If
you love Creed by Kristen Ashley, Convicted by Aleatha Romig, and Reaper’s
Property by Joanna Wylde then you will love this book!!!!!
“From chaos, the strongest sort of love is usually
born.”
Basic Summary: A story born in childhood, tying one girl to one boy, leads
to a destructive path—that hurts more than it doesn’t, that shatters more than
it heals—testing the love that binds the two through a lifetime.
Tegan
Matthews is the daughter of Dorothy Kelley, a club whore in Hell’s
Horsemen. A plain little girl, Tegan
falls into the gritty world of the motorcycle club. When she meets a sweet, caring boy, she
embraces the warmth and affection he shows her.
Case West is the son of the president of the Hell’s Horsemen. Tall and blonde with deep brown eyes, as he
grows up Cage realizes the power of his dimpled smile and smooth drawl. With once chance encounter, Tegen becomes forever
tied to Cage. Following is a wayward
journey that is filled with regrets, mistakes, and heartache, pulling at the
threads that hold them together. Cage
and Tegan fight hard but love harder, and in the end what matters is where the
journey takes one girl and one boy, who have been twinted together with one
another since the beginning.
This is
Tegan’s and Cage’s story. Love doesn’t
erase a broken heart, and it sure doesn’t change people. But no matter how old, how flimsy, how frayed
the rose of love is, it keeps you tethered to the people you love.
What I Love About This
Book: This series is probably one of the
darkest series I have ever read other than Captive in the Dark. Madeline Sheehan manages to capture the darkest sides of humanity in her characters
but at the same time playing with your mind enough that you can’t completely
hate them and you can’t completely love them.
This is the third book in this series and before you even begin to open
up to page one, you have to be able to handle depravity, stupidity, and love
all at the same time.
This books
opens up to a young girl’s story of losing her virginity to the boy of her
dreams only to have her heartbroken
to smithereens. Every girl out there can
relate to Tegan in some way, shape, or form.
We have all had our hearts broken by assholes, and I don’t many people
who have a wonderful losing their virginity story. I think this kind of sad part of Tegan makes
her a very sympathetic character, and it makes you instantly latch onto
her. You kind of get a bit of her
attitude in Unbeautifully (Book2) and even though she might seem like a total
bitch, no one can really blame her for that considering all she’s been
through. You immediately applaud her for
making it out of Montana and away from the Hell’s Horsemen motorcycle club but
as you read you realize that the MC is always with whether she’s in Montana or
not.
There is so
much rage built up in Tegan and she is a person who acts then thinks later on,
maybe
regretting her actions but it’s like she doesn't know another way to
live. Cage like Tegan has a lot of anger
built up inside of him, trying to find his place in the MC. His father never approves of him, he isn’t
let in on a lot of the dirty business that goes on in the club and isn’t sure
where he really stands with his father as the President of the MC. You see his dedication to his brothers and to
the club as a whole, this kind of life is in his blood and all he really wants
is for his own father to stop ragging on him constantly and actually approve of
his choices. Cage grew up in a
dysfunctional family with no real support system and as a child he grew up
quickly taking care of his sister Danny when their parents couldn't then doing
it again for his youngest sister Ivy when once again his father couldn't step
up and do it himself. To me, he just
needs to be supported in some way, instead of being the one doing the
supporting. He needs a woman to hold him
up when he needs it, and be by his side through life and is just so lonely
because he hasn't found that yet.
Without that kind of relationship in his life he is kind of just
floating around with no real grounding and purpose to his life.
“The older I grew, the more I grew to love him
until I no longer looked to him as the one stable figurehead in my life, but
instead loved him with an intensity that at times bordered on madness.”
Tegan and
Cage are just so crazy together, they are like two sparks that come together
and create a huge fire. There is just
tons of yelling between them, so much so I’m surprised Tegan has a voice after
a while because if that was me, all that yelling would mean no voice for a
couple of days. Cage is so obviously in
love with her he doesn't know what to do with himself, and there is so much
anger between them that it just explodes when they come together. Their first sex scene was definitely
combustible and border line physically dangerous and it just got hotter from
there!
There are
so many times while reading this book that I felt like someone had ripped my
heart out and stomped on it over and over again. This story is so bitter and raw it’s
terrifying. A couple times I was reading
and Deuce would be screaming at Cage and I swear I felt like I could really
hear his voice in my ear, I would look away from the book and the silence would
come back and I would realize just how into the story I was.
On top of
Tegan and Cage’s story, Dirty and Ellie’s relationship played out throughout
the plot as well. Dirty being another
character I don’t think I’ll ever be 100% on way or the other about. He’s so twisted and messed up in this story,
and so damaged and broken that you love him but are repulsed by at the same
time. He’s Ellie’s hero but so many other
people’s devil that it’s hard to completely love him. He’s vulnerable and weak because of past
abuses done to him a
“No matter how old, how flimsy, how frayed the rope
of love is, it does keep you tethered to the people you love. And I was forever tied to Cage.”
Cons: There wasn't a ton of details in this book, when Cage finally
gets to Tegan to his house, you get no real description of his house and I know
this is the third book in this series but there was no description of the club
house as well. I feel like there was
more background information on Deuce and Eva’s house than any other place in
the entire book. I would've like more
detail of what Cage’s house is like, what kind of life has he built for himself
before Tegan came along and I didn't get any of that. To me houses that important characters live
in so significant because it can represent so much of what this person’s life
has been like. I can picture Cage’s
place being very sparse and not really decorated at all because of the fact
that he’s a bachelor who isn't concerned with outward appearances, travels
often, and has the option of sleeping at the club house whenever he wants. The same goes for Dirty, you get what his
place was like, but there wasn't a lot of detail and it would've been
interesting to see how his lifestyle has created his home. You get from Ellie that his place unlike him
is a very clean, but that’s really about it, what kind of furniture does he
have, does he have a TV, what is the layout?
All those little things are important to character development for me
and it would've made me attach more emotionally onto these characters.
“She was family, she was his best friend, and just
like he’d take a bullet for his sisters, for his brothers, even for his old
man, he knew in that moment, staring down at her, he’d take one for Tegan
too.”
Overall: This series just rips
you apart and tears at your soul. It’s
so dark and gritty it shows all the dark sides of human beings but shows all the love people have to offer
at the same time. In Unattainable there
is no grey area for these characters it’s just black and white. Every experience is extreme, whether that is
full of love and life or blood and abuse.
Cage and Tegan can’t seem to live without each other; they just existed
in some sort of personal hell without one another. There were so many times I wanted to scream
at Cage or Tegan to go to each other, to stop this miserable cycle they were
stuck in because I was so wrapped up in the story.
Madeline
Sheehan has managed to create a world full of dark, disgusting, abusive,
violent men but who are capable of so much love, so much support that you just
can’t completely hate them. Deuce really
pissed me off in this book, which is weird because I really loved him in book
one but he was a total asshole in this one.
I liked that Ripper and Danny were prominent for good chunks of this
story as well, it’s nice to see their happily ever after continue on, as well
as Deuce and Eva’s.
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