Review: Bound By Your Touch by Meredith Duran.

Rowena’s review of Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Duran

Hero: Viscount Sanburne
Heroine: Lydia Boyce

Silver-tongued Viscount Sanburne is London’s favorite scapegrace. Alas, Lydia Boyce has no interest in being charmed. When his latest escapade exposes a plot to ruin her family, she vows to handle it herself, as she always has done. Certainly she requires no help from a too-handsome dilettante whose main achievement is being scandalous. But Sanburne’s golden charisma masks a sharper mind and darker history than she realizes. He shocks Lydia by breaking past her prim facade to the woman beneath…and the hidden fire no man has ever recognized. But as she follows him into a world of intrigue, she will learn that the greatest danger lies within — in the shadowy, secret motives of his heart.

This is the first book that I read for the DIK Reading Challenge that the lovely ladies over at the DIK blog is running. I chose this book from Carolyn Jean’s list and I have got to say that I really enjoyed this book.

I don’t really know what I was expecting when I started this book but I heard a lot of good things about it and wanted to try it out long before now but it kept falling off my radar but boy am I glad that I finally picked it up to read. Duran did a great job of sucking me into the world she created for these characters.

Sanburne is one of those heroes who is off trying to piss his Dad off by being the outrageous rake that he is and he blames his father for his sister being in a mental hospital after she killed her husband. James hates his father and then there’s the heroine, Lydia who is the woman who was spurned by the man she thought she loved but really only wanted her for a sister in law. Unlike James, Lydia adores her father and as the story progresses and we see the two of these guys fight to their way to their happy ending was such fun.

James had this devil may care attitude, he came off as irresponsible, he showed up in public drunk and high and yet there was something about him that I found utterly attractive. He made me laugh, he made me sigh and I adored him. He was far from the perfect man and yet still, I heart him. Watching him unable to stay away from Lydia was fun to watch.

Lydia was one of those heroines who thought she was unworthy of love and she had a beast of a sister that made me mad but I enjoyed getting to know Lydia. She was this thoroughly exasperating woman who was thoroughly humiliated and held her head high, everyone in the ton knew about her and George and still she didn’t hide herself away, she went on her merry way and lived her life. She was strong and I admired her.

Overall, this story was great. It was a story that I enjoyed quite a bit. I’m so glad that I finally picked it up. Should you read it? Of course! If you haven’t read this book, pick it up and read it, you’ll enjoy it, I promise!

Grade: 4.25 out of 5

This book is available from Pocket. You can buy it here.

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