Forged

Devil's Spawn MC #6

by Natasha Thomas

From the outside looking in, Tobias ‘Saint’ Phillips has it all. A gorgeous wife, three beautiful children, and after just being voted in as First Rider for Devil’s Spawn MC he appeared to be living the dream...except he wasn’t. Saint was living a lie. A life based on half-truths, secrecy, and deception.

Tallulah ‘Tilly’ Walker married the first, and only man she’s ever loved, had three precious children with him, and devoted more than ten years of her life to their life together, for what? Years of covering the hurt his transgressions inflicted on her, and even longer attempting to ignore the pity filled stares she receives from the other old ladies. In her mind to date, ignorance had been bliss, but now, after over a decade of overlooking her husband’s faults, Tilly can no longer hide her daily pain and suffering… some things, everything, has to change.

With his marriage on the verge of dissolution, and his children barely aware of who he is anymore, Saint has to come to terms with the growing divide he’s creating at home, and face the reality his family may soon be a distant memory, or he can choose to fight for the only people more important to him than his brothers in the MC. However, neither choice comes without a catch…

Tensions rise when Saint is forced into a situation that isn’t only a matter of life or death, but might also be the one thing to push Tilly past the point of no return; ending their marriage. Ending the one thing he truly values, the one thing he’d yearned for since the day he met her. With no choice but to follow through with the demands of the club Saint is left alone to deal with the repercussions of his actions, and forge the pieces of his life back together.

Follow Saint and Tilly as they both work to salvage their marriage from the wreckage of past and present, hopefully creating a stronger relationship forged from the dark days encroaching on their future.

Genres: Erotica, Abuse, Romance, Contemporary

230 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 23, 2015

About the author

~ ABOUT THE AUTHOR ~

Born in, New Zealand, Natasha moved to Australia the year she turned eight. Growing up with a younger brother and two loving parents, it wasn't long before she realized her love of reading, creative writing, all things rock 'n' roll, concerts, ripped jeans and vintage, heavy metal t-shirts.

With the support of her husband and three children, she was able to break into the Indie Author scene with her first self-published title, Burnt, Book One in the Devil’s Spawn MC series. Since then, Natasha Thomas has gone on to write many titles in both the MC and Contemporary Romance genres, many of which have made the Amazon Bestsellers list, and become an International Bestselling Author with the release of Knight, Book 6 in the Vengeance MC series.

Reviews

[EgyptDiva · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have absolutely no idea how I’m supposed to rate this, so I’m hoping writing a written review might help me figure it out. -It did help thankfully- ;)
I was actually just starting to read a much awaited novel but just after reading the blurb of this book, I felt drawn to it and just had to read it now and went in almost blind which never happens anymore :D !

The thing is I cannot review this like I want to without spoiling so I’ll tag all the review just to be safe.


So you know when you read a prologue and think , I believe I’ve found a 5 star read !
That’s what happened here, and to be perfectly clear, if I didn’t spoil some stuff for myself I wouldn’t have moved past the prologue for obvious reasons but fortunately I did.

So the book starts with Tobi, telling us how fucked up his life is becoming, despite him having an amazing wife, 3 girls and his club brothers. Apparently his marriage is falling apart and for a good reason, not only did he cheat on his wife, he has a son with the woman he cheated with.

At this point I know what you’re thinking. HOW THE HELL DID I MOVE PAST THAT ?!

I’ll tell you in a minute, but first let me introduce Tobi’s wife, Tilly. She’s a woman with a secret in her past that she kept from her husband and he was aware of that but stopped pushing her to confess. She’s a great mother, and she’s also a woman who’s had enough and who wants a divorce from her husband, the love of her life, the only man she’s been with.


So Apparently what happened is, Tobi woke up one night after being completely drunk with a naked woman in his club’s room bed. He has no recollection of the night before so of course he completely freaked out and was devastated that he did that to the only woman he ever loved. So stupidly, he doesn’t tell his wife right away. But after Stacey (That woman) tells him she’s pregnant with his child, he has no choice but to be straight with his wife and hope for the best. But he doesn’t know that Stacey already beat him to the punch. Now I tried to hold my judgment on Tilly’s reaction because I cannot fathom what she was feeling right then specially that she was 4 months pregnant. I know OUCH!.

