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Loading... Absolution (The Protectors, #1) (original 2016; edition 2016)by Sloane Kennedy
Work InformationAbsolution (The Protectors, #1) by Sloane Kennedy (Author) (2016)
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  AKBouterse | Oct 14, 2021 |   I really loved this book. It was so fun to watch the growth of all he characters and to see all they overcame. On to book two. (  ) Jenx9000 | May 9, 2020 | ) JennyR-WY | May 27, 2018 | First MC: 8 Second MC: 8 Third MC: 7 Secondary characters: 6 Mystery: 5 Sexual tension: 6 Humor: 5 Hotness: 8 Product placement: 3 Ridiculousness: 2 Annoying: 3 Audio: 10 (7h 16min) To re-read: 7 A bit of heart wrenching story, horrible pasts and uncertain present. A hit man, a former military man, and an artist; all lost souls. Learning about their past tragedies it was hard not to feel companionate towards them. In short spying, drunken people, bullet flying, traitors, lusting, and some threesome sex. The focus was on the guys rather than the mystery or the sex; their feelings and their struggles. I want to read the second book. I believe there are 8 of them already out. ( ) lulumiami | Sep 3, 2017 | no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesThe Protectors (1)
After four years abroad, artist Jonas Davenport has come home to start building his dream of owning his own art studio and gallery. But just as he's ready to put the darkness of his past behind him forever, it comes roaring back with a vengeance.The only thing keeping ex-cop Mace Calhoun from eating his own gun after an unthinkable loss is his role in an underground syndicate that seeks to get justice for the innocent by taking the lives of the guilty. Ending the life of the young artist who committed unspeakable crimes against the most vulnerable of victims should have been the easiest thing in the world. So why can't he bring himself to pull the trigger?After years of fighting in an endless, soul-sucking war, Navy SEAL Cole Bridgerton has come home to fight another battle - dealing with the discovery that the younger sister who ran away from home eight years earlier is lost to him forever. He needs answers and the only person who can give them to him is a young man struggling to put his life back together. But he never expected to feel something more for the haunted artist.Cole and Mace. One lives by the rules, the other makes his own. One seeks justice through the law while the other seeks it with his gun. Two men, one light, one dark, will find themselves and each other when they're forced to stand side by side to protect Jonas from an unseen evil that will stop at nothing to silence the young artist forever.But each man's scars run deep and even the strength of three may not be enough to save them... Note: Contains m/m/m scenes and is intended for mature audiencesTriggers: References to sexual abuse of a childThis is book 1 in a series but can be read as standalone...no cliffhangers. No library descriptions found. |
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Sloane Kennedy has been hit or miss for me in the past. I really liked her book Four Ever and I gave it five stars but I didn't love the beginning of the books set in this world with the beginning of the escorts (is that what its called?) series. I think I gave that one three stars as well. I don't mind her writing style or anything, sometimes the plot is just too much for me, or not quite enough.
With this book, there was just too much going on for me. For the first 40% Mace, one of the three main characters, thinks that Jonas, one of the other characters, is a pedophile. However, despite that, Mace still begins to fall in love with him. I thought this framing was super weird. It would have been one thing if Mace had been given proof that Jonas was innocent in the first quarter of the book, it would have been different, but this plot line continued for almost half the book. I kind of like that this book dealt with heavier topics in a pretty respectful way but this relationship starting when one party thought the other was a child abuser was something I couldn't get behind.
Once the relationship really started to take off, I did like Cole, Mace, and Jonas. The characters were part of what keep me reading and engaged through the the crazy story. However, even though I did like the characters, I had a hard time believing their relationship. It just seemed like it came out of no where and it did seem sort of like insta-love or at least insta-lust. I can sometimes forgive this in shorter romances like this but given the background with Mace and Jonas and the fact that Cole didn't even realize he might be attractive to men before meeting Mace and Jonas, it felt much more unrealistic.
I'm not sure if I want to continue with this series. Given how much I liked Four Ever, I feel like I could find another Sloane Kennedy book I would really like but this one was a miss for me unfortunately. I think in the future I may pick up another one in this series in the future, but I'm not dying to read the next one. (