Reviewed by Amber
TITLE: Absolution
SERIES: The Protectors #1
AUTHOR: Sloane Kennedy
PUBLISHER: Self Pub
LENGTH: 358 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 1st, 2016
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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…
REVIEW:
Sloane Kennedy is a new to me author and I have to admit I am lucky I came across this first book in the series. If you like super mysterious angsty plots with tons of good juicy drama with a smokin’ hot side of M/M/M, then this book is for you and me too!! Keep in mind however there are a lot of serious issues in this book. This author touches on pedophilia, rape, and suicide just to mention a few of the serious topics. Needless to say this author really did a great job with this first book and I’m kind of shocked she’s a newer author.
Jonas has been dealt a crappy hand in life. Leaving home at 14 he has had to suffer all kinds of atrocities to survive. Rising up from the ashes he’s older, wiser and has a successful art business.
There’s a lot of twisted machinations that arise that throw Mace and Cole into Jonas’s life. All 3 men are inexplicably attracted to each other. Theirs is an intense connection that all three don’t really understand but are helpless to fight.
These men are incredibly damaged, all three. They are the epitome of damaged, tortured souls but when they come together they heal each other and it’s beautiful.
Some things to keep in mind…this book is incredibly deep and long but once you start you’ll most likely read it to the end fairly quickly.
Overall, great book. I thoroughly enjoyed this story and I’m looking forward to Ronan’s story.
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