Review: Hers by A.K. Rose

Hers by A.K. Rose

Series: Blood Ties #2

Publication date: May 31st, 2022

Pages: 340

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Synopsis:

My brother is bleeding.

My stepsister is gone.

The ones responsible called themselves family.

By blood, and now by marriage.

I want to destroy them for what they've done.

Burn everything they have to the ground.

But first I need to find her.

Ryth.

The pathetic, little mouse that scurried into our lives and made a home.

I can't forget her, can't get her out of my head.

She unleashed something dangerous in me.

Something that drove me to ruin her.

And ruined myself in the process.

She was once a game to me...

She still is... only this time it's for keeps.

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Review:

Ryth has been sold to The Order by her mother and stepfather after they discovered the relationship between her and her stepbrothers. The Order is a secretive whorehouse of sorts where women are bought, sold, and trained to be just the right submissive for powerful men. They are dressed in the manner to which they are valued in the company. Those in red lingerie are sold and available for use with the men, the black lingerie are those up for sale and can be touched but not made to have sex with, and the white lingerie is for viewing only often because they are still in training and have not been thoroughly broken yet. It is an awful organization and one Ryth never knew she would find herself caught up in. Especially at the hands of her own mother. But she has to have faith that her stepbrothers will find a way to free her. She just has to stay strong.

Nick, Tobias, and Caleb are all attempting to find a way into The Order through their various contacts. Tobias digs into the underworld while Caleb, who already has previous involvement with The Order tries to endear himself to them to find a way in that way. Nick, recovering from his near death experience turns to helping Tobias when Caleb shuns him. It seems all the boys have dark pasts and even darker secrets that they even hide from each other, but they are willing to get themselves as dirty as possible if it means getting Ryth back.

This book was hard on my boy, Caleb. I knew Caleb was kind of that Daddy Dom type but this kind of showed that it was more than just his preference it was almost a compulsion. And that compulsion made him do some unsavory things in the past. Him having to dip into that world again not only made him question his sanity but his loyalty to Ryth. And throughout the rest of the book he spent the entire time hating himself for the things he had to do to try to free Ryth. He was a bit of a whiny martyr and that kind of too a few of his attractiveness points away. I get that he hated himself for what he did and his past involvement with The Order knowing what it is, but he became borderline suicidal and it was not a great look for the man. I still claim him as my favorite though. That didn't change much.

This book, unlike the first, was a lot more action filled and less sexually driven. There were sex scenes but they weren't as heavily plastered across the pages as in the first book. That had a lot to do with having to explore the plot a bit more outside of the relationship between the boys and Ryth. I did like getting to see a bit of a different aspect than just their overwhelming obsessions with Ryth. This book got to the meat of the characters and gave the reader a better feel for them as a whole. As well as explaining a bit of what happened to lead them to their current situation.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book. There were a few errors peppered throughout the book and a few aspects of characters and plot that I side-eyed, but overall still a very well done second installment.