This is the first book in the Hades Hangmen MC Series by Simone Elise. I DNF’d a book before this one so I was determined that I was gonna finish this AND the novella that comes after it. It looks like this author has around 15 books that have been published and this wasn’t one of her first ones so I don’t understand why there are SO MANY grammar mistakes. Not just little ones either, there are whole sentences that make no sense so I guessed what it should be. A few times I started a new chapter and had to go back to the previous one to see if I missed something. It feels like there are parts to this story that are somewhere other than this book. There were so many questions I kept asking myself and thinking I had to have missed something somewhere but I didn’t miss it. I understand this is fiction and all that but there was some shit I just couldn’t accept. Harley is this big, bad head of his own empire (with his sister of course) yet when members of an MC walked into the bar he was at and left with his sister he had no clue where she was ? They were wearing their cuts so how hard was it to figure out ? Also Haylee and Harley run their empire together and they owed a debt to the MC but he didn’t know who or where they were ? And what was this mysterious debt that is mentioned several times but never elaborated. Then Harley runs into Lucian at the hospital and he has no clue this is the man holding his sister ? Harlee is such a total badass that she is a member of several different gangs and mafias ? Don’t even get me started on the whole wasted chapter that was basically a “what if” she had called the police on the MC. Two fiancés of Harlee show up at the clubhouse ? I swear if Harlee mentioned “the code” one more time I was gonna eat my Kindle. Why didn’t Lucian do something to Dash when he went behind his back to Harlee ? Then maybe she wouldn’t have gotten hurt. Also I’m 99% sure the name of the MC is never mentioned in the book. I don’t normally comment on the book’s cover but in the beginning of the book Harlee’s hair is described as being “as black as her soul” so why have a redhead on the cover ? She is beautiful. Why throw in a bunch of random people at the end of the book ? My final thought is the conversation Lucian and Harlee have on their wedding night :
“ Tonight marks the first night I accept you as mine. And as a gift for you getting my tattoo, I’m going to give you one night where you will enjoy yourself and not remember it come morning. “
“ You’re roofing me ?” (Yes it says roofing in the book)
“ Darling, the things we are doing tonight, you won’t want to remember. “
“ Then why do it ?”
“ Drink it, darling, and I’ll reward you with a night you’ll be thankful not to remember .”
“ It’s tradition for me to RAPE you. I have to have that as your last memory, thinking that was exactly what I had done.”
“ So you have something worse than raping me planned for tonight ?”
“ Yeah. I’m putting my walls down for the night, and I want to get to know you. “
“ Wait ! You drugged me to rape me, and now you want to get to know me ? So basically, I won’t remember our first real conversation !”
“ I had to do it, Haylee, it’s tradition. But after everything you’ve been through, you deserve better than that.”
“ You should have raped me, it would have been easier on you.”
HER THOUGHTS —
I knew that raping me would have been easier than him having an honest conversation with me. The question was why would he put himself in this position. He was showing me his raw side and I didn’t understand why.
IF YOU USE THE WORD “RAPE” 5 TIMES ON YOUR WEDDING NIGHT YOU MIGHT WANNA FIND SOMEONE ELSE !! I read that conversation twice because I thought I was missing something but no it was just as bad the second time.