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The total sum of my feelings right now concerning this book are this....


Complete and utter disappointment. Like many of us have done with other novels, I allowed myself to become blinded by it's amazing cover and become intrigued by it's summary. We all fall prey to this at some time or another; playing a book up to be something better than we know it is before we've even read it. I like to call it a "book crush". And that is what this book ended up being for me, a crush More...

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As the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter—and a member of Ipswitch’s Royal family—Xandra Morgan should be a witch of incredible power. But things don’t always turn out like you expect…

Born in a world of magic that which she seems to possess none of, Xandra Morgan has accepted this and gone on with her life. Her family however, considered royalty in the mage world, is not as accepting and are constantly pushing, prodding and even po More...

Life has never been easy for Xandra Morgan; first off she was born with huge expectations only to have them never fulfilled. As the seventh daughter of the seventh daughter and even blessed by the goddess herself, Xandra knew from the first time she could remember that her family expected her to surpass all of them. So what was she to do when even the most basic magic was beyond her? Xandra accepted her lot in life and turned her back on that part of her life. Now the owner of the successful cof More...

Titolo: Spellbound

Autore: Tessa Adams

Serie: Primo libro serie Bound

Inedito in italiano

Trama: ci sarebbe così tanto da dire per spiegare la complessità dell’ambientazione di questo libro che non so bene come renderla in poche parole, visto che l’autrice stessa non lo spiega in modo esaustivo nel primo libro.

A grandi linee possiamo dire che è ambientato in un mondo contemporaneo e simile al nostro tranne per alcune piccole differenze: la magia esiste, e perciò esistono i maghi e le maghe, che usan More...

This held my interest a couple hours tonight. The book takes place in a world with powerful witches and warlocks who come in light, dark, and in between. Xandra is a 7th daughter in a power witch family, and despite omens she would be powerful, she has no magic. She suffers through her mother's mechanisms and builds a life at her own coffee cafe. When she starts being magically led to murdered women's bodies and a powerful warlock she never forgot comes back into her life - they have to figure o More...

I’m a little worn out on paranormal romances right now. There are so many of them, and it’s getting harder and harder to see much difference between them. This isn’t to say that these things can’t be done well; just that it’s getting more difficult to stand out from the crowd. Yet Tessa Adams's Soulbound managed to stand out.

Declan isn’t entirely what I expect from the dark, brooding, dangerous love interest; he too stumbles his way through figuring out what he’s doing. Xandra does a grand job o More...

Beware, This Will Not Be a Nice Review

Can I just say that I am absolutely tired of these heroines who know nothing and yet supposedly know everything and everyone around them knows everything and nothing. It blows my freaking mind.

(I wanted to kick puppies by the end of this)

Let us start with the story:

Xandra is the all powerful most powerful of all time witch in the history of witches, or so it was predicted, what with the lightning and seven seven seven happenings of her birth. That doesn More...

I really liked the way this book grabbed me from the beginning. Adams does a pretty good job of keeping up the pace until a few chapters in. Even then, as the book cools a bit, I was engrossed enough in the characters that continuing on was no hardship.

The plot (and sub-plots) are well woven and the characters are developed well both individually and as a group, with the first-person narration especially effective in defining the family dynamic that serves as the base of the main character's pe More...

Meh. 3 stars. For the most part good writing, esp the beginning. I just wasn't a fan of the story....the h is a damsel in distress for like the whole book, the H is a douche, who we never really get to know and the first person writing is a good example of why I avoided books written in said perspective for a long ass time. Oh and IMO, it's not very romantic, or rather I didn't really see the connection b/w the H and h...especially at the end! Can you say abrupt? ( to be fair though, I was under More...

A great paranormal/suspence/romance all wrapped in one.

At the start of the book I did feel like I was tossed around a little bit. I didn't feel like I was getting enough information on some incidents that happened that I felt were important. I was a little confused for a while. Then when I thought things were getting interesting in Ipswitch then I was suddenly in Austin.

But after that (just the first couple chapters)the book just took off for me. I love that Declan was a slow mystery for us and More...

Only read this book if you have a high tolerance for:

reading the phrase "that poor woman/girl" at least a hundred times.

cookie cutter "dominant males" who express their dominance through fighting over the heroine in a way that does nothing for her, the situation, the plot, the characters, or anything else, and also smile "sardonically" a lot in inappropriate situations.

a "heroine" who can't even stand up for herself enough to tell her best friend that she needs to stay in for the night because s More...

3.5 stars

It's been a long time since I've read books with pure witches. This one has been entertaining... but not quite. It was too slow for my taste. Maybe it's because this is the first of a series. It felt like there was a slow build up to an obvious truth. LOL. It was a painful process reading about how the echoes of the dead transfers to the heroine. Somehow, it's like I'm reading THE BODY FINDER (which is an absolute fave of mine, btw). The love part wasn't also that good. It was short, fr More...

So excited about this new series by Tessa!!!

Soulbound is a fast paced, edge of your seat story that takes you on twists and turns and just when you think you've figured it out, you haven't got a clue!! This book hooked me on word one and I couldn't stop reading until the very last word!

Ms. Adams has a magical way with words, weaving a story so full of intrigue and characters with substance. You feel like you are along for the ride with enough detail to spark your imagination and keep you inter More...

