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readingpenguin's review
emotional
hopeful
relaxing
slow-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
This is the third book in the Bareknuckle Bastards trilogy, and you absolutely must read the first two books to fully appreciate this one. Grace and Ewan's story had been teased throughout.
Some tropes and themes included are:
-Childhood loves to enemies to lovers
-Longing, pining, long-lost-love
-Class difference (sort of)
-Morally/legally dubious characters (brothel running, smuggling, pugilism)
-Grovelling, making amends, and redemption
-Found family
The conflict in this book is mostly internal and emotional. For about 80% of the book not a lot happens externally, because so much is happening internally. Grace and Ewan have a difficult and complicated history that they're working out. The author does a good job with the character development and a fantastic job with the relationship development.
On the romance heat scale this is moderately hot: explicit sex on the page, but nothing especially shocking.
Some tropes and themes included are:
-Childhood loves to enemies to lovers
-Longing, pining, long-lost-love
-Class difference (sort of)
-Morally/legally dubious characters (brothel running, smuggling, pugilism)
-Grovelling, making amends, and redemption
-Found family
The conflict in this book is mostly internal and emotional. For about 80% of the book not a lot happens externally, because so much is happening internally. Grace and Ewan have a difficult and complicated history that they're working out. The author does a good job with the character development and a fantastic job with the relationship development.
On the romance heat scale this is moderately hot: explicit sex on the page, but nothing especially shocking.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Child abuse and Violence
Minor: Mental illness
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