This series has a very strong KA feel to it, which I love. Sorry, y’all, I simply couldn’t shut off my picky brain long enough to look past it. Like I would have to re-read sentences 3 times before it finally clicked what they were saying. But in the same breath, it was tough to read when it was also in their inner monologues. Don’t get me wrong, the biker speak is great, and I loved the Kristen Ashley feel of it in parts. same intonations, same turn of phrases and lack of constants. The other thing was all the fallen men sound the same. For example, 17 year old Nova sounded exactly like 30 year old Nova biker, which wasn’t a huge thing in the grand scheme of things, but still noticeable. There were also some very minor characterization issues. There were some minor continuity and timeline issues. I loved the story and the gritty feels of it. Loving someone existed apart from reciprocation. Hight=”50″ width=”50″ />Loving someone shouldn’t be contingent on them returning that affection. But there’s just something so addictive about this man. His decisions in parts had me wanting to shake him and rip my hair out. Nova was impossible not to love, even when you wanted to hate him. Lila, even if she does forgive Nova too easily in parts, is still a force to be reckoned with and I really loved her fire. The romance is gritty, frustrating, and oh so delicious. There’s so much that happens in this book secrets unravel with so many twists and turns, it will leave your head reeling. Theirs is a dance of push and pull that will drive you to the brink of madness at times, but it hurts so good! He knows he can’t be what he wants and he pushes her away, cruelly and bluntly. Lila has always been like a foster sister to him but there’s also something more that pulses between them when she gets older. His easy smile hides some very dark demons. He’s perfectly content spending each night with a different woman and has no illusions that he would ever want more. He’s quick to smile and isn’t above using his good looks to get what he wants. Nova is the pretty playboy of the Fallen Men. But what starts as a bit of hero worship soon bleeds into something so much more as Lila grows older. Lila’s childhood is anything but pretty or easy. His family becoming Lila’s escape when all she’s known in her young life have been liars and criminals. They first meet when Lila is only a little girl and Nova quickly becomes her everything.
It was full of angst, frustration, and pain. Nova and Lila’s story was not an easy one. And I was hers in the way a wolf is owned by his moon, elementally, fuckin’ irrevocably. I’m a sucker for unrequited love tropes and gritty MC and this book was the best of both worlds.
And he was still completely and utterly forbidden.
My dream man wrapped up in a sinful package. So when they needed me most, I offered the only thing of value I could use to help them.Īnd when helping them meant putting my life on the line, Nova had to decide just how much he was willing to do to get me out alive.Ī standalone romance in The Fallen Men series. But I couldn’t turn my back on him or The Fallen MC.
He would never love me, at least not the way I needed him to. I was a goner as girl to a man they called Casanova for a reason. He had tattoos on his hands and wickedness tucked in his grin. Handsome as sin, older in a way that meant forbidden.