Blade Growing up, I idolized my father, the president of the Dark Angels. I knew that one day, that role would be mine, A role I was born to do, A role that was always the dream, A role that I cherished. I lived and breathed the leather that I wore, And I wore with pride. Nothing mattered to me except for the club, that leather. Until Her. She came out of nowhere and knocked me for six. I went from living and breathing the club, To living and breathing her. And then I made a mistake, a massive mistake. I thought she was using me, I thought she was trying to ruin what my family built, my club. But I was wrong, so wrong. I messed up, and now, she wants nothing to do with me. She refuses every time I try, but I won’t give up reclaiming what is mine, Because she has been mine from the moment that I laid eyes on her, And come hell or high water, I’ll always ensure she’s right where she needs to be, By my side, wearing my patch. Get ready, Princess, because I’m coming for you.
Luna Growing up in a motorcycle club wasn’t as glamorous as one would think. Being the sister of the present, A daughter of the former, I had to abide by certain rules, Rules I always followed, never wanting to disappoint but I missed out. Boys, Parties, Friends. My sole focus had to be schoolwork and the club. I never cared kids at school called me spoilt and a club brat, I never cared boys didn’t pay any attention to me. I loved my family; I loved the safety that I had until I didn’t. I spent years being hurt, and not one club member stepped in, Not one club member saw the pain I was in daily. I became jaded, bitter about the club, I wanted out any way I could, working as much as possible. I wanted out of this life, And I had no plans to be part of a club again. Until him. He didn’t know who I was, He didn’t know my past, my horrors. He looked at me like I was his air to breathe, And finally, I thought I could be happy. Until he threw me away like I was nothing. He thought I betrayed him, and he broke me, Just like everyone else in my life. I packed up, and I ran with the little savings I had. I just didn’t count on him running after me, I didn’t count on him fighting for me, for us. He wants a second chance, but why? He made his feelings perfectly clear, I’m a traitor, and traitors need to learn their lesson, and well, I learned mine. And I learned that I’m better off on my own.
This can be read as a standalone. It is book 1 of 5 of the Dark Angel’s MC series, with a HEA. Due to mature content and themes, this book is recommended for readers aged 18+; this novel may contain triggers.
I really wanted to like this book. The premise sounded right up my alley - motorcycle club romance with some real emotional depth. Unfortunately, I spent more time being frustrated by basic writing issues than getting lost in the story.
The Editing is Rough Look, I get that indie publishing can be tough, but this needed another pass (or three) from an editor. I lost count of issues like when the character names got mixed up - calling the main guy “Axe” when his name is “Blade” isn’t a small oops, it’s distracting. Add in missing commas, run-on sentences, and dialogue that sounds like no human has ever spoken, and you’ve got a recipe for constantly being pulled out of the story.
Trauma Isn’t a Plot Device Here’s what really bothered me: the book throws trauma at you like it’s confetti. Every time the story started to drag, boom - another horrible thing happens to Luna. It felt cheap, honestly. Like the author couldn’t figure out how to create real tension or conflict, so she just kept piling on the suffering. That’s not good storytelling, that’s emotional manipulation.
LUNA ISN’T ACTUALLY A CHARACTER! This is probably my biggest issue with the book. Luna isn’t a person - she’s a collection of terrible things that happened to her. I finished this book and realized I know literally nothing about who she is as a human being. What does she like to do for fun? What makes her laugh? Does she have hobbies, favorite foods, pet peeves? Her entire identity revolves around three things: being sexually assaulted, suffering trauma, and then discovering she can be sexual with Blade. That’s it. That’s her whole personality. She doesn’t have friends, interests, quirks, or really anything that would make me believe she’s a real person rather than a trauma delivery system with a pretty face. It’s honestly insulting to survivors to reduce someone to nothing but their worst experiences. Real people are complex - they have favorite movies and weird habits and strong opinions about pizza toppings, even after surviving horrible things. Luna doesn’t.
The Bottom Line This reads like someone’s first draft that got published without revision. I can tell the author cares about these characters and this world, but caring isn’t enough. The technical problems and lazy plotting made it impossible for me to connect with what could have been a powerful story. I’ve read a lot of her works. . . Okay all of them. This one disappointed me and was really hard to even get through.
Maybe book two will be better? The author has the passion - she just needs to slow down and focus on craft.
