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Series: Underestimated #5
Publication date: March 25th, 2021
Pages: 336
Spice: 🔥🔥🔥
Synopsis:
The fates hadn't always been kind to Sunshine...
Abandoned as a baby with nothing more than a blanket and a name
Katie 'Sunshine' Jones knows what it feels like to be alone.
With her childhood spent navigating the foster system,
She finally finds a home in the arms of a boy who becomes her entire world.
But six years later, a devastating tragedy rips her fairy tale to shreds,
And plunges Sunshine's life into darkness.
Falling in love had been easy.
But trying to live without him is like trying to breathe without air.
Until they walk into her life and change everything,
Now the woman who clawed her way out of the dark
Might just get a second chance at finding her happily ever after
But with a war heading for Carnage
It seems fate hasn't finished with her yet...
Please be advised that this book may cause shallow breathing, exploding ovaries and spontaneous disintegration of panties. As a result, all readers should be over the age of 18 and refrain from reading in public places.
Trigger warning: This book contains swearing, violence, and scenes that some readers may find uncomfortable. As with the previous books in the series, Sunshine ends up with more than one love interest, but you'll have to read The Crown of Fools to find out who they'll be because I'm sneaky like that.
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Review:
Sunshine would just curl up in the casket with her lost love and give up if it weren't for the new life growing in her belly. At the funeral she even fantasizes about it before she is unceremoniously carried away screaming her agony into the morning sky. The depths of her grief are vast and while she knows she has to keep breathing, has to keep moving, and has to keep surviving for their child she is struggling to see a life without the man she has loved for years in it. The Carnage wars claimed his life when he defended the life of Ava and while Sunshine holds no ill-will to the people of Carnage she also wants nothing more to do with them as she suspects they feel the same. But when a Goliath of a man in a Carnage cut is standing over her as she breaks down in her closet she wonders if there may be a few of the brothers who haven't dismissed her with the death of her man. Little did she know that her Carnage family was still there for her and Conan & Inigo want more than anything to comfort her and make her whole again. But after the loss of Pike can she move on so quickly to two of his older biker brothers? Will her heart even give her a choice? And it seems the Carnage boys aren't the only ones who are watching and wanting Sunshine for themselves. But will they be too late once Sunshine's stalker decides to make a play for her whether she's willing or not?
I found this to be an interesting installment in the series. The men in the love interest spectrum keep expanding until you aren't really sure who she is going to end up with in the end. Traditionally it's always a triad but Conan and Inigo don't have a third anymore. Then there are a few options to fill that third roll but which will it be? Sunshine went from one man monogamy to a reverse harem of indeterminate amounts. The men in the running are also about double Sunshine's age. #Daddyissues But the age gap wasn't so prevalent that it made the romances gross, so at least that was a saving grace.
I felt terrible for Sunshine. It seemed like the girl just never got a break and yet she kept on trucking. even when slogging through her grief. She struggled with her morality even when her heart told her Pike would have wanted her to be happy. I liked that she didn't just give in immediately and try to lose herself in them to lessen the survivor's guilt she was suffering. She took her time and they allowed her to do so. It was by far the most believable dynamic in this book world so far. I think that it touches on a trope that people may not have been expecting but I for one found to be endearing.
