Unbound

Now, I'm not into shibari/bondage so this book wasn't really for me, but I enjoyed Leigh's writing in her full-length debut [b:Revolver 58765936 Revolver (The Boys of Bow Street, #1) Vera Leigh https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1628939616l/58765936.SY75.jpg 92520456] so I wanted to give it a chance. This takes place in the same fiction Chicago-esque city as that book (Empire City) but felt more like a small suburb than inner-city. It's also right after WWI. The main character caught Spanish Flu and wasn't able to fight, while his two best friends both went and died like so many other young men at the time. After he recovers, he finds a job cataloging antiques for sale or donation (he went to school for museum curation) owned by a local pharmacist - who is Japanese. While it's not mentioned in the book, you know that WWII doesn't bode well for anyone with Japanese ancestry even people who were born and raised in the USA so while this book has a HFN ending, that was always in the back of my mind and kind of tainted this relationship, especially when the main character is white. Anyway, while going through the antiques, he finds out the pharmacist is also gay and his lover died in the war. There's also a book of shibari illustrations that piques their interest. The relationship kind of hits the ground running from there and is mostly focused on the shibari practice rather than any kind of compatibility. Overall it's a free read so it's worth your time if you're interested in the subject, but it just wasn't for me.