I had some problems with the overall story arc, characters and writing, but in the end I can't deny I was sucked in.

Very intriguing and alluring story, also dark and twisted. Interesting tale, unusually concept of soulbound, very accurate and detail witch traditions and practices.
Characters boarding on good and evil give the story some semblance and form of reality, true too life personalities, love angle could be more developed not really love but lust, but hey that's what all these 'paranormal' novels love interest based on, so no surprise there.
Will be interesting to see how far the council will go and if More...

Tessa Adams' Soulbound sounded like a very intriguing read, a paranormal book with a murder mystery going on. What's not to love? Xandra was an enjoyable heroine and Declan was a very mysterious kind of guy, and the mystery was very good, so all in all, it was a good read.

The story buildup took awhile for me to get into. We get a nice prologue depicting Xandra's birth and then the first chapter shows us Xandra and Declan's first meeting at her magical "coming out" party when she was nineteen, wh More...

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Esta es una historia de brujas, brujos, realeza, asesinos en serie, romance y café y galletas, ambientada en el Texas actual. Xandra es la séptima hija de la séptima hija de la familia real de Ipswitch, una comunidad oculta de brujas en Texas. Bendecida por la propia diosa Isis el día de su nacimiento, se esperaba de ella grandes cosas... ¿problema? pues que no es capaz de conjurar nada, pero cuando digo nada es nada de nada (en este punto no he podido sin More...

Soulbound left me rocking in the corner, mumbling incoherently as to how Ms. Tessa Dare could leave me teetering on a precipice, wondering how I'll ever be able to wait until the second book in the Lone Star Witches series is released. Heartbreak, magic, and murder are at the forefront of this action-packed title.

First, I have to mention that the serious cliffhanger-ish ending has me frothing-at-the-mouth for more of this series. I hope we stick with our two main characters from this title, Xan More...

I normally don't read Urban Fantasy because there's not much romance and because most UFs are told in the 1st person POV. Well, the current trend in Erotic Romance is having the story told by the heroine's 1st person POV so that has cured me of avoiding 1st person. And I don't necessarily need a romance if the world-building, plot and characters are great.

Soulbound starts off really slow. It was hard for me to get into the first half of the story. I understand that the author has to set up the s More...

Soulbound is the story of a young witch, from a powerful family of witches. Xandra Morgan is our heroine, and as the 7th daughter of a 7th daughter, she was expected to become very powerful. However, all of her life, she has not been able to perform any magic, and is considered latent. On her 19th birthday, when she once again failed during the family magical ceremony, she runs humiliated into the woods, where she meets our hero, Declan Chumomisto. Declan is a powerful warlock, who uses both lig More...

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After years of coming to terms with the fact that she is never going to be who her family wants her to be, Xandra Morgan has settled down as an owner of a coffee shop in Austin. As the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter Xandra was raised to be magical heir to her mother, the Queen. On the day of her magical coming out party she fails miserably, realizing that she’s a latent and no matter how much her family wishes otherwise More...

As the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, Xandra Morgan should be an unbelievable witch with power so great that you would need to approach her with a shield of steel and a ten foot pole. Only she’s not. Xandra’s world is consumed by magic and all of her loved ones expect her to carry on with the magical gene, in fact they will stop at nothing to help her obtain her own witchy powers. However, Xandra comes into a gift all her own; she starts to have visions that lead her to corpses and she More...

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SOULBOUND, the first book in Tessa Adams new Lone Star Witch series, is a fantastically dark and suspenseful paranormal romance with unique worldbuilding that had me completely absorbed. The pacing is quick and the descriptions of magic and various rituals are so detailed and vivid that I was glued to the story.

Love interests being destined or bound is a much used trope in paranormal romance and I really loved the unique take on the soulbinding between More...

Most folks know that I'm a huge fan of Tracy Deebs. Her adult books are under her pen name, Tessa Adams. She has a way of bringing you full force into her books, and Soulbound is no different.

Amazing is about all I can say. Xandra is such a great character. She doesn't give in to her mother's craziness. And believe me, her mother comes up with some doozies to try to bring Xandra's power out. Xandra is opinionated and quite the smart ass. In other words, I FREAKING LOVE HER. She does everything s More...

I'm somewhere around the 3-1/2 star level on this one. I loved the heroine, Xandra, and the dark hero, Declan. This is sort of a thriller wrapped into the plot as well. I think it could have used a little bit more editing - some of the passages describing Xandra's visions of the missing girls I wound up kind of skimming over, which is the main reason I moved this to a 3 and not a 4-star read for me.

I really enjoyed the premise of this book, but found myself getting caught up in small errors in the writing style. Things that were repeated too many times, names that changed mysteriously. I really enjoyed the Ispwitch Family and the potential for these books. I will definitely pick up the next one and hopefully the series will only grow.

Wow! I really liked this story I was especially surprised by the bad guy which is rare because I can usually guess who it is. The bad thing I can point out is at times the main character needs a hit on her head to get it together but other than that a really good story. Can't wait for the next installment.

It was good right up until the end, then we are cut off. The whole novel feels really unfinished, even for a series. I was disappointed that an author could do such a good job throughout and fail at the ending.