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gypsygirlfl's review
5.0
Book 1- Autumn and Kenton
This was an amazing book. It’s Autumn and Kenton’s story. Told in dual POVs some but mostly Autumn’s POV. Has an epilogue that shows the future which is great!
Autumn has not had it easy in life as a child or adult. She’s making the best of it and doing what she has to in order to achieve her goals.
Kenton ends up protecting and hiding Autumn after she witnesses multiple murders but tends to have the wrong idea about her and totally shows what an a$$ he can be. Grovel, boy, grovel.
I really enjoyed how this was written and found it to be different than other stories I read. Totally recommend it!
This was an amazing book. It’s Autumn and Kenton’s story. Told in dual POVs some but mostly Autumn’s POV. Has an epilogue that shows the future which is great!
Autumn has not had it easy in life as a child or adult. She’s making the best of it and doing what she has to in order to achieve her goals.
Kenton ends up protecting and hiding Autumn after she witnesses multiple murders but tends to have the wrong idea about her and totally shows what an a$$ he can be. Grovel, boy, grovel.
I really enjoyed how this was written and found it to be different than other stories I read. Totally recommend it!
ameserole's review against another edition
5.0
Ever since falling in love with the Until series.. well, I needed another series from Aurora to fall in love with. Underground Kings was that new lovable series.
Assumption was so freaking good! It was about Autumn and Kenton and boy did they fuck up. Kenton made the worst assumption out of Autumn only to end up being tongue tied because she's exactly what he was looking for. The girl of his dreams and he screwed it up big time. Then there's Autumn who assumed the worst out of Kenton as well... and now he has to make it up to her so that she can change his mind and opinion of him. UGH, I was rooting for these two the ENTIRE time. I loved them. Their chemistry was an ever lasting flame.
Of course Autumn couldn't resist Kenton! No woman could. He's a Mayson dammit! They fall so freaking hard for one another. However, Autumn is in danger and they are both wondering if Kenton could protect her. Heck, I was wondering too!
Overall, these two were absolutely everything to me. I loved watching their romance grow. I swooned throughout the whole book. I honestly can't wait to get my hands on the second book in this series. I definitely need more.
Assumption was so freaking good! It was about Autumn and Kenton and boy did they fuck up. Kenton made the worst assumption out of Autumn only to end up being tongue tied because she's exactly what he was looking for. The girl of his dreams and he screwed it up big time. Then there's Autumn who assumed the worst out of Kenton as well... and now he has to make it up to her so that she can change his mind and opinion of him. UGH, I was rooting for these two the ENTIRE time. I loved them. Their chemistry was an ever lasting flame.
Of course Autumn couldn't resist Kenton! No woman could. He's a Mayson dammit! They fall so freaking hard for one another. However, Autumn is in danger and they are both wondering if Kenton could protect her. Heck, I was wondering too!
Overall, these two were absolutely everything to me. I loved watching their romance grow. I swooned throughout the whole book. I honestly can't wait to get my hands on the second book in this series. I definitely need more.
talknerdybookblog's review
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
No strong representation of diverse characters or minority identities.
Safety Rating: Safe with Exceptions
• No cheating
• Does have OW drama
- Hero's ex-girlfriend (who lived with him) wants him back and creates big scenes outside of their old house where the Heroine is currently staying
• Does have OM drama (minimal)
• Does have the Hero pushing the Heroine away
• No separation
Possible Triggers: Yes
• Gun violence
• Murder
• Attempted murder
• Slut-shaming
• Heroine was forced by her parents to give her son up for adoption when she was a teen
Ending:HEA with Epilogue
Safety Rating: Safe with Exceptions
• No cheating
• Does have OW drama
- Hero's ex-girlfriend (who lived with him) wants him back and creates big scenes outside of their old house where the Heroine is currently staying
• Does have OM drama (minimal)
• Does have the Hero pushing the Heroine away
• No separation
Possible Triggers: Yes
• Gun violence
• Murder
• Attempted murder
• Slut-shaming
• Heroine was forced by her parents to give her son up for adoption when she was a teen
Ending:
kate_and_books's review against another edition
3.0
You should never judge a book by its cover. In life for some people it is a matter of survial and nothing else.
We met Kenton in the Until Series now he gets his own book. The Underground Kings Series is darker than the Until Series.
Autumn Freeman works in a Stripclub in Las Vegas to pay for her bills and to get her Nursing Degree. Unfortunately she sees the hit that occurs in the club and can identify the killer. She gets shipped off to Kenton so that she is protected.
Kenton judges Autumn on what is friend Linc told him and assumes the worst. I loved the banter between the two and I always love this author as I can lmao off.
