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This review was originally posted to Jen in Bookland
Who else here saw Raw: Rebirth was coming this year and immediately freaked out because you couldn't wait and wanted it yesterday? I know I did. I saw it pop up on my timeline and was just like must read now!! What a way to start of 2019!
Because it has been a while since I read the prior two books, Raw and Dirty, I spent the last part of 2018 frantically trying to read them so I was ready to go with Raw: Rebirth. I read something beforehand that said you have to read Raw before this story, but nothing about needing to read Dirty and while I think technically you might be able to get away with it I would read it as well. Because then you know the entire story and you get to see what most people were up to in the time between. Plus Julius and Alejandra are amazing together! I loved it! Once you have caught up on the first two books it is time to dive right in!
Raw: Rebirth was so much fun to read. These characters are amazing. I loved reading them. You know you are reading a good book when you a) what to read it as fast as you can and b) want to read it as slow as possible and savor it because it will have to end at some point. This was me with this book. I didn't want it to ever end! I could have kept reading on and on and on and on.
Twitch has finally finished up the things he needed to do and it set to return to his old life. To his other half, his loves, his home, but things aren't as easy as he had expected. It is hard to be so close and not be able to act yet. I really enjoyed reading him. You can see how much he has changed and grown and healed in the time he has been away. How he is not the same person but still is at the same time. How he is trying to be a better person and keep his anger in check, but it is difficult. He has had a not very good past, like most everyone in this story, but he has finally started to work through it. To heal so he can be the amazing person he always was just without as many issues. I loved it. I loved watching him have patience and be a dad and do all the normal everyday things he wants his new life to be.
Lexi is still the same old Lexi but better. She is tough and strong and resilient. I loved that she didn't just crumble and do whatever Twitch wanted when he comes back. How she makes him work for it and how she has to figure things out for herself first. How she is not ready to just pretend nothing happened. She was really hurt, but you know underneath that she still loves him and they will figure this out eventually. Plus she is an awesome mom now and AJ is so lucky to have these two as his parents. Plus it was nice to see all the people we met in the first two books and a bunch of great new characters we meet along the way. If you enjoyed the first two books you will probably love this one as well. I mean after Dirty how can you not want to see what happens?
*Note: I received a free copy of this book for voluntary review consideration
Who else here saw Raw: Rebirth was coming this year and immediately freaked out because you couldn't wait and wanted it yesterday? I know I did. I saw it pop up on my timeline and was just like must read now!! What a way to start of 2019!
Because it has been a while since I read the prior two books, Raw and Dirty, I spent the last part of 2018 frantically trying to read them so I was ready to go with Raw: Rebirth. I read something beforehand that said you have to read Raw before this story, but nothing about needing to read Dirty and while I think technically you might be able to get away with it I would read it as well. Because then you know the entire story and you get to see what most people were up to in the time between. Plus Julius and Alejandra are amazing together! I loved it! Once you have caught up on the first two books it is time to dive right in!
Raw: Rebirth was so much fun to read. These characters are amazing. I loved reading them. You know you are reading a good book when you a) what to read it as fast as you can and b) want to read it as slow as possible and savor it because it will have to end at some point. This was me with this book. I didn't want it to ever end! I could have kept reading on and on and on and on.
Twitch has finally finished up the things he needed to do and it set to return to his old life. To his other half, his loves, his home, but things aren't as easy as he had expected. It is hard to be so close and not be able to act yet. I really enjoyed reading him. You can see how much he has changed and grown and healed in the time he has been away. How he is not the same person but still is at the same time. How he is trying to be a better person and keep his anger in check, but it is difficult. He has had a not very good past, like most everyone in this story, but he has finally started to work through it. To heal so he can be the amazing person he always was just without as many issues. I loved it. I loved watching him have patience and be a dad and do all the normal everyday things he wants his new life to be.
Lexi is still the same old Lexi but better. She is tough and strong and resilient. I loved that she didn't just crumble and do whatever Twitch wanted when he comes back. How she makes him work for it and how she has to figure things out for herself first. How she is not ready to just pretend nothing happened. She was really hurt, but you know underneath that she still loves him and they will figure this out eventually. Plus she is an awesome mom now and AJ is so lucky to have these two as his parents. Plus it was nice to see all the people we met in the first two books and a bunch of great new characters we meet along the way. If you enjoyed the first two books you will probably love this one as well. I mean after Dirty how can you not want to see what happens?
*Note: I received a free copy of this book for voluntary review consideration
Ok, so I didn't love this, I mean I didn't hate it but I just didn't love this. It's not just the fact that I've been waiting for this forever, it's that I love practically everything Bella Aurora writes. Maybe my expectations were too high on this, maybe I just have too much going on right now and I just couldn't get into this. Overall this was just ok for me. I'm glad Lexi and Twitch got their happy ending but I would have been fine if I never read this.
4,5 stars - a satisfying and delightful ending to a series that started out not really hitting for me.
I enjoyed every moment of this book, and I'm sad it's over. I'd read a hundred or more pages of these characters just living their lives, they've really grown on me.
I still have mixed feelings about the first book, but the second and especially the third make it worth reading!
