Review: Enjoyable
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2013
I am always on the look out for books that are out of the ordinary and have something different to offer other than the typical bad boy romance. I was immediately intrigued with reading Grave Bound based on the description alone. A young girl trying to escape her caged life and a perverted fiancé in a patriarchal commune had me sold.Emily, the heroine of this story was so full of girl power despite the situation she was living in and I appreciate that in my female leads. Nothing is worse than a whiney, weak girl to drag a book down. With that said I still did feel that her personality was contradictory at times, wanting to leave the commune and get away form her oppressive father one moment and then wanting to stay in the commune and fight the next moment.Levi was very sweet but suffering from what I like to call "knight in shining armor syndrome". Falling so quickly in love with Emily and wanting to do anything he can to protect her was a bit hard for me to connect with. While I enjoyed them both as a couple I would have liked to have seen their relationship develop more slowly to avoid my ever dreaded insta-love.My absolute favorite part of this book was the perverted fiancé Lorenzo. He is perfectly evil and disgusting, the ultimate book villain. I hated everything about him and yet was oddly attracted to him at the same time. As much as I was all for Emily, I still think Lorenzo is what kept me hooked to the story.Well written with interesting characters, Grave Bound definitely delivered in providing that "something different" I like so much. The vile Lorenzo and the intense dramatic cliffhanger of an ending left me ready and wanting to read the next book in the series.