Ty… Ten years ago I offered her everything, and she threw it back in my face. When she walked, I vowed no other woman would ever screw with my head the way she did. I moved on. Now I’m the V.P. of the Bastards, run my own nightclub, and nameless sex keeps me sane. No commitment or ties, just the way I like it. Now she’s back, for one week only, gorgeous, successful, and I can’t keep away. She … and I can’t keep away. She offers a long goodbye, a way to heal our fractured past. She burned me so bad–there’s no way I should even want to be near her. But the more she gives, the more I need. Until I discover the real reason she left, and my whole damn world implodes…
Each book in the Viking Bastards MC series is STANDALONE:
* Hooked
* Payback
* Burned
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This was a super sexy, yet sweet second chance romance with a hot alpha hero who also had a heart of gold. I loved this story!
You know you have a good series when you are on the constant look out and swoop on the next one as I have in this one. This author had me with the first one. This one is centered around the VP Ty and Jas. This is also a second chance one which had me even deeper. When she comes to tie up loose ends from beginning to almost when it is figured out this author had me on the edge on what really went down wanting it to come out sooner. The chemistry never left and soon exploded. This time the growth is there to stay you just know it. I also hope this is not all there is and more to come for this series.
This is the 3rd book in the Viking Bastards MC. It’s the first book of this author that I have read. It’s not going to be the last book, though. I really enjoyed reading this book and the author told a great story. Jas and Ty were young lovers when she suddenly left without notice or explanation. Ty was heart broken and soon became hardened to love. He never wanted anything to do with it. Jas ended up coming back to town when her mother passed away. This starts the tale of whether true love can withstand all pain. It was heartbreaking to feel the emotions that came from both of them but when it was all put out there, it was even worse. You will love the story but grab the box of Kleenex because it will be needed. It was so emotional from the very beginning of the book. By the time you got to the end, you really wanted to hurt the people that were supposed to be there to help and support Ty and Jas. I’m going back to grab the first two books in the series, now. I voluntarily read and reviewed this book that I received from Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Wow! I really, really enjoyed the heck out of this book!
Jasmine left L.A. ten years ago and has now returned due to her mother’s death. When she runs into Ty her heart yearns to reach out to him but it’s obvious that he’s still carrying anger over their past. Both of them recognize that they need closure and after an intense, sexy night, they agree to continue their one night stand on through the week until Jas has to leave again.
Ty never fully understood how Jas was able to walk away from what they had. He understood the premise of it, and the reason she gave, but there was always something that niggled at the back of his mind. Hurt and anger obliterated those thoughts until pieces of the puzzle begin to fall back into place with her return.
I totally got why Ty felt the way he did. Thinking their love was a forever kind of thing, he was heartbroken when Jas left. With her in his life again, even temporarily, he’s struggling to remember the past and that what he’s feeling now may not be what she’s feeling. Jas was completely broken when she left and there’s so many layers as to why she made the decision she did.
This is a well-paced read, very well written, and sprinkled with a bit of angst but not the kind to knock you on your bottom. The MC lifestyle isn’t predominate but plays as a backdrop well out of sight. It was a very enjoyable read with plenty of steam and a hero that you will love to watch rise up from his past to secure the girl of his future.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book provided by NetGalley and Entangled Publishing. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
“It wasn’t until she’d gone I realized how much of me she’d taken with her.”
It was my MC Romance addiction that had me taking a chance on a new-to-me author when I started the Viking Bastards MC series. I enjoyed the first two books, but I must say that this one is by far my favorite. It went much deeper and pulled harder, touching my emotions and leaving a lasting impression.
The author set me up in the synopsis, teasing me with hints of a secret just waiting for me to uncover. She pulled my strings, intriguing me and keeping me on the edge of my seat. She made me fall for Ty’s lost love right along with him. I mourned their broken hearts as their teenage love story was unfolded for me through their memories. I mentally yearned for all their broken pieces to be restored and for them to open up and share the parts of themselves they’d been withholding from each other.
