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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
informative
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Final background story was revealed, but it tied several things together. This last installment was a bit chaotic with all of the bickering and twists.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Mercer’s truth comes out and it threatens everything the merchants and Adeline have built together.
—this wasn’t my favorite. I felt the backstory (no spoilers don’t worry) of how he came to be in the merchants to be a bit flimsy. I understood the first shock but the final one just didn’t add up for me bc of everything they all went through…it just didn’t make sense that they wanted things to work out this way when they could’ve made it happen so many times before.
—this wasn’t my favorite. I felt the backstory (no spoilers don’t worry) of how he came to be in the merchants to be a bit flimsy. I understood the first shock but the final one just didn’t add up for me bc of everything they all went through…it just didn’t make sense that they wanted things to work out this way when they could’ve made it happen so many times before.
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
wow
What an ending. I can’t say I’m disappointed. It was an amazing ending to a truly rollercoaster of a series.
I loved every second and the characters. Hell even Gianna grew on me.
10000000000000/10 recommend
All the ⭐️’s
Here’s my favorite quotes from this book
Once it’s known Mercer Santos is dead, it won’t be long before—
My phone rang.
“Shit.” ~Mercer aka Jasper
“The ledger ruined three men who were closer than brothers. Cost two their lives and the other everything that mattered to him. We swore we wouldn’t make their mistake, and you fell at the first fucking opportunity.” ~addy
“If you tell me your real name.”
“Jasper,” he replied without slowing. “Jasper Croix.”
“Because you fell in love with Mercer. He made you smile. Held you while you cried. Pulled you back from tipping over the edge. It’s him you want, and as long as I was him, I had you.” ~Jasper
Isn’t that what he’s trying to tell me? Choosing to be with him means starting over.
The man I love is gone.
There is only Jasper.
“I’m not in the ledger,” he repeated.
“My daughter is.” My mind. My breath. My everything stopped.
“The most powerful man in the room is not the king, Hunt. He’s the silent figure in the shadows. The one passed over as a non-threat until the knife is between your ribs.” ~Daddy Redgrave
Love.
Such a strange concept. It was basically favoritism on steroids.
Out of hundreds of thousands of billions of people, places, and things, you must choose one above the rest. One place to make your home. One job to do until you die. One woman to build a life with. ~Jasper
“The longer you’re away from me, the easier it gets to say no. I’m not letting you go, Adeline. I’ll tear through every layer I’ve built. I’ll place you on a throne of my broken lives and worship you till I finally crumble into nothing. I’ll reduce your body into quivering orgasms, round your belly with my babies, and prove love truly is the most destructive force on this planet. But what I will not do is make it easy for you to let me go.” ~Jasper
“The real kind of love that drives murder-suicides, breaks sanity, and writes the tragic love stories we read for centuries to come. You’re the love women lying next to their safe option wish for while he’s clipping his toenails in bed.” ~Gianna
What an ending. I can’t say I’m disappointed. It was an amazing ending to a truly rollercoaster of a series.
I loved every second and the characters. Hell even Gianna grew on me.
10000000000000/10 recommend
All the ⭐️’s
Here’s my favorite quotes from this book
Once it’s known Mercer Santos is dead, it won’t be long before—
My phone rang.
“Shit.” ~Mercer aka Jasper
“The ledger ruined three men who were closer than brothers. Cost two their lives and the other everything that mattered to him. We swore we wouldn’t make their mistake, and you fell at the first fucking opportunity.” ~addy
“If you tell me your real name.”
“Jasper,” he replied without slowing. “Jasper Croix.”
“Because you fell in love with Mercer. He made you smile. Held you while you cried. Pulled you back from tipping over the edge. It’s him you want, and as long as I was him, I had you.” ~Jasper
Isn’t that what he’s trying to tell me? Choosing to be with him means starting over.
The man I love is gone.
There is only Jasper.
“I’m not in the ledger,” he repeated.
“My daughter is.” My mind. My breath. My everything stopped.
“The most powerful man in the room is not the king, Hunt. He’s the silent figure in the shadows. The one passed over as a non-threat until the knife is between your ribs.” ~Daddy Redgrave
Love.
Such a strange concept. It was basically favoritism on steroids.
Out of hundreds of thousands of billions of people, places, and things, you must choose one above the rest. One place to make your home. One job to do until you die. One woman to build a life with. ~Jasper
“The longer you’re away from me, the easier it gets to say no. I’m not letting you go, Adeline. I’ll tear through every layer I’ve built. I’ll place you on a throne of my broken lives and worship you till I finally crumble into nothing. I’ll reduce your body into quivering orgasms, round your belly with my babies, and prove love truly is the most destructive force on this planet. But what I will not do is make it easy for you to let me go.” ~Jasper
“The real kind of love that drives murder-suicides, breaks sanity, and writes the tragic love stories we read for centuries to come. You’re the love women lying next to their safe option wish for while he’s clipping his toenails in bed.” ~Gianna
The revelation that Mercer was not who he claimed to be was the wildest twist in Adeline's life to date. And she's been through some twists and turns lately that could only be found within the pages of fiction. She had already suffered the betrayal of her best friend and now one of the men she had lost her heart to was also holding a lot more secrets than she could have ever imagined. However, despite this fact, Adeline can't seem to let go of the feelings she had for Mercer turned Jasper. Now she not only has to find a way to reunite the boys but also come to terms with the fact that Mercer was an illusion. She has to decide whether she can let go of the man she loved or potentially rediscover that love with the true person behind the mask.
Jasper is everything that Mercer wasn't. He is serious, steadfast, and has an air of danger where Mercer was nothing but smiles and laughter. Jasper, while maintaining his secret mission, has decided to do everything he can to assist Adeline in her pursuit of the ledger while also trying to woo himself back into her good graces.
The gangs in the city are in an uproar and the new leader of the Kings will stop at nothing to force Adeline to hand it over. Even if that means playing Adeline's weaknesses against her. Can Adeline find a way to reunite The Merchants, explore a new relationship with the true form of her lover, find the ledger that her best friend has stashed away, and keep all the gangs of the city from banding together against The Merchants?
I never got a real feel for Mercer as a character throughout the past three books as he was always simply lurking in the shadows. He was always so accepting of Adeline's lies and betrayals which made me wonder whether he had his own. That would obviously make him a lot more understanding. Especially when it came to Adeline pretending to be someone she wasn't. I definitely loved Jasper when he started showing his determined nature. Where Mercer used to make subtle flirtatious remarks or advances, Jasper was extremely straightforward. If I didn't love Brutal completely, I may be able to be swayed to Team Jasper.
The wrap-up to this series was stellar albeit a little quick. It seemed the majority of the book was focused on Jasper's mysteries and his reconnecting with Adeline so that everything seemed to be tied up in a pretty little bow within the last 20% of the book. There really was no way else to map out the storyline in this case. The author had to get the relationship between Adeline and Jasper established while also having some pull back from Adeline. If there had been a fifth perhaps it could have been expanded a bit more so it flowed better but even then, it wasn't a deal breaker. I still thoroughly enjoyed the book and think it was the perfect ending to the binge-worthy series.
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What a ride. Came together with much more drama and plot twists and turns, then expected.
3 stars overall. Brutal and Mercer were slow, but the way the series ended makes up for it.