Review: Great Plot, Romance, and Sensuality in This Erotica Novel
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2014
K.M. Liss’s “Tied and Bound” is a romantic and suspenseful erotica novel filled with great characters and sizzling sex. Chloe Redmond has left her life in London behind after she catches her boyfriend of four years, Julian, cheating with her best friend—now Chloe is throwing herself into her catering business and trying to heal her broken heart. When she meets the wildly sexy Max at a birthday dinner she’s catering, the attraction is instant—and she thinks he might be the one to make her feel less empty.However, Max has secrets of his own involving the volatile, possessive woman who employs him—and with Julian trying to enter her life again and her introduction to the womanizing Martyn, with whom she feels a connection and attraction, Chloe suddenly has more hard choices than she knows what to do with.A lot of romances are formulaic, but that was certainly not the case with “Tied and Bound”—it kept me entertained till the end. The author does an excellent job of writing Julian, Max, and Marty as characters, so there were times when even I as the reader couldn’t decide who I wanted Chloe to end up with. Chloe herself is also an appealing character—she’s vulnerable but still strong, and capable enough to be on her own even though she’s longing for love (in other words, she’s no clinging vine). Another part of this novel I appreciated was the author’s attention to detail, where it was Chloe’s pink-filled home or Helen’s gracious mansion; it really brings the scenes alive and creates a strong sense of atmosphere and place. And finally, you can’t review an erotica without mentioning the love scenes—and this book has an abundance of them, all sensual and intense. Highly recommended to readers of erotica who like well-written plot and characterization in their novels.