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A review by yoda32
Darkest Hour Before Dawn by Charlie Cochet
2.0
Trigger warnings: Attempted Sexual assault, physical assault, violence, slut shaming.
Rep: : Queer characters, f/f side relationship, m/m side relationships, M/M romance, POC side characters.
Book nine in the thirds series features the story of Sebastian “Seb Hobbs”, Ethan’s older brother and former destructive delta team leader and Hudson Coulborn, the medical examiner for the THIRDS.
From seeing the unnecessary drama in previous novel I knew I wasn’t going to like this. I expected it but I’m still disappointed. I had small hope that maybe reading from Seb and Hudson’s POV would change that. Alas it didn’t! If anything it made me dislike it worse.
So mated couple Seb and Hudson have been apart for seven years, since an attack that caused Seb to protect Hudson ( which he was right to do by the way, because the gunman was aiming for him!!) , instead of the civilians, (because of course all the other 50+ officers standing around didn’t notice right?) and in turn caused a child to be killed. The guilt ate at Hudson and so therefore he ripped Seb’s heart out and has continued to do so seven years later.
You can probably see where this review is going: I really disliked the character of Hudson. I understood his reasons I really did but he was so irrational and incredibly annoying. One minute he wanted Seb and the next he didn’t!
Seb on the other hand, really needed to grow a pair. For a big fierce tiger he let Hudson walk all over him. He was his mate and therefore deserved anything he wanted. Eh, yeah okay then!
To make matters worse I don’t even want to the discuss the incident that leads them to getting back together officially!! I’m so pissed the author decided to do that.
Everything about this book just seemed to piss me off. The side characters and plot are the only reason this isn’t one star.
The overall plot of the series is getting thicker and that twist at the end was good. Maybe I was too pissed at these characters to notice but I honestly didn’t see it coming!
Overall ~ This Book had its good parts but the bad outweighed the good. I do like Seb and I’m happy his character got his happily ever after but I don’t care for Hudson. I’m glad I read it , If only because I know I won’t miss anything plot related but other than that I wish I could have given this a miss.
Rep: : Queer characters, f/f side relationship, m/m side relationships, M/M romance, POC side characters.
Book nine in the thirds series features the story of Sebastian “Seb Hobbs”, Ethan’s older brother and former destructive delta team leader and Hudson Coulborn, the medical examiner for the THIRDS.
From seeing the unnecessary drama in previous novel I knew I wasn’t going to like this. I expected it but I’m still disappointed. I had small hope that maybe reading from Seb and Hudson’s POV would change that. Alas it didn’t! If anything it made me dislike it worse.
So mated couple Seb and Hudson have been apart for seven years, since an attack that caused Seb to protect Hudson ( which he was right to do by the way, because the gunman was aiming for him!!) , instead of the civilians, (because of course all the other 50+ officers standing around didn’t notice right?) and in turn caused a child to be killed. The guilt ate at Hudson and so therefore he ripped Seb’s heart out and has continued to do so seven years later.
You can probably see where this review is going: I really disliked the character of Hudson. I understood his reasons I really did but he was so irrational and incredibly annoying. One minute he wanted Seb and the next he didn’t!
Seb on the other hand, really needed to grow a pair. For a big fierce tiger he let Hudson walk all over him. He was his mate and therefore deserved anything he wanted. Eh, yeah okay then!
To make matters worse I don’t even want to the discuss the incident that leads them to getting back together officially!! I’m so pissed the author decided to do that.
Everything about this book just seemed to piss me off. The side characters and plot are the only reason this isn’t one star.
The overall plot of the series is getting thicker and that twist at the end was good. Maybe I was too pissed at these characters to notice but I honestly didn’t see it coming!
Overall ~ This Book had its good parts but the bad outweighed the good. I do like Seb and I’m happy his character got his happily ever after but I don’t care for Hudson. I’m glad I read it , If only because I know I won’t miss anything plot related but other than that I wish I could have given this a miss.