Reviewed by Danielle
TITLE: Jagged Edge
AUTHOR: Jo Raven
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 369 Pages
RELEASE DATE: September 15th 2017
BLURB:
I don’t want Jason Vega.
Not at all. I’d better not. It’s the worst idea ever.
Ah hell…
Jason is handsome. Clever. Dangerous. Hot.
He’s goddamn gorgeous – but he’s also living on the street, hanging out with the local MC gang and selling his body for a living.
Our paths, our lives couldn’t be further apart. I’m crawling toward the light, while he falls into the dark.
But it doesn’t matter how different we are, or what logic dictates.
I really shouldn’t want Jason Vega – but I just can’t stop.
He’s under my skin, and sinking deeper…
This is the story of Jason and Raine (whom you met in JESSE-Damage Control 2, and OCEAN-Damage Control 5). It is M/M (gay) romance with hot boy on boy action, You have been warned!
REVIEW:
This is a hard review to write. Let me start by saying I didn’t read any other books from this author and I saw this was her first experience in venturing in the m/m. I have to say with some of the characters introduced I would very much like to read their stories.
But that being said this story was hard and dark in some ways. I felt myself struggling to keep going and wishing that there would be getting some less dark and dramatic pieces. I am glad I stuck with it because the ending was really nice and very worth it but the hard parts that are most of the book is really daunting to me.
I am a sucker for a good rentboy story so that was the reason why I picked this one up to begin with and a rentboy story is what I got.
The struggle of Jason is real and severe. As reader I wanted to grab him, hold him, hug him and also shake him to please go and tell people!
Raine? You can only just love and cherish him. No he isn’t perfect but he has a such a good heart and he sure knows what he wants, despite not even clearly knowing why especially in the beginning.
What I found difficult is that I really had to search for the chemistry between the main characters. This could be just me or because it was the first m/m book by the author but I was left needing something during a big part of the book.
This book is intense and comes with quite a few triggers. I definitely don’t mean just the rentboy part. There is abuse and other hurts as well.
It also comes with family, friendship, and strong-willed characters who are fighting to get by and with caring that goes over and above the norm.
The writing is good and fluid and you can see the author is a very skilled at their craft which the story definitely benefits from.
If you can take the darker stuff and stick with the story you will find yourself in an intense, heavy, drama-filled ride but with a fulfilling ending and just like me when you read the author notes you will want to read Corey’s story as well as Ethan’s.
So yes I enjoyed this book and even got a bit curious about the other characters who come from other m/f series by Ms. Raven but I have to say as my desire is clear to read the books mentioned above I hope they will be having a bit lighter tone to it. But that is completely on me.
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