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Series: Underestimated #4
Publication date: January 7th, 2021
Pages: 392
Spice: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Synopsis:
There was a little girl, who had a little gun, pointed right at the center of her forehead.
When she was good, she was very, very good
Because if she was bad, she was dead.
Raised by a monster, rescued by a liar
The life Ava escaped from is a memory she would like to forget
But the past never stays buried for long and when a tragic event forces Ava back home
The monster is waiting to finish what he started.
With fragile bonds put to the test, Ava will need to find the strength to fight back,
putting her faith in the club she was never a part of and a President who is more of a stranger to her than a brother.
Blood might be thicker than water, but its blood that attracts sharks
And if she doesn't learn to stay two steps ahead of the deranged killer who hunts her,
she'll drown.
In a world of bloody secrets and twisted legacies, only one truth remains:
To prevail, one of them must die.
But who will survive?
The Fallen King, or his Tainted Heir?
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 and deals with subjects such as sexual assault and violence that some readers might find upsetting.
There are also sexy fun times with not one but three bikers but please remember, The Heir of Shadows is not for the faint-hearted.
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Review:
After giving herself up to her obsessive, abusive father to save Reign, Ava never thought she would see the light of freedom again. But in a stroke of luck she finds herself in a hospital room surrounded by burly MC crewmates that instead of making her shrink away in fear, make her cling to them as if they are the last line of defense between her and the year long sexual abuse she had suffered. Now that she is free her brother, the MC's President, will do anything to keep her safe. Even if that means having her stay in an isolated cabin in the woods with the three men that were the only things that made Ava feel sane again. Ava has a long road of recovery ahead of her and in that time her brother and his crewmates will stop at nothing to capture Ava's boogeyman. But Ava's heart is the one thing in danger of her losing that nobody can prevent.
Ava was a beautifully damaged soul that went through hell but was one of the strongest female protagonists of the series to date. But surprisingly that didn't make her all that endearing to me personally. Don't get me wrong, I felt horrible for her plight and I commended her on her recovery but she was a martyr in the making and it was annoying to watch her continuously put herself in terrible situations that could be avoided if only she were to trust someone. In the end she proved she didn't really need anyone's assistance in righting her wrongs which made the bond between her and her men feel a little lackluster. In this sort of literary dynamic the men are meant to stand at the woman's back and offer their strength so she can fight her own battles, but Ava didn't even need them at her back. She didn't even need them in the same room. It made their relationships just... odd. Not to mention I didn't feel I got to know the other two men in the dynamic aside from Diesel which kind of sucked because I really wanted to get to know Lucky from his appearances in the very first book on.
Out of all the books I feel like this one was probably my least favorite so far. I didn't find the heroine to be very likeable and the men just seemed to be more in the way than a vital part of the relationship story. It was not very well structured and I feel if Ava's issues were a little less pronounces and she leaned on the men a bit more then it would have made their love a little more believable and all-encompassing. That is not to say the book was bad, but... I feel there could have been vital changes to make the story and characters flow a bit better.
Aside from the romantic stuttering I was voracious in hoping that they were able to find and capture Ava's father before he found her himself. The taunting gifts he left and the arrogance was infuriating. I found myself more interested in the big baddie than the romance, which is saying something for me. But if it weren't for this, I may have even DNF'ed the read as unfortunate as that would have been.
