Unbound By Peyton Corinne: ARC Review

The Best In The Series!!!! (and the new cover style is so good!)

Bennett Reiner (to use a cliche) must be protected at all costs. We join him at the beginning of this book pining after his first love, Paloma Blake. The prologue provides us a glimpse of how he has been acting for her even after he broke his heart 3 years earlier. Through multiple timelines and POVs we learn that the bears up hit them both hard but between the lines, it seems like there hdd to be more to it than a traditional break-up the leaves both sides blacklisting the other person.

The jumps in time reveal more about Paloma's difficult childhood and how Bennett helps her without being aware of her struggles and how he is able to provide that help and love. The timeline of the story was a bit clunky at times I will admit, but it completely makes sense as to why it was done that way and I don't hold that against it.

This book pulled me out of a mental health funk. Hearing about Bennett's mental health struggles helped me and I found great commodore with him as someone who also gets mental health support from a lovable Black Lab just as Bennett does.

Reading Unbound without referring myself Unsteady and Unloved I was pleased to find myself remembering Rhys & Sadie's and Freddy and Ro's stories as they blended in wi Unbound very well without detracting from Bennett and Paloma at all, which is a critique that I frequently have with series formatted in this way. Unbound is a genuine story filled with love and acceptance and I was honored to be selected as an ARC for it.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.