The Quinn men have been kidnapping O’Malley women for eight hundred years, and when Sinead O’Malley finds herself upside down over her mortal enemy’s shoulder, his strong hand on her rear, she fights her response as hard as she fights him.
The damn men of the Quinn clan have been kidnapping the women of her family for nearly a millennium.
When Sinead O’Malley finds herself upside down over the shoulder of the tall, dark, and mortal enemy Jack Quinn, she’s determined to fight him every step of the way.
Enough is enough...
Jack is bound and determined to break the eight hundred year old curse, no matter what it takes, including tying her to his bed and demanding her total submission.
Reader Advisory: This story contains wickedly hot MM and MMF BDSM scenes in a MF relationship
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So... this started out interesting enough. I have often wondered whether MMF could *not* be sexy, but this one just didn't do it for me.
I guess maybe I need to back up. Jack and Sinead belong to Irish families who have been feuding for 800 years. Jack's grandmother thinks it's time for the hatchet to be buried. There's also this family legend about a Banshee and curses and such. The belief is that when members of the two families finally marry for love (instead of the forced marriages from kidnapping), the curse will be broken. So Jack tracks after Sinead in the US. When he finally catches up with her, she can't believe her body's response to his overbearing demands. For Jack's part, he's definitely attracted to Sinead. He's a Dom... she's read a bit about BDSM and is curious, but she's never actually been with a Dom before. So this is one of my issues... of course Sinead doesn't want to go willingly with Jack, since they're enemies and all, but Jack basically kidnaps her and brings her back to Ireland with him. Along the way and once they get there, he sort of starts her BDSM education, only it's not like he really tells her much -- he demands everything. Sinead, being the good/bratty sub she doesn't know she is, goes along with what Jack demands, mostly because she likes it. But I don't like how heavy handed he is with her without really explaining anything.
My second issue was the sharing with Logan. It should have been hot. It was just there. And fast. Didn't do anything for me.
Last issue was it ended really abruptly. What about the curse? What about the combs? Great, they "love" each other now, but shouldn't there have been something that indicated the curse had been lifted? I dunno.
Parts of it were hot, and parts were interesting, but once I was done reading, the full-fledged BDSM with an uneducated sub kinda started to bug me.
Based on the premise of a past, ancient and historical family feud, laced with curses and supernatural consequences, one Jack Quinn pursues his life long enemy, Sinead O'Malley, to try and end this, by making or forcing Sinead to be his wife. Sinead is feisty and bratty and no easy submissive to be dominated. I enjoyed much of the story but had a few hesitations...Jack denies Sinead a safeword...not good really. Then in comes one man servant/submissive calle Logan at the end and Sinead just allows him into the action with no more than a recommend demand by Jack. This with his possessiveness didn't seem to fit. It seemed more of a connived situation to try and incorporate double penetration anal/vaginal sex into the story but this seemed wrong for the character Jack is portrayed as being...and it was all rushed, including transition from ending a curse to falling in love for real. Also her feistiness disappears too quickly. so I have rated this as worth reading, good enough to be borderline 3/4 stars but not more.
Jake Quinn comes across as a little unbalanced. He stalks Sinead O'Malley all across the country and ends up kidnapping her. He expects her to marry him to make his grandmother happy and to lift a curse. While she is under his control he fully expects her to be his sub. The way he treats her and talks to her is pretty disgusting. It would have been different if he would have shown some affection or respect for Sinead but whenever she talked back or he did not like her response he would use that to punish her.
Sinead was just as srewed up. In the beginning she comes across as this tough women but turns into this gutless bimbo. She hates him, fights him every step of the way but submits to him because she enjoys it. She enjoys submitting but not to him. After the constant fighting between those two you stop caring about what happens to them.
