
By: Kristen Ashley
Series: Unfinished Hero #5
My Copy: Amazon.com
The BookWhisperer's Rating:
Nick Sebring has issues. Born feeling like an outsider in his
own family, growing up under the shadow of a brother who could do anything,
Nick isn’t that great of a guy. But when this culminates with Nick lashing out
to hurt his brother through the woman he loves, Nick turns inward and makes
some decisions about the man he intends to be.
And as he does this, he falls in love and truly learns the
man that he’s grown to be.
When his love is murdered right before Nick’s eyes, Nick
knows he has to avenge her. He knows how he’s going to avenge her. And he has
no qualms using Olivia Shade to exact that vengeance.
Olivia Shade has grown up on the outside of her family too.
Her problem is that they don’t want her outside. They want her all the way in,
right under their thumbs. She pays the price for seeking escape and learns her
lesson—she’ll never see a dawn where she wakes up free.
Then she meets Nick Sebring, and even as she fights it, the
hope that died years ago starts to blossom. She can find love. She can have a
man of her own. She can be happy. She can be free.
Olivia hopes while Nick schemes.
However, as Nick peels back the layers of all that is Olivia
Shade, he finds something surprising. He understands its fragility. He falls in
love with its beauty. He seeks to protect it.
But he forgets to protect his Livvie from one thing: Nick
Sebring.
I
can definitely say that I closed this book (aka my Kindle app) feeling so many
feels, all of them good, and one of them sad.
Nick
Sebring was one character that I thought I could never like solely based on all
the crap that he put his handsome, wonderful brother, Knight, through. I
knew if anyone could make me love a character, KA could and the woman
did! That first bit of the story, telling of Nick’s love Hettie and how
he loses her made me realize that I needed to let my heart give him a chance
and as the story progressed and we learned of his ways to make the Shades pay,
I still loved him. And this is for so many reasons, yes, he set it up so
that he would use Olivia to get to her family but while doing so, and reading
their interactions together, it all becomes so much more. Both
characters, for that matter, become so much more than what they originally
started out as. Each has horror stories in their pasts but once united it
is as if their lives have finally started. The beauty that is exposed by
these characters when they are together is blinding. It seems as only
Nick could ever make Olivia shine so bright and only Olivia could ever make
Nick so loving. Pure beauty.
But
enough about their love, let’s talk about the absolute crazy-town, crime-filled
drama that happened. I couldn’t imagine living the life that Olivia Shade
had (good thing that she is just a character in a book.) With a horrible
father who would do anything to keep her in her place and that place being a
life of crime that she doesn’t want to be a part of. Nick, watching the
woman he loves die in front of him and now on a mission to rid the world of the
Shades but falls in love with Olivia, it just is crazy-filled and I loved every
minute of it.
Okay,
now I am going to get deeper into a spoiler so turn away if you haven’t read
it.
My
favorite part of this whole book was their love for each other, especially at
the end when it all hits the fan and they separate but Nick leaves to set a
plan to get them together once and for all. When Knight breaks into
Olivia’s house one night and shows her the video of her dream home and she
doesn’t even waste a second packing so that she could be by his side….*sighs*
that is pure love. He made it safe for her again and she let him love
again.
So
that sad moment I spoke of earlier, it is because this wonderful series has
ended. I think the only thing that is consoling
me is all the other books Kristen Ashley can write and I can read. If she can just keep them coming then I would
be a happy reader.
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