All Tied Up

All Tied Up is one of Lisa Renee Jones’s contemporary romance novels, working in the high heat BDSM and contemporary erotic romance corner she has built her career around. Jones writes across several romance subgenres but her readers know her best for the dark contemporary erotic romance that her Inside Out series helped popularize.

The all tied up premise hints directly at the BDSM or kink themed contemporary romance that Jones has used in some of her work. The bondage and dominance dynamics that the title points to have been a steady part of contemporary erotic romance across the past decade, with various writers in the corner including Jones developing significant catalogues that explore these themes with the kind of care that the subgenre at its best delivers.

Jones is good at this kind of premise because she takes the time to make the central characters’ situations believable. The BDSM dynamics, when handled well, are about trust, communication, and the slow building of the kind of intimacy that the lifestyle requires, and Jones treats the material with the seriousness that thoughtful contemporary erotic romance has been bringing to the subject.

Jones’s prose is brisk and her plots move. Her chapters end with hooks, her dialogue carries real chemistry, and her sex scenes are explicit and frequent in the way her readers expect.

For readers who enjoy Sylvia Day, Maya Banks, Cherise Sinclair, Joey W. Hill, or other writers in the wider contemporary BDSM romance corner, Lisa Renee Jones is operating in adjacent territory. All Tied Up is a comfortable entry into her catalogue and a fair sample of what she does in the kink themed corner of her wider work.