I don’t think I can express just how excited I was when I first heard that Jay Crownover was going to go back and visit this second generation of our favorite characters from her Marked Men and Saints of Denver series. And starting with my first Marked Men love, Rule’s son, that was perfect as well. I can start off by saying that I was not disappointed in any way, shape, or form with this book. I loved it to pieces! It had all the same feelings and emotions that I got with the original series. And the steam level was exactly what I’ve always loved and expected from this author as well.

Before the story even began though, it made me sad that the author felt she had to justify anything about how she wrote this story, how she handled her world of characters. Other than one series (Divergent) I have never felt an author did something I didn’t like with the characters, because it is their story! I am reading that author’s story. Even with the ending of the Divergent series, while I didn’t like it, I totally understood the ending, and it made sense. But enough about the haters and naysayers, because this book was the bomb!

Ry, had to adore him. I mean he was the perfect jock that his Uncle Remy probably was in so many ways. But he was also a good guy. A nice guy. The animosity between him and Bowe was so obviously sexual tension, it was pretty easy to tell, for everyone except for maybe the two closest to the whole situation, Ry and Bowe. The honesty between them was perfect though, it made the whole relationship so much more believable. I also like the way the other characters behaved about all the different things that happened. Until the very end. I can’t say who it was, but the things she said about Bowe and the way she behaved made me so mad! Even if, once again, it was understandable under the circumstances and will hopefully lead us to a future book about her and whoever her true love will be.

I don’t know if I can say enough how much I loved being back in this world. The glimpses of our original characters from the original two series were just perfectly place and the perfect amount. I’m keeping my fingers crossed and letting all my hopes get up that we will get more books in this series. I loved the little family tree diagram the author gave us at the beginning. I’m hoping we get the next story she hinted at in the end of this book, Prodigal Son with Hyde and Remy. Fingers crossed!

Review first posted at Lisa Loves Literature.