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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
2.5 The .5 is for Axel. Izzy was a hot mess for the first 1/2 of the book and then had some hot sex and was magically healed.
I DID NOT hate this book. I had a lot of hope for it. And there were a lot of "parts" of it that I liked. I liked Axel and the guys. Dee and Izzy were crazy and somewhat annoying. The crying and the drama was incessant for the 1st half of the book. The never ending internal monologue was not my cup of tea. This book needed some tighter editing as far as content and such. There weren't any huge typos there were some misused words here and there. 2 times a gun was referred to as "medal" as opposed to "metal". Not sure if it just was passed over in the editing process. This book would've been better for me if if wasn't so wordy. We get it. She had a crappy childhood after her parents died and Axel went to the Marines and she lost track of him and then she married a dirt bag who beat her. A lot. But the crying and the breakdowns were just way too much for me. I got to the point where I skimmed to the stuff I wanted to read...which mainly involved Axel, Greg, Maddox and Beck.
I'm going to put Greg's book on my tbr list. Because I love a protective and loving Alpha. I may read it and I hope it's not as crazy and wordy as this one was. And really- once Axel found out everything I liked him and Izzy more and then everyone stopped treating Izzy like a 2 yr old.
Again...didn't hate it. Just had some stuff that didn't work for me.
I DID NOT hate this book. I had a lot of hope for it. And there were a lot of "parts" of it that I liked. I liked Axel and the guys. Dee and Izzy were crazy and somewhat annoying. The crying and the drama was incessant for the 1st half of the book. The never ending internal monologue was not my cup of tea. This book needed some tighter editing as far as content and such. There weren't any huge typos there were some misused words here and there. 2 times a gun was referred to as "medal" as opposed to "metal". Not sure if it just was passed over in the editing process. This book would've been better for me if if wasn't so wordy. We get it. She had a crappy childhood after her parents died and Axel went to the Marines and she lost track of him and then she married a dirt bag who beat her. A lot. But the crying and the breakdowns were just way too much for me. I got to the point where I skimmed to the stuff I wanted to read...which mainly involved Axel, Greg, Maddox and Beck.
I'm going to put Greg's book on my tbr list. Because I love a protective and loving Alpha. I may read it and I hope it's not as crazy and wordy as this one was. And really- once Axel found out everything I liked him and Izzy more and then everyone stopped treating Izzy like a 2 yr old.
Again...didn't hate it. Just had some stuff that didn't work for me.
4.5 crazy hot alpha guy stars.
First of all, congratulations to Harper Sloan on her debut! And what a debut it was! She went full-stop with the hot alpha guy in this one! Love it! She can also write! And write well! For a debut novel, I was highly impressed!
On to the book.
The beginning of the book was hard to read. REALLY hard. I had read the reviews, I knew it was coming...but it was still HARD. I felt for Izzy and all she was going through. And I wanted to murder her husband with my bare hands. Izzy was so broken, so defeated, so lost.
Thank God Izzy has an amazing friend in Dee. Dee pulls her out of her hell and brings her to safety and life. She also brings along Greg, who is the protector/best friend/angel she needs in her life. The two of them help Izzy recover (mostly)
Izzy still has issues. A lot of them. She drinks way too damn much, she is depressed and you can tell she doesn't value herself. She lost the love of her life at a young age, settled and married a man who ruined her and is just a shell of a person.
Wait, love of her life? What? Oh...you mean Axel! The guy the joined the Marines and disappeared...never to return. HIM! What happened to him?
Oh...he's back. He's back and he's not happy. At.All.
Seems there were some wires crossed in Izzy and Axel land. Some foul play was at hand and some assumptions were made that kept them apart (and you know what they say happens when you assume!)
So, we meet Axel. Axel who is all grown up and manly like now. Axel who is pissed at Izzy for not waiting for him, but also is still madly in love with her. (well, she is the love of his life, remember)
Yep, Axel is a man now. A hard, hot, powerful, protective man. Thank you Harper Sloan for the gift of Axel.
To top it all off, we have an HEA. No cliffhanger, no waiting for months to find out what the hell happened. Just sweet, sweet happy ending and a promise of more hot guys to come.
In summary - If you love alpha guys, if you love your stories wrapped up with a bow, if you are a fan of Kristen Ashley type books (you can tell that Harper Sloan is influenced by her!) ...you will love Axel. I definitely did and I can't wait for the next book in this hot series!!
