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Title: Bound to Him

Author: Ava March

Narrator: David Thorpe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

Publisher's Summary:

Lord Vincent Prescot's life couldn't be better. Thriving investments, well-respected by his peers, and mind blowing sex with a man who submits to his every desire - what more could he want?

Lord Oliver Marsden should be more than happy with his life. He's been in love with Vincent for over a decade, and six months ago the impossible happened and they became lovers. But since then, nothing has changed. More specifically, Vincent hasn't changed. Oliver has tried to be patient - it took a lot for Vincent to accept the fact he preferred men. But what felt like a tiny distance between them six months ago now feels like an ever-widening chasm. Why can't Vincent stay the night? Is it too much to ask for Vincent to call him Oliver and not Marsden? He knows Vincent cares for him, but does Vincent love him?

Then Vincent's father asks him for a favor - one that involves marriage. If Vincent agrees, he'll have the respect he's craved from his father his entire life, but he could lose Oliver. Nor does Oliver make the decision easy. To keep Oliver, he'll have to do more than deny his father. He'll have to give Oliver his heart.

Publisher's note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some listeners may find objectionable: domination/submission, male/male sexual practices.

Members Reviews:

More angsty than the first story, but it does have a good ending

Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.

Rating: 8/10

PROS:

- This story is a nice progression from the one before it (Bound by Deception). The characters' personalities are consistent between stories but have evolved as a result of their relationship, and Oliver and Vincent struggle with the sorts of problems I would expect to have arisen in the past 6 months since they first got together.

- Oliver's situation is quite sad. He's in love with a man (a hanging offense), he's almost destitute (for a gentleman, anyway), he's the son of a man with a terrible reputation for excessive gambling, and Vincent treats him with very little emotional affection the majority of the time. Yet he doesn't allow himself to wallow in self-pity, and I like that about him.

- The sex scenes are hot, with a touch of BDSM. It's interesting reading about sex toys from 1830s England. I don't have any idea whether they're realistic or not, but I'm sure the author did some research before including them.

- I liked the ending quite a bit. It mentions the *possibility* of unhappiness in the future, but given the time frame of the story, it's as happy as it can realistically be.

CONS:

- Much of the story is sad in a hopeless, "I'll never have what I want from life" sort of way. (Once again, though, happy ending...)

- I got super annoyed with Vincent's treatment of Oliver and with the fact that Oliver puts up with it for so long. Vincent treats Oliver basically like a prostitute for the majority of the story: he uses Oliver for sex and then leaves so he can get back to his uber-important, aristocratic life. He insults Oliver over and over again, and Oliver is so whipped that he simply takes it.