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236 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 23, 2021
Dangerous beginnings have dangerous ends, and this will be the most dangerous path I've ever walked.
This is the first instalment in the Royal Bastards MC Liverpool series, and does it ever start with a bang!
Right off the bat, this book is different from other MC books I’ve read. The heroine, Genevieve, is in her late thirties, and she’s the leader of a “gang� (which really has more mob-family vibes). Her father was the previous leader, and unlike other sexist leaders, he treated her as his heir. He spent years grooming her and teaching her the ways of the dark and gritty criminal underworld. When he develops dementia, she takes over for him.
Of course, his underlings don’t quite respect her, and she has to go out of her way to make an impression on them. So what does she do? She betrays the Royal Bastards. And Mouth, the President of that notorious MC, is not pleased. And he is not someone that you want to piss off (He got his name by carving smiles into his enemies before killing them! Why so serious, anyone?) Mouth abducts Genevieve because he wants to get back at her father, but he doesn’t realize that it’s her who’s now calling the shots...
This book has a fantastic criminal plotline, but there’s also (obviously) a lot of chemistry between Mouth and Genevieve. There’s a little bit of a cat and mouse theme, where he’s trying to get information out of her, but she’s a lot tougher than he thought she would be. He’s torn between trying to break her for information about her father’s organization and trying to protect her.
While Mouth is an interesting hero, Genevieve really steals the show. I love her strength and ambition. She can be very sarcastic, which I also love in a heroine. At one point, Mouth brings her in from the “Kill room�/shed into the MC’s clubhouse, and she says something like “I guess this is an upgrade� while turning her nose. I died laughing, and I can’t help but love her courage. However, she does make some poor decisions and I can’t help but think that she wasn’t the greatest strategist by ripping off the Royal Bastards in the first place. However, all this is made up for with the way that the story wraps itself up, and I was back to thinking she’s a bada$$.
While this is the first book in the Royal Bastards MC Liverpool series, I’m pretty sure that the other books will be written by other authors. I have already read the books in her Untamed Sons MC series, which is another fabulously dark MC series!
*Thank you to Netgalley and the author for the ebook to review*
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