She made a decision she’ll later regret. She didn’t want to give him free reign to fuck around while she’s pregnant. I think it was some sort of punishment for him and a safe enough choice for her to tell him that he would live the double life he created. He’ll live with her and her girls and go visit his other son. Tobi who is so confused but is too scared to argue, agrees.
But 3 years of that life took its toll on them, Tilly is of course not accepting any physical relationship with him during that time and assumes that he’s already sleeping around and sleeping with Stacey and Tobi doesn’t correct her, another decision he’ll later regret. It was a misguided attempt of him to punish himself for having to cut down from his time with his girls to sneak out and see his boy. He felt that it was cheating on her even if it was with his time. But he loved his son so he couldn’t not see him. But 3 years later… Tilly decides with a help of a close friend Rob that enough is enough. That she can’t live like that and that she’ll ask for divorce. But Toby wouldn’t accept it, he loves her too much for that. He begs her for another chance and makes all kinds of promises but the one thing she agreed to was to let him make love to her one last time. And Believe it or not , We’re only as far as the second chapter in the book. LOL!!

“Tilly. I love you, babe. More than you’ll ever know. If you leave me I won’t survive it. It will fucking break me.”

I know! I swear by the 20% mark I was like, What the hell is going to happen the rest of the book?! but the 30% I felt like I was bombarded with angst overload and too much info to take in but I loved it.

I will put you out of your misery first though lol. Why did I continue reading? Why did I forgive Toby? It’s simple. He didn’t do it. That Stacey person drugged him, he passed out, she stripped him and herself and convinced him the next day that they slept together. He never touched her, he actually hated her, He’s with his wife for 12 years and he never touched another woman. I really felt his absolute devotion for her. He worshipped her, he never did anything during the 3 years his wife stopped sleeping with him, saying that even his hand wasn’t working for him. Going as far as saying that she will be the last woman he’ll ever be with even if she didn’t forgive him because the thought of sleeping with another woman makes him sick. I was cheering so hard for him then, I can’t tell you how much!!

“I love you, Tallulah Annaliese Phillips. I’ve never loved a woman before or after you, and I never will. You’re it for me. If you tell me this is it, that we’re still done, I’ll fight for you with the last breath in my body until the day I die to make you change your mind. That’s how much I love you, babe. I can’t and won’t live without you, Tilly. It’d kill me if you tried to make me.”

Swoon right?!

With that said, I didn’t really relate to how things was solved between them regarding that issue, I understood that Tilly wanted to apologize for assuming the worst of her husband ( That he was sleeping around) and I actually liked that she didn’t feel too proud to admit that. But I also felt like she should’ve at least lashed out at him for making her believe all of it in the first place. Because as much as he was doing it to maybe punish himself, he was hurting her too. So I felt that she should’ve needed more time to absorb that information. But I tried as much as I could to not judge their reactions and just try to understand them. I also couldn’t get why his club brothers didn’t tell him about the fact that Stacey was sleeping with another brother which would make him a more appropriate candidate to be the father.

But anyway...

Unfortunately things started going not-so-well for me and here’s why ,these are also the reasons why this didn’t get a 5 star rating from me :-

1- That was an issue from the beginning but I thought it might stop happening at some point which was that the flow of the story was affected by the way it was written, and keep in mind , this is just my opinion and preference and it might not bother most people. But while there were no “flashback” chapters in the traditional scene, the characters did a lot of long inner monologues “recalling events” that sometimes I got lost of what was a memory and what was the present. Because sometimes it was actually a memory within a memory. And while I don’t always prefer (PAST - PRESENT) chapters, I felt it would’ve been easier for me to follow the story that way, rather than try to guess what’s now and what’s then. Because let’s face it, the story is about a married couple that was together for 12 years so there has to be talk about their past together or individually. I just wish it was done in a different way.

