Blood Bonds

By: Jasinda Wilder

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Maeve Sparrow is a prisoner.

Deep in the bowels of The Immortal Tribunal’s secret headquarters inside a mountain in the Swiss Alps, she’s bound, without magic, and cut off from her bloodmate Caspian and her coven—Alistair, Phineas, and Stirling.

Will they experiment on her? Simply execute her? Lock her up and throw away the key? She’s not willing to stick around and find out.

With only her wits, courage, and nerve, she is determined to escape her cell and return to Caspian—and the cause she believes in more passionately than ever.

She finds two allies in the most unlikely of quarters: the very wolf Shifter who brought her mage-cuffed and kicking to her mountain prison in the first place, and her grandfather, Elias Sparrow, the powerful fae male responsible for Maeve’s very existence.

Along the way she discovers new depths to her abilities, a renewed determination to overthrow the Tribunal once and for all, and maybe even a whole different kind of bond with a certain tall, growly, sexy alpha wolf.

Maeve Sparrow is no ordinary immortal, and with every passing day, it seems like the future of all immortals—and maybe human civilization itself—is bound to Maeve’s fate.

She’s just not sure if she’s equal to the task. Good thing the men at her side believe in her, even when she doubts herself.

3.5 Stars

Again - the narration was done using Virtual Voice - so - same comment about that as with the first 2 books.

This book takes things in a different direction. At the end of the last book, we meet another character - wolf shifter Caleb - an Alpha Prime. He takes Maeve into custody and delivers her to those who are after her. It becomes apparent that there is more to Caleb than we are initially told. Maeve has willingly surrendered herself and most of the book centers around her being held prisoner in the Mountain.

There are events that are difficult and at times frustrating. Honestly though, I felt like there was TOO much time spent in this circumstance and it really slowed down the feeling and the pace of the storyline.

There is also an event at the end of this book that came as a surprise to me. I mean, not a real surprise because it was pretty much telegraphed from the beginning, but a surprise in the fact that I wasn't sure how I felt about it. It felt a bit TOO contrived and I don't know, I really wasn't comfortable with it. So, there is that.

But, that particular storyline wraps up and at the end of this book we have the gang back together as they try to figure out where to go from here. One thing I will say is that I GET the fact that Maeve has several mates, but man, there is a time and place. Seriously, maybe it was because the narration read certain events fairly mechanical but it just felt like TOO much. She spends most of this book naked (which is actually understandable due to events) but when the men arrive again it just got to the point where I was thinking, "you DO realize that you are running for your life, right?" It was a bit much.....

So, I've gone this far - might as well see what happens next.....