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Series: Academy of Stardom #4
Publication date: March 31st, 2021
Pages: 386
Synopsis:
From the gutter to the stars...
Dance has always been the answer to everything.
It soothed my soul, kept me sane, gave me purpose.
It brought the Breakers back to me. It healed us.
This time dance isn't enough.
It's time to face our enemies. It's time I fight back.
But at what cost?
My soul? The death of everyone I care about?
All I can be certain of is this...
I'm willing to do anything to protect the people I love.
Even becoming a monster.
This time there'll be no rehearsals, just one grand finale.
I pray it won't be our last.
**Finale is book 4 of 4 in this new, gritty, contemporary harem academy romance for 17+ readers. It deals with adult themes and some subjects you may find upsetting. If you love dance, your men on the criminal side, alpha hot holes, and the friends-to-enemies-to-lovers trope, this is for you. Contains foul language, sexual scenes and of course a HEA. For some of the characters at least.**
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Review:
The ending to a well done reverse harem series is here. Pen and her guys are in for the battle of a lifetime against the big baddie, Santiago, and his psychotic henchman, David. But first, Pen has to overcome her own personal demons with the death of her mother. Her baby sister is in turmoil and Pen can do nothing but watch her spiral. There was no love between Pen and her mother so her death was only difficult because of how deep the wound her sister, Lena, was suffering from. Now, Pen must step into the role of guardian as well as big sister as their family becomes ever smaller. It is now Pen's job fulltime to make sure that Lena never feels this level of pain again. And in doing so, she feels there is no longer a place in her life for dance. A fact her Breakers will not accept.
While Pen struggles with holding onto her dream and keeping her sister safe, she must plan for the day when she will put her deranged brother in the ground. The rage and hate that courses through her body threatens to overwhelm all the feelings she has for the people in her life. She is on a self-destructive mission to kill David and protect Lena. It is up to the Breakers to pull Pen back from the ledge and give her something more to hold onto than her thirst for vengeance. But with David looming and a prediction from a well-known psychic of sorts, will all of them come out of this in one piece?
Reading through this book was a challenge. The angst within the love connections was a lot more fulfilling than the flubbed plotting that went on with Pen's group, Beast & Grim, and the Freed men. It felt like they were always ten steps behind David and Santiago and it frustrated the ever-loving crap out of me. I kept waiting for them to make a connection that would lay everything out for them. But instead we had to have one of those villain monologues that never seen realistic. What madman bent on murder and destruction is gonna sit back and have an idle conversation about everything they missed and what was meant to happen next? Apparently this book's madman.
I also am NOT happy with the destruction of one of my favorite characters. What the heck, Bea?! You had to go THAT far? It gave me the shock you probably desired so, at least there's that.
All in all, Finale was the end of a formidable series of the love of dance, the love of a few yumtastic men, and the perseverance of some who were once thought of as weak.