2- Too much characters, too much info, too much going on. I liked that at first, I felt the story was rich and a lot of people might keep thinking that, but for me I’d rather focus on the couple the story is about. But at one point I felt the book got too much for me. Specially that I didn’t know it wasn’t the first in a series, it was the last, so too many characters were already introduced that I didn’t know. But also new ones where introduced along with their stories

and while I enjoyed them, I felt they took time from the original couple. I would’ve preferred to see a slower transition between the divorce phase and the happy phase of Tilly and Tobi and a more focus on their marriage instead.

3- Ok this one will probably make me appear overdramatic, and maybe I am but Tobi’s thoughts about Alysia in Chapter 22 angered me to no end. I’m the kind of reader who’s too possessive of the H/h and doesn’t want the H to have so much as a lustul thought about another woman, and maybe that’s not realistic but the way Tobi was written made me feel it was supposed to be true in their case until it wasn’t. To elaborate, I’m going to have to introduce Alysia.

Well, remember Rob? The close friend of the heroine’s ? Yeah ! Turns out he was in love with her, and was waiting for her to break it off with Tobi. But when he finds out she won’t, he tells her his feelings and stupidly enough, he does it front of Tobi. Tobi hits him in the head, he passes out and with the help of his best friend Glock, he takes him in a van, to a basement planning to beat the shit out of him and God knows what else. What we didn’t know is Glock was Rob’s foster brother, Rob had a friend when he was a teenager that was in love with him but apparently he was pushing her away because of his “demons” at the time. That friend was Alysia. When she once saw him going at it with a girl in a car, she decides enough it enough, Glock tells her that Rob isn’t ready for a person like her and that he’s not in a place he could give her anything she wants. He promises her, he’ll call if he needs anything though. She starts pushing Rob away till he moves from his foster parents (a lot of bad things happened in that home). And years later, Glock calls her for a favor. She’s now a kickass trained fighter that was in the army and that did work for their club, her brother too, and has a sway there so she called in her favor so that Tobi would let Rob go.

That’s the most simple way I could’ve put that LOL. The funny thing is once Rob hears her voice, he starts having all sorts of thoughts about her, lusty once and everything which made me think he didn’t love Tilly that much ( We’ll later find out he didn’t really but that’s another story).
Anyway, Alysia is working undercover for the club to capture a man that hurt Tilly in her past. She’s posing as a stripper. I got really nervous when I knew Toby would be there, not because I thought he might think of cheating because I was 100% sure he wouldn’t. But because I was 100% sure the author would want us to know how gorgeous Alysia is, so she did that. Sadly, for her to emphasize her beauty, it completely broke my heart that she sacrificed my almost perfect vision of Toby, I hated the whole chapter, I felt it had no point.

If you wanted to tell us how gorgeous she was, you should’ve made the chapter with Rob’s POV seeing that you did write a chapter with his POV and some chapters with Alysia’s POV.

I know it’s common that a man gets hard watching a woman in a strip club but I didn’t want that image of Toby in my head specially that he was written in a way that made me feel he cannot see anything beyond Tilly. Yes, he said that he loved the hell out of his wife and that even if he was married it’s ok to enjoy a beautiful woman dancing but we didn’t need him describing her legs or her breasts in so much damn detail. He was supposed to be there for club business so his focus shouldn’t have been on the stage and he shouldn’t have enjoyed her performance that much. He did say that even if he got hard at her performance that he would never act on it. But I already knew that. He already said countless times how his wife was the most stunning woman he’d ever seen and so on(before that chapter).. But I REALLY think that chapter could’ve just not happened.

Again I want to emphasize that I never doubted his faithfulness to Tilly, he said it more than once in that same chapter that he’s so in love with his wife and that’s what’s keeping him from wanting a “piece” of Alysia. He was actually glad that Rob seemed interested to shift his focus from his wife, so there were absolutely no feelings there. And I’m pretty sure all that description was to build up Alysia and nothing more but again, it would’ve been so much better if it was from Rob’s POV seeing that they’ll get their own novel or at least not in so much detail for Toby to notice her curves, her cup size, the color of her nipples , the shape of her ass and how "in-fucking-sane" her body is!. A lot of readers might not even blink while reading that chapter but I’m one of the weird ones who embarrassingly shed a tear, that’s how much I loved Toby, that’s how much I felt it was too unnecessary to throw that in there to build up a character at the expense of another.

