A review by tab_reads
Bound by Aveda Vice

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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