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Novel: 281pgs
5+ Pants Off
Blurb: After an undercover assignment that changed his life forever, FBI agent Donovan Cintron is barely hanging on to sanity. His new mission is to forget, by any means necessary, so he tries his hardest. Pills. Booze. The warm bodies that never quite measure up to what he’d had. What he’d lost. It’s almost a relief when he learns his identity might be compromised—except he’s not the only one exposed. So is the husband he hasn’t stopped needing all these years later. He’d been aching to die, but for Levi Nieto, Donovan will live. To protect. To regret. To remember.
The realization that everything he loved was a farce sent Levi Nieto spinning out of control, and running away from the memories. Now Donovan is back in his life, still fully entrenched in darkness. Their physical connection is one thing, but the truth of who they are to each other remains trapped among the anger, violence and lies suffocating them. Fixing what’s broken will take more than each man exposing his scars. Secrets—and blood—must be spilled.
Review
I am just….
Like where do I begin? This book was just a pure banger and I didn’t want it to end. I know I’m getting an angst ridden read when it comes to Avril, but this had me choking on my own spit and had my heart racing, I haven’t felt them feels since “Watch Break me Break You” left me ruined. Scars and Secrets is a thirst trap, and I am thirsty. My throat is mad raw!!
Donovan Cintron
has got a job to do but that job didn’t entail falling in love and
building a family. The thing with keeping secrets is that eventually
they come to light and leave a mess of hurt behind. That’s what happened
with Van, his secrets lost him his husband and family. With everything
he does clothed in danger it’s finally coming back to bite him in the
ass and his husband and son are put in danger. It’s time for the
prodigal husband to make a return and save his marriage and in the
process save his own life.
Levi Nieto found love and lost it. Lies and betrayals has shaped his life for the last seven years and he never thought he would be able to move on from that. Now his life, his sons life is in danger once again
and it’s all because of the man he married. Donovan came into his life
to build him up only to knock him down. Now he’s face to face with the
man that left him wrecked and bodied, how can they move past all this
hurt. Ones thing for sure, their passion is blazing fire and it seems
not even distance could dim the flames.
First of all, first off all…this f*cking
book left me in tatters. That’s not to say I didn’t have a few problems
but the pros far outweigh the cons and I feel like I been ruined for
any other books I read this year. It’s like Miss Ashton goes into brain
and write the things that make me lose my pants. Levi & Van are walking, talking porn advertisement. I read sex scenes with a slight disinterest because I’ve
been doing this so long, so it takes a lot to get my motor running.
Their heat left me deceased and just shooketh to the core. I like them
together, I love them together but I feel like I hardly know them apart.
Their surrounding overshadowed their story and I wanted to know how
they fell in love.
“Want you to feel me” Levi’s mouth was at his ear, breath harsh, loud, broken. “In your fucking chest. When I come inside that ass, you better taste it on your tongue”.
The
plot is one crazy twist after another filled with favourite characters
from the authors other works. My heart was just in a happy place seeing
characters that I know and love in one place coming together with a
common goal and shaking sh*t up. A lot of interesting shockers here
filled with Avril’s signature dramatic flair and I was all in for it. I swear I am just so in love with the freaking book its essence is dunked into my bones.
What I’m having a hard time with, is Vans addiction being glossed over
and it was a full blown addiction. He had some demons and I feel they
weren’t addressed properly. Man needs rehab, therapy, and a cleanse.
Alas, I’m still all for this regardless of its faults I’m still utterly
in love and ain’t nobody can tell me otherwise. I give kudos to Avril regardless of writing,
high marks for diversity alone. Her stories ain’t filled with cookie
cutter white boys all over the place, and all these bad boy types is my
aesthetic. Hats off to my Jamaican rude boyz!!
Overall,
this has been a pleasure to read and experience and I might be ruined
for the rest of the year. Scars and Secrets is unapologetically Avril
Ashton and I am looking forward to reading the series. I have to take
them in small doses because I’m trying to live. I am a lifetime fan of this author. Big ups Avril, keep writing the mans dem!!
SideNote- Take caution going into this series if you haven’t read the other series (Brooklyn Sinners and Run This Town).
SideNote2- Walking around with a girl boner for the rest of the month.
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