With that said, I really loved Alysia, I thought she was great woman and would make a great heroine. And I was rooting for her to get Rob even if I’m still not decided about him.

Edit : Reread that part, for some reason it felt shorter than the first time, maybe because I was expecting it or because I didn't need to take a lot of breaks lol. But I thought I'd put that out there.

Full Disclosure : Tilly did think of Alysia’s brother as the most attractive man she’d ever seen ( aside from her husband), and thought he was really sexy and also described his body and so on.. I’m also sure it was a way of introducing his character as a future hero. But for some reason it didn’t bother me like Toby’s description.

Tilly ends up being a close friend to Alysia though because Alysia did sacrifice a lot to rid Tilly from that man and she was a good person. Toby says that he loved Alysia for what she did for his wife but that he was actually relieved she’s gone from town because she kept visiting in not so-good-times *cough*cockblocker*cough* LOL … So yeah it wasn’t a big deal to them. I am just that picky :D !



So yeah, those are the main things that didn’t work for me. I tried to be as honest as I can. I get why this book might receive a lot of 5 stars, most of the characters were really great! It wasn’t your usual MC book with club whores sleeping with the heroes and so on.. they were barely mentioned which I really liked. There is a high chance I’ll read more of this author because other than those 3 points, I absolutely LOVED Tilly and Tobi’s love for each other, it was kinda inspiring. So Overall, I did enjoy the book, and felt like it had a lot more stories to tell in next novels.

[Lu Bielefeld · Rating 3 out of 5]

UPDATE: 2018
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In my opinion he must have cheated, otherwise he would demand a DNA test as soon as Club Whore accused him of the boy's paternity.
He accepted easily and began to split between his family and the one he created with the other woman.
All very suspicious.
Our heroine should have required a paternity test and kicked his ass out of the house. After all, according to scenes from the previous books, he spent days without returning home and came with the scent of cheap perfume from the whores. And, according to scenes from previous books, he got his dick hard for them.
Drama, drama and more drama.
Another doormat that accepts everything and forgives everything easily.

Tobias ‘Saint’ Phillips ==> CHEATER IMO <== book Broken (Devil's Spawn MC, #5)
Stacey one of the club whores climbs on to my lap where I’m sitting at the bar and starts purring in my ear. “You’ve got fifteen minutes before you have to be in church, I can take care of that for you first if you want,” she says squeezing my semi-hard cock firmly.

wish I had time to take her up on her offer though. A blow job from a woman who can deep throat all the way down to the base of my shaft sounds fucking phenomenal.

I didn’t make it home for three days after Liam’s patch party, but that’s a story for another time.

Three miserable fucking years.

No, the double life I’ve been leading started when I cheated on my wife. But not only did I cheat on her and in turn disrespect our marriage is, but I did it in a way that I’d never be able to deny it. Why? Because I’ve got a son to another woman too.

The fact Stacey had my boy in the same hospital while Tilly was still recovering after having Nevie didn’t help me hide it, but Tilly knew long before that, so was a moot point.

“I already know, Saint. I know it all. Every single heart destroying detail.”

“But divorce would be too easy to, wouldn’t it? It would wrap things up in a neat little package for you. It would leave you free to make a nice new family with the home wrecking slut that thought it was a good idea to fuck my husband for the past eight months,” she says sneering.

At first, Saint called me daily, several times a day actually, but over the months that followed it dwindled down to only occasional calls. When it further deteriorated to sporadic text messages here and there, if any at all, that was when I knew I didn’t need to wonder anymore.

About three months ago, when he started coming home later than he was expected by hours, I came to the realization I couldn’t keep doing this.

“I’m not sure what your idea of good is, but fucking another woman at least twice a week, is not good, Saint. Not even close. I’ve put up with this for years. You not coming home, leaving in the middle of the night when you don’t think I’ll notice. I’ve shared you for God’s sake. I’ve shared my husband for nearly three years, and I’ve finally realized that if this keeps going, it’s on me. That I’ll need to take responsibility for it not you, and I don’t want that for myself, Saint. But I especially don’t want any of this for the girls.”