Definitely better than the last few new releases this author has come out with. Most definitely NOT for the safety gang. I was most definitely cringing in beginning chapter. Yuck. Seriously club girls 🤮. This story was gritty. Something I like in my MC books. But the continued rape of the h Luna was a bit much. So be aware. She's raped by her brother's bf from 13 to 20 and no one helps her because they think she's lying. Enter Leo aka Blade from another MC. At first they're just using each other for sex, but they both catch feelings and don't tell each other. Shit happens because CM's heroes always f*** up in the stupidest ways. He later chases after her, after she disappears...
SAFETY: cheating, but not between MMCs. Rape, torture, violence, and gore. I say gore because it's pretty explicit. Also the rape scenes are explicit as well so be prepared. She does get her revenge on her abuser in the end.
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I’m REALLY behind on reviews, so this will be quick. I read this a couple of weeks ago and couldn’t even remember enough of it to write this without reading over all my highlights. I like this author when I want easy OTT drama. Her storylines are typically super outrageous, but she’s usually safer/less messy than Faiman or Nicola Jane, so I’m not as frustrated when it’s glossed over.
With all that said I didn’t love this… mostly because I found it boring. It could’ve been my mood, I can get into a funk, but it just didn’t work for me. She went dark with this one , but it wasn’t handled super impactful. Not blasé per se, it’s just not addressed as thoroughly as it should’ve been. IMHO. Sort of like shock filler (as opposed to smut filler), so it sort of fell flat. It was terrible to read, but that’s as far as it went.
There also isn’t much else going on with drama. There’re no evil club bunnies causing problems. The evil OM jumps out periodically does his horrible thing then disappears. Her family are awful but rarely around. Blade is a good boy other than ASSumptions. The only drama came from Blade’s mom acting bitchy, but then she gets a personality transplant mid-book. I smell a Carol 2.0 on the horizon… I’m calling it.
(In her A Devil’s MC series she had a formula of the H’s moms acting terrible then “reforming” them midbook. The worst was Carol, Tech’s mom. She was a total bitch to his h and abused another H. Later it was blamed on her trauma from being accused of lying about a pregnancy to trap a brother when she had a miscarriage. That would explain her being an asshole to the club, but not STARVING A CHILD or slapping, yelling and being nasty to the pathetic little h.)
Bottom Line- I say it all the time, if my characters aren’t showing me feelings it’s hard for me to feel them. And I found Blade and Luna flat, and in a low suds, low action plot, and I was bored a lot.
I hated this for a lot of reasons but the way her abortion was talked about was disgusting. There’s a way to write a character feeling conflicted about having an abortion especially when it could have been her abuser’s but instead what we got was a very anti-abortion, borderline pro-life type dialogue. The doctors were even discouraging to her at one point. It’s treated like she murdered a baby. When that’s not what she did but whatever.
There’s a lot of casual misogyny in this book too. The amount of times a woman was called a whore alone.. and the way women are talked about in relation to sex and how they dress. So many times was a woman’s appearance commented on for being too revealing. There was even a “too much” makeup comment.
There is minimal to no grovelling from the MMC even when he knew he fucked up. Until the very end he keeps going I know I made a mistake but this.. but that. Excusing his behaviour. Even had the FMC going I know you were in this mentality and that’s why you were so horrible to me so it’s ok! ..also she’s not really a character. She’s just an another woman whose personality is her trauma and everything bad that has happened to her is the extent of her character development.
The grammar and structure made this a difficult read too. So much cringy dialogue.
I read this on a whim as it was randomly recommended to me. I wish I didn’t.
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I don’t normally write spoilery reviews but I feel like I have to for this book. A warning if you must. This book had so much potential. The premise was there, and could’ve been amazing. But the execution of the story was not it. And it wasn’t even the multiple grammatical errors. I usually don’t mind those First I feel like if you’re going to have a book where the FMC is being raped since she was 13, don’t have her get turned on by a man who literally breaks into her place of employment and pretty much mocks her. Not to mention call her weak. Secondly the FMC has this grand plan of escaping and when that doesn’t work out she makes a plan to kill her abuser and then herself. Like this girl legitimately wants to die. It was absolutely crazy that she meets blade two times and automatically is like “I want to live” like what a way to make an FMC seem strong. And Blade is such a basic MC President MMC, like there’s literally nothing to him but I guess his looks and dirty mouth. Like he was so bland.
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Hated the repetitive rape scenes and the anti abortion rhetoric. It feels very 1980s, with very little research done into the heavy topics explored throughout the story.
