I am the good girl, the one who does no wrong.
Daughter to a ferocious and strong MC President, I know what protection feels like.
Until one night changes everything – and not a single person in the world can protect me from it, not even my dad.
Suffocating. Alone. Desperate.
I let my problems live deep inside until there is no longer anywhere to run.
I need an escape. Anything to make the pain go away.
Trouble comes for me, and I don’t fight it.
I tried so hard to believe in what I was,
But nobody understood.
Not until him. Not until Lucas.
He sees me. He believes in me.
He refuses to let me drown.
He’s my way out. My escape.
But Lucas is forbidden. He’s a cop. I’m in danger. And my father is trying to protect what can’t be protected.
There can only be one outcome.
Pandemonium.
**This book can be read as a standalone, but don’t stress original MC Sinner fans, your favs are all there!**
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Review
Pandemonium is exactly the type of writing, characters, and emotional angst that I’ve come to expect from Bella Jewel, and with Ava and Lucas’ story, it’s amplified due to Lucas’ past with the club and the torturous memories that threaten to destroy both of them due to events out of their control.
Both Ava and Lucas need saving, but it’s unclear if Lucas can be the one to help Ava to keep breathing despite the pain when he seems to be barely holding on as well. But the solace they find with each other just might be their saving grace as long as Jackson, Ava’s father and president of the Hell’s Knights MC, sees Lucas as more than a pest and someone using Jackson’s daughter for his own personal gains.
Broken – that word personifies both Ava and Lucas, but because Lucas has had longer to cope with the events that have left him in pieces, he tries to help Ava fight through her own darkness, trying to teach her from his own mistakes even though he hasn’t quite made it completely out into the light himself – he’s just mastered his mask better than Ava has.
Lucas and Ava may live in two different worlds, and he may have issues with her father’s club, but there’s no boundaries that Lucas won’t cross to try and save Ava from herself, and when his need to protect her turns into something else, despite the confusion and uproar it causes, perhaps their broken pieces put together can make them whole.
Lucas and Ava’s story is an emotional read that will have readers struggling to move on right along with the characters as they go through their personal ordeals and struggle to pull themselves out of the darkness. Bella Jewel illustrates Lucas and Ava’s grief, pain, and rage so well that at some points, it was difficult to read because the agony resonated off of the pages, forcing readers to see how truly broken they were.
What also shines through in Pandemonium is how close the Hell’s Knights MC members and their families are and the fact that when one of them is hurt, they all feel it and don’t know how to channel that pain without causing more chaos, which is exactly what Ava was trying to prevent by concealing her torment.
I love that Jewel is giving readers another generation of Hell’s Knights, and I’m eager to see the situations she places the other members’ children in because Jewel definitely knows how to stir up trouble and raise a little hell, biker style.
A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.
4.5 Poison Apples
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