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I remember like it was yesterday the first time I picked up
an Aurora Rose Reynolds ARC. It was Until November and I was blown away that
this was her debut novel and I was one of the first to read it. It was pure
perfection. It was like she looked inside my brain and found the perfect
characters and story line to push all my own very personal buttons and I became
obsessed.
Every new book she released I had to have it, I had to read
it as soon as I got it and I had to finish it as soon as I started it. Her
Until series is one of my all-time favourites and I loved the idea of following
the story onto their kids. And I should have had no doubt that it would be
perfect. I mean the list of authors who give me characters that I love from the
first, who make my panties wet is only topped by 1 or 2 before Aurora’s name is
there surrounded by highlighter and asterisk's.
Obviously anyone Raised by Asher and November had to be
amazeballs and July did not disappoint. She is my favourite female lead at the
moment. I love that she became a vet, that absolutely made my day. She was the
perfect mix of strong and independent while still being feminine and sweet. But
of course with how much I love her parents it would be very hard to imagine
them raising anything but hell raising strong willed girls who very much know
their own mind.
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And Wes was, as you
would expect from Aurora, the perfect growling, possessive, dirty-talking
alpha. He was the perfect blend of all round good guy and dirty, bad ass biker.
As with all of her books the addition of their much loved
and mentioned pets always make my association with them that much stronger. As
weird as I am sure a lot of people will find it whenever I meet people without
pets I always wonder what’s wrong with them. So whenever I pick up one of these
books knowing we will have them added as characters is such a major plus I love
it and I love the characters that much more for it.
There were a few things in here I would have like to see
expanded and closed off and I felt the ending was a little rushed. But the
epilogue was awesome and made me lie back with a stupid dreamy smile on my face
thinking about how amazing Jax’s story will be after that much loved and much
too short teaser into his boom.
So Until Jax I hope you find a few more amazing alphas to
keep you warm.
I received this ARC from the beautiful Elizabeth
after she saw my mini meltdown on a friends review when I realised this book
was nearly due for release. And I honestly went into it knowing only 3 things.
- It would destroy me with the depth of emotion Elizabeth always makes me feel for her characters
- My GR friends who had read it had loved it
- There would be smoking hot sex and an amazing ending that would make all the tears and feels well worth it.
And now that I have finished it, all of those
things are confirmed and more.
Normally I get a little lost when timelines skip
back and forth but this one just flowed so smoothly and blended together so
perfectly, it built the angst and drama and suspense to such perfect levels
that not only was it easy to follow but it was an amazing process to see what
the characters had been through and how they had dealt with it all.
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The story of Kane and his Hell (AKA Helene) was a
hard one to hear and having it drip fed to me made my mind wander trying to
guess what was coming next. At times I felt like I was in a Criminal Minds
episode but it was happening to people I knew and loved, so I felt every action
to the depths of my soul. And despite the tears streaming down my face as we
walked through the past I couldn’t help but also feel like everything was going
to be ok since we saw them in the present reconnecting and working through
everything that had happened to them.
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Elizabeth’s men are always king of the arseholes and
as much as she makes me hate them she also shows us their depth of character
and makes us realise exactly why they behave like they do and it’s hard not to
want to love them and cuddle them and tell them they deserve more than they
give themselves credit for. As well as kick them in their happy place and then
jump on and ride them. And Kane was the epitome of all of that. I loved him
almost as much as I hated his actions.
Helene was perfectly imperfect and she dealt with
her past and present colliding with such inner strength it was amazing watching
her overcome the obstacles in her path and fight for everything she wanted and
deserved.
If you aren’t already a fan of Elizabeth Finn’s
then I suggest you pre-order this book right now and while you’re waiting one
click Brothers Keeper.
I have loved Ten from the second book when we first met him
and we really got to see how far he would go for his mates and yeah he has
always been a little bit on the man whore side of things and there is no
doubting he was a little bit damaged and had a tendency to be a big bit of an
acehole but that’s all part of his charm. He is the crude joke at the funeral,
the loud voice in the library but he is also the best person to have at your
back. He is loyal to a fault and the more I saw of his rude, obnoxious man
whoring ass the more I had to know him and the deeper I fell in lust for him.
