Reviewed by Kimberley

TITLE: Boystown

SERIES: Boystown Season 9

AUTHOR: Jake Biondi

PUBLISHER: Self Publishing

LENGTH: 291 pages

RELEASE DATE: December 14, 2018

BLURB:

“Logan looked in the kitchen for Dustin or Max, while Keith walked deeper into the main room. Looking down, Keith noticed a small blood stain on the floor. ‘What the hell?’ Logan rushed over to his side and the two immediately noticed a trail of blood, which seemed to get bigger as it reached the bedroom. Logan yelled out again, ‘Max?’ Keith and Logan rushed toward the bedroom where they found a bloody handprint on the wall and doorway. Looking into the bedroom, Logan gasped as Keith cried out, ‘Oh, my God!’” –BOYSTOWN Season Eight
The horrific discovery in the apartment of Max Taylor and Dustin Alexander leaves a life hanging in the balance and begins a mystery that involves many of Boystown’s prominent residents. And with Marco Ciancio’s killer still on the loose, no one in Boystown is safe.
Members of the Ciancio and Mancini families continue to live in fear as the murderer manages to stay one step ahead of Commander Michael Martinez and Detective Jack Kramer. Meanwhile, Franco Armani’s twisted plan for revenge against Patrick Provenzano reaches a fatal finale, Justin and Emmett Mancini rush their brother Derek to the hospital, Gino Ciancio responds to Victor DelVecchio’s marriage proposal, and a snowstorm strands Cole Mancini and Jensen Stone in Boston where they make a decision that will impact the lives of those they love.
Later, when the suave Massoud Ahmed arrives in Chicago seeking investors in the River Pointe project, the Ciancios and Mancinis quickly become ensnared in a devious scheme masquerading as a business opportunity. In the process, some relationships are ruined while others are revisited, Jesse Morgan turns on those who love him most, and Marco’s murderer strikes again…and again.
It all leads up to a wedding the likes of which Chicago has never seen and BOYSTOWN readers will never see coming.
There’s no place like BOYSTOWN!
REVIEW:

Whoooo chiiiillllld. The shenanigans, foolishness and mayhem that goes on in this book…! Okay, let’s get into it. But as always…start the music.

*soap opera music starts*

“On the next season of Boystown aka The Young and Messy…”

This season starts off with everyone that should be together have split up and are off having rebound sex or entering rebound relationships and as usual, almost everyone is insane in the membrane.

As always, the books starts off where it immediately left off in the last book. And baaaby, Max has some ‘splainin’ to do. This situation isn’t looking good for him. And you know what? Max deserves it. I’m STILL salty over how him and Emmett treated poor Logan and Keith in season one. Yeah, I’m like an elephant with the memory only I hold a grudge. So, don’t Cry for me Argentina over Max or Emmett’s suffering. If anyone in this wicked group deserves every bit of bad juju they’re receiving, it’s THOSE two. This is simply Lady Karma sending the chickens home to roost with Max.

Derek’s still an a$$, in my opinion but Lady Karma is also working on him.

Cole is consistent in that he’s STILL pinning over and holding that Olympic size torch for Derek. No headline, no news with him.

Emmett is still ‘Emmett-ing’ playing the sweet and innocent/good guy of the group. Nothing ever happens to him DIRECTLY, not since season one, but his love of the moment always seems to get caught up in some mess when it comes to him. THEY’RE always the ones who are smacked in the face with the back of Karma’s hand and it’s so not fair. That dude is like Teflon when it comes to getting his just desserts. I’d LOVE to see something negatively impact him directly, I don’t care what it is; whether he gets hit in the face by a fish which causes his head to fall off, he slips and falls on a patch of ice and he slides right into incoming traffic… doesn’t matter what. I personally, am still wishing for this pack of wild dogs to come and eat him. Just sayin’.

They sure seem to move on quickly after the loss of a significant other be it by death or just by separating. Which brings me to Joyelle.

Joyelle is still out Joyelle-ing. She’s in love and expecting. Again. I swear that woman’s role in this series is to fall in ‘love’ and have babies with every man she comes into contact with. Like, damn lady! Let that baby making equipment a breather. You JUST got your other kid back. You don’t have to pop out a kid for every man who shows interest in and or feeds into your constant damsel in distress bit. Jeeze Louise. At least the guy she’s with seems to be a good one. But I wonder how long it’ll be before she grows tired of him and ‘fall in love’ with someone else.
Which segues nicely into my next point: Det. Jack Kramer and Cmdr. Michael Martinez. Those guys are really good, upstanding fellas. This group’s constant dram will definitely keep them busy. It may also drive them to drink and an early retirement. I really wish those two would get as far away from this radioactive group of people as they can. Michael should just take Keith and move. Jack should just move and leave Joyelle’s behind in Chicago with the rest of her ‘friends.’

Which, oddly enough, brings me to poor Jesse. The toxicity surrounding the Ciancios and Mancinis has infected him causing him to go full tilt right on those who love him. And that was the saddest thing to read because he truly is an individual who inadvertently walked into that land mine of a group.

Camille is still a barracuda. But one who faints like a Victorian maiden when her past comes calling for her. Like seriously, lady?! How are you going to be a super villainess and faint when your past comes knocking? She needs to tighten up every chance she gets or hand in her villainess card. She’s WEAK.

Marco is supposedly dead. But I’m off to the side wondering if he’s dead-dead or just kinda dead. That dude has more lives than a cat and I keep expecting him to jump out of the river like Jason Voorhees with a machete and a hockey mask.

This series has some of the messiest, most delicious, most salacious, most evil, low down and trifling cast of characters I’ve ever read.

And I am here for All👏🏾Of👏🏾 It👏🏾
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