Reviewed by Dan
Warning: There is one brief scene with two girls slipping two boys a date rape drug and sexually molesting them. No specific details are included.
TITLE: An Eye for an Eye
SERIES: The Santorno Stories 2
AUTHOR: Sandrine Gasq-Dion
PUBLISHER: Skull Blaster Publishing, LLC
LENGTH: 257 pages
BLURB:
Just in case it isn’t hard enough being a teenager, how about heaping on the hardship by facing the sudden realization that you’re gay? Toss in a little danger by virtue of being the grandchild of a notorious mobster and a pinch of venom inherited from a mercilessly cutthroat businesswoman who happens to be your great-aunt and you have a nice bubbling stew of ‘what the hell’?
Jordan Youngblood and Stefan Santorno can’t believe their children are nearly grown and they miss the days when kissing a boo-boo fixed everything. The kids struggle with identity, trust, lust, love — and they learn the hard way that nothing is ever just black and white. When trouble beats on the door, the Youngblood kids will prove they didn’t fall too far from that dangerous family tree.
REVIEW:
I’ll be honest up front, this is not my favorite series from the author. I love her Assassin/Shifter series and the 12 Olympians, but something about this series bugs me. There is a little, ok a lot, too much time twisting to fit these back stories of the Santornos into the timeframe to have them appear where they did in the Assassin Shifter series. For those of us who have read all her books, it becomes a little hard to follow a timeline. So I recommend you try to forget the other series while reading this new series and don’t put too much thought into how the characters tie into the other books. It made it easier for me, but that just may be my OCD speaking! LOL
In Book Two of the Santorno Stories, the Santorno-Youngblood kids that we met near the end of “The Medicine and the Mob” are almost grown up. Three are still in high school, and one, Isabelle is in college. I really liked the fact that Sandy incorporated the stories of both the two girls and the two boys. The sex was on the boy’s side, even though the girls had sex as well, we weren’t subjected to lots of girly bits sections. 😉
Isabelle and Charlie, the two girls, are straight. Heath has been kissing a whole lot of girls and has even had sex with one, so we guess he is straight, and the other boy, Damon is just coming to the realization that he is gay.
Thrown into the mix, we have boyfriends, girlfriends, gay friends, straight friends, a lot of homophobic guys from the rival high school, a great-aunt that will stop at nothing to get what she wants, and a deadly delusional birth mother! We also have sexually confused teenagers and a wild night at a school dance when two boys are given “roofies” by their dates and sexually molested.
In other words, everyday life for the Santorno-Youngblood clan. What can you expect when your grandfather is a notorious mob boss?
I enjoyed this book. Sandy did a great job developing the characters of each of the four kids, and I loved how their individual stories were told, intermixed into the whole. When push comes to shove, their last name might be Youngblood, but they are all Santornos at heart!
I recommend this book, and the previous book in the series, “The Medicine and the Mob” in which Stefan and Jordan meet when Jordan, a top notch neurosurgeon, is pretty much forced to treat Stefano Santorno for a deadly brain tumor. Both books are excellent, and worth the read! Check them out today, I’m sure you’ll be happy with them!
One final note….isn’t there just something about the model on the left of the cover and the front of his trousers that makes you want to reach and….touch? 🙂
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