Thursday 20 June 2024

REVIEW - Hooked (Never After #1) by Emily McEntire

The Book
Release Date: 5 September 2021

From international bestselling author Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of Peter Pan.

He wants revenge, but he wants her more…

James has always had one agenda: destroy his enemy, Peter Michaels. When Peter’s twenty-year-old daughter Wendy shows up in James’s bar, he sees his way in. Seduce the girl and use her for his revenge. It’s the perfect plan, until things in James’s organization begin to crumble. Suddenly, he has to find the traitor in his midst, and his plan for revenge gets murkier as James starts to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his game.

Wendy has been cloistered away most of her life by her wealthy cold father, but a spontaneous night out with friends turns into an intense and addictive love affair with the dark and brooding James. As much as she knows James is dangerous, Wendy can’t seem to shake her desire for him. But as their relationship grows more heated and she learns more about the world he moves in, she finds herself unsure if she’s falling for the man known as James or the monster known as Hook.

*Hooked is a dark contemporary romance and the first complete standalone in the Never After Series: A collection of fractured fairy tales where the villains get the happy ever after. It is not a literal retelling and not fantasy. Hooked features mature themes and content that may not be suitable for all audiences. Reader discretion is advised. For all content warnings, check the author's website.*

My Review    4 STARS
This is the first of a series and the first book that I have read/listened to by this author.

I liked the way that the story of Peter Pan has been imagined, and with Hook being the main character and that the villain ends up getting the girl.

Certainly an action packed story with a mafia role for Hook and our main lady being a strong lady who works with her grandfather on the boat lifting pots 7 days a week.

Our main guy certainly can act the bad guy, but he knows how to treat his woman and he certainly looks after his woman and to an extent her family when he decides that she is his to protect.

Certainly a series i will look to finish at some point.

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