3.75 stars 
 I love the way KA can portray feelings of her characters with just a few succinct words of internal dialogue. She can write scenes of everyday moments that are meaningful to the story and so sweet. So I was looking forward to her latest novel Bounty, both from the blurb and from the teaser chapters, but in the end Bounty was at times good and at times just lukewarm for me. I didn't hate it like I hated Deacon or Mystery Man, but I can't say this was in my top 5 KA reads either. 
 Things that kept this from being a KA love: 
 1) The Bloated Cast. There were a lot of characters in this story. KA threw in everyone from this series (we are on book 7 folks), their kids, and even folks from her other series like Joe Callahan and Deacon. Lee Nightingale and Stella + Mace also got a healthy mention. 
 Then there were Justice's own family, and her music-world squad, including 2 best friends and their associated drama, a half-brother who is somewhat lost, mother and her new husband, evil step-mother, good step-mother, a manager-who's-family, cousins, and so forth. So much back story. At some point you kind of stop caring. The unnecessary paragraphs into how she met/knew some of these folks or her observations in meeting them just dragged the story down. At one point, Deke and Justice have a conversion about Tate's son Jonas, if he was popular in school, and how Tate used to play in the NHL. I'm not sure why it was even relevant, or meaningful to this story. 
 2) Heroine. I saw some sides of Justice I love (the way she got excited about her insulation and walls was adorable), but at times I couldn't really relate to her. Maybe it was because that she's an artist (a platinum song-writer performer with what KA calls a "poet's soul"), that her character was just a little "out there" for me at times. For example, her singing her own lyrics to her construction-worker-alpha-male-of-few-words to express her feelings just did not to work in my mind. She wasn't a heroine I got angry or annoyed with though, and she seems like someone I would like to hang out with. 
 Deke I liked. He was a typical KA hero. A man of few words who could demonstrate through his actions his sweetness. 
 3) Epilogue. As far as KA's epic epilogues go, this one didn't do it for me like the other epilogues did. It wasn't bad, but KA is usually so good at giving us awesome, I just expected more. There was a gathering of the cast but not enough interactions of just Justice+Deke. 
 4) Maybe it was because others have mentioned it, but I did notice some sentences that was just awkward and could have flowed better with a simple rearrangement and editing. Sometimes writers write it that way on purpose to convey certain emotions (being disorientated or over emotional perhaps) but this wasn't the case here. 
 At A Glance 
 Cheating (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)] 
 Love Triangle (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)] 
 Descriptive sex w OM/OW (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)] 
 Other possible safety gang concerns (view spoiler)[Justice and Deke meet at a bar and seem to have a connection and promise to see each other again. Only Deke never shows. We find out why later and there is a good reason. But in any case, years later after the initial meeting, Justice sees him at a bar. During this time, Deke doesn't seem to recognize her, and they don't exchange any words at this point. He leaves with a biker babe who was flirting with him. It is somewhat implied that perhaps they spent the night together. It's up to your interpretation of course. (hide spoiler)] 
 HEA (view spoiler)[Yes (hide spoiler)]