First of all, congratulations to Harper Sloan on her debut! And what a debut it was! She went full-stop with the hot alpha guy in this one! Love it! She can also write! And write well! For a debut novel, I was highly impressed!
On to the book.
The beginning of the book was hard to read. REALLY hard. I had read the reviews, I knew it was coming...but it was still HARD. I felt for Izzy and all she was going through. And I wanted to murder her husband with my bare hands. Izzy was so broken, so defeated, so lost.
"That was the same day I decided fate hated me. No, she didn't hate me… she loathed me. People say karma is a bitch but I have news for you, karma doesn't have anything on fate when she is after your blood. Not a single thing."
Thank God Izzy has an amazing friend in Dee. Dee pulls her out of her hell and brings her to safety and life. She also brings along Greg, who is the protector/best friend/angel she needs in her life. The two of them help Izzy recover (mostly)
Izzy still has issues. A lot of them. She drinks way too damn much, she is depressed and you can tell she doesn't value herself. She lost the love of her life at a young age, settled and married a man who ruined her and is just a shell of a person.
I gave up pleading to the the heavens years ago.Ten years to be exact.The day he walked out of my life.The day the sun stopped shining and my world turned gray.The day that my dreams turned into nightmares.I miss my dreams, the sun, and I miss him.
Wait, love of her life? What? Oh...you mean Axel! The guy the joined the Marines and disappeared...never to return. HIM! What happened to him?
Oh...he's back. He's back and he's not happy. At.All.
Seems there were some wires crossed in Izzy and Axel land. Some foul play was at hand and some assumptions were made that kept them apart (and you know what they say happens when you assume!)
So, we meet Axel. Axel who is all grown up and manly like now. Axel who is pissed at Izzy for not waiting for him, but also is still madly in love with her. (well, she is the love of his life, remember)
"Seeing his face again is still a punch straight to the gut. It physically hurts to breathe. He looks so different than the boyish face I remember in my dreams, he is still Axel, but he looks harder."
Yep, Axel is a man now. A hard, hot, powerful, protective man. Thank you Harper Sloan for the gift of Axel.
To top it all off, we have an HEA. No cliffhanger, no waiting for months to find out what the hell happened. Just sweet, sweet happy ending and a promise of more hot guys to come.
“Not one day went by Izzy that my heart didn’t belong to you. To this day there has only been one woman that has and will ever hold it. Fuck, baby but the love I have for you is so fucking strong sometimes, I wonder if it will crush me.”
In summary - If you love alpha guys, if you love your stories wrapped up with a bow, if you are a fan of Kristen Ashley type books (you can tell that Harper Sloan is influenced by her!) ...you will love Axel. I definitely did and I can't wait for the next book in this hot series!!
Interesting
Good storyline with interesting characters. Well written with well developed characters that are people you would like to know and spend time with regularly.
Good storyline with interesting characters. Well written with well developed characters that are people you would like to know and spend time with regularly.
Had it been edited, I would have given three stars. The story is sweet and the love between the H/h is communicated well. Overall, a decent read. I would recommend it to a friend who enjoys genre fiction.
Okay. As I realize my previous review was neither constructive nor mature, I'll edit it, with my apologies to anyone who saw the previous one.
That being said: I did not like this book. At all. I'm supposed to be swept off my feet by big, protective, passionate Axel right? Well, I wasn't.
When we're first introduced to Axel, he hates our heroin Izzy for what he perceives she did to him and their love (when she was seventeen and he was eighteen--destroyed for LIFE the boy was). He shows his hate by calling her a bitch and being a total and complete disrespectful asshole toward her.
So even though he thinks this woman is an asshole and not worth the dirt on his feet, he still gets to be possessive of her. My girl! His brother (read fellow marine) has a very close, FRIENDSHIP relationship with Izzy. Has for years. Is this okay with Axel? No! No it's not. Someone else is touching her and hugging her and if there's one thing Axel can't take, it's people touching his property. The property he hasn't owned for twelve years. On top of that, he thinks it's awesome to physically haul her around wherever the hell he wants in spite of her wishes. Pffft. Her wishes and her personal space are silly! We do not respect silly women's silly requests to, oh, you know, take them to their homes instead of our house. Ya know. Because I know if I repeatedly told a man who has threatened to throw me in his truck if I didn't get in by myself to take me home and he took me wherever the hell he wanted, I would be turned on, not terrified.
