The Blurb:
Marcus Borden has always been used to power and control. After a crime-filled upbringing in a very harsh neighbourhood, Borden leaves his hometown, returning four years later mysteriously rich and unrecognizable, with one woman on his mind.
A woman he'll never have.
Pained by his devastating loss and filled with rage and guilt, Borden's world turns dark.
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As a fiercely independent woman, Emma Warne knows all about hard living. Having kept to herself most of her life, the last thing she expects is to be thrust into the world of infamous criminal Marcus Borden, the dangerous man the entire city fears and loathes. But the more she pushes him away, the more he comes back, taking over her life and stripping her of her control she desperately clings to.
Once Borden has his sights on her, Emma is going nowhere anytime soon, and what she doesn't expect least of all... is that she may not want to either.
Borden is one of those books that I feel like every other
person on my feed has read, so I guess it was just time. And it did not
disappoint.
It’s going to be hard to write this review completely sans spoilers. I have warned you thusly.
Part One of Borden, as a whole, could be scrapped in my opinion. I didn’t need it. A simple prologue would have sufficed. The reader has to spend something like 65 pages focusing on the wrong girl. And she’s annoying, to boot. I get it, Borden has loved and lost...a rich girl who wasn’t even into anything he liked sexually and her family hated him, but okay. There was just no spark, no chemistry at all with them. Girl even died admitting Borden was probably more in love with the idea of her. Yeesh.
Moving on to the good stuff: Part Two.
Marcus Borden is a very large, very scary dude covered in tattoos. He’s committed to ruling the city’s criminal underworld with an iron fist, and everyone pretty much knows his name, if not his face. Like Bane, only prettier.
Bane is not holding a puppy in this pic.
Emma grew up in the same neighborhood as Borden, tough as nails out of necessity. She carries a switchblade under her boobs. As you do. She’s had a prior run-in with Borden when she was younger, though she doesn’t remember him. Her current problem: she’s witnessed a murder by some of Borden’s men.
Borden, on the other hand, remembers Emma very clearly. He becomes enamored with her boldness towards him and makes arrangements to keep her close, regardless of how Emma feels about the whole thing. The slow-building chemistry between the two is HOT. When they finally close the deal, oh myyy.
This book hit a lot of my key “S” areas for a good romance: slow burn, suspenseful, sexy alpha, sassy protagonist, and of course...spanking.
Book ends on a cliffy, but I don’t even mind. Reading the sequel as we speak, looking forward it!
It’s going to be hard to write this review completely sans spoilers. I have warned you thusly.
Part One of Borden, as a whole, could be scrapped in my opinion. I didn’t need it. A simple prologue would have sufficed. The reader has to spend something like 65 pages focusing on the wrong girl. And she’s annoying, to boot. I get it, Borden has loved and lost...a rich girl who wasn’t even into anything he liked sexually and her family hated him, but okay. There was just no spark, no chemistry at all with them. Girl even died admitting Borden was probably more in love with the idea of her. Yeesh.
Moving on to the good stuff: Part Two.
Marcus Borden is a very large, very scary dude covered in tattoos. He’s committed to ruling the city’s criminal underworld with an iron fist, and everyone pretty much knows his name, if not his face. Like Bane, only prettier.
Bane is not holding a puppy in this pic.
Emma grew up in the same neighborhood as Borden, tough as nails out of necessity. She carries a switchblade under her boobs. As you do. She’s had a prior run-in with Borden when she was younger, though she doesn’t remember him. Her current problem: she’s witnessed a murder by some of Borden’s men.
Borden, on the other hand, remembers Emma very clearly. He becomes enamored with her boldness towards him and makes arrangements to keep her close, regardless of how Emma feels about the whole thing. The slow-building chemistry between the two is HOT. When they finally close the deal, oh myyy.
This book hit a lot of my key “S” areas for a good romance: slow burn, suspenseful, sexy alpha, sassy protagonist, and of course...spanking.
Book ends on a cliffy, but I don’t even mind. Reading the sequel as we speak, looking forward it!
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