I enjoyed every moment of this book, and I'm sad it's over. I'd read a hundred or more pages of these characters just living their lives, they've really grown on me.
I still have mixed feelings about the first book, but the second and especially the third make it worth reading!
Great book. Loved the entire series. The characters were complex and interesting and you couldn’t help but be drawn into their world. Loved it so much
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Eeeeepppp i was so excited to read this after finishing Raw and it didnt disappoint at all. So so good. I now can go back to Dirty and not be in suspense.
“Once upon a time, in the land of gods and monsters, there lived an angel. And her name was Lexi.”
It’s been 24 hours since I’ve finished Raw: Rebirth and I still can’t grasp the idea that it is over. Fucking over. Reading the first chapter was so surreal I had to take little breaks. But once I got over myself I didn’t stop. I think it was between 3 and 4 am when I finished this precious work of [a: Belle Aurora|6983012|Belle Aurora|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1466303303p2/6983012.jpg]
This finale was nothing like [b: RAW|20421367|Raw (RAW Family, #1)|Belle Aurora|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1437456543s/20421367.jpg|26129516] or [b: Raw: Dirty|21403041|Dirty (RAW Family, #2)|Belle Aurora|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1417215376s/21403041.jpg|40701519]. Our beloved Characters are all grown, still grieving their King. Everyone seems to be settled-in in their new routines, but our babies all have tremendous traumas that they are still struggling with. Take Ana, I am so happy that Julius and Alejandra took a great part in this book, I was really invested in both, since [b: Raw: Dirty|21403041|Dirty (RAW Family, #2)|Belle Aurora|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1417215376s/21403041.jpg|40701519]
But we also met a lot of new characters that I am hoping to meet again.
It’s been six years and our favorite bad boy Twitch is back in town, albeit secretly. He’s been out and about trying to get his family a truly Happing Ending they all deserve and need. Coming back home in one piece, to be with his family isn’t the real problem here. It’s Antonio ‘Twitch’ Falco, the King nothing to worry there.
But It’s time to win back his Angel’s, Alexa ‘Lexi’ Ballentine, heart and make up for lost time. In true Twitch style, of course.
They are so many great Characters in this book, but I want to concentrate on Twitch, Lexi and Ling here.
“I got down on my knees, spread her legs, lowered my head, and prayed.”
Antonio ‘Twitch’ Falco
Ahh yes, the maddest bad boy in the GAME. You guys, this muddafucker took me the fuck out in Raw. I couldn’t deal. I’m a bitch for a real anti-hero, that’s nothing new. But this guy. Ugh. I read [b: RAW|20421367|Raw (RAW Family, #1)|Belle Aurora|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1437456543s/20421367.jpg|26129516] three times because of him.
“I would not take any more from this woman, not when she had already given me so much.”
Twitch is still Twitch, but he comes back all grown-up (he’s forty-one at this point, thank you very much) ready to be the man Lexi needs and deserves, ready to be Antonio Julius ‘A.J. Falco’s father.
“I’d found my religion. Lexi was my bible. And with her mercy, I would be reborn.”
I love how he gave Lexi time and space to deal with his ‘coming back from the dead’ instead of going all Twitch on her.
The way he speaks with A.J. and his parenting skills made my ovaries go boom. I felt like our Twitch changed beyond any recognition to be a ‘good man’.
Spoiler
But then, ladies and gents, sexy time knocked on the door and my body was READY“You keep looking at me like I’m a snack, I’m gonna have you on your knees.”
Alexa ‘Lexi’ Ballentine
Lexi frustrated me in Raw, a lot. I have to admit she never was my favorite Character in this series. But I’m positively surprised that there is no trace of our former doormat heroine Lexi. The Lexi we got to know in Raw: Rebirth is strong, fierce and doesn't take shit no more.
My name is Alexa Falco.
And I am not afraid anymore.
Come for us.
I dare you.
I will take you the fuck down.
Ling
My Queen.
Yo Lexi, I’m really happy for you and Imma let you finish but Ling Nyung is the true Queen of my heart, of all time. The Queen of My Heart, of all time. ¯\_(ツ)_/
“When are you fuckers gonna learn? Ling giveth...”
No for real, you guys. My broken, sad Queen I’d would give her the world and take away all her pain, but she’s so far gone, and she knows it. She’s reckless and heartbroken, always looking for a place on this godforsaken earth. I know she did a lot of damaged and hurt people, especially my baby Alejandra. She doesn’t need MY forgiveness, but I’m not over that particular decision she made.
I want to hug you, Belle Aurora so freaking tight, because you gave my girl a short romance (we can discuss, if her and Aslan’s feeling were genius. I doubt it, but like I
said It’s up for discussion) and the happy end, she truly needed.
“...Ling taketh away”
“Didn’t he see what I really was? A cancer on this world, plaguing every man I met. I was a sexually transmitted disease, and Aslan was just one of a long list of those infected” ”
“(…) Ling Nguyen was not a love swept teen. Ling Nguyen was a motherfucking queen, and if he didn’t let me use his face as a throne, I would impale myself on his broken, bloody spine until the raw pleasure made my body shake”
“It was days like this that I just wanted to relinquish the power I’d stupidly taken to become an untouchable and go back to being a ho without a care in the world.”
