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Bind Me by H.M. Slade
Series: Cerberus #2
Publication date: December 2nd, 2024
Pages: 436
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Synopsis:
They betrayed me, and now I'm left in the wake of the destruction.
Cerberus made a promise to save Axton Harbor from the sickness that has corrupted it for far too long. And somehow, I became collateral damage in their quest for justice.
Will the secrets they keep break me, or will the ones I have looked away be the key to unraveling this tangled web?
Joining forces with the men who betrayed me is not on my to-do list. But sometimes, when faced with fighting monsters, you have to make a deal with the devil--or three.
Can I protect my heart, or will it be the final sacrifice for justice?
**Bind Me is a fast-paced, dark and spicy why choose romance with morally grey male leads. Some themes and scenes may be disturbing to readers. Please check the TW's at the beginning of the book. This is book 2 of 3 in the Cerberus series.**
Tropes:
Anti-Heroes/Morally Grey Vigilante MMCs
Why Choose
Kidnapped FMC
Revenge
Masked Men
Touch her and Die
Dirty Talk
Kink friendly
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Review:
Fallon is back with her masked men ready to uncover all the secrets of her father's business that may be an undercover human trafficking operation. There is no end to the enemies that seem to be plaguing her and her three counterparts. From a disgruntled ex-employee to Fallon's creepy COO and straight into more shady men threatening to hurt her. The secrets that they are left to uncover seem to run rampant as Fallon uncovers more and more ties to her family and their evil activities. Will they be able to stop Fallon's father from selling more and more men and women for profit? And when they all find something they had been looking for for years will they no longer have a use for each other?
This book dragged a little for me. I found myself contemplating letting it drop and moving onto another book to potentially go back to it later on. I am not sure what gave me that impulse because when I was actually reading the book I was fully engaged. I think I am struggling to keep all the secrets and good or bad roles straight. One minute a person is good, the next they're evil. The next they're victims, and then they're the perpetrator. Fallon's family are involved, they're not involved. The company being taken over may lead to a different head of the trafficking operation or they may have gotten it right from the start. It just seems to jump all over the place as it starts to attempt to uncover secrets. But none of them are fully exposed which left me feeling incredibly frustrated. Could I just get a few straight answers, please? I just want to have some idea of what is going on and who to trust and who not to. Add to that the fact that there was added tension between characters that didn't actually need to be there. Perhaps later in the story the true reason for that animosity will be revealed but as it sat in this book I could only shake my head and mutter a "why" while I was reading.
It wasn't all bad. I did like the budding relationships forming. They inch had a different type of bond with Fallon and complimented her in different ways. Although Matteo got on my damned nerves all the time. It was like he was programmed to be an asshole and didn't know how to override his system to actually be a pleasant human being to Fallon. I think the only one who didn't push Fallon away at least once or twice was Declan, which is why he steadfastly remains my favorite.
I will have to wait to pass complete judgment on the book series as a whole until more of the plethora of secrets is revealed. As it stands there are far too many secrets and I have no idea how the author is going to tie them all together. As I do have hope for the series, I will be rating the book a mid-score. It was decent but I am hopeful for a little more revelations and a lot less questions circling within my mind in the next and final book in the trilogy.