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I knew going into this that whether I liked this book was going to be iffy, based on my prior experience with this author. But what I ended up hating about it wasn't what I expected. I'm going to assume this was a newer book than Steal because the writing was much better than it was in that book. Unfortunately, this author has too large of a backlog for me to forgive all the typos and wrong words. At the point she is at, an editor needs to be hired. (And I don't know when this was published, maybe her newer work is better edited than this.) Every author makes mistakes and even when they proofread, they can still miss stuff because their brain knows what they meant. Spellcheck will catch words that are misspelled, but usually not mistakes like:
I scowl at his words. “Fucking perspective fucker,” I mutter, and he snorts.
(Without context this might seem okay, but in context, the sentence should have read "perceptive" which, again, a good copy editor could have caught.) There were several other circumstances, like Luna calling Blade by her brother's road name, "Axe" and nobody batting an eye.
This book features the repeated on-page rape of Luna by her brother's best friend, Brock (no road name apparently, despite the fact that he's the VP of her brother's MC), a violent OM who is definitely going to kill her at some point if it keeps going. The one time she tried to tell anyone, at 13, her mother and brother refused to believe her with absolutely no investigation, no questions, no wondering why a kid would lie like that. In some ways that was harder on me than the on-page rape . After 7 years of hidden abuse (and considering the ways this guy absolutely bashes her head into walls and grinds her face into things, someone should have caught the marks) she is ready to end it all for herself, but she wants to take him with her.
The rape was difficult. I missed the TW page because it was before the Table of Contents and Kindles start after. I should have checked. But what really got me was 1) the similarities to Traitor (more on that under the spoiler tag) and 2) the trope of the Magical Peen.
Suddenly, a woman who has spent nearly half her life being brutally assaulted, raped, emotionally and mentally terrorized, and constantly physically abused, with the added problem that the people who were supposed to love her refused to believe her and actively brought the monster into her home, meets Blade, the president of a neighboring MC who her brother is having problems with (only Blade doesn't know who her brother is because thanks to his ability to put his friend over her, she doesn't have much to do with him), and can magically have sex without feeling dirty.
I don't want to tell anyone how to get over sexual and emotional trauma, but the Magical Peen is such a lazy trope in romance novels featuring rape of the FMC. Suddenly, Luna can not only enjoy sex, but actively orgasm and fall in love. Only that shithead, Brock, is still abusing her, and now he knows she's allowed Blade to touch her. That's right, she's actively still being raped and beat up while she's having sex with Blade. That is tragic and horrifying and Luna compartmentalizes. Her brain is so glitched from years of trauma that she just assumes she can't tell Blade either, even though she knows she's falling in love with him. But she also figures that there's no way she could mean something to him, so once this is over she still intends to commit suicide-by-abuser.
All that happens pretty early on in the book and is glossed over by the blurb in the back so I'm not going to consider it spoilery. Plus, I wish I'd paid more attention and known what I was getting into beforehand so I could brace better. But from here on out, I'm going to spoiler tag this.
Despite all of my issues, this ended up being hard to put down, especially because mentally, I could totally get Luna and her brokenness. I just wish the book had focused more on getting herself better for her, and not for Blade and his Magical Peen. Although I'm sure helped a lot too.
Summary: This is a motorcycle club romance. Spoilers/trigger warnings (if any) and final thoughts can be found below.
The prologue introduces us to Blade, the MMC, who has just been inducted as the President of a motorcycle club. We also meet Luna, the FMC. She is she sister of the President of another club, who has had a history with the MMCs club but they have agreed in recent years to keep the peace. Her introduction to the story is full of trigger warnings and incredibly sad.
Fast forward a few years. Blade is running his club and the FMC is desperately trying to escape the hell she is living through. That’s when the MMC enters her life. By all accounts no one knows she’s affiliated with her brothers club because she has always been so isolated. So the MMC meets her not knowing who she really is.
What starts as just a hook up turns to more. The FMC has really fallen for Blade. She continues to be tormented by her brother‘s best friend, until the truth is revealed to Blade, who she really is and he feels betrayed. He threatens her, and at that point, she knows that she has no one and so she pulls a runner. Once she is alone, she gives more thought to how desolate her situation is and makes a choice on where her life should go.
Some months pass and the MMC continues his search of the FMC and the truth. He finds her and resolves to help her heal and get revenge on the man who has hurt her.
Once she’s free from the fear of being hurt the FMC works toward healing and forgiveness and the main characters are on the path toward an HEA at the end.
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*Childhood SA; Non-con: On page and descriptive. *Recollection of attempted suicide as well as active attempt in story. *Descriptive scenes of violence and murder. 🌶️: 2/5: This is only related to spicy content between the main characters.
