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mooncricketjp's review
5.0
Such perfect heartache!
THIS. STORY! The emotions in this story! I was dead inside until Caroline started loving the sunrise again. I felt it all. Every. Single. Word.
THIS. STORY! The emotions in this story! I was dead inside until Caroline started loving the sunrise again. I felt it all. Every. Single. Word.
riahtalon's review
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
sekapes's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
krmckerrow's review
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I found this to be a beautifully written addition to the sons of templar series and could not rate it less than 4 stars. yet, I didn't love caroline & jagger's relationship and had trouble connecting with either character. that being said, it was well worth the read and I am obsessed with this series.
stephaniek219's review
5.0
Please read this series in order to avoid spoilers! Start with #1 Making the Cut.
Anne Malcom’s best Sons story to date! Not only are both Caroline and Jagger characters I truly love, but the story culminates in epically heart wrenching scenes with characters from previous stories. And then another scene when Liam makes a very chard choice... 😭 Big big tears...
Anne Malcom’s best Sons story to date! Not only are both Caroline and Jagger characters I truly love, but the story culminates in epically heart wrenching scenes with characters from previous stories. And then another scene when Liam makes a very chard choice... 😭 Big big tears...
somanybooksineedmoretime's review
5.0
Method: audiobook
Rating: 5/5 stars
H rating: 4/5 - Jagger "Liam"
h rating: 4/5 - Caroline
Drama: 4/5
Thoughts: This series is killing me.. Liam and Caroline were such a tragic story, it honestly hurt reading this.
heloncha14's review
5.0
Every new release that Anne Malcom has, I get more and more shocked at how amazing of a writer she truly is.
This author is definitely like a bottle of wine—the longer she writes, the better she gets.
I absolutely adored Deadline to Damnation, but I also hated the emotional turmoil it put me through. I was so freaking anxious at one point. I honestly had no clue which way this story was going to end. Whose lives would continue and who was going to die.
The second you grab this book, it’s really impossible to stop until the last page.
Jagger was not an easy man to love, I’ll tell you that. I understood why he did what he did—I truly did. Yet, with that being said, it didn’t make me any less angry for so many people. The road to loving this character was tough, though that’s always to be expected with the more broken and tortured characters this author gives us.
Caroline was a woman I understood so much. I got why she turned out the way she did. How losing a loved one so drastically could epically change a person. But I wouldn’t have been able to do that without the author paving the way.
That’s what Malcom does. She not only gives us stories, she makes us feel like if we’re the ones on the ride.
This wasn’t an easy love story, and I absolutely loved every single page of it.
I wish it didn’t have to end, I wish I could ask for an infinite amount of Jagger and Peaches. Definitely the author’s best work in her Sons of Templar series.
This author is definitely like a bottle of wine—the longer she writes, the better she gets.
I absolutely adored Deadline to Damnation, but I also hated the emotional turmoil it put me through. I was so freaking anxious at one point. I honestly had no clue which way this story was going to end. Whose lives would continue and who was going to die.
The second you grab this book, it’s really impossible to stop until the last page.
Jagger was not an easy man to love, I’ll tell you that. I understood why he did what he did—I truly did. Yet, with that being said, it didn’t make me any less angry for so many people. The road to loving this character was tough, though that’s always to be expected with the more broken and tortured characters this author gives us.
Caroline was a woman I understood so much. I got why she turned out the way she did. How losing a loved one so drastically could epically change a person. But I wouldn’t have been able to do that without the author paving the way.
That’s what Malcom does. She not only gives us stories, she makes us feel like if we’re the ones on the ride.
This wasn’t an easy love story, and I absolutely loved every single page of it.
I wish it didn’t have to end, I wish I could ask for an infinite amount of Jagger and Peaches. Definitely the author’s best work in her Sons of Templar series.
izziede's review
3.0
I'm not sure how I feel about this book.
