Waterbound

5⭐️1🌶

I finished an ARC of Waterbound by Aeva Vox.  This was a quick fun read at only 235 pages.  It moved quickly, was well paced and had a good amount of action.  It did not feel rushed and had a good story arc.  I enjoyed it.  This is book two in the Fated Shores series and immediately follows the events of book 1, Wildbound.  This book follows Natalie and Vincent.  Vincent is the actor who was thrown out of Hollywood after a scandal and was working in the theater department at the college.  Natalie is a graduate student studying art history.  They hadn't interacted very much prior to the whale watch nor once they got to the island.  Whatever is in the water hits these two.  This time though Lex, Olivia, Ben and Cody know what's happening to them, just not how, so these two get a bit of an explanation.  Natalie wanders off toward the beach to clear her head.  She has a boyfriend and doesn't want to be drawn to a stranger.  Vincent follows because of the buddy system the group imposed (in book 1) because of the deadly creatures on the island.  The two of them talk and try to figure out what to do about their situation.  Before they can come to a conclusion though they fall into and then become trapped inside a subterranean tunnel system.  They spend the rest of the book attempting to survive and get back out.  If you thought the surface of the island was treacherous in book one; the surface is a party compared to the tunnel system.  

This was a fun adventure.  Well it was fun for me to read, not for them while it was happening.  The island keeps getting worse and worse as time goes on.  This was quite a bit less spicy than the first book and less spicy than most of Aeva's other books.  I personally would have liked more spicy scenes, but they were trying to survive so there's that.  I enjoyed this a lot and I'm looking forward to the next one in the series.