Oh, wait...
So no.
So no. By the time he gets over himself and starts loving this chick, I think he's a bastard and it makes me physically ill to think about him so close to a woman who is still in danger after fleeing an abusive marriage. I don't care about how sexy his dirty talk is. I don't care that he literally made her come by touching her (literally...he inserts one finger and she explodes. I cannot make this up). He would have to spend the rest of the book on his knees begging forgiveness and actually SHOWING that he's not a prick anymore for me to feel okay with a handshake, let alone sex.
Rounding out the book are a host of "friends" who seem to go out of their way to tell Izzy how wrong she is and how she needs to do what they tell her to. Greg disapproves of how she's grieving about a sincerely fucked up event in her life that happened the day before...he drags her out of bed and throws her in the shower and turns the water on. He actually does this. Her friend. Because he thinks she should go out clubbing despite the triggering threats her husband pulled on her LITERALLY TH E DAY BEFORE. Then, later, when Greg disapproves of the fact she wants to get a tattoo and get pierced, he calls Axel--whom Izzy has made VERY clear she doesn't want to see. Axel drags her away (of course, thinking about how he wants to kill the guy who had been touching her boobs even though she paid him to touch her boobs...that's how you get your tits pierced). To her credit, Izzy gets mad, but when Greg "apologizes" he adds that he would make the same choice over again.
Heaven forbid this girl have any agency. All her friends HATE her making her own decisions.
I'm getting worked up again, so I'm going to cut this short. Let me leave it at this.
Verbal abuse is abuse. Axel thinks he's so much better than ex-hubby because he would never hit her despite being furious at her. What a prince. I sincerely loathe this trend in fiction making abusive, controlling pricks the romantic hero. It makes my stomach churn.
That being said: I did not like this book. At all. I'm supposed to be swept off my feet by big, protective, passionate Axel right? Well, I wasn't.
When we're first introduced to Axel, he hates our heroin Izzy for what he perceives she did to him and their love (when she was seventeen and he was eighteen--destroyed for LIFE the boy was). He shows his hate by calling her a bitch and being a total and complete disrespectful asshole toward her.
So even though he thinks this woman is an asshole and not worth the dirt on his feet, he still gets to be possessive of her. My girl! His brother (read fellow marine) has a very close, FRIENDSHIP relationship with Izzy. Has for years. Is this okay with Axel? No! No it's not. Someone else is touching her and hugging her and if there's one thing Axel can't take, it's people touching his property. The property he hasn't owned for twelve years. On top of that, he thinks it's awesome to physically haul her around wherever the hell he wants in spite of her wishes. Pffft. Her wishes and her personal space are silly! We do not respect silly women's silly requests to, oh, you know, take them to their homes instead of our house. Ya know. Because I know if I repeatedly told a man who has threatened to throw me in his truck if I didn't get in by myself to take me home and he took me wherever the hell he wanted, I would be turned on, not terrified.
Oh, wait...
So no.
So no. By the time he gets over himself and starts loving this chick, I think he's a bastard and it makes me physically ill to think about him so close to a woman who is still in danger after fleeing an abusive marriage. I don't care about how sexy his dirty talk is. I don't care that he literally made her come by touching her (literally...he inserts one finger and she explodes. I cannot make this up). He would have to spend the rest of the book on his knees begging forgiveness and actually SHOWING that he's not a prick anymore for me to feel okay with a handshake, let alone sex.
Rounding out the book are a host of "friends" who seem to go out of their way to tell Izzy how wrong she is and how she needs to do what they tell her to. Greg disapproves of how she's grieving about a sincerely fucked up event in her life that happened the day before...he drags her out of bed and throws her in the shower and turns the water on. He actually does this. Her friend. Because he thinks she should go out clubbing despite the triggering threats her husband pulled on her LITERALLY TH E DAY BEFORE. Then, later, when Greg disapproves of the fact she wants to get a tattoo and get pierced, he calls Axel--whom Izzy has made VERY clear she doesn't want to see. Axel drags her away (of course, thinking about how he wants to kill the guy who had been touching her boobs even though she paid him to touch her boobs...that's how you get your tits pierced). To her credit, Izzy gets mad, but when Greg "apologizes" he adds that he would make the same choice over again.
Heaven forbid this girl have any agency. All her friends HATE her making her own decisions.
I'm getting worked up again, so I'm going to cut this short. Let me leave it at this.
