Blog Tour ~ Absolution (The Heaven's Rejects MC Book #3) by Avelyn Paige (Review + Excerpt)
BLOG TOUR
RICCA
You can’t outrun your past, a mistake I learned the hard way.
Stripped of my innocence in the middle of the Californian desert, I waited for death.
Then he appeared.
My vengeful angel.
He’s everything I’m not.
He’s everything I want.
He’s everything I can never have.
RATCHET
I will not let my past define me.
Abandoned by my mother as a child, I would be dead if it weren’t for Jagger. He took me into the Heaven’s Rejects and saved my life.
Now I want to save hers.
The superficial cuts and bruises on her delicate skin, don’t compare to the pain lurking in her heart.
The pain I want to save her from.
Somehow, I will find a way to get through to her.
3 Stars
After finally sleeping together, Ricca wakes up in the morning to find Ratchet gone. After finally letting Rachet past her walls, it hurts to know that, just like everyone else, he didn’t really care about her. It seems to be the story of her life, she can’t seem to stop messing up. Then she receives a phone call she never expected and the news she receives has her running back to the home she’d hoped never to see again.
Six months after Ricca disappeared, Ratchet has finished the job he couldn’t walk away from for his club and those he cares about. Now Ratchet is going to find her, the woman he intends to make his. He doesn’t expect what he finds though.
While I found the storyline intriguing and I enjoyed the previous book quite a bit, I wanted to love this book but I just couldn’t. I disliked both MC’s. Ratchet had all the things I generally look for in a MC Romance Hero, the Alpha personality, the dark and damaged past and the intense passionate wanting of the h. But the way things played out in the very beginning really turned me off and as the story progressed it may have improved but I still didn’t warm up to Ratchet.
As for Ricca, I didn't like her in the previous books and I really did not like her in this book. In fact, I truly thought she was a bitch in the beginning of this book. Yes, I understood her trauma from not only her childhood but what she endured in California as well. I get that it would mess a person up, make trusting hard, causing walls to go up. However, Ricca is not nice to anyone and I’m not sure if this is supposed to be perceived as toughness or some sort of enduring facade but I had trouble seeing it as more than annoying.
Were Ratchet and Ricca hot together? Yes! They definitely had sparks and they were probably perfect for one another. In that respect, the writing was spot on. Had I liked either of them individually, I might’ve adored them as a couple.
The rest of the storyline was pretty good even if I had trouble suspending disbelief at a few different scenarios. I think Avelyn Paige is a very talented author and has the ability to write a wonderful Motorcycle Club Book. There is a good balance of action and suspense as well as romance and there is enough going on to not only keep you anxious to finish the book but also to get your hands on the next one.
Overall, I really think that had I connected to Ricca or Hatchett or cared more for them, I would’ve really loved this story. I still would recommend it to fans of the series, after all I’m sure not everyone will dislike these two as much as me. I’ll also be on the lookout for book 4.
***Copy provided to Bayou Book Junkie by the author/publisher for my reading pleasure in hopes of an unbiased opinion, a review was not a requirement.***
“You’re okay. They’re dead and can’t hurt you anymore,” I mumble and repeat in some stupid fucking mantra to keep the memories at bay. Every morning starts like this. Sure, maybe I did need go back to my victim group counseling sessions, but I knew the Kumbaya mentality they used couldn’t help me. The demons in my head were of my own creation, and they were never just going to go away by telling others who thought they were like me about them. I couldn’t forgive the men for the things that they did to my body and even with their deaths, my mind would never be able to see the world the same way. They took the last shred of my innocence out in that desert, and it was something that I was never going to be able to get back, even if I had ruby red slippers, clicked my heels, and said it three times.
Life isn’t a fucking fairy tale. And no matter how hard I hoped he would be, Ratchet was definitely not Prince Charming. The knight in shining armor isn’t real, and he was never going to ride a horse to my tower of terror.
Avelyn Paige is a born and raised Indiana girl. While she may be a Hoosier by birth, she is a Boilermaker by choice. Boiler Up! She resides in a sleepy little town in Indiana with her husband and three crazy pets. Avelyn spends her days working as a cancer research scientist and her nights sipping moonshine while writing and book reviewing. Avelyn loves everything paranormal, Cajun culture, and wants to try tornado chasing as a hobby when she finally grows up. She just has to get over that pesky fear of thunderstorms first. Avelyn also enjoys collecting voodoo dolls from her trips to New Orleans.
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