I'll start by saying you need to have read the series before starting this one as there is a war brewing through the series and this is the conclusion to that main enemy.
Also previous couple's and characters all make an appearance or are mentioned towards the end, even having multiple POV, so to understand things fully it's best to read in order.
I started with Making the Cut, which I initially loved, when I reread it some time later I did find Gwen a bit overly dramatic but it was well written and set the scene for a good series.
As the series progressed I found after Mia and Bull's book that a lot of the books started to feel all the same, tortured Hero who had lived through dark experiences and was scarred by those, this was also true of the heroines and it bled into the spin off Security series, even Rosie and Luke's story, which I had looked forward to from Making the Cut but was really disappointed in the way Rosie was developed.
This book worked a bit better for me, maybe because it was second chance.
Jagger and Caroline had plans for a future together, marriage kids, then he declares he's going to war. Seemed to come out of the blue...
He is reported dead and she is distraught, along with his family who are devastated.
14 years later she runs into him at the club.
I'm not sure I could have forgiven him, what he did was awful.
He had his reasons and if he felt he couldn't be in a relationship, that's one thing but he also let his parents and his sister believe he was dead.
The heroine does give him a hard time about it and doesn't just accept him back easily, they have a rocky road.
I didn't really understand the premise of her being a reporter and telling the club's story so being accused of being a rat. I struggled with her excuse for being there.
It is well written.
Funny banter.
HEA.
The HEA is for the main couple but also updates on previous characters and couples.
I appreciate my review may be in the minority but it is what it is and although there are some very good parts I just don't want to read the same dark, depressing couples over and over in each book.
Please judge for yourself, if you've enjoyed the series I am sure you will love this one too.
There are no intimate details of anyone other than the Hero and heroine.
No cheating.
During the separation there are others for both of them .
The Hero did try to start a life with another woman but he wasn't giving it his all but it's a bit hard to forgive when you see what he promised Caroline and how he lied about bring dead.
There is ex drama but not in a spiteful way, the ex interacts with both the Hero and heroine but is no threat.
There is some violence.
I'll start by saying you need to have read the series before starting this one as there is a war brewing through the series and this is the conclusion to that main enemy.
Also previous couple's and characters all make an appearance or are mentioned towards the end, even having multiple POV, so to understand things fully it's best to read in order.
I started with Making the Cut, which I initially loved, when I reread it some time later I did find Gwen a bit overly dramatic but it was well written and set the scene for a good series.
As the series progressed I found after Mia and Bull's book that a lot of the books started to feel all the same, tortured Hero who had lived through dark experiences and was scarred by those, this was also true of the heroines and it bled into the spin off Security series, even Rosie and Luke's story, which I had looked forward to from Making the Cut but was really disappointed in the way Rosie was developed.
This book worked a bit better for me, maybe because it was second chance.
Jagger and Caroline had plans for a future together, marriage kids, then he declares he's going to war. Seemed to come out of the blue...
He is reported dead and she is distraught, along with his family who are devastated.
14 years later she runs into him at the club.
I'm not sure I could have forgiven him, what he did was awful.
He had his reasons and if he felt he couldn't be in a relationship, that's one thing but he also let his parents and his sister believe he was dead.
The heroine does give him a hard time about it and doesn't just accept him back easily, they have a rocky road.
I didn't really understand the premise of her being a reporter and telling the club's story so being accused of being a rat. I struggled with her excuse for being there.
It is well written.
Funny banter.
HEA.
The HEA is for the main couple but also updates on previous characters and couples.
I appreciate my review may be in the minority but it is what it is and although there are some very good parts I just don't want to read the same dark, depressing couples over and over in each book.
Please judge for yourself, if you've enjoyed the series I am sure you will love this one too.
There are no intimate details of anyone other than the Hero and heroine.
No cheating.
During the separation there are others for both of them .
The Hero did try to start a life with another woman but he wasn't giving it his all but it's a bit hard to forgive when you see what he promised Caroline and how he lied about bring dead.
