Bound Odyssey

by Michelle Polaris

The year is 2067 and Earth is self-destructing from environmental cataclysms. A portal to a new world is ripped open and refuge there is Earth’s only hope. Enter Jace, cowboy diplomat, who is preparing for the negotiation of a lifetime. A sexually conflicted alpha male, he hates everything with a cock, especially himself. The last thing Jace expects is to fall in love with both a woman and a man. His dark history presents the ultimate challenge to Mira and Roman, the sexual Dominant team hired to prepare Jace for the female-dominant culture of the new world. Tragedy has made Mira distrust her Mistress abilities. Survival is her priority, and she resists her deep attraction to Jace’s haunted eyes and sculpted body.Roman, however, falls hard and fast for Mira and Jace, ready to honor Mira as his Mistress and force Jace to recognize him as Master. Bound in one another’s chains and pushed to the limits of arousal and pain, they must outrun sabotage and conspiracy to find salvation for their bodies, souls and hearts.

Genres: BDSM, Menage, Romance, Erotica, Dystopia, M M F, Science Fiction

418 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Once described by a new age practitioner as having an old soul, Michelle remains skeptical, but has learned to accept that the universe is a big place. Growing up, she always wanted to write novels. Her dream of creating fantastical stories as a full time career stayed with her after her first handwritten fantasy romance novella in middle school.

Luckily, she has made that dream come alive. Michelle loves to explore the duality of dark and light in her characters’ lives. Only when they push beyond the scars on their souls to accept themselves (helped along, of course, by their lovers) can she feel content she’s written a great story.

Living in a small New England town, she loves to rebel against a staid Yankee lifestyle through the pages of her manuscripts. Michelle adores pushing the boundaries of sensuality and taboo in her work, but mostly because, in the end, she knows that the connections she forges between the hearts and souls of her characters will lead them to happiness.

Reviews

[Dee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I absolutely loved the first 70% of this story. Then it took a turn, an event occurred where Mira dropped, or should I say handed over, her domme hat. It made no sense to me, and the fall out even less. From that point the entire story changed direction. I guess it set it up for an action packed race to the finish, but by then I'd all but stopped caring what happened.

It is set in 2067, but besides the constant reminder of wearing breathing masks when outdoors, I almost forget the story was was supposed to be dystopian.

The sex scenes were smoking hot, besides one occurrence, and would appeal to people who enjoy females tops, pegging, anal play and some guy on guy loving.

This is more like a 3.5 star read for me, better than okay but not great. That said I had to round up as the writing was second to none, descriptive and well edited.

[Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm a little weirded out and I'm not sure why? It was like 'you have to become a sub to save the Earth but we're also going to end all sexual deviancy while trying to blow up this other planet' and also 'i have a lot of issues that need to be sorted out by the cunning use of bondage' which gets really old after a while like just give me some good ole bondage sexy times without the angst during the scenes. Outside the scenes, sure. In the bedroom (or dungeon whatever floats their boats), let's not.

[Connie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a story of two people finding themselves while the third is a source of strength to them both. I thought the story was good, as the characters themselves were very, very interesting within themselves. Ms. Polaris did an excellent job of setting the foundation of a disrupted Earth and complete characters and helped me envision the uninhabitable Earth as she saw it.

Mira is a Dominatrix who is recruited by the government to train a diplomat in submission. Roman is a switch who has to show the trainee Jace how to submit to men as well as women. There is one big problem though, Jace hates men. Truly loses his mind when confronted with any kind of testosterone top that with the fact that he is bi-sexual makes him a train wreck waiting to happen. I liked the fact that Jace topped Roman and Mira topped both of them. They had a symbiotic relationship, but it seemed like there was more Master/submissive encounters than Mistress/Master submission, because that was a bigger hurdle, but for that kind of triangle, some of my discontentment came from the cover. I know it may be a small thing to some, but as I was reading, I was thinking......"This doesn't fit what I saw on the cover."

I like the flawed characters, their pain, their issues, but for the author to give so much detail in the beginning, that the ending was lacking and I was left wanting. The story could have benefitted from one more chapter, or an epilogue, or the intro into a second book would have completed the story for me. This was my first read by Ms. Polaris, but it will not be my last.

[Lucia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was really…intense. The world made me uneasy sometimes. I could imagine very well that that could be the future of the earth and what that could do to people. There were so many sad people and it was hard to say what was wrong and good in such a world.
The ménage in this story was great. Jace, Roman and Mira fit so well together, I really believed they should be with three, it was such an interesting balance. It was a longer story and I felt the characters needed that. In a lot of stories I feel that the woman is the center but here I felt that every character got the attention it deserved and got their time to develop. The story found a great balance between the big storyline and the time the three main characters got together to form a relationship. I also liked that the characters weren’t portrayed as the 100% ‘’good’’ ones. Even the main characters had their dark sides and problems to work through.
The ending was very exciting and left me wondering what will happen next!

[Goldenplum · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book and just cannot say enough good things. It is set in the future. A world that has had a disaster that has made the environment terrible and to survive the people of earth must negotiate with a female dominated bdsm world.

This leads to Jace the newbie being trained by Mistress Mira and Master Roman. It has lots of hot sex but what really earned the 5 star rating was the way each of them shared their past and cared about each other in this pressure cooker of a situation. The book let you into the thoughts of each person. It really shows why a book is so much better then t.v. or a movie to get to know someone.

enjoy. I highly recommend it.

[Kim Lowery · Rating 3 out of 5]

There was a lot going on. Ended quite abruptly and with lots of questions. Was very good for what it was. Would have like to see her be a done without all the accessories. Especially as they were constantly packing up to run....I mean, don’t you think food is more important to carry than chains and clamps?

[Piper · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first dystopian book I've read and I think I hit the jackpot! I really enjoyed this story and had no problem envisioning this world - helped a lot by the New Denver Post headlines at the beginning of each chapter.
The sex was explosive, hot and downright panty-melting!
Loved all three main characters and hope they get their hea:)

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first book by Michelle I've had the pleasure of reading. I was instantly drawn in to the story and fell in love with the characters. I can't wait for more.