Bound by Honor (Men of Honor, #1) in Ask SE Jakes

Nov 18, 2013 Tee loves Kyle Jacobson rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2013-must-read, december-2013, m-m, kindle-books

First I want to say that this is the first book I have read by S.E. Jakes and it will not be the last. Holy cow does she know how to write a story with some hot alpha men from the military!

In Bound by Honor we meet Tanner James who is home from his latest mission with his own personal mission in mind. For Tanner on his last mission he lost a close member of his team Jesse. Tanner held Jesse while he died and Jesse made Tanner promise him something and Tanner told him he would. The thing is that First I want to say that this is the first book I have read by S.E. Jakes and it will not be the last. Holy cow does she know how to write a story with some hot alpha men from the military!

In Bound by Honor we meet Tanner James who is home from his latest mission with his own personal mission in mind. For Tanner on his last mission he lost a close member of his team Jesse. Tanner held Jesse while he died and Jesse made Tanner promise him something and Tanner told him he would. The thing is that Tanner promised Jesse he would follow through with his wishes and Tanner has never backed down from a promise.

So Tanner goes out to find Damon Jesse's boyfriend and what he finds is a broken and battered man full of anger and rage. When Tanner goes to the BDSM club to find Damon Jesse's boyfriend he is greeted with anger and once he tells Damon what Jesse's dying promise was Damon says straight out hell no! He tells Tanner that no matter what Jesse wanted he is not going to fulfill his dying wishes. Tanner not really wanting to deal with Damon and his attitude goes to leave the club but is called back by Damon and what Damon does to Tanner both pisses him off and scares him because it ignites something in him.

After leaving the club Tanner can't stop thinking about Damon and what happened just to him. While Damon is getting reamed out by Law for his behavior Damon admits he is intrigued by Tanner but does not want to get his heart broken again. But the more Tanner and Damon try to stay away from each other the more the seem to need each other. While all this is going on someone is hurting the guys from the club and Law does not want to burden Damon with what is going on but soon someone is attacked and Law has to tell Damon what is going on because the attacks are familiar to both men and they think they know who is behind it but could it be that person or is their minds playing tricks on them? Will Damon open his heart up to Tanner? Will Tanner let Damon in after Damon was so cruel to him? ...more

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Jan 24, 2013 JR rated it it was amazing

Shelves: romance, favorites, mystery

Wow, just wow. Really loved this story and the characters of Tanner and Damon are sublime. I always wonder why I am utterly drawn in, can't escape broken men. Maybe, I just believe love can mend all, right wrongs and everyone should be allowed to be loved.
Damon(owner of club Crave and Dom) meets his match in Tanner(Ranger and sub-although not to his thinking), even though it takes the entire book for him to realize it. It's a match Damon runs from for many reasons, but Tanner persists, needle ...more

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Apr 19, 2011 Yoshi rated it did not like it

Shelves: m-m

This book didn't work for me, sorry.
Damon was supposed to be a good and seasoned Dom, but we didn't see that in the book.
The MCs didn't talk much, they just fucked. Too many sex scenes for my liking. I wanted to DNF it but
at the end, I skimmed the last 40% of the book. ...more

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May 07, 2014 evening-green rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1st-in-series-read, explicit, m-m

CN: military, death, kink, sexist language/toxic masculinity, dubious consent, inconsistent mention of condoms/unprotected sex, ableist language (use of 鈥渃razy鈥�, 鈥減sychopath鈥�, 鈥減sychotic鈥�), assault, rape, child abuse mention (past), underage sex mention (past)

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