Betrayal is easy, sex is a weapon, and information is power. Maggie Madison sits in the lofty towers of her city during the day, but at night she lurks the seedy underbelly, looking to snare the man who stole her innocence. Her simple quest becomes complicated when she meets a man who is as light as she is dark, as straightforward as she is deceptive. When a villain rises and sets her world … alight, she must weigh her need for revenge against the good of the city she vowed to protect.
For mature readers, this book contains gratuitous sex and violence…
Fans of the dark feel of Jessica Jones and the gritty elements of Gotham will enjoy the story of a new superhero with a dark past, The Matriarch.
The debut novel from Sloane Howell is book one of The Matriarch Trilogy. The next two books are set to release in 2016. There are some plot arcs left unresolved to set up book two so this book does end in a cliffhanger but not without some resolution. For those with triggers, there are dark scenes where certain situations are implied but not described in detail. Thank you for reading.
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This book was so good!! I was curious how they could make a superhero erotic, but Sloane sure did!!! There’s so much deceit and plot twists, it had me on the edge of my seat the whole time!!! Maggie is so power and enduring, she overcame so much and did what she set out to do. I also liked how Sloane helped us see what was happening through a few different chapters eyes. We got a little “behind the scenes” type glimpses and they were great!! This left me wanting more sooo bad!! Bring on the next one!
I must admit that at first I had mixed feelings about this book. But once I finished it I seriously could not get it off my mind. I mean that ending was OMG!!! I did not know what to do with myself. So needless to say, I really ended up liking this book.
So Maggie/Rebekah/The Matriarch is super badass and can definitely handle herself in a fight. The action was fun to read and very interesting. I will say there wasn’t a whole lot of action, but the parts where there was action was pretty damn cool I couldn’t control myself.
This book is so sinister and twisted. The main heroine had to deal with a lot in her young life, some very traumatic experiences that turned her into the vigilante that she is. I never expected any of it, but it was creative and dark. Sloane Howell did a great job dropping the bread crumbs and slowing piecing Maggie’s story together. I found that the most interesting as I read. I even liked the romance that began with Rebekah. Although I feel that it moved too fast and slightly took a bit of the story, but it all makes sense in the end why.
I did have some favorite scenes and that ending was explosive. Oh goodness, I have never hated a cliffhanger so much in my life than I did when this book ended. I needed more. It straight blew my mind, especially since I had my suspicions but not that. It actually made me sad and shake my head in disbelief. But man this book was wonderfully twisted.
This book is not for everyone since it deals with prostitution, torture, murder, violence, and dark sex scenes. If any of this makes you uncomfortable then I would not recommend this.
Maggie, The Matriarch, rules her life through strength and power for the rights of the weak. Her superpower ability manipulating and undermining the patriarchal powers who currently rule the world both sustain her heroic efforts and fuel her need to right the wrongs of the world. Her kryptonite is every ruling mother’s weakness and she works hard stifling down those maternal emotions when dealing with the youth and underwritten. Her extraordinary strength in sexual manipulation only further fuels her abilities in knocking down her adversaries and providing them with their worst nightmares.
The Matriarch, by Sloane Howell, creatively blends the comic style genre with the very sultry underbelly of erotica in this no holds bar masterpiece. His ability to juxtapose Maggie’s heroism against the evil doings of the world with her softer counter-part Cody who still envisions a world of honesty and hope. Howell jumps right in from the get-go harnessing Maggie’s fearlessness and her unwavering commitment to justify the wrongs of the world. His ability tackling the taboos of human trafficking, underage seduction, and other assorted swept under the rug social maladies of the world through the growth of Maggie from youth into adulthood raises the bar for mixed genre writings. Sloane Howell breathes life into the heroine and also gives birth to the ultimate antihero and mortal enemy. Well worth spending a few hours entrenching yourself in the deep dark underbelly of Maggie Madison’s twisted world.