Ok if you're looking to read a romance focused on a murder spree, then this is the book for you; I'm not even sure what the body count ended up being by the end, but there was a lot of blood. But frankly I was ok with it all as this was Ant's vengeance plan which we've kind of been following since he was rescued from child sex trafficking back in the first book of this series, and he deserved to do what he needed to do. I was glad to finally understand Erik a bit better as he's been around for a while too, but I could never get a good read on him; he's actually lovely and ended up being perfect for Ant. This was a great culmination of the series (as I think this is the end of it), but I do feel bad for anyone who thought they'd just read it as a standalone because it would be a rough read. I'm glad these two finally got their crap together and made it work and also killed many bad people along the way. ( )

Ant suffered years of hell as the victim of a child sex trafficking ring but he's finally been able to get his life back on track. There's only one thing left for him to do - hunt down all the bastards that bought and sold him - and kill them viciously. But his rescuer and secret crush, Erik Bash, refuses to let him go alone.

I wanted to like this a lot more than I did. For 70% of the book I was just ticking off pages and then it got to Ant getting his revenge on his grandfather and I was like yeah wow, this is getting really good - but then it all just faded away again and I was kind of bored. The plot up until that point had been fairly bland and it returned to that after. The romance sucked. It started off okay but once they got together something was just really wrong with it. The sex scenes were icky and I was left feeling rather unsettled. I'm not even sure what it was but it just didn't work.

None of Kelly Fox's books are really standalone. I haven't read most of them, but having read the first book in the Rebel Sky Ranch and the first in Wrecked - I've come to realise that Kelly Fox doesn't know how to write standalone or first books. All of her characters have extensive backstories that she never bothers to explain and random parts pop up in all the other ones. So when I saw the plot for this and was interested I just started reading. Unfortunately regardless of the standalone aspect - it just wasn't very good. I shouldn't be surprised, I haven't really liked any of the ones I've read so far.

2 stars. ( )