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kahlank's review against another edition
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
hnygren's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
bee_thebibliophile's review against another edition
3.0
Okay, first thing - accidental pregnancy is not the trope for me. But, because I don’t like to miss things in series, I gave this one a go and it was better than I expected.
Leo Winter is a playboy - partying hard, always with a new woman and has quite the reputation around Clifton Forge. Since the Tin Gypsies disbanded, he’s felt like he didn’t know what to do with himself, spending most of his free time at The Betsy. He loves his brothers more than anything and misses the camaraderie that came from the MC. Leo is an artist - drawing his own tattoos, painting masterpieces on the garage’s custom builds and going with the flow, setting his own schedule. Even after moving Cass in to his home, he still holds on to his playboy image, just without the hooking up…which didn’t sit well with me at all.
Cassandra (Cass) Cline was kidnapped with Scarlet in the previous book and is having a hard time figuring out how to move on and also has the added complication of being pregnant after a one night stand with Leo. Cass is determined to make her way on her own and be happy with the baby once it comes but feels a pull to Leo. Even though she’s an intelligent woman, she constantly fails to communicate with Leo about her wants and needs and is too afraid to ask him hard questions until she’s already past her breaking point. While she gets a bit better by the end, I felt like her family and Leo had her on a pedestal that she didn’t necessarily deserve to be on.
After their one night stand and consequent blow up after Cass’s pregnancy news, Cass and Leo don’t speak for 6 months while she finishes her degree and then suddenly end up living together once she’s back in town. They don’t really have anything in common except for the baby coming soon. Eventually they fall back into hooking up, making things complicated between them. Once Seraphina is born, they suddenly become a perfect little family? It felt really unlikely and kind of over the top for my liking.
Some of the suspense was interesting but I didn’t feel as invested in it as I did with other books in this series. Even though the former Tin Gypsies were hyper vigilant in all other aspects of their lives, when all the accidents started piling up for Leo they didn’t seem to give it as much thought as I expected them to. I essentially read this book to get to Emmett’s story next, but was surprised that I didn’t dislike it as much as I anticipated. On to Emmett’s story and the conclusion of the series next!
Leo Winter is a playboy - partying hard, always with a new woman and has quite the reputation around Clifton Forge. Since the Tin Gypsies disbanded, he’s felt like he didn’t know what to do with himself, spending most of his free time at The Betsy. He loves his brothers more than anything and misses the camaraderie that came from the MC. Leo is an artist - drawing his own tattoos, painting masterpieces on the garage’s custom builds and going with the flow, setting his own schedule. Even after moving Cass in to his home, he still holds on to his playboy image, just without the hooking up…which didn’t sit well with me at all.
Cassandra (Cass) Cline was kidnapped with Scarlet in the previous book and is having a hard time figuring out how to move on and also has the added complication of being pregnant after a one night stand with Leo. Cass is determined to make her way on her own and be happy with the baby once it comes but feels a pull to Leo. Even though she’s an intelligent woman, she constantly fails to communicate with Leo about her wants and needs and is too afraid to ask him hard questions until she’s already past her breaking point. While she gets a bit better by the end, I felt like her family and Leo had her on a pedestal that she didn’t necessarily deserve to be on.
After their one night stand and consequent blow up after Cass’s pregnancy news, Cass and Leo don’t speak for 6 months while she finishes her degree and then suddenly end up living together once she’s back in town. They don’t really have anything in common except for the baby coming soon. Eventually they fall back into hooking up, making things complicated between them. Once Seraphina is born, they suddenly become a perfect little family? It felt really unlikely and kind of over the top for my liking.
Some of the suspense was interesting but I didn’t feel as invested in it as I did with other books in this series. Even though the former Tin Gypsies were hyper vigilant in all other aspects of their lives, when all the accidents started piling up for Leo they didn’t seem to give it as much thought as I expected them to. I essentially read this book to get to Emmett’s story next, but was surprised that I didn’t dislike it as much as I anticipated. On to Emmett’s story and the conclusion of the series next!
sianny's review against another edition
5.0
Love love love!!
Cassie goes the local bar with a friend one night and uncharacteristically has a one night stand with a hot biker, Leo. A few weeks later she’s find out she pregnant, and when she tells him, he freaks out. Pushes her away, treats her like crap, makes her feel pathetic. So she goes back to college and they have no contact for months, until she comes home after graduating, and bumps into him in town.
Unable to help himself, he treats her like rubbish yet again but has decided to move to Dallas so she won’t feel awkward seeing him around town. However he can’t seem to make himself leave. Or leave her alone.
Eventually she moves in with him so that they can get to know each other before the baby arrives, and hopefully learn to co-parent. Maybe even be friends. But of course they’re still unbelievably attracted to each other so can they draw a line in the sand? Or will they try to be a family for their baby?
Seriously though...how can moody bikers with very shady pasts be so...hot?? How? But the way Devney writes them, that is exactly what they are. I mean, Leo! This womanising, hard-shelled, grumpy, jerk just doesn’t believe he’s good enough for Cassie! Doesn’t believe he has anything to offer her and that he’s a terrible person! I just wanna hug him!!!! And Cassie is so sweet and smart, but always feels like she isn’t enough. You are enough Cass! Man, I just wanna hug her too.
Just an adorable book with a not-so-adorable storyline. Such loveable characters, and, ugh! All the big hard men melting for their women and kids? Ovary explosion!
Loved the teaser for the next book too! The plot thickens...
Cassie goes the local bar with a friend one night and uncharacteristically has a one night stand with a hot biker, Leo. A few weeks later she’s find out she pregnant, and when she tells him, he freaks out. Pushes her away, treats her like crap, makes her feel pathetic. So she goes back to college and they have no contact for months, until she comes home after graduating, and bumps into him in town.
Unable to help himself, he treats her like rubbish yet again but has decided to move to Dallas so she won’t feel awkward seeing him around town. However he can’t seem to make himself leave. Or leave her alone.
Eventually she moves in with him so that they can get to know each other before the baby arrives, and hopefully learn to co-parent. Maybe even be friends. But of course they’re still unbelievably attracted to each other so can they draw a line in the sand? Or will they try to be a family for their baby?
Seriously though...how can moody bikers with very shady pasts be so...hot?? How? But the way Devney writes them, that is exactly what they are. I mean, Leo! This womanising, hard-shelled, grumpy, jerk just doesn’t believe he’s good enough for Cassie! Doesn’t believe he has anything to offer her and that he’s a terrible person! I just wanna hug him!!!! And Cassie is so sweet and smart, but always feels like she isn’t enough. You are enough Cass! Man, I just wanna hug her too.
Just an adorable book with a not-so-adorable storyline. Such loveable characters, and, ugh! All the big hard men melting for their women and kids? Ovary explosion!
Loved the teaser for the next book too! The plot thickens...
ellen_is_okay's review against another edition
2.0
Normally you can read a Perry without having read the others, this is not really the case with the Tin Kings books, lot of overlapping timelines and a continuous overarching plot.
christinescorner's review against another edition
4.5
🌶 | murder mystery but surprisingly enjoyed it
fmc gets pregnant but mmc did not want it at first [it did not mainly focus on the pregnancy as mmc was not involved but i loved the moments of the leads with their newborn baby]
really enjoyed the angst of the mmc and just how sweet fmc was in handling the situation [mmc was a bit brutal and cold because he was a broken hero… and that was his way of hiding his fear]
there were already ‘groveling’ during the first few chapters… and i loved it
there were a lot of characters [as this was already book 4 or 5 of the series] but really loved the bond between them
sare131's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75