Unforgivable: The Complete Series

This set includes 3 books: Heart of a Thief, Heart of a Liar, and Heart of a Pr*ck. Below is a review of one of the stories as a sample of what is included. *** Reviewing “HEART OF A THIEF” *** This is different approach to a "romance" than I would have expected. Asher is a bad boy thief who takes pleasure in making engaged women fall for him, in effect stealing their hearts when he knows they belong with someone else. Once he wins his little twisted game, he tosses them away because they meant nothing at all to him. But meeting Sloane excites him because he sees this one as a challenge. The game certainly backfires on him because she ends up stealing his heart instead! Sloane helps children for a non-profit organization and seems to be well-liked by everyone. She is engaged to marry Wes. Although this doesn’t deter Asher who cares nothing about such commitment, Sloane herself will make him work for what he wants. She makes sure it doesn’t come easily. Is this all a game for her too? Will Ash make her fall in love with him? Is this finally the one he won’t let get away? There are many emotions pulled out in this book. But when I can’t like the characters, it makes it difficult to enjoy the book. Asher is just plain mean-spirited and takes his joy in demeaning others. Sloane is stubborn which helps her resist him, but I didn’t feel like she was as good as she may have seemed and there may have been something more to her. I guess it comes down to this book not being a good fit for me personally.

Despite the clever setups, I didn’t feel emotionally invested in these stories. This set didn’t live up to my hopes for it. I love a good hate/love romance, but these didn’t give us enough depth of character to really feel either the love or the hate. In Heart of a Thief, we have a rather unlikable character whose necessary personal growth is never developed. In Heart of a Liar, the conflict seems to revolve around events that happened prior to their current romance, but those events aren’t explained enough to validate the current conflict. In Heart of a Prick, the lead female comes across as fickle and flighty, with her choices resulting in nearly eliminating a chance at a true HEA, though it seems like they may find it after all. As a quick and dirty beach read, each of these stories works as a steamy standalone with a couple unexpected twists. Just remember to enjoy them on the surface and don’t try to find answers to the nagging questions left behind. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this set.

For every action there is a reaction, so physics tells us. Even when we do not realize it. These stories show the results of our actions in a way that we can understand I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.