There is ex drama but not in a spiteful way, the ex interacts with both the Hero and heroine but is no threat.
There is some violence.
giorgiareads's review
4.0
I have been impatiently waiting for this firstly because I love the Sons of Templar series and second because for some reason I knew this story was gonna be one to add to my favourites.
Now there is no such thing as perfect but there is such an thing as heartbreakingly perfect. The story is one of the most tragic ones the Sons have had so far and that’s not only because there’s so much talk of death (metaphorical and physical) but also because the questions that arise from it are far from easy to answer.
Jagger and Caroline are characters that you cry for, that you want to curse at (Jagger), that you struggle to forgive and understand. Even with the promise of an HEA, you know that their story is shrouded in pain and the weight of all those lonely years they spent apart is not going to be erased with the promise of a blissful forever.
Perhaps that is why this is the rawest Anne has been, because this is not a story of boy meets girl, he declares she’s it, bad stuff happens, she gets rescued and then they live happily with the club family. NO, this is a second chance that might have never happened if life didn’t bring Caroline in the right place at the right time, just like there would have been no need for a second chance if Jagger has coped differently with his scars and decided on a different course after war.
But one line or paragraph in the book really made sense of it all as if it was some sort of divine order that made their journey long and riddled with numbing and suffocating awareness of loss —- Caroline and Jagger would have been doomed to fail if he had come back after that war and resumed their relationship, that is not to say they would have not been as in love with each other, but they would been consumed by said love because they no longer understood each other. She needed to hurt, to understand the world he discovered and changed him. She needed to become more in order to see and recognise the parts of him that were new and that changed him into who he is presently.
As Anne wrote, if she had seen him alive before she had the chance to taste the bitterness of life he might have walked away because he could not have her taste his bitterness and also because it was Liam she loved, and it was Liam that loved her. Jagger could not have innocent pure and clueless by his side and that’s why the new Caroline was the same, she loved the old Liam but she fell in love with Jagger.
I felt frustration and some other thing I can’t describe towards Jagger and for his decision, but then again I don’t know how I would have reacted in those circumstances. I can only imagine it was like ripping a part of your souls and stomping on it and whatever his family felt, his feelings must have matched it. Also it really frustrates me how he never tried to search for information on her, how was he never curios if she was well, happy or sad what became of her in general? She was supposed to be it for him, the ONE and his love never ceased in 14 years yet he never tried to see her again? A google search and he would have known. Also he tried to create a life with Sarah, granted it did not work but while it may be excusable for Caroline to find a partner since she thought he was dead, Jagger knew she was out there and yet he tried to move on from her regardless. If he was so messed up as he said how did he even try to have a life with Sarah and think about family and kids - isn’t that what normal non messed up people do? I know he didn’t go thorough with it but just the fact that tried bugged me (it’s one thing to sleep around and another to try and settle down).
Regardless, this book felt all too real because it was messed up and it played with my emotions and there was no happy ending in my opinion, just a desired ending. There is so much baggage and too many empty years to carry around in memories for it to be a clean slate happy ride ahead. I’m a “ it’s the journey that matters and not the outcome “ type of girl.
This book is not perfect as there are some things in the story that didn’t click with my inquisitive mind but I overlook such things because I like that it made me feel.
The only thing that needed more explanation, more depth, more reason is why Jagger/Liam decided to play dead for so long and why he never thought of going back. It just didn’t feel believable that a man would cut out everyone just like that and start a new life. I would get it he went into deep depression and decided to live in the forests of the Amazon with no connection to humans but for him to create a new family out of the bikers it just sat wrong with me and the bullshit about the club understanding him and giving him the opportunity to unleash his new needs (to kill and to destroy) that he could have done even if he came home after awhile and told everyone he was alive but that he wanted to pursue a different lifestyle. He could have set everyone free of the sorrow of having a death hang over them forever. He was selfish in every way of the word. He got to know that Caroline and his family was safe but they got to live with a ghost in their midst for the rest of their life.
