3.5 Stars

As with this specific series, you've got (if not insta-love) insta-proclamations between Rafe and Quinn, who have unknowingly crushed hard on each other since they were teens. They went from zero to 60 in 3 seconds flat once they meet again, but that's how all the characters have fallen. In between all these revelations and Rafe trying to get his shattered life back, there's a crazy murderer on the loose to make things a bit more exciting, further pushing these two together.

I appreciated the absence of the uber, overprotective alpha male that has been present in the last three books (tho the entire Morgan clan made up for that missing element in bucketfuls to the point of absolute ridiculousness). Quinn and Rafe were on equal footing in their unique dynamic - something I liked more than the usual push pull. However if you've gotten this far, be reassured that this had all the standard Sinners bits and parts, with grand love and great smex nicely wrapped up in a lot of pretty words. Good enough. ( )

A perfect match, on a slow, slow burn. I wanted to read this more slowly, but could not. It yanked me through worse than any of the previous one except for the first, Sinner's Gin.

All of them are compelling stories, messy with family and conflicts and loyalties, and dangers. This one, the way Quinn and Rafe are with each other, pressed all my favorite buttons. They're both weird but sweet. Rafe. an addict clean and determined to stay that way, Quinn with an under-control mental illness that was its own trip through hell when he was young, each the other's best medicine. How people judge, and overprotect or overreact, or both, how meaning well still hurts. I still feel all lit up with it.

The end is pitch-perfect. I bought the last one (so far) in this series. ( )

I didn't think I was going to like this series so much when I started it...but now I wish there was going to many more stories about the guys of "Sinner's Gin and their partners. Guess that's what rereads are for. Quinn and Rafe's story is a unique one in this series. We get to see and better understand what makes Quinn's way of thinking, not wrong but just "different"...but entirely normal for him. The Morgan boys have always had the love and support of their wonderful parents who are always there any time for a heart-to-heart. Usually, it's with their dad but Quinn's talk was with his mother, and it was guaranteed to bring tears to your eyes. We see the depth of how much the family, and even Kane's Mikie, who pretends to be terrified of Bridget, the mother of the Morgan bunch, love and adore both Morgan parents. Someone is trying and succeeding to eliminate one by one the people that Quinn loves as well as some that are just good friends. Rafe, his boyfriend who he just reunited with, and his brothers have other ideas and will do anything to protect him. Meanwhile the band that was once known as Sinner's Gin now have two new members and are ready to appear again but on a much closer to home and family schedule than before. Now we can welcome Crossroad's Gin to the stage and thank Rhys Ford for providing two more books in the series for us to enjoy. Oh...almost forgot. If you can't love any of the characters...and I can't imagine that happening...you will have to love Quinn's cat. ( )

3.5 ( )