Rebel and
Sophia's story.
The first
of a three part series. This novel contains a small snippet which has already
been released in the Owned: An Alpha Anthology, however it is followed by a
full story installment.
Sophia
Sometimes,
you don't mean to become another person. Sometimes the choice is made for you,
and pretending is the only thing that keeps you going. When Alexis Romera is
taken and her kidnappers find her fake ID in her purse, she must become Sophia
in order to keep her family safe. Revealing her real identity to the man she's
sold to would be easy enough, but can she trust him? Hell bent on revenging the
murder of his uncle, Rebel doesn't seem all that interested in playing things
safe.
In fact,
nothing about the secretive, dark and brooding MC president seems safe at all.
Rebel
What do you
do when the man who raised you is murdered, and the only witness is kidnapped
girl who's being sold as a sex slave? You buy her, of course. As president to
the most powerful motorcycle club in America, Rebel isn't lacking in power.
There are strings the man can pull, and entire criminal organisations and
corporate businesses alike would fall to their knees. However, along with such
power comes intense interest. The DEA have their eye fixed solely on the
MC...and they're just waiting for Rebel to trip up.
Getting
Sophia to testify is the only way to bring the Los Oscuros cartel down. The
beautiful, dark haired, dark eyed woman is belligerent and uncooperative and
unlikely to bend to his will, but Rebel has a few tricks up his sleeve to make
her compliant--he'll charm her until she's bending over backwards to please
him.
Of
course, falling for her might cause a few hiccups along the way...
“It’s time for you to tell
me your name.” She arches an eyebrow at me. I can just imagine her getting them
waxed in some fancy fucking boutique beauty parlor in Seattle, run by Asian
hipsters with shaved undercuts and thick glasses. She seems like the type. “Why
do you want to know?” she asks, cockiness filling her voice.
“ I’m asking because I need something to call you. And if you don’t tell
me your name, I’m going to be forced to call you One Eighty-One. And I’m
guessing you won’t like being called One Eighty-One.”
“ Why would you call me that?”
“ Because that’s the reference Hector Ramirez gave you when you uploaded
your picture onto his skin site. Hector tags his girls chronologically. The
first girl he sold was number one. The fifty-third girl he sold was tagged
fifty-three. Using that logic, guess how many girls he sold before he tagged
you one eight one?”
“ So a hundred and eighty other women came before me?” She looks like
she’s going to throw up.
“ Exactly. And he hasn’t been caught. The police haven’t raided his place
out there in the desert. No one has reported his website. No one came to rescue
the one hundred and eighty other girls who came before you, and no one is
coming for you, either. So if you want reminding of that every single time I
call you one eight—“
Sophia!” She screws her eyes
shut, clenching her jaw. “My name is fucking Sophia, motherfucker.” She spits
out the words like they’re poison. When she looks at me again, I can see the
fury burning in the dark depths of her dark brown eyes. She comes alive when
she’s angry. A thrill of adrenalin stabs through me, sending mixed signals to
my cock; provoking such a violent reaction from her is provoking an entirely
different reaction from me. For the
first time, I see her. Fucking Sophia.
I don’t see her as a means to an end—a potential way to take down the bastard
who killed my uncle. I see her. I see her as a woman, and she is beautiful.
“ Alright,
Sophia. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”
Rebel (Dead Man's Ink #1) by Callie Hart
I hate when I don't have the same or similar views on high rating books. It makes me think "What did I miss?" This is the first book I have read by the author, even though I have the first book in her Blood & Roses Series. I'm thinking that maybe I should have read that series first so that I would have a better understanding of the characters and the way the author writes.
I get Alexis/Sophia character. I couldn't get a handle on Rebel's character and I read too much into Cade and Rebel's relationship. I thought at one time there was going to be a threesome, then I thought "Is there a bromance going on?" What ex-Marine, MC VP and BFF tells his ex-Marine, MIT grad, MC Pres that women finds him attractive and casually throws his arm over Rebel's shoulder (okay, not in the same conversation but still....I guess I still read too much into it but could there be some underlying feelings trying to surface, okay I'm reaching lets get back to the review)? I also did not get or like the relationship Rebel/Jamie/Jay/Duke had with his father. WTF??? NO self-respecting military schooled, MIT grad, ex-Marine, MC President would put up with ANYONE'S shite and put on a show for appearance!!
At 43%, I realized that who I think are the main characters have not met; are not in a relationship; and have not had sex. Speaking of sex the only scene so far was between a prospect, a crazy female drug lord (would she be called a lord or lady? LOL, okay, sorry I went there) and her bodyguard while Rebel watched. Once Alexis/Sophia and Rebel meet and get to know each other, she reluctantly agrees to what Rebel is asking her to do and at 95% they finally have sex, a hot quickie scene. I'm interested. More drama happens and a cliffhanger leading into book #2.
The set up and plot was detailed and interesting, since I was almost half-way thru the book before I realized that my favorite activity hasn't happened and I'm not living vicariously through the couple. I just got tripped up with the characters, which is recoverable.
Callie has experienced many changes throughout her life, and
gone through many ups and downs that have all worked towards shaping and
molding her into the person she is today: fun loving, active, social, and hard
working. The only thing that has remained a constant throughout her life is
writing. Creating characters who will tear your conscience in two is a favorite
pastime of Callie’s. There are few real saints and sinners in her books; more
often, the denizens of her stories are all very human. Broken, flawed, and
always with the potential for redemption.
Despite the subject matter being markedly hot and heavy in
comparison to the stories she wrote in elementary school, there will always be
an element of fairytale to her work.
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