Final thoughts: First off, the trigger warnings above are very accurate. So don’t ignore them.
Okay, let’s start with the positive. It was definitely a gritty MC romance and I haven’t read one in a while so that was good. I’ve read a lot by this author and find that it’s hit or miss on how I react to her books. She’s very repetitive and sometimes that bothers me and other times I seem to be okay with it. I was somewhere in the middle with this one but ultimately, this really is just how this author writes. There’s going to be grammar errors and it’s going to repeat. It is what it is.
This story was a tough one because the FMC has been brutalized and a lot of it is on page and tough to read. And just when you think she’s found safety and someone to love her, that gets taken away, albeit momentarily. I wanted to connect to her but I had no idea who she was because the entire premise surrounding her was just trauma or sexually based.
There is a lot that I can overlook in books, but the one thing that I absolutely cannot overlook is when an author messes up their timeline or confuses characters. If you as the author cannot keep your character straight in a scene, how in the hell do you expect your readers to do that. When that happened in this book, I think that was the point that I completely checked out and was done. Yes I finished it only because I wanted to see some type of comeuppance to the man that hurt the FMC all of these years, but I rushed through reading all of that to get to that point because I was definitely done with the book. This is not one that I would recommend unless you can be OK with the things that I’ve talked about here.
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I'm not quite sure where to start I just know that she went through so much and how she is surviving everyday is amazing. With the help of Leo even though he screwed up they got back on track. I just hoped the Epilogue had her getting pregnant.
Fast-paced, OTT drama-llama, MC-lite/MC story with über dark elements, that requires A LOT of suspension of disbelief to finish. A club president, Blade, the MMC, encounters a fetching beauty as he scouts out an enemy’s property to torch. They agree to a no-strings dalliance that irks interested others on both sides of the equation. The MMC’s side insists she’s a Patch Chaser, while on the FMC’s side, her obsessed rapist of seven years ramps up the punishment he doles out for daring to catch someone’s attention. Our FMC is closely connected to the rival MC and when the “secret” is revealed, crushing betrayal ensues!
Now. How these two geniuses became MC presidents with only four working neurons between the two of them is a serious mystery to me. The “secrets” that unfold strain credulity. How on earth did the two clubs not vet all known associates of their rival-in-close-geographical-proximity? The MC’s tech guru needs a continuing ed course, maybe.
Anyhoo, warts and all, this one kept me reading until the end with a predictable amount of eye-rolling. I started the second and pretty quickly DNFed.
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I don't know why I keep trying this author's books; they always have SO many mistakes. Eg. “some old ladies are still here looking on with disgrace” “a few of the brothers currently getting f*ck also have old ladies” “my father, the former president of the club, has handed the reigns down to me” “alliance” instead of “allegiance” “the roles … is now being changed” “most of the cops … are under our payroll” “another reason why I prefer their a$$’s to their c*nts” These mistakes are just from the first TWO pages! DNF
Look, I’m all for a gritty MC romance novel, but when your six chapters in and you’ve read more graphic descriptions of the fmc getting r*ped and dreaming about ending her life than anything else, it’s time to call it quits. The main characters haven’t even met yet, and after all the abuse she’s already been put through, I wasn’t sticking around for the betrayal. Not what I’m here for.
An absolutely horrible book. Grammar issues, continuity issues, and there is no reason for a woman to be brutalized that much in any story. Especially what’s supposedly a romance, even if dark. And her reaction to the hero after being raped for 7 years by the villain is completely unrealistic. There’s fantasy and then there’s rubbish. This is rubbish.
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Could be very triggering for some, which made it a tough read. Some editorial issues, spelling mistakes, sentences that didn’t make sense. The ending was way too long.
This probably would have been one of my favorite books in the series if it weren’t so difficult to get through because of the sheer number of sexual assault scenes.
Luna has been abused by Brock since she was thirteen, and the book does not keep that violence off-page. These are open-door, detailed assault scenes, and there are multiple throughout the book. Eventually, I started skipping them. I already understood what Luna had survived, why she had stopped fighting back, and why she believed no one was coming to help her.
What makes that especially frustrating is that there was another side of Luna’s story that I would have much rather explored: this is essentially the first time she gets to discover her own sexuality on her own terms.
