Salex has a plan to teach his twin brother Malar a lesson. If all goes well, this plan will also get him one step closer to gaining the reluctant yet responsive Jeremiah’s full submission. However, nothing goes as planned from the moment he “kidnaps” Sebastian, who has transitioned from unwilling captive to devoted lover very quickly and gives every indication of genuinely loving Malar.
Salex finds himself stuck, his plans spoiled and his mind in chaos thanks to Sebastian’s blunt observations about his actions and his relationship with Jeremiah. A lot of damage control is in order, but where will Salex and Jeremiah be when all is said and done?
This review will be for the "whole" of this four-part series of novellas.
The focus of the story is about twin human brothers who are captured by a pair of alien pirates who happen to be twins as well after their ship flies into Calonian airspace and loses power to its engines. As the rules of Calonia piracy go, Calonians may salvage and keep what they find in their airspace, and this includes everything onboard a vessel living or not. Although the human twins, Sebastian and Jeremiah, would fetch a nice price as slaves on Calonia, their alien captors, Malar and Salex, have much darker plans and more base needs for the two human brothers that includes hot and raw sex that neither human male has ever experienced or explored. Of course, as the aliens will find out, sex slaves are one thing yet these two human brothers are something far more dangerous to their emotions if not their physical selves. If these two sets of twins aren't careful, they all may just find themselves Bound and Boarded, Tortured and Tamed, Seized and Seduced, and Mastered and Mated.
Overall, hot M/M sex with undertones of violence but not completely going over the edge of pain. Still sexy yet bordering on force at some points, all four of these stories definitely needed to be read together and not separate. I like that Sebastian was innocent while Jeremiah was a bit wicked and Malar was kind yet Salex was hard and somehow both sets of twins really worked for one another and their tastes in the end. I wasn't sure I would like these books, but after reading a sample of book one on All Romance Ebooks, I had to find out and just ran right through them.
In the end, Bound & Boarded was an interesting intro into the world and totally got me curious about where things were headed for Malar and Sebastian even with the forceful liasons between the two. Tortured & Tamed was a bit darker and rough as Salex attempted to get Jeremiah's full submission, but it still kept my attention and propelled me to know more about the two. Seized & Seduced was still hot in the sex department, but a bit disjointed as Salex tries to make his brother and captive jealous by stealing and seducing Sebastian. In the end, it worked out, but it was still a bit strange on both fronts. Mastered & Mated finally tied it all together and made the whole of the series for sure. All in all, a good book to read if hot and a little raunchy M/M sex is what you crave, but it is highly recommended that you read them all together as the first three installments end abruptly and leave you hanging.
The sadistic bastard takes it to a new low, with kidnapping his brother's lover. Though the details will stay between Bas and Salax, for him to go as far as throating him.. A little hand action to basically test himself but mouthing him even for a few was too far.
Sebastian ends up making him see the truth. It kind of felt like Bas was the one who tamed him also, just getting him to open up and see how he feels if only to himself at first.
Besides the sexual happenings between opposite brothers, this also was better than I expected.