“Well if my wife,” he says with exaggeration on the word wife, “was fucking opening her legs, I wouldn’t be going elsewhere would I?” He enquires all but baring his teeth at me.

I’m done being put second. I’m done having to fight for scraps of the man that should have been mine, and only mine. I’m just done.

It doesn’t make a difference that I’m not actually fucking Stacey, it’s still a betrayal to Tilly and everything our marriage stands for.

[Elfina Renee · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm sorry, so freaking sorry but I couldn't do it, after forcing myself to read seven hundred and eighty eight pages, I gave up the fight and threw in the towel. The reason why I didn't like it are as follows, yes I'll keep my bitch fit short.

1. Five different point of views changes for sure, but there could be more.

2. Chronological events- what should have happened in the beginning pages of the chapter was stuck in the middle. Couldn't see the relevance, sure knowing ahead of time about Tobias and his parents would have given us insight into the man he'd grown to be, even explained some of his fucked up decision making. Buuuut that's not what we got, ahhhhh!

3. Boring- It started off strong with Tobias narrating and then it just fizzles out after it switched into Tallulah ‘Tilly’ point of view. The anticipation of major events took a back seat once the couple began working out their differences. ( Too bad you can't see me doing the eye roll.



4. Over kill in narration and not nearly enough dialog. The author seemed hell bent on telling the story, than making us the readers apart of it, so I really struggled to connect with anyone.

Forged: A Devil's Spawn MC had all of the bases for being exceptional; evil uncle and member of the club committing vile heinous acts. A cheating hubby knocking up the other woman. I'd like to say there was more going on within the MC but there wasn't. No acts of violence against the club, it was painful for me to read but maybe you'll have better luck! Enjoy!

[Danny Lea · Rating 3 out of 5]

This wasn't bad nor the best. Just ok. This is the first book I've read in this series which seems to be the last with the parents generation. I read reviews to get a clear picture if the H Saint did in fact cheat on his wife in previous books because apparently this series had various character POVs throughout. There's a lot of misinformation because he in fact did NOT cheat. He was drugged and made to believe he did with the evil OW Stacey. Who of course later turns out to be pregnant. But why no one asking for a paternity test has me thinking everyone is dumb. We know how club whores operate when they have their eye's set on an MC. The h Tilly, Saint's wife, giving him permission and actually forcing him to step out for his other "family" was just stupid on her part. So the H spends the better part of two year's staying with the OW and fathering a boy that isn't even his which we come to find out because he was so out cold when the OW drugged him. She got him to follow stumbling to his room at the MC clubhouse and proceeded to set everything up. NOW I know he was turned on in a previous book that set this scene up, but had no intention of following through. You're going to get a lot of POVs in this book and the MC H definitely has a stronger presence throughout than the FMC which is rare I think. A major critique though. Too much waffling as a friend of mine likes to say. Getting to the point took a while in this book. It was a bit tiring. There is the inner monologue of him getting turned on by an undercover stripper named Aly. Actually all of them to be honest. These guys are mostly all married so if that's not your thing you won't like this. And actually that's not my thing either. I will read books with cheating I do not mind it, but after the reconciliation has happened and the H has inner monologue of getting turned on by another woman I find it distasteful. BUT it's a MC book so this is just the norm 🤷

[Jac K · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read these two while out of town without reading reviews. After the hot mess of the first book, I decided to skip a ways to this one to see if the writing had improved. It starts out promising enough but everything happens really fast, and within the first two chapters what IMO was the money shot of the book is rushed through. What we're left with is a congested plot with way too many povs, and a conflict based on illogical decisions of characters and withholding information. I HATE this plot device; it always feels lazy by having a misunderstanding based on assumptions or a character failing to do what any normal person would do.

The book opens with the Tobi telling us he cheated on his pregnant wife. He can’t remember it, but woke up naked next to a club bunny, Stacey. I think most readers would know where this is going, but Tobias just assumed the woman who’s sole job is to screw his brothers is preggers with his kid. This is made worse because when Tilly finds out, she declares that they will stay married and he will split his time between their girls and his son.