I don’t even want to say she was reconnecting with her sexuality, because she wasn’t. She was connecting with it for the first time. Her previous sexual experiences had been defined by someone else taking away her choices. With Blade, she feels genuine attraction and gets to decide for herself that she wants to explore it. There was something potentially really empowering there about Luna discovering what it feels like to have autonomy over her own body and to choose who touches her.
I wish the book had spent more time inside those feelings instead of repeatedly returning to another assault.
It also could have added so much depth to Luna and Blade’s early relationship without requiring her to immediately reveal everything that had happened to her. She could have told him that being with him felt different, that she’d never really felt like she’d been able to choose before, or even vaguely alluded to past experiences that weren’t completely consensual. Blade wouldn’t necessarily have known exactly what she meant yet, but it could have given him—and us—the sense that there was much more to this woman than he initially understood.
There were so many ways to build Luna’s story and their connection without another open-door assault scene.
Their biggest issue as a couple was a lack of communication, but Luna also had very good reasons for not communicating. She had learned at thirteen that telling the truth wasn’t safe. When she tried to tell her mother and brother that Brock had assaulted her, they didn’t believe her. Her mother actually slapped her for accusing a brother, and Axe believed his best friend over his little sister. After years of abuse and being failed by the people who should have protected her, of course Luna learned to keep things to herself.
Blade eventually fails her too. When he discovers who she really is before she gets the chance to explain it herself, he immediately assumes the worst. He calls her a liar, a whore, and a patch chaser when she is already at her breaking point.
But here’s what separates this book from several of the ones that follow: the story knows Blade was wrong.
Luna isn’t eventually convinced that she was equally responsible because she should have communicated better. Blade doesn’t turn her self-protection into some enormous betrayal that she needs to apologize for. He recognizes what he did, understands why she couldn’t trust people with the truth, and has to make amends for his own behavior.
After reading further into this series, I appreciate that more than I did at the time. This is one of the few books where I didn’t finish feeling like the woman had somehow been assigned half the responsibility for the man’s behavior.
There is also one unexpected benefit to this being Book 1: there isn’t a previous book available to recap every twenty pages. 😂 Enjoy that while it lasts. Starting in Book 2, the series begins retelling previous couples’ stories in increasingly detailed information dumps, and somehow it gets worse in Book 3 and worse again in Book 4.
So this one frustrates me because the bones of a really good story are here. I liked Blade and Luna’s relationship, Luna’s reasons for keeping secrets made sense, and Blade ultimately took responsibility for hurting her. More importantly, there was an opportunity to tell a genuinely empowering story about a woman who had spent years without control over her own body finally discovering desire, choice, and sexual autonomy for herself.
I just wish the book had trusted that story to be powerful enough without repeatedly putting Luna—and the reader—through another assault.
So this starts off strong (in the worst sense). MMC is watching a club orgy basically while his mom is in the same room. Yeah, he mentions his mom while watching two club girls having sex. Anyways, I almost DNFed but decided to keep going for whatever reason. I ended up staying until the end solely because of Luna, I empathized with her a lot and really liked her as a character. I wanted to see her get her happy ending.
Everything else was pretty much a mess. The misogyny in this book really rubbed me the wrong way. I get that most MMC books are intentionally like that, but it gets to a point. You cannot write every other character, except for the FMC, as a “whore”, a “bitch”, a “patch chaser” (wtf are they chasing anyways, i literally don’t see the benefits), someone who’s after every man, poking holes in every man’s condom trying to get pregnant. It was sickening, ridiculous and unnecessary.
Then, the “romance”. I really believe that was secondary. This was not a romance book, this was more of a story about a survivor. The romance came second. Which I thought was a choice. We got to read more about the FMC being abused than the MMC and the FMC being together romantically. Hence, the MMC felt like a secondary character at best, I honestly didn’t care about him at all, he was most definitely not likeable.
I’m giving this 3.5 stars because I stayed until the end, and read this in one sitting basically. It was not because of the writing (which was not good), but because the plot managed to pull me in (I particularly love betrayal books). So I honestly think this author would benefit A LOT from a good editor, because I think the ingredients to write something good are there. But there’s a lot of tweaking and polishing to do.
I always devour C.L. McGinlay's books... They are my guilty pleasure.. Love the romance, OW drama, the suspense.. all of it. I liked Blade. I couldn't connect with Luna. Her character was broken, but then times were gusty. It didn't work for me. I felt bad for everything she went through and it was hard to read. She went through a lot. My heart broke for her. Trust me when I say please read the trigger warnings. I like the way Luna and Blade's romance developed. I mean, who doesn't love reading about an MC President who swears he will never love and ends up falling big time? Love the backstories in Blade, that is happening with the other characters, sets you up to want the next book.
