Review: Read the First book before this one
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 16, 2014
If you have not read the first book in this series, Captive, you MUST read that before you read Bound.Captive was not a genre I would normally have picked up, but I was gifted the book, and read so many glowing 5 star reviews that I gave it a chance. It drew me in and I was captured. I also gave it a 5 star review.The story was intense and I loved the writing and the characters. So when I was given the opportunity to read and review Bound, I was very much looking forward to this.I knew Bound was shorter than Captive, but I did not know I would read it in one sitting.For the first half of the book I did NOT like Tori at all. She had been so strong and was showing so much promise, and then she throws it all away, in my opinion. I knew she had a tough road ahead of her.I knew it would not be simple and without back sliding, but I thought she quit too easily and made too many wrong decisions. Yes, she felt betrayed and her feelings were hurt, but she had spent so many years doing whatever needed to be done to survive, I expected more of her.The story in Bound is good - it was Tori I was disappointed with.Then she began to show her true strength again, and she showed growth as a character.As things began to fall into place for Tori and she began to understand how life COULD be, even if she knows she will always have to fight for her chances, those who are supposed to be on her side show whose side they are really on. There is a lot of pain and deception in this novella.As the book ends, once again Tori is doing whatever she has to do to survive.It ends on a major cliffhanger.Of course I will continue to read this series!