Hey Dearies!
I wanted to take a break from the thrillers I had been reading and actually found this one instead. Normally, I’m a fantasy or romance reader, and since I had read one of Elayna’s books before, this one caught my eye since it was a romance between a human and a vampire.
I know a lot of people who, when they think of vampire and human romances, immediately think of the Twilight Saga. Which is nothing like that, thank god. Nothing against the Twilight Saga, but when I think of vampires, they don’t sparkle in the sun.
Anyway, another thing to note from this book is that this entire series is also connected to the other series that I started with her, which I found was interesting! That was the Of Earth and Flame; I did do a review on that, which had elves and dragon shifters. I read that one because it was recommended on Pinterest, as it was a close retelling of Barbie as Rapunzel.
I did do a review on that one as well, but I haven’t decided if I was going to continue the series, and when I thought about doing so, I ended up going down a long spiral of different thrillers. Tethered is also another series, and it did end on a cliffhanger, so I’ll let you know at the end of the review if I will take a look at the second one or not.
The book starts out in both Luna’s POV and Sebastian’s POV. Luna talks about how she is arranged to be married to Sebastian to reunite two kingdoms in the current war that has been going on.
Luna isn’t thrilled about this arrangement, as she didn’t want to be married to a vampire, but she only does as she is told because her father told her to do so. She also didn’t want to leave her kingdom, knowing her brother needs a cure, which they go into a little bit of detail about.
Sebastian, on the other hand, is only doing this arrangement for his mother’s sake; although she’s not his biological mother, she sort of adopted him and changed him into a powerful vampire. I’m still confused about that whole can of worms too.
However, they aren’t only getting married; the vampire Queen Marguerite insists on having a Binding Ceremony. This will bind them together, but instead, they end up becoming Tethered, which is even stronger than the Binding. They literally can’t be apart more than 30 feet from each other without being in a lot of pain.
Since being Tethered wasn’t the plan, both Luna and Sebastian start looking into how to become untethered from each other. Over time, they start to realize that they are getting feelings for each other and try to deny them because of the fact that they think it’s the Tethered bond that is causing them to want to be more intimate with each other.
I will say, the author does take her time building up the relationship between the two, but there was a point where I’m like:
Plus, with them struggling to figure out their feelings and chemistry, they also are dealing with other things that are happening in the castle, such as someone trying to murder Luna and instead murdering her handmaid.
I also did have a really hard time relating to the main characters because of her name being Luna; if you haven’t read my reviews on the I Want Your Family series, that explains why I have a hard time rooting for anyone who names their characters Luna.
It was also a hard slow to get into; it took me a little bit just to get into it, which I was kind of bummed out about, but it was also the same for her other book that I read before. Then again, it could just be me in general because I’ve been so sucked into fast thrillers that I expected the pace of all my books to be like that.
Overall, the book did end on a cliffhanger, and honestly, I’m up in the air about whether I want to read the second one, just because the first one was slow and took so long to get into, but it made me want to read this sequel more than the last book of hers I’ve read.
The only thing that would suck is that, for me to read the sequel, I would have to buy it since Tethered was already available on Kindle Unlimited. To me, if I didn’t absolutely love the first book, it makes no sense for me to get the second book unless I needed to know what happened.
Sequels are a hit or miss for me; it really has to make me want to finish the series or saga. I’ll use the Twilight Saga as an example. I liked Twilight; granted, I didn’t like the vampires that sparkle crpa, but I liked it enough to read the second one, New Moon. I really had to power through New Moon just to get to Eclipse.
I even fell asleep at the theater when New Moon came out. The only thing I liked about New Moon was finding out about the werewolves, and Jacob turning into one was pretty cool. In order to get through it, you had to endure Bella’s teenage “my life is over” crap.
As a reader, you’ll find out which books you were able to get right into and others that you had to either push yourself to get through or you weren’t able to finish. That’s okay! I’ve got a couple of books that I had tried and tried to get myself to go through and really couldn’t do.
Anyway, what did you think of Tethered? Are you a sucker when it comes to vampire love stories? Or are you like me and jump around to ones to keep it interesting? Let me know down below!