First of all, I’ve read a lot of books from this author - some I like, some I like more than others, some I really think is kinda bad, and then there’s this one. This might be the authors best work yet. Sure there was some grammar mistakes, some spelling issues.. I can over look them though.
I think this book was good and I liked the story. It deals with heavy subjects and its really throughout the book. The main characters was a trip, I liked how the MMC really brought the FMC out of her shell without even knowing what she was living through or how he actually gave her breathing room. They had chemistry from the start and their journey to happiness was a bit messy but enjoyable.
I loved the side characters and hope everyone gets a book LOL. And I hope the FMCs mother disappear. As the FMC says, some people shouldn’t have kids.
A character I hated from the start and loved by the end was the mother of the MMC. I feel she really needs to get recognition for everything her man put her through. It’s so common that the women in MC books get put through so much and rarely get an apology. She deserves it just as the FMC in this book deserves.
❤️🩹⚠️Please mind the triggers with this one, it’s was a bit hard to read for me that really has no triggers so if you do have them - might not be the book for you. Your mental health is important ❤️🩹⚠️
This was a difficult novel to read for multiple reasons. One is the violence. There’s sexual violence on the FMC and violence inflicted as revenge. There was also torture and general toxic male violence. There is graphic description of each of those violent scenes so people who can’t handle that should skip those parts or skip this book altogether.
The writing is a bit repetitive in the sense that it felt like a copy-paste happened of how a scene was described as it was happening and it being narrated to another character. It happened enough times to be noticed and it feels like a lazy narrative style.
Typos and punctuation errors galore. Okay not THAT money, but definitely there were enough to be borderline dealbreakers.
Lastly. Characterization. I cannot and refuse to believe that someone who claims to put family first actually put his blood family last. And nobody (not even the author) called him out for also being a self-centered jerk. When he tried to make amends with the FMC, he said that he “needed” the FMC to give him an inch of forgiveness. Mister, you do NOT force a severely traumatized person into forgiving you when you yourself was part of that trauma.
This book was hard to read. I had to take breaks from it because it was that hard. Not because it wasn't a good book, but because Luna went through so much. Blade was pretty good. He messed up a little, but he made up for it. The only thing that would have made this better would have been if Luna had ended up pregnant. She deserved it. Can't wait for the next installment of this series.
The only detractors were the grammar and editing, but if you've read this authors books, you know it's inevitable to have these errors. I choose to overlook them because I enjoy her stories too much to not continue reading her books.
What a great start to a new series, it had so much emotional impact and the main characters were great. Blade as the president and Luna trying to live day by day. Luna is the sister of enemy club president. But she has been hurt but no one believes her , she finally escapes meets Blade they have an agreement. But what happens when things change, feelings change, secrets are revealed, the enemy targets Blades club and keeps hurting Luna ? Will Blade believe everyone else? Will Luna finally lose the battle to fight? You have to read this amazing book. Until the next one .
The story was okay, but the poor grammar and exceptionally poor writing really distracted from the story. It took me much longer than it should have to finish this book because I was constantly backtracking to re-read sentences that didn't make sense. The author constantly had two different people speaking in the same paragraph. Run on sentences became the norm. And don't get me started on how weak and pathetic these clubs were. What club president is going to allow another club to continually attack his people and his businesses without retaliation? I think I will skip the rest of this author's books to preserve my sanity.
This book has potential, but good god the amount of errors throughout the whole book took away from being able to stay in the story. The “characters” aren’t even characters, you literally learn nothing about them except for trauma. That’s the whole story, trauma after trauma, which is fine but the FMC deserves to be more than just trauma. This one needs an overhaul and at least 2 more passes through an editor.
I love this style of book….angsty, gritty mc trope. Unfortunately there just isn’t much substance to the characters. They are all very surface level with trauma and circumstances are thrown around without any real depth. Also, even though this book has been edited there are numerous mistakes and editing issues. Such a shame as I feel this authors earlier books were written differently, I’m not sure what changed….
I can’t believe her brother and his MC were so blind 😭😭😭 also, bbg deserved better. She should’ve Left everything behind and started a new life far away from both MCs
I think this book has a lot of potential but it is riddled with spelling and grammatical errors and other issues that could be easily corrected with a good editor.
This felt soooo difficult to finish by the end. I was interested in the story from the beginning, but the writing just got so bad it really detracted from enjoying the book. I really had to push to finish this