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Bound: A YA Urban Fantasy Novel (Dark Reflections Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Dean Murray (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 340 ratings
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A white-knuckled thrill ride that will keep your eyes glued to the page.
Blood: For shape shifter Alec Graves, nothing is more important than family.
Duty: Life in the pack requires sacrifices. No matter the cost, Alec always gets the job done.
Consequences: Alec will be forced to choose between duty and love, between right and wrong. Before the final note plays, he'll learn the true meaning of sacrifice.

What readers are saying about Dean Murray's Reflections Universe:
5-stars: Intense, Violent and Intriguing --K.M. Martin (Amazon Reviewer)
5-stars: In a world full of stories about shape shifters of every kind, this one will stay with me. --Bonnie (Amazon Reviewer) 5-stars: [O]ne of the best books that I have read this year. The characters were endearing and easy to identify with. Dean Murray is on my 'must read' author list! --Robin E Berryman (Amazon Reviewer)

Publisher's Note: Bound is a YA Urban Fantasy novel, and is one possible entry point into the books that make up the Reflections Universe. The Reflections Universe is a series of YA Paranormal books featuring vampires, shape shifters, werewolves and more, which have been written so they can be safely enjoyed by both young adults and older readers alike.
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    January 20, 2014
  6. Reading age
    13 - 18 years
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About the Author

Dean Murray discovered the joys of reading at a young age and unknowingly ingested large doses of romance along with his science fiction and fantasy. By the time he realized what had happened it was too late to reverse the process and he spent his formative years (while his peers were still convinced that girls had cooties) trying to convince one specific girl to be his girlfriend to no avail. As fate would have it, he's incredibly grateful that he failed in his attempts in second grade because it meant that he was able to eventually find his real happily ever after with his wife Katie to whom he's been happily married for more than six years. Dean is the author of twenty published novels (and a host of short stories), which collectively have more than half a million copies in circulation, and he's currently writing six books a year in an effort to create the perfect, larger than life romance story-which he's pretty sure involves either vampire, werewolves, fairies or shape shifters. You can find a complete list of Dean's work and keep up to speed on his current projects at DeanWrites.com.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00HZ60430
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fir'shan Publishing (January 20, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 20, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3780 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 408 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 340 ratings

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Dean Murray is a prolific author with dozens of titles across multiple pen names and more than half a million copies of his work currently in circulation.

Dean started reading seriously in the second grade due to a competition and has spent most of the subsequent three decades lost in other people's worlds.

Things worsened, or improved depending on your point of view, when he first started experimenting with writing while finishing up his accounting degree. These days Dean has a lovely wife and three wonderful children to keep him more grounded than he used to be, but the idea of bringing others along with him as he meets interesting new people in universes nobody else has ever seen drags him back to his computer on a regular basis.

You can find a complete list of Dean's work and keep up to speed on his current projects at www.DeanWrites.com.

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suziqn6
5.0 out of 5 stars Action, deception, lies, and more!
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2016
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This story started like any book does; the place, time, location,and people are identified. Then it's off to non-stop action in different locations, new people are introduced, and more information is gained by Alec and the reader. It never stopped, but got deeper and deeper with each turn of the page. Just about when the reader gets settled in another situation comes up, this time with Rachel, Alecs' sister. It changes everything and the resultant actions lead the story into an unanticipated direction. I turned the page and it was the last. Big bummer! Love this series and going to open the next book when done telling you about this one. It's hard to write a review for a book this good without saying anything that might spoil it for readers. The writing is excellent, the story is gripping, and the suspense is high. If you haven't read anything by Dean Murray this is as good as it gets. Yes, there is violence, but done in a way that doesn't sicken one. There is usually some romance, too, although not much in this book. Again it is done as romance, but is not sexually exploitive or raunchy. This is reading for young adults as well as adults. Mr. Murray has life lessons embedded in all his books in this series. I would not mind if my children had read them. I have suggested them to my grandchildren and I'm a prude when it comes to explicit sex in a book. It all boils down to this a great series and this book was great!
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Melody
4.0 out of 5 stars Timelines
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2017
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The book itself is fairly good. The timeline between Reflection series and Dark Reflection series are kind of irritating. Memories of Adri are weird also. If you like reasonably close happenings read one series or the other. If you can read with comparing the two both are worth reading!
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Erin Fagan
5.0 out of 5 stars Really enjoyed it!
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2015
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I read the Reflections Series first so switching over to the parallel universe was hard, especially since I went straight from the last book currently out in the Reflections Series and directly into Bound.

