Review: 4 1/2 stars Bijou is addicting!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2014
review  4 1/2 stars, It's no secret that I love Bijou Hunter and all her books, whenever her Damaged series comes out they are auto buys/reads for me and even though I have beta read for some of her books I still love them so much that I have to buy them too(hey I said at the beginning I loved her books), so when I heard she had a new series out I was ecstatic. We get more Bijou and her great hero's and that means we get something to tide us over between her Damaged books. Add to that I get a good/bad hero and I'm in heaven. I love when a hero is a "bad" guy but when he meets his girl he will do anything for her to make sure she is safe including things that "good guys" would consider wrong. This book was great I didn't want to put it down, I loved that this was different from Ms. Hunter's other series and even though it was very different it still was so awesome all on it's own.Gator is a killer he kills and has no problem doing it, so when he see's Mia one of his hits his wold is flipped upside down and changed forever. Gator knows the second he see's Mia that she will be his no matter what, but when he finally meets her she is nothing like he thought she would be and even though they may never be able to be together she will always be his. Mia has been damaged, she has been hurt beyond repair but Gator still can't let her go. The more time they spend together Gator starts to see the real Mia not the girl everyone else saw or the girl that Mia let everyone see. Gator and Mia both begin to fall in love and soon it seems like a future may be possible. But The person who wanted Mia dead has to be dealt with and Gator has no problem making sure the person is dealt with permanently so that he and Mia can have a chance at happiness but the man who hired Gator won't go down so easily.This book is so different from what is out there first it's almost all from the hero's(Gator's) point of view, with little bits of Mia in between. I love a book with the mans point of view but what I have found is that many authors can't quite get in the head of a hero so that it feels genuine and real and not like a woman has written a mans point of view. Like Bijou's other books I never felt like Gators parts weren't anything but real and genuine. Mia also isn't anything like any heroine I have ever read about, yes I have read many books with heroines who have traumatic pasts and have been "damaged" but nothing like Mia. The growth that we see in Mia was beautiful and I loved that we get to see that what everyone though about Mia is so far from the truth (I can't say more because I really don't want to spoil it) Ms. Hunter did a great job writing this subject and showing us the real Mia in this book and writing a darker edgier.Gator was awesome, I love a devoted hero and gator wasn't just devoted he was DEVOTED to Mia she was it no other woman even registered for him once he saw her, and he was willing to do anything and everything to keep her safe and happy and to take away all of her pain. Gator does everything he can to make Mia know how much she means to him and though he is a big tough as nail hero with Mia he is loving and kind her hero. You got to love a hero who takes care of everyone who ever harmed the heroine *sigh* because he loves her so much. This book showed the growth of not only Mia and Gator as a couple but it also showed the growth they go through individually. This book isn't just about the outside conflicts it's about Mia and Gator healing each other and finding in each other the thing they knew they would never find and that was love and acceptance.The epilogue was beautiful, to see the happy ending of two people who deserved it so much was wonderful, and that we get to see how they are in the future is just another reason I loved this book. This book is shorter than almost all of Bijou's books but she never made me feel like I was missing anything important in this book. In many short books I have read I had a hard time connecting (almost even caring) about the characters and I never had a problem with that in this book, from the first page I was hooked and really excited to have something different among so many books that seems to be the same that they almost run together. I can't wait for more Bijou, normally I would be chopping at the bit for more of the Damaged series but now I just want more Bijou, dark, light, short long I don't care. This (along with all of Bijou Hunters books) will be a book that never gets deleted or removed from my kindle, because I know it will be on my re-read list in the future.