Review: Sauter by Jane Washington

Sauter by Jane Washington

Series: Ironside Academy #3

Publication date: November 28th, 2023

Pages: 578

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Synopsis:

As friends become enemies and enemies become villains, the Ironside underbelly casts a very wide shadow over everyone within its walls. The academy that once promised Isobel Carter salvation has pulled back the curtain and revealed itself for what it truly is.

A pretty little prison.

She may have been reduced to a puppet behind a screen, but at least the Alphas of Dorm A are there to heighten her performances, quicken her breath, and flood her face with colour for the cameras.

Maybe they will even catch her when she falls.

Or maybe they have been pulling the strings all along.

The bars of her prison may be gilded, but survival is a messy game, and what do Sigmas do when they can't keep their hands clean?

They get filthy.

Beware the pretty monsters, because this social media game just got brutal.

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Review:

For a slow burn series things are finally starting to heat up! The first book is all about Isobel trying to navigate the bullying of the other students while becoming friendly with a few of the members of Dorm A and the Alphas who live there. The second book was struggling to deny the pull of the bonds that had formed between Isobel and her ten Alpha mates. And the third book was the introduction of the supernatural vibes of the bond and the role that the gods of their world have taken. The new take on why the bond is happening and what it could all means keep me on the edge of seat. Are they destined to be together? Is this some divine plan by the gods to make them a united force to change the world as they know it? Or maybe this is just a twist of fate that means absolutely nothing other than the fact they were all around when Isobel entered her Death Phase. I love books that I can't seem to figure out on my own. There are too many factors. Too many people. Too much outside influence. Who is going to break the bond: their controlling government, the underground society that seems to be pulling all the strings, or these big bad gods and goddess who play with the Gifted for their own amusement?

I am still trying to come to terms with the fact that this series exists and how long it took me to find it. I am loving the complicated web that the author is weaving. I am starting to find an appeal in each of the men even when I really don't want to. I would rather not find any appeal in Moses because I think he's got some major younger brother issues going on between him and Theodore and he takes it out on Isobel. As much as I wouldn't think I'd like Oscar with his 'fuck what you want, I'm going to do it my way' stance he always takes, but I find it hilarious at times. Especially when there are text communications and all it says is:

Oscar is typing...
Oscar has been muted.

Jane Washington has a great skill of tying spice, mystery, and humor into just a stellar series. Even if I am starting to get lady blue balls from all the close calls between Isobel and her men. For the record, that closet scene? Chef's kiss!