Nick Sebring has issues. Born feeling like an outsider in his own family, growing up under the shadow of a brother who could do anything, Nick isn’t that great of a guy. But when this culminates with Nick lashing out to hurt his brother through the woman he loves, Nick turns inward and makes some decisions about the man he intends to be.
And as he does this, he falls in love and truly learns the … learns the man that he’s grown to be.
When his love is murdered right before Nick’s eyes, Nick knows he has to avenge her. He knows how he’s going to avenge her. And he has no qualms using Olivia Shade to exact that vengeance.
Olivia Shade has grown up on the outside of her family too. Her problem is that they don’t want her outside. They want her all the way in, right under their thumbs. She pays the price for seeking escape and learns her lesson—she’ll never see a dawn where she wakes up free.
Then she meets Nick Sebring, and even as she fights it, the hope that died years ago starts to blossom. She can find love. She can have a man of her own. She can be happy. She can be free.
Olivia hopes while Nick schemes.
However, as Nick peels back the layers of all that is Olivia Shade, he finds something surprising. He understands its fragility. He falls in love with its beauty. He seeks to protect it.
But he forgets to protect his Livvie from one thing: Nick Sebring.
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Narrator Review:
Stella Bloom is one of my favorite narrators. You can’t go wrong with any audible book she works on. 5+ Stars to Stella!
Story Review:
Wow! This book was bad for my heart. So many times I was furious with what Olivia was being put through that I had to stop and just breathe for a few minutes to lower my blood pressure! This book was seriously good. I wasn’t expecting that since Nick was such an ahole in the previous books. Kristen Ashley did such a good job of turning Nick’s character around, made even more amazing since we didn’t actually get to see his turning point, yet it was still believable. This was a great ending to the series. When I finally got to the end of this book, I had completely fallen in love with all the Unfinished Hero’s and their women and I absolutely love that they are living the life they deserve.
Wow this whole series was amazing. But Nick is the one who changed the most I think. this is a must read series !!!
Kristen Ashley gives the reader a four course meal when you read her stories.
Enjoyed this book very much. It was a little different from previous books in the series and I thought the characters were engaging and believable. Nick turned out to be a worthy hero and possibly one of my favorites of the series
Audiobook edit: The narrator for this one was spot on! In fact, this listen made me rethink the lack of heat between Olivia and Nick, so a star change was in order!
I was pleasantly surprised to find I now like Nick. Amazingly, KA turned my least favorite character into a well-liked one. Definitely an excellent end to a wonderful series. I loved Olivia, I loved Nick, I’m happy this book hints at the new LA series with Eric Turner’s destination. The sex was white hot. Only thing I missed from the usual brilliance of this author was the love connection between Nick and Olivia wasn’t as intense as a lot of her romances. But I still enjoyed the ride.
I’m torn about this one. I liked it..but didn’t. Nick’s road to redemption was snippets in other books and narrowed to a few paragraphs here, so I was expecting maybe more focus on him rather than Olivia. Instead, Olivia takes over the pages and appears to become Nick’s obsession, but goes from a poised, pretending-to-be-in-control-of-her-uncontrollable-life to a mousy personality. I preferred the ice queen with fire.
The epilogue sort of soothed my ruffled feathers, and Nick did come full circle in rectifying many hurts, but I was expecting…you know what? I have no idea what I was expecting. Because formula or not, KA characters tend to go off and do their own thing, in their own way, leaving me wondering what just happened….
Nick is just like Knight in the attitude department, all attitude, “I said ‘right,’ like, okay. Right. You’re clean. You’re on the Pill. Topic done. I can eff you and come inside you and all’s good.” Nick will give Olivia anything she wants including how many kids, “his choice, he’d stop at two. She wanted to give him three, he’d give her that. He dropped his mouth to hers. “You want three, we’ll have three,” he murmured against her lips.” I was thrilled to see Nick a different way, in the other books he was the bad guy, the not nice guy I loved seeing this side of him.