Reviewed by Caroline
TITLE: Ash
SERIES: Don’t… Book 4.5
AUTHOR: Jack L Pyke
PUBLISHER: Enspire Publishing
LENGTH: 259 Pages
RELEASE DATE: March 20, 2018
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“You up for that, hm, Ash? A lesson from an old soul to youth? From me… to you?”
Ash Thomas and his gameplay with other men is vicious, cruel. Better to fuck someone over than be the one who’s on the floor, fucked up, right? But his latest cruelties are about to catch the eye of the Wraith, someone who’s been brought up to play professionally in the shadows. For Ash, beauty and rage aren’t the kind of sins to win him any favours anymore. Life and lessons of the heart never did come easy, especially when they’re about to walk in off the darkened streets, bringing bloodied footprints in their wake. (M/M)
REVIEW:
I started reading Ash with a small amount of trepidation. This is book 4.5 in the Don’t… series but doesn’t feature our three main stalwart characters that have already been through so much and who were left in a very difficult place at the end of Backlash. My worry was for nothing though as Ash and Raif are strong characters on their own and as always this authors writing consumed me from the first page and I was intrigued as to how these two dark and broken men would fit into the overall story arc.
Ash is the character who I came out of this loving – he is dark, sadistic, loving and broken. His personality is splintered into many parts and the past is always pushing the present as he loves and plays hard. His home life sets him up as the man he is today but an unexpected meeting with another dark man who moves within the night challenges who he is, how he lives and who he could eventually be.
Raif is equally dark and has his own demons bearing down on him but he also has a sense of what is right and he challenges and scares Ash at every turn. Their relationship from the start feels intimate on the page even though the way they meet and get to know each other is by no means normal, safe or even sane.
These two men are brought together by murder and madness and as always with Jack L Pyke the gruesome details and the horror of the story are not shied away from. There is serial murderer to be caught and stopped and not everyone in the story makes it to the end. Then there is the big question of how this book and these new characters will come to blend in with Gray, Jack and Jan and how any of them will make it out unharmed. I have my own theories on how this is going to work and I can’t wait to move onto the next book to see how it all unravels.
I would highly recommend Ash but I would also recommend that if you haven’t read the previous books in this series that you start at the beginning. Although this features new characters you definitely need the background to prepare you for the future.
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