“You’re going to have to live with consequences of your actions. Youre going to have your cake and eat it too per say. You’re going to live both lives.”

“What are you saying, babe? You can’t fucking mean that? I don’t want her, I want you, and only you. I love you, Tilly. I’ve loved you for eleven fucking years, and I don’t intend to let that bitch come between us. Even if she is having my kid, I’m not letting that change things for us.”

Then we FFWD a few years later to a very unhappy Tilly serving Tobi with divorce papers, and we're only in chapter 2. We skipped over all the angsty stuff in-between. This nasty business is all cleared up in the first half, then the plot takes a MEGA veer into Tilly’s past which is where I started skimming.

Bottom Line- Better, but not great. The pacing was off, we flew through pivotal parts, skipped over things we needed, but then drug out the last half. I thought the first book was for Jerry Springer fans, but I think this one is more for Maury Povich because we’re dealing with paternity.
** Just a note- it has nothing to do with this story, but I think this is spinning off to the kids, and 2 important characters die in the epilogue which is sad. Priest and Brenna have been the King and Queen/ Ma and Pop to club throughout all the books.

Less than six months later I buried the woman I loved with everything in me and three months later I in turn left my daughter to bury her father.

Brenna’s and my last breaths may have inadvertently ended an era, but at the same time it made room for a new beginning for Devil’s Spawn MC. We had shaped, molded, and ushered in new recruits that were more than capable of seeing the club through the next generation and beyond. And that was all we’d wanted.

[Serialbookstarter:Marla]

DNF- I just couldn’t wade through all of the idiocy of this one. You wake up with a club whore after being black out drunk. She winds up pregnant and you don’t even think to get a paternity test? If she’s a club whore she’s been with everyone in the club plus some dude. The whole scenario was too stupid to buy. I guess that’s what happens when authors want to write a cheating book but cave to the safety gang trying to keep everyone happy equals mediocre fiction.

[Tessa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just realized I never reviewed this book. Honestly I wanted to give it more then 3 stars but couldn't because I felt key parts of the last 3 years were never discussed. Yay for him that he's not the father but it doesn't take back the last 3 years that he spent sneaking out, staying the night and essentially abandoning his family for the OW and "his" son. It seemed like he spent more time with the OW son then he did with his own daughters. Also him letting the h believe that he was sleeping with the OW all that time was beyond messed up. Yet none of this is discussed. Its just swept under the rug like it never happened once it comes out that the OW lied and he never cheated or father the little boy.

[Debbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This has been an amazing series, I have loved every single one. Legacy will be the last Devil's Spawn book, released date Aug 24th. Now I can not wait for the next set of M.C reads to be released, Vengeance M.C series starts in October. I will also be reading The Patricks' Brothers series, I love Natasha's stories & would prob read the phone directory if she published it (Err, no not really but you get my drift)............LOl

[Bev · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked this one up despite struggling with the first book in the series because ... cheating = catnip! I skipped the rest of the series and had hoped to see some growth in the writing. Instead what I got was page after page after page of narration (same as the first book), tell and no show (again same as the first book) and so many different side stories and POV's it got ridiculous. What did improve is the editing, it's not polished by any stretch but at least I could make sense of this one.

And the cheating aspect that never was?? Yeah, that's what pulled me in right from the beginning but the way it was explained away didn't work. There was NO cheating, just a total pussy who was so up his own arse he couldn't be honest to the "love of his life" aka his wife and clear the whole thing up and save his marriage. What. A. Moron! At least Tilly shook off her doormat status and grew a backbone.

[Megan Fall · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an amazing book. I loved all the characters and can't wait to read Rob and Aly's story and Liam and Macy's story. Thank god for the two spin off series!! Love these books and love all the characters!!! Good to know when I finish the last book there will be more!!

[RCK *don’t be all, like, uncool* · Rating 2 out of 5]

I skimmed A LOT.. I felt ther was not enough dialogue! The author can definitely write but this was not for me.

[Maria]

I liked this book in the beginning. The pov of the mmc and fmc was good and engaging. I felt for both of them. There was s history of abuse thst traumatized the fmc and the perceived indiscretion of the love of her life ( other woman and baby) finally got to her after leading two lives for 3 years. She asked him for a divorce. He's determined not to lose her and fights for their relationship.

