Review: Great follow up!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2014
Don’t mind me. I might still be holding a grudge over what happened to Shannon in Because Of Luke.  Just a little one.  I didn’t quite work through it while reading Blackout.Now we are here in Black Rose and we are back to Luke’s story and now Coco’s.  (Coco was Sheila, Shannon’s sister, the love of Luke’s brother Ross’s life, best friend.)  She grew up next door to the Black brothers and was fairly close to Luke for a long time.Luke isn’t coming back from Shannon’s death well, he is out of prison now, his mother is very very sick, and life just keeps raining down on him.Coco has been dating Dash for the last 6 years (Luke’s band mate).  He is kind of an a$$, with reason, that I assume stems back to his childhood.  Coco loves him though.Black Rose was so well written, took me right back into their lives, and I know Luke should move on and be happy.  Coco deserves to be too.  I was happy to see their friendship bloom again, happy to see them both working through both of their lives.I just want Luke with Shannon.  I know. I know, she is gone.  She can’t come back (unless we switch genres and make this paranormal), but I just loved those two so much together.  And I am not thrilled with the way Luke is about his children.  I got why he did what he did when he was in prison, but he isn’t more.  I just wanted to shake him and tell him to pick his self up and go get those kids!But, reading the bit in the back of this one about the next book, I think we will eventually get something there.I did enjoy Black Rose so much.  I sat down and read it one sitting.  I was swiping the screen quickly wanting Luke to get his HEA.  I won’t tell you if he did because that would be mean, and it is F.X. Skully, if you have read the other books in this series, nothing is guaranteed. :)Thank you so much for my copy of Black Rose.  I cannot wait to get my hands on the next book!