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320 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 6, 2020

I'm sorry, but this is quite frankly a terrible book and I really don't understand why everyone loves Edge. But then again, the male character is very frequently defended while the female character is abhorred. I see the trend continues. I don't generally believe that authors write what they believe, but I have started to think that Cassandra Robbins must really detest women. Unless it's the heroine or maybe her friend if she's lucky, every female character is presented as a slut looking to "steal" the hero or just someone completely unworthy of existing. Gag, honestly.
Unfortunately, Dolly doesn't even get to be semi uplifted like the two heroines that came before her. She quite understandably hates the MC life and is completely gaslit by EVERYONE, including Edge, that SHE is the problem. Don't even get me started on the fact that Edge is a goddamn self-fulfilling prophecy. He hates that she doesn't trust him? Well, damn. Guess he just has to cheat on her. He does actually cheat on her (handwaved away by many reviews defending him) and almost does it again ON THEIR WEDDING NIGHT when she doesn't immediately jump for joy at the thought of him impregnating her. He's a prick. It's ridiculous and disgusting, especially since the male characters routinely go apeshit when another man just looks at "his woman." And no, this is not just a trend in her biker series.
Furthermore, the fact that he and everyone else brainwashes Dolly into accepting both the club and carrying his spawn by the end made my actual skin crawl. I adore heroes and heroines having babies, but that her concerns and fears were just dismissed and she was immediately the "bad guy" (labeled that way by EVERYONE) was off-putting and no way in hell do I think she's wrong for having reservations about bringing children into that life.
I would also like to say that I am fully aware that the alpha genre comes with assholes, but Edge is not an alpha. He's a whiny f**kboi who can't stand the fact that the life he's chosen for himself is not compatible with the woman he's chosen to love and that she's too stubborn to just shut up and give him what he wants. It's a real pity he gets his way in the end.
Read this book if you want to see an example of successful gaslighting and breaking down someone's personality until they do and exist exactly the way you want them to. If you want a compelling romance story, however, definitely give it a miss. And yes, to the reviews saying Edge will 100% cheat on Dolly again when the next argument props up: he probably would if he were real. But their cameos in future installments will act like their romance is earned and believable and that Edge is perfect.
I will not be reading anything else by this author. I like dark romance and I don't need every character to be good or perfect, but even I got thoroughly tired of the misogyny, slutshaming and constant fatphobia in her books.




