Sloane Kennedy is one of the best writers in the MM genre, I love all her books and her stories are gutwrenchingly heartbreaking but amazingly healing at the same time,
Forgiven: Con is the third book in the spinoff series, The Four, originating from The Protectors series, It comes after Forgotten: Luca and Foreseen: Lex, They are the stories of five brothers whose eldest one we met in The Protectors, Vaughn's own story was in book twelve, Unbroken, where he finally got together with Aleks, Vaughn and Luca are biological brothers and Lex, Con and King are their adopted brothers, Because of their background, they have also formed an organization that seeks out children and young men and women who have been abducted and sold.
Luca's own son was abducted and the reason why Vaughn penetrated various organizations and worked undercover was to find him, and that was where he met Aleks whose own brother, Dante, was part of Ronan Grisham's Protectors.
Con or Zeus as he is known in the MMA world has only ever regretted one fight in his career, it happened fifteen years ago, he regretted walking away from the man he defeated and the young brother who cried for help, But even though he didn't help them right then and there, he has been helping them financially shortly after and up till now when the older brother finally succumb to his death.
His guilt over what happened fifteen years ago kept him monitoring Micah, the younger brother, and his niece and nephew, Rory and Christopher.
He wasn't deterred even though Micah didn't want him there,
Micah blamed Zeus for what happened to his brother, even though deep down he knew that Zeus was only also protecting himself at the time.
He blamed Zeus because he needed someone to blame in order to survive the nightmare that his life has become, He needed someone to blame in order to keep his niece and nephew alive, Micah's life is full of terror,
Ms. Sloane Kennedy is brilliant! She writes stories that will gut you, tear your heart to pieces, but she will also heal and put those pieces again.
I have always cried while reading her stories, in pain and in happiness, Ms. Sloane Kennedy's talent is just amazingly unbelievable! This book is another great example of her brilliance! As always with Sloanes books : I just loved it!
It was so great to see the characters from this series again! The Protectors and The Four are definitely my fav series of hers!
This book was just as good as the others in the series although I have to say that I think Kings book is going to be the best one out of the four of them!! I just cant wait for his story!!! Oh wow.
Last year, when I first tried Sloane Kennedys books I was mentally not on top and the books were way too dark for me.
As I am so much better so I really enjoy the series, its darkness and all the hurt, Not sure what happened with this book, I didn't hate it, but I also didn't find anything I like, The romance was really rushed, and I felt no romantic chemistry between the protagonists, Every opportunity for relationship building was instead used to add a sex scene, The Lword came out of fucking nowhere, I still don't know what Con likes about Micah, and I'm getting sick of every other characters in a Sloane Kennedy book getting sexually abused.
It's usually done well, but sometimes it's treated almost like a casual things that happens to people, And I felt that that's how it was treated with Micah,
I also don't get why Kennedy keeps separating the brothers, The relationship between the five brothers could be the best part of these books, but we barely see them before the end, It made sense with Lex, but why Con You realize a romance can still happen even if there are other people around, You don't need to send them to a cabin in the fucking woods,
Anyway, this is the third consecutive book by the author that didn't work for me, One of them I didn't even finish, And I'm wondering if Kennedy just isn't for me anymore, Not giving up on her just yet not before the fourth Pelican Bay book, but I'm close, Im going out on a limb thinking I probably should have allowed myself a little more time between all of the other SK books before tackling this one.
I liked this book, for the most part, but hiding from SK fans Its high time for SK to find a new subject.
Ive only read a small handful of this authors books that dont have as the source of the tension/angst in the story.
I know this author can write, so how about picking a new topic to write about Its almost like its being fetishized, Maybe Im wrong. Maybe Ive read entirely too many of this authors books in a short span of time, but it feels so overdone at this point.
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I was a bit annoyed that even after the love declarations these guys continued to have a bit of push and pull.
They both had trouble believing the other one really wanted them,
But I was still pretty much sucked in from the start and I really do like this series,.for all the feels this was pretty intense and emotional lots of harsh gritty reality but beautifully explored, Con siempre ha sido el hermano que intenta resolver todo, hasta el punto de obsesionarse hasta que consigue una solucion, por eso su hermano King y Lex le ocultaron lo de la enfermedad de Lex y su ceguera progresiva, porque cuando no puede solucionar algo la culpa lo persigue por muchisimo tiempo.
Y eso fue justo lo que paso con la familia de Brayden, un joven con el que lucho en sus primeros dias como Zeus y al que le gano pero lo dejo inmovil.
Durante años les envio dinero, esperando ver con eso acallar su consciencia y permitirle a la familia de Brayden sobrevivir un poco mejor.
Pero resulto que ese dinero no logro mas que llenarlos de malos habitos, ya que les ofrecia la oportunidad de drogarse mas facilmente.
Y cuando Brayden fallece, el se da cuenta de lo mal que viven sus hijos y su hermano menor y hace de su proposito sacarlos de esa vida.
Lo que no espera es sentirse atraido por el hermanito ahora hombre de Brayden, Micah,
Micah siempre se ha sentido atraido por la figura de Con, desde que lo conocio en la pelea que dejo inmovil a su hermano, hasta las luchas que veia en television, pero tambien lo ha odiado toda su vida, porque fue por esa pelea que el tuvo que afrontar la vida como la que lleva y ha tenido que proteger a sus sobrinos con su astucia y su cuerpo.
Asi que cuando Con regresa a su vida despues de la muerte de su hermano, esta vez como su "salvador" no puede evitar sentir que esta en deuda con el y que de alguna forma debe pagarla, y el daria lo que fuera por mantener a sus sobrinos a salvo.
Pero cuando comienza a conocer al hombre detras del espectaculo, se da cuenta de todas las cicatricez que tiene y lo duro que ha luchado junto a sus hermanos para tener la vida que tienen, se da cuenta que la atraccion que siente por el puede convertirse rapidamente en admiracion y quizas hasta amor.
Ahora lo que tendra que preguntarse es si no es otra trampa en la que esta cayendo y si sus sobrinos realmente estaran a salvo con el.
Con y Micah deberan enfrentar no solo sus heridas pasadas, sino tambien los traumas causados por la pelea de Con con Brayden y la relacion con los niños y sus traumas.
Una historia dulce, pero donde los personajes no parecieran que tuvieran quimica y al comienzo se sintio la relacion un poco forzada, pero los niños, ellos fueron mas protas en esta historia que la pareja principal, por ellos fue que realmente disfrute la lectura.
Ahora en cuanto a la historia, se veia venir que Con se enamorara de algun luchador, o un familiar de un luchador, inclusive ya casi al final antes del rapto, la historia se sentia ya
cerrada, pero me imagino que el autor tenia que incluir de alguna forma a los otros hermanos y a los Protectores, pero resulto forzada y aburrida.
En fin, me gusta el autor, me gusta la serie, y ya que por fin terminaron de publicar los libros voy a leer el ultimo para ver como el autor logra que King y Gio se vuelvan pareja, y que todos los hermanos lo acepten, esa parece una buena historia.
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