Verbal abuse is abuse. Axel thinks he's so much better than ex-hubby because he would never hit her despite being furious at her. What a prince. I sincerely loathe this trend in fiction making abusive, controlling pricks the romantic hero. It makes my stomach churn.
WOW! Words really cannot describe the emotional gambit you run while reading Axel, and even afterwards. This book stayed with me for a very long time and I still go back to re-read the parts I highlighted. Harper Sloan does warn you that this is not suitable for younger audiences and she does mean it.
Isabelle West's life has been tough. She is finally in a place where she can enjoy it a little bit thanks to her friends Dee and Greg. However the one person from her past that she truly loved is back after she thought he was dead. She also now has to face the one thing from her past she feared the most and hoped would stay in her past
Axel never thought her would ever see Isabelle again after he left but due to fate he has finally found her again, but fate has a way of making life that much more difficult.
I instantly fell in love with Axel and Isabelle. They prove that life is hard, but the things in life that really do mean the most are the things worth fighting for.
*** SMALL SPOLIER***
Yes there are parts that some may have issues with, but I don't think that any of it was overdone, and what Harper wrote works for the story. It never went past my comfort zone and I have a low tolerance for abuse in books.
Isabelle West's life has been tough. She is finally in a place where she can enjoy it a little bit thanks to her friends Dee and Greg. However the one person from her past that she truly loved is back after she thought he was dead. She also now has to face the one thing from her past she feared the most and hoped would stay in her past
Axel never thought her would ever see Isabelle again after he left but due to fate he has finally found her again, but fate has a way of making life that much more difficult.
I instantly fell in love with Axel and Isabelle. They prove that life is hard, but the things in life that really do mean the most are the things worth fighting for.
*** SMALL SPOLIER***
Yes there are parts that some may have issues with, but I don't think that any of it was overdone, and what Harper wrote works for the story. It never went past my comfort zone and I have a low tolerance for abuse in books.
OMG!!! What can I say about this book! It was like a mini movie. A little of everything!!! There were times when I was cracking up laughing, times I was cringing from the content, times I was crying, and times I was (oh well that would be TMI).
This is a must read for anyone who likes a sexy book but one with a plot. Immediately starting book 2!!
This is a must read for anyone who likes a sexy book but one with a plot. Immediately starting book 2!!
I tried to read this book numerous times but I could not get past how whiny the heroine is - I wanted to reach through the page and shake her.
And look - I get she had a shitty life - but girl who hasn't had a shitty life.
Put on your big girl panties - harden the fuck up!
I hate miscommunication plots anyway - aren't we suppose to grow up at some point in life and learn to communicate instead of acting like teenagers and chuck tanties!
And don't get me started on the sex - please
And look - I get she had a shitty life - but girl who hasn't had a shitty life.
Put on your big girl panties - harden the fuck up!
I hate miscommunication plots anyway - aren't we suppose to grow up at some point in life and learn to communicate instead of acting like teenagers and chuck tanties!
And don't get me started on the sex - please
Three stars
I enjoyed this book and read it in one sitting. I have never read this author before. It was a good book, but it was a bit over the top. Everything from the emotions to the fights to the sex scenes were just overdone. I also felt like Iz did not act like a thirty year old woman, she behaved more like a twenty year old. The fights and immaturity with Axel annoyed me a lot. Eventually it all came together, but I felt if there had just been communication it would have worked better. I'm a bit unsure of reading about Dee and Beck. It seems like it would be back and forth immaturity like in this book. I do have the rest of the books in this series so I'm sure I'll get to them eventually.
I enjoyed this book and read it in one sitting. I have never read this author before. It was a good book, but it was a bit over the top. Everything from the emotions to the fights to the sex scenes were just overdone. I also felt like Iz did not act like a thirty year old woman, she behaved more like a twenty year old. The fights and immaturity with Axel annoyed me a lot. Eventually it all came together, but I felt if there had just been communication it would have worked better. I'm a bit unsure of reading about Dee and Beck. It seems like it would be back and forth immaturity like in this book. I do have the rest of the books in this series so I'm sure I'll get to them eventually.
3 stars
I had a hard time getting into this story. The heroine annoyed me for some indiscernible reason. But I will most likely read the next in this series since the guys are HAWT!
I had a hard time getting into this story. The heroine annoyed me for some indiscernible reason. But I will most likely read the next in this series since the guys are HAWT!