What a delightful surprise when I found this book. If you've read the blurb you'll know this is an Irish couple whose families have been feuding for over eight hundred years. When the original Quinn kidnapped the original O'Malley woman to hold for ransom, the youngest son wound up falling in love with her. Now, Jack Quinn's grandmother has decided her grandson needs to marry the current Miss O'Malley in order to stop the curse that was placed on the family. While Jack lives a BDSM lifestyle and is very dominant, he'd do anything to make his grandmother happy. Sinead O'Malley and her family have struggled for years to make ends meet and keep their land. So much so they've set up cottages on the property for paying guests. While that took care of the home front, Sinead travels across the country touring with a band composing music, playing her bagpipes, and dancing. The man she thought she was to have a future with turned out to be disillusioned when he told her he wanted her to give up her music and to put away the notion of any kind of kink in the bedroom. The push and pull between these two characters combined with the BDSM scenes were spine-tingling, to say the least. I'm thrilled I found this book and devoured it in no time. Do yourself a favor and don't miss the opportunity to pick this one up when you find it.
Her in-your-face T-shirt said it all: You’re not rich enough. Smart enough. Or man enough. Don’t even try. Let the games begin!
Sinead O’Malley is gorgeous, fiercely independent and a deeply passionate Irishwoman. She is bound and determined to live her own life, exactly the way she wants to, despite an eight hundred year old curse. And although, she’d like to believe there is no such thing as curses, it’s all just a moot point. Because her life is about to be turned upside down by her mortal enemy, the mighty Quinn.
Equally deeply passionate and drop-dead-gorgeous, fellow countryman and Dom, Jack Quinn takes his responsibilities seriously. The way Jack sees it is simple. The curse has plagued both families and has brought nothing but fear and misery for centuries. It stops now, stops with him, Sinead and a wedding... He’s tried the civil approach to no avail, so he’s followed her half way around the world and likes what he sees in the flesh. Now, he's bound and determined to take whatever actions are necessary. To prove to her that marrying him and freeing both their families, can be about more than duty.
After seeing that T-shirt, he's decided that he has every intention of showing her, in every blatant way possible, just how much he’s exactly what she needs…
Got to love Sierra Cartwright and her decadent tales of love and lust! What a most, marvelously twisted mind the woman has! After all, who in their right mind wouldn’t want one of her deliciously debauched alpha Doms? One who is a Master and completely dedicated to ensuring all his woman’s needs and pleasures are met, in the most tormenting and thorough of ways possible? Even Sinead, with a famous Irish temper can see the danger. He’s everything she could ever have wanted in a man, and he’d have been so perfect too, if he just hadn’t been a Quinn!
With a firm hand on the reins, or in this case, ropes, Ms Cartwright delivers her lovers, bound and determined to break the other first. Throw in a submissive man-servant and a ménage that blew my mind and it’s easy to see why the pages all but flipped themselves. I tried to read it slowly. Kept it waiting like a tempting box of chocolates, without so much as a peek… Then fell in head-first and was immediately immersed and totally enthralled. Talk about ‘get-into-a-story’, I wanted to bang their heads together, slap them both and roar like Cher from Moonstruck, “Snap out of it!”
Ahhh… Such, agonizing and sublime tension, artfully eased with every lash! This one’s a keeper, so if a little BDSM and three-way action by the mighty pen of Ms Cartwright sounds good to you too, then don’t miss Bound and Determined.
I had a bit of a hard time rating this book. Flip flopping between two and three stars. I opted for three in the end.
Why?
I always like a good story with a strong alpha male as the romantic hero and Jack is just that, strong, alpha persona, and VERY male. He did it for me...
Sinead...umm, didn't really care one way or another about her. I didn't dislike her but I didn't particularly care for either.
Really though, the reason I didn't give this a higher rating had to do with the whole curse idea. The families have been feuding for 800 years and while that was fine, this whole idea of some curse involving combs appearing out of thin air was kind of ridiculous and thrown in there so quickly I felt like I was saying over and over again, "Ok, what about these combs now?" I definitely thought that could have been done better.
The sex though is what bumped this book over the two star line. The scenes in this book are HOT HOT HOT and will have you searching for a fan desperately. Ms. Cartwright stick with what you know because I am telling you, you could have written a whole book about just Sinead's and Jack's sex life and I would have given it 5 stars, that's how hot your work is.
