My childhood stolen.My future robbed.My life had been hijacked since before I was born. Every day I woke with air in my lungs was a reminder of what I’d lost. But I didn’t escape the most violent cult in the country, and survive four tours in the Army to go down like this.I was Candle Scott and this was war.*HARD SIN is not a standalone story. It is the third book in the Alpha Antihero Series.The … is not a standalone story. It is the third book in the Alpha Antihero Series.
The Alpha Antihero Series:
HARD LIMIT
HARD JUSTICE
HARD SIN
HARD TRUTH
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Sin is Hard
Like a candle in the wind the flame flickers. However, with this series the flame is strong and powerful.
Well worth reading.
Oh god. I’ve been gutted, put back together, to be gutted again. This book has many trigger warnings, but, you will fall in love. The twist and turns while reading Hard Sin leave you speechless. I didn’t realize how emotional this book would have left me. It is not a standalone book. You will need to read the others in this series for Hard Sin to make sense to you. Be warned, they are all shocking!
EXCELLENT – EXCEPTIONAL – AMAZING Anyone who know’s me, know I adore Sybil Bartel’s books. She is absolutely my favourite author and I’m a voracious reader. I’ve been with her since she started and I’ve never been disappointed. Now, let’s get to this new series. Prepare for it because the emotions that this series brings out was like giving birth _ I thought I was going to stop breathing but then I fell in love. This is a tough, emotionally charged read but so worth it. Hard Sin is the 3rd book in this series and all are about Candle. I have never read such a complicated yet amazing character which was meticulously loved and created by this author. If you’ve read Sybil’s books, you know all about Candle if not, start at the beginning and read the Uncompromising Series. This series starts with a novella, Hard Limit which lays the foundation of this story., then Hard Justice and this, Hard Sin. I have to tell you, I couldn’t have wished louder for another book and just found out that Sybil is adding a 4th to this series and Candle’s story. You don’t want to miss. This series, is much like Sybil’s other series, it is 200% addictive. This series is much more emotional and I later couldn’t decide if I was happy, sad, scared, or anxious at any given time. This girl can write her pants off. This is not to be missed, trust me. Simply AMAZING!
When I first started reading this series, I had NO idea the emotion that would come pouring from those pages. Book 2 had be sobbing uncontrollably, and book 3 hit me in the feels at only six pages in! That just may be a record! Hard Sin is book three in the Alpha Antihero series and packs just as much punch as its predecessors. Sybil has quickly developed the jaw dropping art of the cliffhanger because I am literally jonesing for the conclusion of Candle’s story!
Words.
In the right hands, with the right imagination, with the right craftsmanship, words are:
MAGIC
WONDEROUS
POWERFUL
I have loved & enjoyed ALL of Ms. Bartel’s books. All of her Alphas. I’ve rooted for them & their women to achieve happiness, their peace, their love. And I always wanted the good guy to win against the bad guys: including against Candle whenever he occasionally popped up in her other series.
But, no more. No. More.
Because Ms. Bartel’s wizardry, her craftsmanship, her stellar writing has FIRMLY & PERMANENTLY placed me in Candle’s camp.
In this 3rd book about the making of Tarquin ‘Candle’ Scott, Ms. Bartel has created a damaged, flawed, tortured anti-H whose lethal, frigid, controlled exterior hides a heart of unimaginable fidelity, love & depth that is in its own way frighteningly fragile.
Everything Candle shows, speaks, does, reeks of danger, lethality & a dispassionate agenda. He allows no one to get close, to know him, to know or understand his past, his goals, his unflagging, unfailing, unrelenting PAIN & LOSS since the death of his woman, Shaila, & their unborn child. And this agony is kept rabidly chained because if it ever slips the shackles Candle’s imposed, the world will burn to ashes.
And THIS is the magic & wonder & power of Ms. Bartel’s writing for me: I ACHE for this hard, hard man. For his PAIN. For his AGONY. For his unwavering fidelity. Her words on a page that carve DEEP into my emotions, my heart, my reality. Because the entire time I read this (straight through in ONE sitting) all I was aware of was Candle, his focus & goals, his pain, his tormented memories.
This book will pull you deep into this man’s loss, his pain, his loyalty & fidelity. His unrelenting path of vengeance against the 2 heinous men who caused the destruction of Tarquin & the birth of Candle.
Do you want to truly FEEL? To ACHE? To CARE about a character? To understand HOW a villain becomes an anti-Hero & yet in his own unique way a Hero? To yearn & long heartbreakingly for him to win? To achieve his peace? His happiness? Read this series. READ IT.
Ms. Bartel has eclipsed herself (IMO) with this series. She’s taken a damaged, enraged, tortured & dark man & allowed her readers to understand him.
To admire him.
To empathize & sympathize with him.
To have their hearts bleed for him.
To love him.
Trigger warning: sexual and physical assault
My review-
What worked for me:
-the many twists and turns kept me on my toes
-the plot flowed well from the previous books
-it was filled with angst, suspense, action, turmoil and love
-I am thrilled there will be a fourth book
Sybil Bartel is the Queen of Hot Alpha Heroes and Hard Sin did not disappoint! And Candle Scott is such a fantastic, multi faceted character with such a layered story! I have enjoyed everything about this Series and can not wait for the final book, Hard Truth. If you enjoy reading stories about Ex-Military Alpha Heroes, Sassy Strong Heroines, and a plotline that is explosive and entertaining, this is a read you will thoroughly enjoy! 5 Entertaining Stars!
This book literally kept me up at night. It is gut wrenching and intense, and it ends on a cliffhanger. The final book is out now.
When you discover a new to me author and start reading everything she writes because you get so hooked up on her characters, I always found it so interesting the way she does the secondary characters and more so when that character is the villain.
Hard Sin is the third book in the series and it’s not a stand-alone.
Tarquin “Candle” Scott is everything that you can expect from a great villain but you just can’t fall in love with him and his story. His heart was broken in the cruellest way and even after so many years of longing and despair, the heartbreaking story is not over. Just like in real life, this story has two beautiful souls that are meant to be together through all the hell that life is throwing in their path.
I need the next and final book to finally have my heart back and see that light at the end of the tunnel for him and his heroine.
Dark and haunting but so addictive, Candle’s story will steal your breath away.