Living Without (Hawks MC Caroline Springs Charter #4) by Lila Rose

Book Description:

Published: October 26, 2015

Format: Audio/Audible

For the past four years, Nary May’s heart belonged to Saxon “Vicious” Black. Despite the painful reality of unrequited love, her feelings never strayed, no matter what he did. But there comes a time when surviving means letting go.

What she never expected was to find herself fighting for her life and trying to survive a new form of torment threatening to swallow her whole.

Saxon was broken. Never feeling worthy, the last thing he ever wanted to do was taint the woman he loved. But it was easier to push and walk away than leave himself open for more heartache. However, when faced with the possibility of losing Nary to the monsters that invade her dreams, the time to run was over.

To save her means risking it all, but to continue living without his heart was no longer an option.

Review –

This book was recommended to me as being a dark and edgy MC themed romance so i HAD to give it a try.

Right away I knew this was not the usual MC story I was used to, because it takes place in Australia! I had no idea that there were MC club in Australia. On top of wrapping my head around that, there were the narrators-I was very disappointed. The female did okay but the male’s voice was too high-pitched that it made the biker’s dialogue almost comical. I was very distracted by the whole thing.

The story line was dark because there is sexual assault (sorry had to warn you), but it is not graphic or salacious at all. It will tug in heart strings.It was a great story for the characters of  Nary and Saxon..the only thing I would have liked to see was some counseling for Nary and Kelsey…you can’t go through something like that and not need some external support, but the story or Nary’s abduction, what she and Kelsey endured, the rescue, the retribution, the healing, and the resurrection was done very well by the writer. 

I will not be reading other books in this series.

Testimony by Anita Shreve

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Publisher’s Weekly

The first paragraph foreshadows a tragedy in which three marriages are destroyed, the lives of three students at a private school in Vermont are ruined, and death claims an innocent victim. The precipitating event is a sex tape involving three members of the boys’ basketball team and a freshman girl. Beginning with an account of the debacle by the Avery School’s then headmaster, and segueing to the voices of the participants in the orgy, plus their parents and others touched by the scandal, the narrative explores the widening consequences of a single event. Shreve’s character delineation is astute, and the novel’s moral questions—ranging from the boys’ behavior to the headmaster’s breach of legal ethics to the guilt of those involved in the death—are salient if heavy-handed, while the female characters are wicked in the way women have always been stereotypically portrayed. The novel is clever, but the revolving cast of narrators often feels predictable and forced, keeping the novel on the near side of credible. (Oct.)
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Review-

This book dealt with a difficult subject and at times I found it very despressing but on the whole it was done well.  The narration was  performed by a cast of readers and that made it like an old time radio show or a televison show without pictures.  I really enjoyed  that  but I don’t know if I would listen to it a second time but time will tell.