Unfortunately there was a plot in this book which forced me to knock down the rating, because well... it just wasn't very good. If you are looking for a hot read but don't really care about being entertained with a story then this is for you, just skip through some pages here and there. If you are looking for a great story within all the hotness...skip this one.
Jack Quinn chases Sinead O'Malley across two continents to request her hand in marriage; they've never met, but Jack's grandmother believes that a match between these two can end a centuries-old curse. Sinead, having been raised to believe that all Quinn men are devils, resists her reaction to Jack and fights him for all she's worth. Her sharp tongue only inflames his desire and he is thrilled to discover her hidden submissive side, which is a perfect match for his Dominant nature. He whisks her away to Ireland and proceeds to command her, body and soul. The sex in this book is H.O.T. It is heavily D/s, with some bondage and menage thrown in for good measure. I found the inclusion of positions very interesting and quite detailed. I loved the chemistry between Jack and Sinead, his brutal dominance and loving aftercare, and her mix of attitude and submission. I enjoyed the underlying plot of the family feud, the curse, and the banshee, but I wish Ms. Cartwright had included an epilogue that told us what happened with her family and the curse. Overall, this was a great story and I highly recommend it.
I'm really wobbling between 3 and 4 stars on this one. I enjoyed the story, the characters, and the writing. The intimate scenes were very hot. However, this story skated a thin edge for me. Jack is arrogant and as Sinead puts it, the choices he offers are: his way and his way. Thanks to the internal dialog the relationship between Jack and Sinead is mostly believable and most of my objections are pretty picky. One is the safe word he won't allow her to use during punishment and the other is the overly fast way she submitted. I don't feel it's fair of me to point out that she never really consented to his domination, he didn't give her a choice - after all the book is about an abduction. The ending was overly abrupt which I did not care for. A little more here could have made both H/h more human and the relationship between them more desired by the reader.
Interesting story about Celtic curses and some moderate BDSM and M/M/F menage. Jack decides that the only way to break an 800 year curse is to marry Sinead, whose ancestors were a neighboring, somewhat feuding clan. Sinead is travelling through the US with a band, and Jack comes along to kidnap her and they return to their native land. Jack is a well established Dom, and Sinead knows she has submissive tendencies. She admits that Jack would be her perfect match if not for the long family history and the fact that his family is the enemy.
I liked reading about Jack's emotions and how he sometimes had a difficult time staying in control. Sinead's internal struggles and external battles with Jack made for interesting reading..
This is an intense book. The Quinn's and the O'Malleys have been mortal enemies for hundreds of years. Jack Quinn plans to marry Sinead O'Malley to end it once and for all. Emotional mayhem ensues. It's quite entertaining.
The curse. The cure could she keep him away could she learn to love? Could he meet her needs would she let him ? This story was intriguing and suspenseful. Learned some things too.
What is it about Sierra Cartwright's books? Mrs. Cartwright's books are always Wonderful, Steamy, Romantic, HOT, and LACKING! Doesn't seem like that last word would fit with the rest, but where Mrs. Cartwright's books are concerned (IMO) it always holds true. Her books snare your attention, they grip you and enthral you, and they ALWAYS leave you WANTING.
Bound and Determined was no different. It was SO HOT, I swear I need new batteries! Jack Quinn is a literary Irish WET DREAM!!! Sinead O'Mallery is a strong headed Irish Vixen! Throw in a HOT submissive Logan, and it's it a damned near PERFECT story. Wonderful, Steamy, Romantic, HOT!!! But Bound and Determined does not get 5 stars from me..... It's like climbing to the top of a large mountain to see the breath taking views, only to fall off the edge just as you clear the tree line. Or in cruder terms, having an orgasm build for an hour, but never getting quite there. How disappointing is that? To be just on the edge of wondrous perfection, but never getting the last hurrah.
Like I said, Bound and Determined is Wonderful, Steamy, Romantic,and SOO SOO HOT! It is for sure worth the read. Just don't be surprised (like I ALWAYS seem to be) when it just doesn't quite end with the wonderful fireworks you'd hope for...
