Happy Release to Carmen Jenner
Kick is LIVE!
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RELEASE DATE: January 26th, 2015
Blurb
When I was ten, my father indoctrinated me into the family.
A brotherhood who would fight, protect, and give their lives for one another. A club whose ties ran thicker than blood, murkier than the dirt and grime that tainted my soul. Stronger than the bonds that connected me to my own family.
A band of brothers, where loyalty was kept and paid in a currency of blood.
When I was twenty-seven, I betrayed that brotherhood.
I’ve spent every day since running, avoiding paying back that debt.
My name is Daniel Johnson. I have betrayed everyone I ever loved.
And I’ll betray her too.
This is my story—if you’re screwed up enough to want to read it.
Warning: KICK contains graphic violence, profanity, drug use, and explicit sexual situations of a taboo nature. Intended for an 18+ audience only. Not intended for pussies.
Review
“I am the king of shit, and my throne is built upon the bodies of all I have betrayed.”
This is how Kick defines himself…the “harbinger of torment” consumed with pain, betrayal, and fucked up situations. He is darkness. He is soulless. He is hollow.
Kick is not the hero, but he is not necessarily the villain, at least not in the simplest of definitions. He’s a criminal….he’s a sadist…he’s a bringer of pain and he gets off on it, which are unredeeming qualities in the eyes of society. But growing up in the MC world – a place where nothing is out of bounds and morality has no place, the monstrous traits that consume Kick are nothing like those of some of the other members/monsters – those who willingly defile and pillage anything and everything without a second thought about the damage it will cause. Don’t get me wrong, Kick loves to do damage; his idea of a good time is inflicting as much pain as possible, but there’s a part of him, regardless of how minute, that the darkness hasn’t completely solidified and that sliver of light is brought out through Indie.
Indie is just as fucked up as Kick is, but the difference is that it was forced upon her by the actions of others. She’s a victim of hellish circumstances who goes from one gang of sadistic bastards to another and she has zero say in her situation or what is to be done with her. But Kick sees a fighter in Indie; a warrior who refuses to be controlled by what’s been done to her, and through Indie, Kick just might be allowed a reprieve – a way to ease the manacles around his heart and mind due to a past experience that drove him so far into hell and damnation that he never thought he would get out of it…in fact, he didn’t really want to until Indie.
I loved how raw this book was…it fits Kick’s character well. There are a shitload of fucked up situations in this book that make me question my sanity in how much I truly enjoyed reading it. Kick and Indie are two damaged souls trying to find a way to exist when the past consistently torments them. There’s not a light at the end of the tunnel for either of them and the darkness that surrounds them can be suffocating if they allow it to be. Carmen Jenner does a fantastic job of keeping Kick’s actions and personality true to his self professed doctrine, which is absolutely necessary in his storyline. There’s really no place for redemption in his life…he doesn’t deserve it nor does he want it, and I love the fact that even in the end, Kick’s going to be Kick – an asshole who will throw down with anyone to protect what he sees as his even if he doesn’t deserve it.
This is one outstanding dark MC read, and I can’t wait to see what kind of fucked up hero/villain Carmen Jenner brings readers next.
A complimentary text was provided in exchange for an honest review.
4.5 poison apples
Excerpt
I take a deep shuddering breath, close my eyes and stretch my hand towards him. His touch is gentle this time, far more gentle than I’d ever thought someone with so much uncontained violence to him could be.
“Spread your fingers,” he commands. I do, and he lifts the roll of tape, presses the edge to my skin and begins winding it over my knuckles. I close my eyes. The strident sound of it stretching out from the roll makes me want to flee. It makes me want to run as far from his touch—from any man’s touch—as I can possibly get.
The feel of the tape against my flesh, binding, holding, is so much worse. I tug on my hand, but he won’t let go. My heartrate skyrockets, and sweat beads erupt over my brow and upper lip. I’m in that room again, struggling, screaming, trying to fight them off, and failing.
Biker knows it, too. His dark eyes challenge, they dare me to run, but they also implore me to stay. It’s ironic that the only thing keeping me here, keeping me grounded, is the man who abducted me.
He holds my gaze. I don’t know exactly what is hidden in his dark blue one, but it suffocates the panic within me, douses it like water flooding flames. He bends his head to my hand. Taking the paper tape in his mouth, he rips it with his teeth.
I still. I soften. His gaze doesn’t leave mine, not even once. Not even when he starts in on my wrist, gently biting through each piece of tape before pressing it down with his rough hands. I’m mesmerised by his mouth, the piercing, and the soft, full lips. The light catches a silver chain around his neck, something I’ve never noticed before—but then I try not to make a habit of staring too closely at him. Not now, though. Now I watch every twitch, every blink, every intake of breath, and every inch that is swallowed up by his mouth moving closer to my flesh.
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Additional books by this author
Welcome to Sugartown
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Enjoy Your Stay
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Greetings from Sugartown
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Welcome to Sugartown Website:
http://www.welcometosugartown.blogspot.com.au/
About the Author
Carmen Jenner is a thirty-something, USA TODAY Best Selling Author, doctor, pilot and CIA agent. She’s also a compulsive, flagrant prevaricator who gets to make things up for a living.
While Sugartown may not technically exist, Carmen grew up in a small Australian town just like it, and just like her characters, she always longed for something more. They didn’t have an Elijah Cade, though.
If they did, you can be sure she would have never left.
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