Who’s the Tyrant
I like many readers enjoyed this much more then the first book King. I will say however if you did not read book one stop here please do that NOW because this book will make no sense otherwise. This series is a wild ride, filled with hidden secrets and shockers at every turn. I am now convinced that T.M. Frazier is a little bit twisted but that is okay because it makes for extremely great reading for you and me! Let’s put it this way I finished Tyrant and have already got my hands on Lawless. If you all remember we are left hanging with our mouths hitting the floor, cursing at our kindle. It is always great when an author makes us look like a crazy person, yelling at an inanimate object. I do this more often then not with a Dark Romance or a good Thriller. Do not stress you will get the answers you were looking for and then some with this series. King! Oh, sexy and dangerous King. Our dark leading man is an unexpected hero for Doe. The rough around the edges King of the Causeway is everything we could want in a book boyfriend King is a man who plays life by his own rules; this may mean he breaks a few laws but in his rule book the bond he has with the people he cares for is important to him. Mess with him or the people he cares about… well he just may hunt you down and make you pay in blood.

Pup, Doe, Ray… She is a woman with a lot of names but not a lot of memories. She does not need her memories to tell her that she loves King and that the house on stilts is her home though. Doe is left trying to put together the pieces of her life and combine her past and her present. I loved that she had a son and she tried so hard to make things work for him. The way T.M Frazier artfully weaves Preppy back into the story is beautiful because he is the one character that I wish never met his end.

I will say that this series is worth every minute you spend reading it and nothing is what it seems. I am lucky that the next couple books are out otherwise I would be one of those readers sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for the next installment like an addict needing my bookish fix. I love how the characters work so well together and that there is much more than just your hero and heroine and the supporting characters are amazing. I can not what to see what is next.

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I enjoyed this one but just not as good as "King" so can't give it 5. I would have enjoyed it more if Doe and King had been together more and all the issues were resolved sooner. I did love the epilogue! I wanted more time with them as a family and to be there for the birth of the baby. ( )

2.5

There were so many things I disliked about this story it would take a book to write them all.
So, in condensed form, here it goes.

Typos & editing errors.
Very jumpy scenes.
Juvenile dialog.

I'm sorry, but I just can't picture a 1%'er biker club calling themselves Beach Bastards.

It has potential, and I own a few more books in this series. However, I will not be continuing.
So, unless someone wants to borrow the ones I own, they will sit there unread.
I give up. ( )

2.0 stars, with a lot of goodwill. Nope, scratch that. No goodwill for this one.

Actually, I was about to rate it with four stars and would have done so, had I not read the last thirteen chapters. It is going to be a hard exercise trying to explain my feelings about this story without spoiling everything (which is a difficult task, as "Tyrant" is very plot-oriented), but I will give it a try. Minor spoilers which may say something about the direction this story is heading towards are included nevertheless, so if you plan to read this story, please don't read on now if you want to be completely surprised.

Basically, T.M. Frazier wrote a triangle romance (geez!) with some standard twists thrown in to make things more interesting. During the first 70% of the story, this procedure worked (for me). The characters felt real. Doe was a protagonist to root for. There were funny pieces of dialogue, relationships explored in all their depths, characters written in a relatable way. The author's concept of love which was established in this story was questionable, though. The I-fell-in-love-with-the-man-who-kidnapped-handcuffed-and-threatened-to-rape-me-kind of love was valued above the We-are-childhood-friends-with-a-deep-connection-and-plans-to-get-married-kind of love. And then there was this *he-betrayed-me-so-I-wanted-to-leave-him-but-then-we-had-sex-and-everything-was-fine-again* scene. Supported by King's unbearable "You are mine!" or "I own you!" exclaims, this perfectly sums up how the author defined this relationship through their sexual attraction.

Doe had a lot more chemistry with Tanner during their honest conversations and common scenes with each other than Doe and King could ever have had. I actually hoped Doe and Tanner would get their happy-end, not because I wanted Doe to return to the life before her memory loss, but because Tanner was the guy who would do everything for her - just like King would - without constraining her freedom - which is what King did. So, what would an author who wants her protagonists to end up with each other do? Indeed, throw in new revelations in order to make King, the man who seems to favor murder and rape as ordinary hobbies, look like the good guy. From then on, everything went downhill in this story: The scenes were rushed, important aspects were just skipped, the characterizations became poorly performed, and the writing didn't improve either. I even skimmed the last few pages because I was rolling my eyes permanently.

As to the writing itself, T.M. Frazier is talented indeed, but it was not dazzling. And she needs a capable editor; instantly! Someone has to teach her about how to use apostrophes and quotation marks correctly.

This genre, it seems more and more, just is not meant to be for me. I keep being disappointed by this kind of stories, and I cannot bear yet another story on the bad boy turning good because of his princess who does not mind him being a murderer, rapist, thief or whatever. The "King" series was not bad in its entirety, to be honest - the plot and the characters were well-developed; I never felt bored reading about them. Even the minor characters were elaborate and interesting. But sometimes, this is simply not enough. ( )

Concluding the story of King and Doe.
It's has a HEA but lines up the next story. ( )