Review: Contract Bound by Elle Mae
Massive thank you to Victory Editing and NetGalley for providing me with a free ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Supernatural lesbian enemies to lovers. Honesty that was the only reason I needed to pick up this book up and I’m really glad I did! It follows Silvia, a vampire hunter, and Keir, the heir to the vampire throne.
I want to start off by saying I absolutely adore the character of Keir, they ooze confidence, sass and sex appeal. Now getting into the actual book... I was hooked from the very first page of this book and could not put it down, it's fairly long and I read it in 24 hours. I will admit the start of the book is kind of rocky - there are a fair few grammatical errors (which is to be expected with an arc, however, it does still impact on the reading experience), but once you're past the first 100 pages - god does it pick up! I'd say the plot is predominantly romance based and it includes a lot of erotic scenes (quite early on as well might I add), so if that isn't your jam then this book might not be for you.
Unfortunately, this is definitely a 3 star read, for me there wasn't an awful lot of world building, so at times it felt like you were in an underdeveloped world, as you never actually got to properly understand the history of the vampirism, or anything remotely outside of the direct plot. Another let down for me was the "plot twist", I saw some other reviews raving about the plot twist (not going to state what it was, for obvious reasons), but I was really disappointed by it. I found it to be too predictable and very underwhelming - I felt like 'oh, that's it?'.
Nevertheless, this was a super fun & quick read! I would definitely recommend to any fantasy romance/paranormal romance fans (especially fans of books such as twilight but just wished there was more smut!!)
Also please bear in mind the trigger warnings (also detailed on the first page of the book) - this book is classified as adult and has dark themes! TW: Graphic depictions of sexual assault, gore, familial death.
If you've read this, let me know what you think in the comments!
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