In less than an entire chapter, I hated Kaleb with a passion I never feel for people and rarely for a character in a book. He'd died a long time ago at the start of the Reflections Series and he was loved and admired for his goals and ambitions before he died. But he lived when this book began, he was able to fulfill his goals and it changed my perspective on what he was like. Actually this entire parallel made me see a lot of characters in a new light. Alec didn't start out quite the same because his background leading up to the start of this story wasn't shattered by his father's death.

You get so many different impressions and visions of characters in this series than you do in the other one and they compliment each other so well. So the one thing I learned from this parallel series is the butterfly effect...one small change in your past can catapult you into an entirely different present. And it might not be what you expect.
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WSZ
3.0 out of 5 stars 2.5 stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2019
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If I'd never read any out the reflections series, this would probably be more a 4.5 star book, it's major failing being that these characters seem in their 20s yet we occasionally get hints they are really in their teens.

Now add the information established in the Reflections series (which occurs chronologically after this series, as far as I can tell) and this goes from being a solid book to inconsistent crud. None of them are possibly young enough to be 17 during broken/torn (aka after the events in this series). In Reflections, Kaleb is long dead. Mom has been crazy since then, and that was implied to be around the time Rachel was born. The pack split is years old. James and his mother's relationships with everyone don't match. Alec & Adri never had dreams about each other before they met. The inconsistencies go on and on. If I'd read this right after the books in Reflections, I probably wouldn't have been able to finish this one, I'd have been so annoyed. Instead I was mildly irritated the whole read. The author should remember his own story better than I do.

UNLESS - and here I'm going to give Mr. Murray more credit than he's giving himself - rather than being a prequel to Reflections, this is actually a sort of alternate universe version of the books (hence "Dark" Reflections), where it's really "what would have happened if Kaleb had joined the Coun'hij instead of fighting them." If this is the case, then this story is actually sort of genius. BUT, no where do I find this explained as the case. If this was his intention, he should have made it extremely clear to the reader, so our read wasn't colored by the conflicting events in the Reflections books.
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Jessica Mitchell
5.0 out of 5 stars Bound
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2016
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A war is about to be waged in the oldest of oldest ways. Good vs Evil. You have your good shifters and your bad ones but who will win the war?

Alec Graves is tired of being treated second best by the bully Brandon and his lackey Vincent. But it seems his father doesn't care about him. Only if his power that's supposedly great will be of use to him and the pack. When he gets sent out into the field. He realizes just how mad and depraved of anything redeemable his dad really is. But what's going on behind his back at home will be the ball buster that will get him up and running against odds, that are not stacked in his favor. Will him and his small splintered pack survive?
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Hanna
4.0 out of 5 stars Action aplenty
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2017
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There was action filled with betrayal and the slide into corruption. I love how the main character is coming to age and fighting for the protection of his people even when his family are failing. Loved the fights and how he is human. Fails and keeps going.
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Billie-jean
5.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars just is not enough!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 31, 2014
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Found this book after deciding to download the free copy of Broken ( I highly recomend you do the same!)

This book is a spin off from The Reflections series, Its all the same people mostly, what makes it really good is that its set in a differemt timeline than the Reflections series. So we get to see and not just wonder what would happen if things had gone a little differently from the beggining.

To me the fact that there are different starting points and even an alternate timeline takes these books from being a mere series of storys into a whole new fantastic world to delve right into!

I would give these books 100 stars, but i can only go up to 5. Im totaly captured by Dean Murrays work. I hope you all give him just 5 mins and you will be too!
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5.0 out of 5 stars love it
Reviewed in Australia on March 12, 2016
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love the scenes set up
loved the descriptive text leading me thru the scenes
absoloutely took me to the battle along with the characters.
Bravo fabulous writer!
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Angharad Gask
4.0 out of 5 stars Reflections series goes GoT
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 9, 2016
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The dark version of the REflections Universe is a very dangerous place. If you like conspiracies and wheels within wheels you are going to enjoy this
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Australia on February 25, 2015
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Best series I have read in a long time. Loved every book.
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Cary
5.0 out of 5 stars grate book to read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2014
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I found this great read and if I can find other like it then I will have found the best writer to read again
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