What is it about Irish characters and settings that suck me in every time besides the collective unconsciousness of my heritage--feisty. If there's one thing I like, its the portrayal of women, that they are strong without being cast in some "bitch" category. Sinead is just that--independent, driven, and feminine. The ability to fight and submit are not mutually exclusive. Of course, a man like Jack is the kind that makes you want to roll over for.
Bound and Determined is typical Cartwright fare with straight up yet tender D/s with a capable, wealthy Dom and a newbie sub. Loved the characters and the superstitious premise that ties it all together, but the conclusion was rushed. Solid entertainment for the money.
I loved this story. I like the fact it's set in Ireland, this made a real change, along with the idea of the cursed clans. I felt that the sizzling passion between Jake and Sinead was awesome. There were several phrases that were repeated at the start that I found rather annoying, and I was disappointed with the final coming together/ wedding. I just felt this was rushed. After everything we had seen and done with this couple, Jake had chased for so long and Sinead had been running and fighting for so long that I'm afraid I just wanted more. I loved the added aspect of Logan...he too I felt should have had a bigger part.
But over all I loved this story and would have given it 4.5 if I could give half stars.
I enjoy plot with my erotic fiction, so this made me quite happy. Sierra Cartwright had the perfect mix between a love story and building of a D/s relationship. She is quickly becoming one of my favorite Erotica authors.
Sinead is fighting against her desires to be with Jack Quinn because of a long standing family fued, even though he possesses every characteristic she is looking for in a partner. Jack is determined to break the long-standing curse and the only way for that to happen is by marrying Sinead.
This is a great story and I think that if you enjoyed 50 Shades, you'll enjoy this.
Dom Jack Quinn is determined to catch and irrevocably bind Irish step dancer Sinead O'Malley to himself even though the Quinn and O'Malley clans have been feuding for eight hundred years. When he finds Sinead, after chasing her across two continents and through six USA cities he uses erotic BDSM skills to keep her close. Sinead is not a natural or trained submissive and fights every action Jack takes. The many twists and turns that the story takes will keep you on your toes as it reaches a successful resolution.
This book has everything I love in a story. Stubborn characters, deep passion, a bit of the supernatural, and glorious sex. I love Sinead's character, so bold and brave. Jack is powerful and dominant in a natural way that is inviting and hard to resist. I wish the honeymoon had been included, that would have been a fantastic way to end the story. Logan was a surprising but welcome addition. I will definitely read this book again!!
This book was smoking hot I loved it. Jack and Sinead's family goes back 800 years and a curse is on the families. Jack and his grandmother think the only way to end the curse is for the two families to come together in marriage. Jack is determined to take Sinead as his wife even if he has to kidnap her. Sinead is very use to running her own life and feels no man can satisfy her. Then the fireworks begin. A great book you do not want to put down.
4.5 Ravens. Sierra Cartwright gives the reader a wonderful story in which all the characters are bound by something; some by history and family lore; or by fear of being constricted and confined; and some by what they learn about their sexual needs and responses. To read this review in its entirety, please visit http://www.blackravensreviews.com/?p=...
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I usually enjoy a good book by Cartwright but this was just not for me. It was beyond cheesy and so beneath anything i have read of hers. On so many levels i was just bored. The only good thing was the plot. It actually had potential to be a great story, maybe even the beginning of an amazing series.
Story started off good but towards the end it was very rushed. I also felt that I really wasn't given the opportunity to "know" the characters or even what they looked like. It was just an ok story. 2.5 stars.
I liked Jack and Sinead. I didn't like the addition of Logan. Normally that doesn't bother me, but in this case, it did. Logan was not needed in the story, it would gave been much better without him.
A reluctant heroine, a dirty talking Irish Dom and an ancestral curse--this book is a hot fantasy come true. I highlighted multiple passages to return to ;)
Nothing like trying to overcome 800 years of family fighting a curse to bring two people together. Of course their matched sexual needs didn't hurt either.