He has been a major background character for a while now
but even so he managed to make himself known and from the second he saw
Caroline we all knew they were meant to be.
We met Caroline just as she breaks and then we got to watch
her pull herself back together and grow into her own strength. There were so
many times I wanted her to realise her self-worth and give Ten a huge reality check and move on
without him but she never once doubted what she wanted and I think that made me
love her more.
Caroline was the perfect mix of vulnerable naïve virgin and
seductress. And having watched the covert foreplay between her and Ten in the
last book it was hard to see them still no closer to being together at the
start of this book.
From the get go Ten knows she is out of reach, there is no
way Noel will let his man whore mate date his damaged sister but add
to that Ten’s complete belief he will never be good enough for her I was sure
this book would kill me from angst overload but it didn’t happen.
Ten spent a lot of time trying to prove he was unworthy of
Caroline then apologising for upsetting her when he succeeded. I could feel his
desperation for the one thing he knew he couldn’t have as she became the one
thing he couldn’t live without and I spent the first half of the book trying to
guess when the sky was going to fall on these two and Noel was going to clue in
that his beautiful baby sister was madly in love with his best mate that I
think I was almost sick with nerves.
But of course Linda didn’t get me stalking her windows at
night by writing the predictable over played angst and her Forbidden Men aren’t
just sexy they are also strong, loyal, sweet, amazing men so the sky didn’t
fall when and where and how I expected and the things I thought I knew about
these characters was just slightly left of centre so I ended up even more
besotted with them all and even more anxious for the next instalment.
But as Linda is so good at once they finally did get
together the sexual chemistry was panty soaking and the complete love was heart-warming.
So well played Linda, you had me laughing, you had me
crying, you had me shell shocked and devastated, you had me waking my husband at 2am and
jumping him and then waking him at 9am trying to explain to him why the book
was so epic. You have had me in a book coma for the entire day as I continually
obsess over everything that happened in A Perfect Ten, And now you have me
writing a review at 11pm cause I can’t get it out of my head long enough to do
anything productive.
This series has got the absolute best characters and the
angst and drama are so superbly written it’s actually hard to put into words
how perfect they all have been in entirely different ways but all as equally
epic as each other. They all had the smoking hot, panties dripping sex scenes
perfectly mixed with all of the heart and love and sweetness you could want.
For a NA book they are an amazing blend of romance and Erotica.
I was expecting
Asher’s story to blow us away next but I am only slightly disappointed to see we
have to wait on that as we are getting a new man at Forbidden before Asher
man’s up and tells us his tale.
So until next round I guess we will have to re-read.
Wow, just
wow.
It was always a given that Ally's story would be amazing. From the minute we met her she was this bright light of sweet and caring and she looked out for everyone regardless of their failings and faults with complete love and no judgement and having met her beautiful parents you could see why.
When it was announced that we had already met her partner speculation was that it would be Molly's old flame from England.And I figured that could work. I mean I wasn't a huge fan but he could warm up a little and we didn't know much of him so sweet, books written. Ummm wrong.
Elpi could not have been further from him. And realizing it was Axel and having seen all he had done and where he was coming from I just couldn't reconcile him with our beautiful Ally.
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I mean don't get me wrong I knew Ally wouldn't judge and I knew if anyone could see passed the obvious negatives to the heart beneath it would be Ally I just wanted so much more, so much better. Knowing her this long and seeing how truly pure of soul she was I wanted epic for her.
But of course as is par for the series the asshole is never set in marble (see what I did there? huh did ya?) and as Tillie peeled away at his layers and showed us his side of his past sins my heart broke and I couldn't help but love him.
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The depth of character here was astounding and seeing things in past tense from Axel's point of view after we had seen how it affected his brothers and other previous characters just made this book go from perfect to epic.
Although I am devastated to see this series finish I don't think it could have been better. And I will forever bow at the feet of Tillie Cole for giving us the stories of Rome and Molly, Cassie and Jimmy-Don, Lexi and Austin. And for also giving us perfection at every turn with this series.
So until I get the balls up to read her other books I guess I will continue to rant over this Sweet series.
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