The problem was for me that after 40 percent into the story the main disagreements were resolved. There were also multiple povs that's started to confuse me. I decided that I got enough out of the story around page 100 that I didn't finish it.

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[Caryn · Rating 5 out of 5]

By far the best! Saint and Tilly was a surprisingly good story and filled with so much action, love and heartache it made my head spin. There was constantly something happening which could bring out emotions like anger at some of the situations or characters and, in the next moment, tears for what they’ve been through.

A great read. I loved it!

[Debbie DiFiore · Rating 3 out of 5]

MC clubs make me nervous

I read this and it is good, but there are far too.many unbelievable moments in it, and the characters are way over the top. Ex seals, spies, rich guys, etc.this one ended up.being.okay.for me because he never really did what he thought he'd done, but sometimes his thoughts about other women annoyed me. He did love.his wife Alysia sounds like a good future novel but I can't find.it. I probably wouldnt.read it either. but she was intriguing. Also there was so much.going.on at one time, I found it hard to keep up with. The epilogue was tragic and made me cry even though.I didn't read the other books in the series. Crazy aren't i?

[Debbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book! OMG! This book all! It gave so much, when I started it the first parts, in fact the first few pages, made me so sad and annoyed! No actually it made me so angry it felt like Tobias has cheated on me! I was so upset, I loved the idea of Tilly and Saint being a proper HEA so the first parts really upset me to the point I didn't know if I could even carry on reading it, SO glad I did, the book, made sad, angry, laugh in some places purely with how they talk, especially the women and their bantering, brought new characters in that makes you so wish their were hours in the day to get to their books faster :-) But then the last chapter! (Do NOT skip ahead! Read how it is meant to be read!) but let me give you a warning, have a box of tissues next to you! Totally unexpected, not what you could possibly even be thinking, and I am not ashamed to admit I sobbed like a baby, I have loved this series and wait to read all the next books about all the characters we have met along the way, but I think the last chapter of this one will always stay with me.
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[Debra · Rating 4 out of 5]

My favorite, My favorite cover. I liked the Rotten E-Mail that was on the begining of all the chapters and I really liked how at the end the author had named all of the books in the series in that one paragraph. I liked how the author made you feel part of the brotherhood and family and I liked the way the author wrote, it felt like they were talking right at me..I have enjoyed this series and I would recommened this M/C series

[Debbie "Buried in Her TBR Pile" · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this one overall - I didn't take it too seriously and it was entertaining. To me, it had some KA-type drama and character actions. Of course, this increased my enjoyment more. The OW angst and drama was good. you find out later that it truly wasn't what it seemed and the OW lies about everything. If I re-read, I will rate higher. Right now 3-3.5 stars.

[Marion Wilson · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book had so much potential but it all swirled away caught up in minor storylines.
Why would he risk his family and marriage and practically walk away if he was not stepping out on her. What an empty storyline

[Sonya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this series, can't wait for the last book Legacy going to be sad to see this series end. I think the spin off series will make up for it though, also can't wait for Rob's story.

