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Series: Underestimated #7
Publication date: September 15th, 2022
Pages: 430
Spice: 🔥🔥
Synopsis:
When people think of Saylor Adams,
They think of the boy whose life she ruined
The football superstar whose future was forever altered by a secret
A secret that followed him to his grave.
Dubbed a bad seed and a liar,
Saylor was the girl we warned our sons about
Back before she ran away amid a storm of rumors and accusations.
But when the girl who cried wolf returns, everything we thought we knew is shattered.
Shocking us with the knowledge that we turned a monster into a god
And made a villain out of his victim.
While some of us will search for redemption, others will seek revenge,
Unraveling the lies that tore a family apart, revealing truths that could destroy us all
And falling in love?
Well, that might just be the biggest lie of all.
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 violence, dark themes, and some scenes that readers may find uncomfortable. As with the previous books in the series, this story offers up multiple love interests meaning our leading lady gets to have her cake and eat it too.
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Review:
Saylor came back to town simply to put her mother's affairs in order after her passing before she leaves the entire town and all the people in it behind her. But when her rapist's brother, Cassius, and his MC mates, Erza and Roman, bust into her home and demand to know why she has shown her face once more they are confronted with the irrefutable proof that all the claims she made against his brother was factual when they look into Saylor's daughter's eyes. They are the same as his own. Now Cassius realizes that everything he had ever known about the woman was a lie. She was a victim in everything and she continues to be the victim when his psychotic parents get wind of their grandchild and want to sue for custody. Saylor is caught between a rock and a hard place and only has the saving grace of her best friend and her husband to keep her sane. That is until a shooting takes away even the little bit of self-appointed family she had left. Now Saylor must find out how to keep her child out of the clutches of her rapist's parents, how to grieve the loss of one of her most cared for allies, and how to mitigate the troubled waters of her heart's desires, all while dodging someone who clearly has it out for her in the most deadly of ways. No pressure.
This book was decent but it did feel like it was just kinda tacked onto the end of the series to see if there was any more fanfare to be eked out of the following. Saylor was never mentioned in passing and Ezra and Roman were only seen maybe in one or two very small scenes of the series. Not enough to make there be any outcries for them to have their own book. Don't get me wrong there was some subject matter in this book that had never been touched on before, but it was still... just didn't feel like it fit. I felt like Mercy's book tied up loose ends and got rid of the biggest of the baddies that was plaguing the entire series to this point. Saylor just feels like one more random romance for Carnage. They're gonna run out of brothers eventually... especially when they are disappearing in triplicate.
Saylor was a decent enough character but nothing outstanding about her. Honestly, I didn't devour this book like I did the others. Even the ones I wasn't as fond of. It was just as decently written and the characters were just as well developed, I just think I had mentally wrapped things up in my mind with Mercy and struggled to reopen that door again. It was, however, a good opening for the spin-off series for the Candy Shop Girls which I am very excited to read.