Kai's story sounds interesting.
We met Kenton in the Until Series now he gets his own book. The Underground Kings Series is darker than the Until Series.
Autumn Freeman works in a Stripclub in Las Vegas to pay for her bills and to get her Nursing Degree. Unfortunately she sees the hit that occurs in the club and can identify the killer. She gets shipped off to Kenton so that she is protected.
Kenton judges Autumn on what is friend Linc told him and assumes the worst. I loved the banter between the two and I always love this author as I can lmao off.
Kai's story sounds interesting.
prettymonsters's review against another edition
3.0
So our main girl has had a traumatic childhood and was forced to put her son up for adoption when she was 16. She goes on about how she only ever loved one person, the son, her whole life and she has a lot of baggage about having been forced to give the boy up. (this is not the main storyline just a small part of it)
When she starts getting to know the future love of her life he turns out to work as some sort of security/investigation firm (they never actually clarified what he really did for a living in the book) and he offers to track down her child for her and she reacts like this is amazing news and somehow she never even considered that fining the kid was even a possibility. Ten years she's mourned the loss of the child she put up for adoption and she never once thought about tracking this kid down?! I don't buy it.
Ultimately she decides she will think about his offer to find her son and then the subject never gets brought up again until the very end of the book in the epilogues when she's married with 2 kids of her own and the long-lost son is all grown up and in college.
Wait! WTF!
She was traumatized over the fact that she had to give up this child it was a huge deal to her but it took 10 years for her to decide if she wanted to know if the kid was safe and adopted by a good family let alone meet him!
I guess the whole long lost kid thing just got put on our author's backburner between her abusive mother, working at a strip club while getting her degree for nursing, witnessing multiple homicides, going into hiding from the mob and a hitman, staying with a friend of a friend who's a massive ass to her, falling for said ass, getting shot by a hitman, dealing with jealous ex-girlfriend and jealous ex-boss, having sit-downs with mob bosses about hunting down and killing the hitman, have the ass become the love of her life and future husband...
That's not even all of our highlights I just picked the more dramatic ones.
My point here is that I think our author went a little overboard with the drama resulting in huge discoveries ending up being dumped into the epilogues. Like her being reunited with her abusive mother and her long-lost son, or the fact that her mother told her father that she was dead and now she can have a relationship with the father she thought didn't want her but in fact, just thought her deceased. These are kinda huge things that ended up as afterthoughts because the book wasn't given the full attention it deserved.
Also, I never read all of the books in the Until series but I got the feeling that she used a lot of characters from those books so I felt a little lost when so many names of couples kept popping up as support characters. I felt like I should have some knowledge on who those people are but it didn't make any difference towards the main storyline so I had no trouble reading the book even without that knowledge.
I feel that somewhere during the writing process this book was rushed to completion. Considering that this is the 1st edition of the Underground Kings series I do not have high hopes for book 2.
When she starts getting to know the future love of her life he turns out to work as some sort of security/investigation firm (they never actually clarified what he really did for a living in the book) and he offers to track down her child for her and she reacts like this is amazing news and somehow she never even considered that fining the kid was even a possibility. Ten years she's mourned the loss of the child she put up for adoption and she never once thought about tracking this kid down?! I don't buy it.
Ultimately she decides she will think about his offer to find her son and then the subject never gets brought up again until the very end of the book in the epilogues when she's married with 2 kids of her own and the long-lost son is all grown up and in college.
Wait! WTF!
She was traumatized over the fact that she had to give up this child it was a huge deal to her but it took 10 years for her to decide if she wanted to know if the kid was safe and adopted by a good family let alone meet him!
I guess the whole long lost kid thing just got put on our author's backburner between her abusive mother, working at a strip club while getting her degree for nursing, witnessing multiple homicides, going into hiding from the mob and a hitman, staying with a friend of a friend who's a massive ass to her, falling for said ass, getting shot by a hitman, dealing with jealous ex-girlfriend and jealous ex-boss, having sit-downs with mob bosses about hunting down and killing the hitman, have the ass become the love of her life and future husband...
That's not even all of our highlights I just picked the more dramatic ones.
My point here is that I think our author went a little overboard with the drama resulting in huge discoveries ending up being dumped into the epilogues. Like her being reunited with her abusive mother and her long-lost son, or the fact that her mother told her father that she was dead and now she can have a relationship with the father she thought didn't want her but in fact, just thought her deceased. These are kinda huge things that ended up as afterthoughts because the book wasn't given the full attention it deserved.
