I thought I knew what love was, but I didn’t have a f*%king clue. Now, I’m in the fight of my life to win over the woman who owns my soul. ~ Finn BlackThe face of an angel…The heart of a saint…One look, one smile, and I didn’t stand a chance. The instant my eyes landed on Presley Chambers, I was a goner. She was a force of nature that turned my world upside down. Sweet, sassy, and sexy as … Sweet, sassy, and sexy as hell, she brought me to my knees.
But she isn’t just any woman, she’s a gift, she’s a goddess, she’s my disease… and I’ll fight like hell to erase her fears.
Sometimes fate has other plans. Now our future is in her hands.
I can only hope she’ll give us the chance we both deserve.
The idea that someone could possess me was insane… until I met Finn Black.~ Presley Chambers
The face of Adonis…
The heart of a hero…
Finn Black infiltrated my safe world the minute he breathed my name. He broke down my barriers and convinced me to take a chance. For the first time ever, I was living my life with a man who promised me a future only dreams are made of.
Sometimes the line between love and longing are tested.
He’s asked me to trust him, to trust us, but the fear of losing him became too much.
Now I must decide if I’m willing to take a leap of faith, and hope he’ll be there to catch me.
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I have loved every book from Ahren Sanders and this one is no exception. First that cover. The eyes draw you in and want you to read. Once that occurs you can’t put the story down.
Finn Oh Finn you are just swoony..Swoony and wonderful. Amazing and beautiful. Loyal and kind. Understanding and gentle. The story of him and Pressley is so fitting for him. It wasn’t the easiest road at times. Why? we have some roadblocks that need to be worked out but it isn’t something where him and Pressley are looking like it will be where they fall out of love or won’t come together forever just some issues that have to be resolved. wartching Finn with Pressley’s niece was so heart melting. From the beginning you could see the admiration and love for the little girl he had. The princess fort building scene was just precious.
Pressley is a great character. She gives up so much for her niece and it is so sad how the story begins. She loses a piece of herself at the beginning and she buries this behind being busy. She also has a fear that comes to light and needs to be addressed before she can truly move on as well. It is Finn that helps her and guides her as they fall in love and become each other’s lobsters. Pressley is sweetness personified and you just root for her and Finn to make it.
The one character that I growled at was Raven. Raven had no right to act how she did towards Pressley. She didn’t know her and yet was just vicious to her. She treated her with such malicious words and anger for no reason than she was with Finn. To Raven it was her protecting Finn but to Pressley it hurt her and fed into her fears. For Finn, it hurt him because Raven is his best friend and he has loved her and done so much for her and he felt she didn’t want him to be happy and find love. He sacrificed his love for her and stepped aside so she can be happy and yet she didn’t even give Pressley a shot. It was horrible. What got me the most was how she couldn’t see what she did and when she did didn’t respect Finn’s need to step back and decompress from it all as he figured out how to make Pressley feel safe and loved while being Raven’s friend still. Once Raven deals with her issues, things are better but it was hard to see Finn feel so hurt by his bestie like that.
The story is so sweet and wonderful. Sad at times but wonderful. sexy as well. Finn is all that and a bag and chips. Pressley is all that Finn needs and more. She is a perfect fit for him. They have some roadblocks and watching them navigate through them was amazing. A wonderful, sexy, fun sweet amazing romance that you don’t want to miss.
I didn’t think Ahren Sanders could create a better hero than Robbie Hayes. There was just something about how he took care of and loved Ember Walker in Salvation that made me fall in love with him. But after reading Finn, I can wholeheartedly say that Finn Black is just as amazing as Robbie is.
I have to admit, though, that I haven’t yet read about Finn’s time in Paris with Raven in Surviving, so my opinion of him heading into Finn was not manipulated by his place in the Raven and Declan ordeal. So maybe I wouldn’t be so head over heels about him if I was privy to those circumstances, but I highly doubt it;)
A safety girl and a risk taker – Presley and Finn couldn’t be more different in how they lived their lives, but when the heart is the main decider on who someone belongs to, the fact that Finn is not in the “safety universe” doesn’t matter, at least when it comes to falling in love.
Finn Black is a balls to the wall kind of guy; he lives to protect and serve, willingly facing danger in order to help those who need him. As a former Marine, he understands the risks, but the good he can do far outweighs the bad, and when it comes down to it, using his abilities to save other people is what makes Finn who he is.
Presley Chambers has always played it safe because she understands how easily situations can go wrong. Losing her mother at a young age forced her to be the “woman of the house,” which in turn, put her in a position to live for everyone but herself, ensuring that everyone else was taken care of and happy. Fear is a guiding principle in her life, so falling for someone like Finn – a person who looks danger in the eye on a regular basis – was not something she ever thought would happen but god help her because after one meeting, she couldn’t stop herself is she tried.
Finn and Presley easily succumb to the “disease” that has already claimed many of Finn’s friends, and it’s easy to tell from the very beginning of their relationship that they’ve found their “one,” but there are factors and complications, emotional baggage if you will, that threaten to undo the bond between them that seemed to solidify as soon as they met, and with the dangerous situations Finn finds himself in due to his job and Presley’s fears of losing someone else who she loves, their journey to a happily ever after is definitely a tumultuous one, and unless Finn can calm Presley’s fears and ease the emotional torment she feels due to a variety of situations, it doesn’t seem likely that they’ll end up in the same place that Raven and Declan and Robbie and Ember did.
If there’s one quality of Ahren Sanders’ writing that speaks to me as a reader, it’s her ability to construct complex characters who readers are shown instead of told about throughout the text. There are multiple layers to the heroes and heroines in Sanders’ stories, and we are privy to all of them, which allows us to understand everything about each character and reason out why they make the choices that they due in their story, even if we don’t agree with them. It’s easy to tell with how the dual perspective is written that Ahren Sanders lives and breathes her characters as she’s writing them and the storyline she puts them through pushes them in every sense of the word to figure out who they are and what they want from the live they were given.
Finn and Presley’s story is an emotional one, which makes sense due to their pasts and the events that occur during the text. I was pretty much emotionally invested with the couple from the start, which made it both frustrating and overwhelming to witness everything that they have to trudge through to get to a place where they’re both happy and unafraid. But the payoff is so worth the tears and heartache that I experienced while reading, and I’d gladly go through it again with Finn and Presley because they were absolutely meant to be.
A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.
5 Poison Apples