[Raffaella · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well this was weird.
There’s perceived cheating.
There’s abuse.
There’s a lot of drama that was, in the end,unnecessary.
The hero is a mc brother.
He and the heroine have been married for years, first they were high school sweethearts then they broke up for some months because she was very secretive, then they got married.
Apparently they’re quite good, and he loves her and their children but one day he wakes up with a club whore in bed.
He doesn’t tell anything to the heroine, and doesn’t remember anything. He feel remorseful and bad, he never even thought about cheating and was not one who usually drunk too much.
Some months later ow goes to the heroine and tells her she’s pregnant with the hero’s child.
The heroine refuses to divorce him, not that he wants it, and asks him to play dad to his kid without being with ow. The hero doesn’t want to leave the heroine. He loves her but decides to be also a dad for his new kid. Instead of taking the kid and coparenting as anyone would do, he goes to ow place and plays dad every night before going back home to the heroine.
The heroine thinks he’s having an affair with ow.
He and the heroine haven’t been intimate since he’s been caught.
After three years she files for divorce.
The hero is mad.
He and the heroine always had issues because she has scars and refused to tell him where are from.
The truth comes out, it was her sadistic psycho uncle.
But there’s more.
The hero never screwed ow and the kid is not his.
He was drugged by ow and didn’t perform. He was trapped, basically.
He never had sex with her too, he hated her actually.
So, I didn’t like the heroine, she should have told him about her past, if you’re not able to confide in your husband well, there’s no trust to speak of.
The hero should have refused that strange pact with the heroine. He should have asked for a dna test, since the woman was a club whore and he wasn’t the only one banging her.
The fact he didn’t remember anything should have been suspicious.
He should have respected the heroine and his family more, and he should have tried to see the kid some preestabilished days in the week, so the heroine didn’t feel second best.
I didnt like that he acted like this for years.
I hated that he didn’t try to fight for he before she actually filed for divorce.
But in the end, he never cheated, and they had issues mostly due to the heroine’s inability to trust him.
So, safety was good, but intellectually they were both very very dumb.

[Dawn Pressel · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5 STARS and I give the 1/2 for effort.

I felt like I was missing something because the book makes reference to past people or events and since I have not read the other books I was lost.

No DNA test? Just take responsibility without question. How stupid is this man?
Living 2 lives because that is what the wife wants? AND said wife has to "see" the child and the OW at club events, I kid you not!

The book included too many people and honestly should have ended 175 pages sooner but this author wants to tease you for her next series. Not gonna buy, I want to know what happens but 3.99 for a book in this series is way overpriced.

I have Savior in the series since it was free when I purchased, and I should have read this one first since it is about the sister Pris. I will give it a shot, but I am not holding out hope for a better book.

[C L DICKINSON · Rating 4 out of 5]

interesting

I love the storylines but sometimes it does seem to take forever to get where it’s going and some of the storylines fall a bit flat after such a good build up.
However there are some interesting characters and several laughs and a lot of heart searching and angst.
I am intrigued about the new characters introduced during this book and will like to read more about them.
The epilogue…what a tear jerker.
A rather silly point but I found it annoying… how does Talulah become Tilly? Tally or Lula are usually the shortened versions.

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5- 4 stars

Enjoyable, Entertaining reads.
All Books in the Devil Spawn series and Vengeance series either have A few spelling errors, Letters missing from words eg hem instead of them, he instead of her etc, and other misc errors such as timeline not matching or description of events not matching in other books .
Apart from these issues I enjoyed the books and series.

Recommend.

Tallulah aka Tilly and Tobias aka Saint

[Delight In The Quiet · Rating 2 out of 5]

This hurt my head. The large amount of narration and lack of dialogue in this book is astounding. I mean….there should be some kind of record for that and this book should be the winner. The first 2 chapters were great and it went way down hill from there. Who pretends to be cheating but doesn’t? The reasoning is just not there. Enter other story lines, blah, blah, blah. I found I was forcing myself to read this one. It had potential but fell flat for me.

[Nancy Tamez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finally!

After six books the heroine has a backbone! Love Tilly,
she doesn't let Saint run over her and makes him become
the hero you love. Hate the way it ended only because I hate to
cry. Sad to say goodbye to this family Devil Spawn

[Julie Jacobus · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was hoping for some drama and cheating but I was sadly mistaken on that. This book was flat with no emotion at all. I’m glad I only read the first book of the series and then this one.
Sadly disappointing

[Vicki Jay · Rating 5 out of 5]

awesome

Bravo ! Checking out you other work ! The story kept me involved…it was that good ! Normally I’m a scanner every other paragraph… but I read the whole thing without a skip !

[christine morgan · Rating 1 out of 5]

7/10. if you say

Good book starts off strong but getting to the end it’s just confusing. Goes from main characters of story to a non main character dying off.
Not one of the mc series I’m interested in after reading this book. At least not for me personally.

[Robin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely LOVED these books. Gobbled then up. Can’t wait to read the rest of your books.

[Pearl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Saint!

This was an excellent read for me! Saint and Tilly are at a crossroads when the unexpected happens. There's plenty of drama with sexiness too.