REVIEW: Bound by the Night by Cynthia Eden

Series: Bound #4
Format: Kindle Edition
Released Date: April 2012

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For the last fifteen years, vampire queen Iona has been dead to the world. Trapped under the power of a brutal curse, she has been helpless. A prisoner, locked within her own still body. Then alpha werewolf Jamie O’Connell fights his way to her side. After defeating the guards that surround her, Jamie gives Iona his blood…and she rises.

The world has changed a great deal in the last fifteen years, and Iona has changed, too. Once known as the Blood Queen because of her dark reputation, she now finds herself longing for the blood of only one man…only he isn’t just a man. She wants the blood of her werewolf—Jamie’s blood. But Iona doesn’t realize that Jamie has been keeping secrets from her. Very dark, dangerous secrets. And Iona may have traded one curse for another.

Now that he has Iona, Jamie vows to never let her go. He needs his Blood Queen in order to defeat his enemy, he needs her to make his own beast stronger, and…he just needs her. Jamie has risked his life to claim Iona, and he won’t let anything break their bond. Not time. Not spells. Not even a wild and reckless vampire queen…

In Bound by the Night, Vampire Blood Queen, Iona, has been locked away and placed under a magical spell for the past fifteen years. Most beings in the paranormal world had assumed her dead after all those years except for werewolf Jamie O’Connell. Knowing that werewolf blood had put Iona under and that only another Alpha weres blood could wake her, Jamie makes it his goal to save her from her prison and use Iona as tool for his own personal vendetta.

“The blood of a werewolf had put her under – that blood had frozen her body 

and locked the spell’s magic in place.”

Iona finally wakes up from her fifteen year “sleep” with a strange man looking over her. Confused and angry, Iona quickly escapes from her savior and tries to get back to the life she had once known. Losing fifteen years of her life, Iona sets out seek revenge on the werewolf who imprisoned her and those who aided him. On the hunt for blood to regain her strength, Iona learns that the only blood that appeals to her pallet is Jamie O’Connell’s. Since Jamie’s blood was what awakened her from her “sleep” she is now bounded to him. Infuriated with the fact that she’s once again under another weres control, Iona sets her own plans for revenge against her first captor while using Jamie along the way.

"She was the big secret weapon. You were supposed to use her, not fall for her."

Sexual tension is bound to arise between Iona and Jamie while they use each other for their own personal vendettas and learn of the secrets from each other’s past. I sympathized with Iona because she was robbed so of her time and life. Although she was known for being evil wicked and soulless in the past, Iona is simply a Vampire who’s had to endure so much pain and deceit and had to do what she needed to survive. Jamie also shields his own dark past filled with rejection and loss. He might be a big, bad and scary wolf but deep down inside he’s a good guy. Along the way they come to understand that their bond might not just be blood related but goes deeper than what each had expected.

Although the books in the Bound series are short they move at a quick pace and is filled with sexy vampires and scorching hot werewolves. Eden’s novellas contain the perfect amount of romance, sexual tension and action that comes with a full paranormal romance novel. If you’re looking for a good and quick paranormal romance read, I suggest you pick up Eden’s Bound series.