Review: An intense, heart stopping, read!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2014
First, the most important thing... this cover... WOW!  Ok, so maybe it's not the most important thing, but it's pretty hot and definitely worth mentioning.This was an intense and heart stopping read full of suspense and action!  This book centers around underground fighting in the US and Mexico.  The fights in this book are vicious and little detail is spared.  It's scary, brutal, and exciting all at once and will have you turning page after page to keep up and find out what is going to happen next.The story is told in the male POV of Jesse Chance.  I enjoyed getting the male POV in this type of book.  Too often in books about fighting you get the female perspective and the fighting is just something mentioned in passing.  With the male POV, the book is more focused on the fighting and the romance is secondary.  Jesse was such a strong character mentally and physically.  He was dealt a bad hand before he was even born, but did his best to become a better person than he saw himself as.  Things are finally coming together for him and he's on the verge of graduating with a degree in Architecture and starting a life with his girlfriend Lydia when his dead beat father shows up and request his help in the name of saving the little brother that he has never known.  They say old habits die hard and that couldn't be more true for Jesse, one of those being his former girlfriend Drew Hallisay.  As he struggles between his new life and a past that never left him he must make difficult decisions for his future.Overall, this was a good, fast-paced, read full of suspense and surprising twist.