A reluctant con artist and a professor with too many secrets are bound together in Ali Hazelwood’s intoxicating new dark academia romance—available only in audio!
2/5 stars – it was okay. This novella doesn’t add much to the vampire genre but if you liked Ali Hazelwood’s book Bride then you may enjoy this. There was a point early on that I almost DNF but stuck it through since I was multi-tasking anyway. The male voice actor’s choice in accent grew on me by the end but it was initially difficult to get into it considering the character is supposed to look 29 (despite being over a thousand years old). The accent made him sound like a very distinguished 50-year old aristocrat. The female narrator was fine.
The author is releasing a sequel to Bound called Unbound focused on another vampire character from the story. I feel like she could have leaned more into this being the same universe as Bride (although I don’t think it is) and given us insight into the vampire side of this world’s lore but the book really didn’t focus much on world-building. I probably wont listen to this sequel unless I’m bored or hear good things.