, kinky
TROPES: enemies to lovers,  
FAV QUOTE: She needs to be contrary. She needs to make this harder for them.

THE GOOD: What happens when you have a battle-worn harpy, a werelynx, and a werewolverine. No plot, only hate sex vibes. I did like how consent was handled; even with all the hate and violence, the characters did check in. I don’t think a lot of books, let alone 50 page stories, really get the consent part of CNC.
THE NEUTRAL: Hard to start and I’m not sure exactly why. I think it was the sheer amount of characers introduced in the first few pages - and many of them aren’t in the rest of the novella.While I liked the description of the weres being “like shifters lifted on two legs, caught between one phase and the next,” I don’t like the use of were to describe that.
THE MEH: This wasn’t my favorite Aveda Vice but I’m hopeful for Vicious Devotion (and I just started Inextricably Tied)

  CW: violence, blood, bondage, CNC 
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potalian's review

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3.5

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chilivanilli28's review

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dark emotional fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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nicolewhopickedthisbook's review

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dark emotional tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Please check all the triggers and content warnings provided by the author before reading. 

Y’all this is hate fucking at it’s finest 
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ceruleanshelves's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

If you love enemies to lovers, but like real enemies, like sworn mortal enemies, blades (or claws) at throat ready to k*ll each other first chance they get, looks filled with absolute vitriol and hate... look no further. I'm always in awe of Aveda's worldbuilding and imagination and they did not fail to impress again.

This is a short & (not so) sweet prequel for the upcoming full-length and man, am I excited for the follow-up after reading.
It's a bit bloody, very kinky, and hot all the way through.

This left me needing a cigarette and I don't even smoke. Aveda, please, I need the full-length!!!!!!

Check TWs please 
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armontheroad's review

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dark fast-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

I was given an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

If you go into this having read all the Content Warnings/Kinks beforehand, I think this is great monster smut! This short novella is around 50 pages of fun times. I liked the writing and I think the sex scenes were written really well. I cannot tell you how hard I was punching air at the conversations about consent and safewording that happened all throughout the smut scenes. There are a few reasons why I did not give this five stars. For starters, I was absolutely confused by the world-building for the first chunk of the novel. I know lots of people are not going into this for the world building but I was LOST! Secondly, some of these kinks just weren’t my thing. Nothing wrong with that! I just can’t give five stars to something that I am not obsessed with. Last, it gives me major ick when the term ‘assault’ is used during sex scenes in books. It’s just not sexy at all. The term was used twice in this book and it jarred me and took me out of the story each time. I do believe this story, just as any story, has the potential to be triggering to readers so please ensure you are looking at the content information before going into it! I knew all the CWs beforehand and there was still a few lines that made me tense up and need a second. Overall, this was a great read! I cannot wait to read more of Aveda Vice’s stuff!

Topes: Forced marriage of convenience, after-battle adrenaline, enemies who fuck.
Below are the CWs and kinks listed on the website: Death, murder, violence, gore, body horror, cremation, toxic relationships, grief, safewording, monsterfucking, BDSM (especially bondage, domination, sadism, masochism), rough sex, dirty talk, humiliation/degradation, CNC/consensual non-consent, fingering (anal, vaginal), oral sex (anal, penile, vaginal), PIV, overstimulation, blood play, pain play, primal play, cum play, spit play, sharp object play, light breeding kink, creampie, face-stepping, squirting, praise kink, breathplay/choking, slapping, piss kink, special appendages

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