Review: Savage Knights by Jillian Frost

Savage Knights by Jillian Frost

Series: Princes of Devil's Creek #3

Publication date: August 20th, 2022

Pages: 244

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Synopsis:

The ghosts of our past have come back to haunt us.

Kidnapped and sold to the highest bidder, I'm promised to marry another man, a ruthless Mafia boss who has an ax to grind with the Salvatore brothers.

And he wants to use me to get his revenge.

The man we thought were hunting me are the least of our problems. As it turns out, the real monsters were right under our noses all along.

I have faith my savage knights will find me.

I know they will burn down the world for their queen.

But our enemies will stop at nothing to destroy our happily ever after.

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Review:

Alex had thought that her life was on the way to bliss with her four, yes four, fiances. But that was before she was taken captive and promised to marry the leader of a rival mafia gang. She had to trust that her men would find a way to save her and their unborn child from a life on the arm of another man. Even if her men found a way to free her she knew she had an uphill battle with the big baddies out there that would stop at nothing to get their hands on her and her dowery. It seems her family was the brokers of secrets and a lot of people wanting the Wellington black book that would promise them control over any and all made men within the vicinity. Will Alex find a way to be free again and if she is, will her life ever be safe enough to bring a baby into it?

This book was good. I think that the author is starting to find their footing within their plotting of stories and making sure there are no holes or miscommunication that makes the story feel farfetched and fabricated. We all know that with fiction it is not a real story, but for those who enjoy reading we like to get lost in our stories. We like to watch it within our minds like a movie but of our own making. That is hard to do when the author doesn't give you all the puzzle pieces to put together to create the big picture. This one was a lot better. I could watch the protagonists move through the story and actually found that there were some twists and turns that I didn't see coming. I did feel that, once again, the main drama that is left as a cliffhanger from book to book was resolved really quickly with not a whole lot of issues. I would have liked there to be a little more pushback from the antagonists to make it more difficult for the men to attempt to save their woman. 

I normally am kind of 'eh' about sudden pregnancies and how they unfold but with this one it felt obvious. I mean there was never any mention of protection or anything within the many, many, many sexual scenes that were created between Alex and her men, so it was obvious, unless she had the rod or an IUD that it was going to follow that course. I thought it would be closer to the end of the series though so that it could be wrapped up in that happily ever after bow. Either way, this one wasn't all that bad. Even if some of the reactions were puzzling. 

This book, while still rooted in smut, felt like it was a lot more story focused than the last two. It wasn't just all about the romance, there was a bit of mystery involved. Which is why I gave it three stars, but high three stars this time. I am going to keep going through the series and see the growth that Jillian Frost experiences as she gets more acquainted with her characters.