Review: 4.5 - "How far would you go for family? For love?" Stars.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2014
If like me, you swooned over Shane in Forgotten Sins, fell in love with Mattie and his dirty, dirty mouth in Sweet Revenge, you will have been impatiently waiting for Nate Dean to step out of the sidelines and give us his story. Well you are in for without a shadow of a doubt an absolute treat.He’d loved Audrey Madison from the first second she’d flashed those innocent baby blues at him, and wasn’t a guy who loved twice.The Sin Brothers Series holds a very big place in my heart. Firstly because Forgotten Sins was the first book that I read by Rebecca Zanetti, and Secondly because you cannot help but fall in love with these boys, and their longing for a normal life, based on family, love and togetherness. Something that those in the world around them take for granted.Audrey Madison has not played a huge part in the previous two books, going into Blind Faith you know that Nate and her have history, and that it didn’t end well. What you don't know are the reasons surrounding it and the subsequent fall-out after it ended. Dr. Madison being Audrey’s mother has had a huge impact on her life and although she still hopes that there is a shred of maternal feeling buried deep inside her mother for her, as the book progresses Audrey begins to understand just how warped her mother really is.The real Nate Dean, the kind, gentle, man deep down... She saw him, the sexy soldier and hard-bodied charmer had intrigued her right from the start, but the man inside had stolen her soul.Nate and Audrey have history, having initially met and got together whilst the Grey/Dean brothers were still working under the Commander. Their relationship much like everything else started out as an experiment, but developed into something real. Even after having his heart broken by Audrey, Nate still see’s their time together as one of the high points of his life.Fear had no place between them, and yet it nearly choked him. She was the one person he’d truly been himself with, and she had to keep a thought of him alive. He had to matter to somebody.Slipping out of bed, he secured his gun to go check on the threat. He, turned to go back to study the only woman he’d ever loved, the one he’d have to let go in order to save his brothers. For the first time in five years, he wondered if he could do it.The kill-chips are still very much at the forefront of this story, and the race to get the codes to de-activate them, as well as trying to discover the truth about Jory. As you would expect the action comes thick and fast as the book develops, and no other author manages to drag you into the foray quite as well as Rebecca Zanetti does. Re-enter Shane and Mattie and its full shooting and explosions ahead!It is safe to say that the emotional connection between Audrey and Nate, even after 5 years apart and everything they have been through together (and separately) is still strong.He tasted of lonliness, anger and lust. Hard, needy, demanding lust.I found Nate’s vulnerability over his emotions and feelings for her so endearing, that at points it bought me to tears. That and his total belief that he is not worthy of a happily-ever-after of his own, and that his sole purpose is to make sure his brothers do is heart-breaking.Years of loneliness, years of uncertainty, all disappeared in the softness of her touch, in the gardenia scent of her skin.”I need you alive. I need the Gray brothers alive.”“Dean brothers.”“Huh?”“Dean brothers. We took a last name years ago – only family gets to know it.”“Good name.”“Glad you like it. You’ll be wearing it soon.” ...A lot of questions from the previous two books are answered in Blind Faith, but there are also a few new ones added into the mix, the Commander and Dr. Madison are still very much at large, but a few surprises are added into the suspense just to keep the reader on their toes. I don’t think I am offering a spoiler when I say that I cannot wait for Jory’s book in March 2015! The culmination of this series promises to be an absolute stunner, I just wish we were getting Total Surrender sooner!My thanks go to Forever Publishing for finally allowing me the opportunity to review for them, with this ARC provided via Netgalley. In exchange it was my absolute pleasure to provide the above honest review.