Also, I never read all of the books in the Until series but I got the feeling that she used a lot of characters from those books so I felt a little lost when so many names of couples kept popping up as support characters. I felt like I should have some knowledge on who those people are but it didn't make any difference towards the main storyline so I had no trouble reading the book even without that knowledge.
I feel that somewhere during the writing process this book was rushed to completion. Considering that this is the 1st edition of the Underground Kings series I do not have high hopes for book 2.
laurenm2111's review against another edition
5.0
Great start to a new series by Aurora Rose Reynolds. This was a fabulous read, that made me sit and read to the end in the one sitting - there is no cliff-hanger, but I can't wait for more from these guys. Loved seeing the connection to the 'Until Series' - this made me go and do a re-read of Until November - so I could remember what's what!!
kreadsoften's review against another edition
3.0
Assumption is the first book in the Underground Kings series, but it can be read as a standalone.
Autumn is working at a strip club when she witnesses a shooting. The shooter escapes, so Autumn has to go into hiding until they are caught. She ends up going to Tennessee to stay with her friend’s friend, Kenton. They don’t exactly get along because of their assumptions about each other, but Kenton still takes his job as a bodyguard seriously.
This book had action and suspense, and it was pretty fast-paced. Autumn went through a lot, but she remained strong through it all. She and Kenton both realized they were wrong to just assume certain things about each other, and they got to know each other.
Autumn is working at a strip club when she witnesses a shooting. The shooter escapes, so Autumn has to go into hiding until they are caught. She ends up going to Tennessee to stay with her friend’s friend, Kenton. They don’t exactly get along because of their assumptions about each other, but Kenton still takes his job as a bodyguard seriously.
This book had action and suspense, and it was pretty fast-paced. Autumn went through a lot, but she remained strong through it all. She and Kenton both realized they were wrong to just assume certain things about each other, and they got to know each other.
kayladbruns's review against another edition
4.0
I don’t know what took me so long to start this series since ARR is one of my favorite authors. It had the alpha hero that I love her for and a sassy heroine who made me laugh.
The title of this book really tells how this book starts out. Kenton made some bad assumptions about Autumn when they first met and it sets them off on the wrong foot. I really did wish he took the time to ask about her instead of fighting his attraction by reminding himself that she was a stripper. She was so much more than that. Thankfully he got his head out his ass pretty quickly and I was so glad about that.
“I’m in like with you,” I tell him, getting lost in his eyes.
“Yeah?” His eyebrow rises and he kisses my forehead.
“I’m in a whole lotta like with you too, baby.”
I loved the relationship between these two and reading about it growing into love. Autumn had a very bad past and closed herself off to even the thought of dating. Kenton slowly but surely broke down every brick that she put up. The sexual tension of these two living together while Kenton’s pursuing her and Autumn trying to fight it was amazing and had me not wanting to set my kindle down. The sex scenes were a straight up 10/10!
As usual with an ARR novel, we have a suspense element to it. However, I did find this one to take over a bit more plot than normal. We have some abuse scenes along with very violent actions. I didn’t really bother me, I just wasn’t used to it from reading her other series.
I did enjoy this one and I’m interested in reading the rest of the series. I hope all the guys are as alpha and gritty as Kenton was!
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The title of this book really tells how this book starts out. Kenton made some bad assumptions about Autumn when they first met and it sets them off on the wrong foot. I really did wish he took the time to ask about her instead of fighting his attraction by reminding himself that she was a stripper. She was so much more than that. Thankfully he got his head out his ass pretty quickly and I was so glad about that.
“I’m in like with you,” I tell him, getting lost in his eyes.
“Yeah?” His eyebrow rises and he kisses my forehead.
“I’m in a whole lotta like with you too, baby.”
I loved the relationship between these two and reading about it growing into love. Autumn had a very bad past and closed herself off to even the thought of dating. Kenton slowly but surely broke down every brick that she put up. The sexual tension of these two living together while Kenton’s pursuing her and Autumn trying to fight it was amazing and had me not wanting to set my kindle down. The sex scenes were a straight up 10/10!
As usual with an ARR novel, we have a suspense element to it. However, I did find this one to take over a bit more plot than normal. We have some abuse scenes along with very violent actions. I didn’t really bother me, I just wasn’t used to it from reading her other series.
I did enjoy this one and I’m interested in reading the rest of the series. I hope all the guys are as alpha and gritty as Kenton was!
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ashkwtf's review against another edition
3.0
The formatting of the kindle edition frequently left me feeling like the timeline was confused as fuck. It was likely just an unrepresented text break ... but it read like a paragraph was missing. Otherwise an enjoyable read.