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Series: The Heights Crew #2
Publication date: April 10th, 2020
Pages: 432
Synopsis:
I don't belong in the Heights.
Truth be told, no one does. It's dirty, grimy. Riddled with crime, the destitute, and the desperate. Where the family unit doesn't always mean a mom, a dad, and two-point-five kids. It's whoever gives you the time of day.
That's how the Heights Crew came about. The only relationship that counts in the Heights is if you're a part of the Crew. There, gang ties are thicker than blood. More important than money, safety, or any other promise we're supposed to have in this life. Even more important than yourself.
Me? I'm in, and I can't get out.
Some days, I'm not even sure I want to.
Arm Candy Warrior is the second book in The Heights Crew series, a dark high school enemies to lovers reverse harem.
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Review:
Things are getting deeper between Kyla and her men. While Johnny is still under Daddy K's thumb, the other guys are starting to show their unhappiness within the Crew's ranks. Now it seems that not only does Kyla feel she needs to exact her revenge, but she needs to free the men she is developing feelings for of the chains that bind them to the Crew. But until she can do so, she has to play along. She will fight whoever Daddy K decides even if it means the most prominent male fighter of a rival gang. If she wins, it will secure an alliance between the Crew and the other gang. If she loses... well, she can't lose.
Finding a gym to train for her upcoming fight leads her into a comfortable comradery with the gym owners and an excuse to spend more time with Oscar and Brawler. As she spends more time with them she starts to learn more about their lives. Brawler is no longer happy living in the shadow of her dead siblings. Between her dead Crew member brother and drive-by victim sister, his mother has been unable to pull herself out of her depression. Brawler can't help his mother in the Heights. He needs to get her out to get her help. And Oscar has a drug addict for a mother who is destined to fall further and further down the drain if she remains in the Heights. Both men have mothers who will not survive if they remain in the Heights. Kyla has to get them out and get them free when she achieves her goal.
It also seems that Kyla is starting to view Magnum as much more than the protector of her when Johnny is not around. His heated looks are starting to become more and more obvious to her and she can't help feeling much the same for her favorite bodyguard. But Magnum has a loyalty to Johnny that the other two men don't have. Magnum and Johnny are virtually best friends and chasing your best friend's girl is not done without an abundance of guilt accompanying it.
Getting to see Kyla's relationships grow more substantially past the initial attraction is great to see. Oscar is more than the witty clown and Brawler is more than the bleeding heart love muffin. Magnum is touched on but not explored fully and Johnny is starting to be tamed slowly but surely by the affection of Kyla.
The thing I enjoy most about this series so far is that the twists in the story are not apparent until the very last cliffhanger page in the book. It's got a way of sneaking up on you and shocking you completely. But there are hints of these soul-crushing situations occurring but unless you know what's coming you can't guess what's to happen. I love stories you can think back on situations and have an "ahha! So that's what that actually meant!" sentiment.
I am really enjoying the Heights Crew series and am anxious to see where Kyla and her Heights Boys' stories go.