Gahhh I need to stop writing now or I’ll never finish.
Now there is no such thing as perfect but there is such an thing as heartbreakingly perfect. The story is one of the most tragic ones the Sons have had so far and that’s not only because there’s so much talk of death (metaphorical and physical) but also because the questions that arise from it are far from easy to answer.
Jagger and Caroline are characters that you cry for, that you want to curse at (Jagger), that you struggle to forgive and understand. Even with the promise of an HEA, you know that their story is shrouded in pain and the weight of all those lonely years they spent apart is not going to be erased with the promise of a blissful forever.
Perhaps that is why this is the rawest Anne has been, because this is not a story of boy meets girl, he declares she’s it, bad stuff happens, she gets rescued and then they live happily with the club family. NO, this is a second chance that might have never happened if life didn’t bring Caroline in the right place at the right time, just like there would have been no need for a second chance if Jagger has coped differently with his scars and decided on a different course after war.
But one line or paragraph in the book really made sense of it all as if it was some sort of divine order that made their journey long and riddled with numbing and suffocating awareness of loss —- Caroline and Jagger would have been doomed to fail if he had come back after that war and resumed their relationship, that is not to say they would have not been as in love with each other, but they would been consumed by said love because they no longer understood each other. She needed to hurt, to understand the world he discovered and changed him. She needed to become more in order to see and recognise the parts of him that were new and that changed him into who he is presently.
As Anne wrote, if she had seen him alive before she had the chance to taste the bitterness of life he might have walked away because he could not have her taste his bitterness and also because it was Liam she loved, and it was Liam that loved her. Jagger could not have innocent pure and clueless by his side and that’s why the new Caroline was the same, she loved the old Liam but she fell in love with Jagger.
I felt frustration and some other thing I can’t describe towards Jagger and for his decision, but then again I don’t know how I would have reacted in those circumstances. I can only imagine it was like ripping a part of your souls and stomping on it and whatever his family felt, his feelings must have matched it. Also it really frustrates me how he never tried to search for information on her, how was he never curios if she was well, happy or sad what became of her in general? She was supposed to be it for him, the ONE and his love never ceased in 14 years yet he never tried to see her again? A google search and he would have known. Also he tried to create a life with Sarah, granted it did not work but while it may be excusable for Caroline to find a partner since she thought he was dead, Jagger knew she was out there and yet he tried to move on from her regardless. If he was so messed up as he said how did he even try to have a life with Sarah and think about family and kids - isn’t that what normal non messed up people do? I know he didn’t go thorough with it but just the fact that tried bugged me (it’s one thing to sleep around and another to try and settle down).
Regardless, this book felt all too real because it was messed up and it played with my emotions and there was no happy ending in my opinion, just a desired ending. There is so much baggage and too many empty years to carry around in memories for it to be a clean slate happy ride ahead. I’m a “ it’s the journey that matters and not the outcome “ type of girl.
This book is not perfect as there are some things in the story that didn’t click with my inquisitive mind but I overlook such things because I like that it made me feel.
The only thing that needed more explanation, more depth, more reason is why Jagger/Liam decided to play dead for so long and why he never thought of going back. It just didn’t feel believable that a man would cut out everyone just like that and start a new life. I would get it he went into deep depression and decided to live in the forests of the Amazon with no connection to humans but for him to create a new family out of the bikers it just sat wrong with me and the bullshit about the club understanding him and giving him the opportunity to unleash his new needs (to kill and to destroy) that he could have done even if he came home after awhile and told everyone he was alive but that he wanted to pursue a different lifestyle. He could have set everyone free of the sorrow of having a death hang over them forever. He was selfish in every way of the word. He got to know that Caroline and his family was safe but they got to live with a ghost in their midst for the rest of their life.
Gahhh I need to stop writing now or I’ll never finish.