Asya and Molly also deserve a special mention. Especially Asya I loved her so much and would love to read more about The Lost Boys.
Some of My Favorite Quotes
He was something I needed more than I needed to breathe.”
“Yes, we were crazy. And that was okay. He would be my remedy. I would be his therapy. Because we were crazy in love.”
“Our love was insane. Like smiling into the face of a firing squad.”
“He had the horns of a demon, the eyes of an angel, and the mouth of a god.”
“I was a sinner, and she was my only prayer. A deity. The only goddess I worshipped."
“Because I’m your motherfucking king, and you are my beautiful queen. So be good, bow down to me—” His voice lowered a notch. “—and let me love you.”
“Every one of these marks is a love letter.”<:b>
“I wouldn’t provoke me, Papi.” Fern sat tall, a slight smirk pulling at the corner of her mouth. “I’m a woman.” Her eyes narrowed on Luka before she leaned back on the sofa, resting her arms over the back of it. “Been washing blood stains off my clothes since I was a teenager.”
It’s been a crazy ride and I would do it all over again. I’m looking forward to all the spin-offs that will hopefully grace our existence. Thank you [a: Belle Aurora|6983012|Belle Aurora|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1466303303p2/6983012.jpg]
*ARC kindly provided by author in exchange for an honest review.*
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Hell yes !!!! I need them back
**ARC provided in exchange for an honest review**
"I'd found my religion. Lexi was my bible, and with her mercy, I would be reborn."
So, I guess this is it. I have been obsessed with the characters from this series for about five years now. RAW was my introduction to the Dark Romance genre, and Twitch was the first anti-hero/villain I fell in love with. Twitch and Lexi will always have a very special place in my heart, and I am going to miss them. This book has been one of my most anticipated reads the moment Belle Aurora announced about it, and it has been on my TBR list for almost four years. Did it meet my crazy high expectations? Yes, it did. I didn't expect anything less from one of my all time favorite authors.
"Twitch was the medicine I didn't know I needed, and I wanted to shoot him up, right into my veins, and stay high on him for a lifetime."
I will not go into the storyline/plot, because I want you to fully experience this book and characters. I loved the multiple POVs, and it really brought the story to life. It gave a perspective from so many different characters, and it also showed what motivated them to make certain decisions. Lexi, is one of my favorite heroines, she is just so strong and loyal, and I am proud of the huge growth she went through from the first moment we met her. I can say the same about Twitch, on one hand he is still the same crazy controlling asshole, but on the other hand he has evolved into a new and better person. I also want to mention that Belle Aurora writes the best villains. She makes me love, hate, and feel sorry for them at the same time.
"Yes, we were crazy. And that was okay. He would be my remedy. I would be his therapy. Because we were crazy in love."
RAW: Rebirth was everything and more I wanted from this story. I am so happy that the author wrote this series/book and introduced me to this genre and amazing characters. They are not without flaws, and that makes them perfect in my eyes. They make mistakes, and boy are they big ones, but they also know how to make it right. The side characters were phenomenal, and there are a couple who need their own books. I am sad to say goodbye to the RAW Family series and to all the characters, but I am glad I got the ending I wanted. Now I'll just wait for Belle to release her next book.
"I'd found my religion. Lexi was my bible, and with her mercy, I would be reborn."
So, I guess this is it. I have been obsessed with the characters from this series for about five years now. RAW was my introduction to the Dark Romance genre, and Twitch was the first anti-hero/villain I fell in love with. Twitch and Lexi will always have a very special place in my heart, and I am going to miss them. This book has been one of my most anticipated reads the moment Belle Aurora announced about it, and it has been on my TBR list for almost four years. Did it meet my crazy high expectations? Yes, it did. I didn't expect anything less from one of my all time favorite authors.
"Twitch was the medicine I didn't know I needed, and I wanted to shoot him up, right into my veins, and stay high on him for a lifetime."
I will not go into the storyline/plot, because I want you to fully experience this book and characters. I loved the multiple POVs, and it really brought the story to life. It gave a perspective from so many different characters, and it also showed what motivated them to make certain decisions. Lexi, is one of my favorite heroines, she is just so strong and loyal, and I am proud of the huge growth she went through from the first moment we met her. I can say the same about Twitch, on one hand he is still the same crazy controlling asshole, but on the other hand he has evolved into a new and better person. I also want to mention that Belle Aurora writes the best villains. She makes me love, hate, and feel sorry for them at the same time.
"Yes, we were crazy. And that was okay. He would be my remedy. I would be his therapy. Because we were crazy in love."
RAW: Rebirth was everything and more I wanted from this story. I am so happy that the author wrote this series/book and introduced me to this genre and amazing characters. They are not without flaws, and that makes them perfect in my eyes. They make mistakes, and boy are they big ones, but they also know how to make it right. The side characters were phenomenal, and there are a couple who need their own books. I am sad to say goodbye to the RAW Family series and to all the characters, but I am glad I got the ending I wanted. Now I'll just wait for Belle to release her next book.