I hoped for her one week visit to turn into forever. And my-oh-my what a week it was! Let me tell you, it’s amazing what ten years of unfulfilled feelings and unanswered questions will do for a couple once they are finally reunited. They told themselves and each other it was just sex. They just needed closure and to get each other out of their systems. Yeah, right. Like the explosive passion between them could ever be confused with ‘just sex’. Let me tell you, I wasn’t confused, not even for a second. But I might have needed to re-read a few scenes just to make sure. (wink-wink )
I don’t know if Burned was the final installment in the series or not. But I can tell you that the author won me over with this one. No more riding the fence for me. The line forms here…
3.75 stars–BURNED is the third instalment in Christina Phillips’ contemporary, adult VIKING BASTARDS erotic, MC, romance story line. This is attorney Jasmine ‘Jas’ O’Brien, and Viking Bastards’ MC vice president Tyler ‘Ty’ Jenson’s story line. BURNED can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Ty and Jas) BURNED follows the rekindling romance between twenty-seven year old Florida attorney Jasmine ‘Jas’ O’Brien, and thirty-year old Viking Bastards MC vice president Tyler ‘Ty’ Jenson. Ten years earlier, a then seventeen year-old Jasmine O’Brien disappeared without a trace, leaving a heart broken and reeling Tyler Jenson in her wake. Fast forward to present day, wherein a more hardened and mature Jasmine O’Brien returns to LA to bury her mother, a woman she hasn’t seen in close to ten years. Rekindling her relationship with the only man she has ever loved was never in the plans, but plans are meant to be broken. What ensues is the rekindling relationship and romance between Ty and Jas, and the potential fallout as Jas prepares to return to Florida; and Ty discovers the truth about Jas’s disappearance, years before.
Jasmine O’Brien’s return to LA came with too many memories of the past for both of our leading characters. Tyler Jenson struggled to forget the woman he would always love but ten years without Jas meant their second chance relationship came with unresolved anger and emotional issues. Jasmine hated the secrets that led to her escape ten years earlier, secrets that would have destroyed Ty, and the ‘family’ he loved.
The relationship between Ty and Jas is one of second chances; a rekindling between two people torn apart by demons of the past, a past mired in secrets, betrayal, loss and pain. The $ex scenes are numerous, intense, erotic and aggressive- the unrestrained and angry sexual situations are countered by the knowledge that ten years of unanswered questions had yet to be resolved.
We are reintroduced to several members of the Viking Bastards MC including Zach and Grace (Hooked # 1), and Gage and Amelia (Payback #2), as well as Ty’s parents Angie and Jett Jenson.
BURNED is a story of loss, deception, secrets and heartbreak. The world building follows the rekindling relationship and the ever-present sexual tension between our leading couple, as the MC took a backseat to the second chance romance. The premise is dramatic; the romance is dark, edgy and intense; the characters are broken and energetic. BURNED is a dramatic and intense look at two people who have struggled to remove on from the past.
**I received a copy of Burned from Net Galley in exchange for a honest and voluntary review**
Burned by Christina Phillips is the third book in her Viking Bastards MC series. I have to say this was a great second chance at love for both Ty and Jas and I really enjoyed it. Well worth all 5 stars I’ve given it.
Ty Jenson loved Jasmine O’Brien since they were teenagers but when Jas decided to leave LA and go live with her father in Florida he didn’t know if he could survive the loss of the only girl he’s ever loved. There is a back story that will finally understand why everything happened and why she’s back in town to settle her late mother’s estate. But Ty is now VP of the MC and a successful owner of the Hammer club and can have any girl he wants, his heart has always belonged to Jas. But can they only be together for a week? Will they be able to part without broken hearts?
Jasmine O’Brien has returned to LA just for a week to settle her mother’s estate and she must return back to Florida to her job as a Civil Rights Lawyer. But when she finds a pay stub from Hammer she goes to the club to find out what he mom was working as. She meets Ty again and its fireworks again like when they were teens. But even though the sex is good can they get beyond their past especially why she left and make a new life together again? Can Ty once he learns Jas’s secret be able to forgive his mother and brother?
For a second chance at love this was a fantastic one and hopefully there will be a few more in Ms. Phillips Viking Bastards MC series in the future. But I truly love and enjoye