Series: The Harlequin Crew #2
Publication date: May 28th, 2021
Pages: 594
Synopsis:
I'm the girl who no one wanted. Or the one who got away. Depending on who you ask.
Either way, betrayal and heartache have been my friends for far too long and it's time for me to start over.
I gave the Harlequin boys a chance to change. A chance to prove that history wasn't just set to repeat itself. But they failed with spectacular colours.
Maybe it's time for me to stop running. After all, Sunset Cove has been living under the Harlequins' thumb for far too long. It's time to set our demons free and let them burn this place to the ground. Who knows if I'll survive the fallout? But I guess I'll soon find out if dead girls can die twice.
This is an enemies to lovers contemporary series where the girl will end up with multiple love interests and all of the characters are in their late twenties.
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Review:
In the previous book, Maverick wasn't a strong presence within the pages. He was mentioned and had a few cameos but there was no Maverick meat on that bone (I'm sorry. Terrible analogy). In the second book we are coming off Chase's betrayal and faced with Rogue's capture by Maverick. I loved Maverick from the start so I was completely squeeing over the opportunity to see Rogue and Maverick have a little more page time.
Finding out you were the fall guy for the boys you once thought were your world once was bad enough. Finding out they were willing to do it a second time was a tough pill for Rogue to swallow. Even though she knew Maverick would never hurt her due to their bond she was having a terrible problem with the boys she grew up with locking her up and trying to throw away the key. But it seems Maverick, while seeing batshit crazy, has demons that he tries to hide behind his need for vengeance. Rogue is starting to realize that they have a lot more in common then she had originally thought. This kindred spirit realization brings to light how much they both need to feel a connection they thought was gone forever. Perhaps the both of them can find more than just a mutual need for vengeance on the boys that wronged them and threw them to the wolves.
With a plan in motion, Maverick allows Rogue to return to the fold of the Harlequin boys to make them pay for the pain and torment they are due. But will Rogue be able to keep to the plan once she realizes that not all of her boys had a hand in her betrayal? And when a bigger enemy, one who Rogue knows intimately, threatens the crew can she find a way to bring all the Harlequins (past and present) back together to defend their home of Sunset Cove?
I already stated that Maverick was my favorite of the boys but being able to see just how deep his feelings go was a new experience. Maverick isn't unfeeling. He's misunderstood and broken. His family sold him down the river and made his existence in jail a misery. There is no wonder he came back and immediately wanted to see all of them pay for the injustice.
Maverick's feelings for Rogue and their connection is something palpable. Do yourself a favor and when you reach that place in the book where Rogue and Maverick finally give into their feelings for each other... listen to the song "I Am the Fire" by Ghost Monroe. It gives it that *chef's kiss* feel.
Dead Man's Isle is the salacious sequel to what is growing to be a phenomenal series. I cannot wait for the third installment to be released!
