5 for book 19
All the Stars for this series

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS OR NOT

WE DIIIIID IT!!! 19 Books later and here we are!

First i would like to thank the Academy 🤗and all my Friends 🥂who have been with me, during this roller-coaster read.



This is the best series I have ever read, for now it will be number 1.



The Writing

It was flawless, the dialogue flowed from page to page, at no point when I was reading this book where I was like, the writing is so-so, nope it was perfection at it’s best.

The characters

Oh dear Lord! We have some questionable, depraved characters in this book and then we have the heroes who come in form of our main MC Mat .

Mat - bless his heart! This guy is my favourite character he now shares number 1 with Logan. I can’t bring myself to demote Logan. He is everything and Mat is too. The guy went through hell for the first 16 books but not once did he show the bad guys he was defeated. He did everything in his own terms while suffering through the beatings, rape, torture and everything else in between and at the same time staying strong and loving his brother Dougie unconditionally. He is my hero.

They weren’t ruined yet. No, they weren’t ruined at all. They’d beaten it. Gotten so much better. Here they were, out to dinner with their family, sharing a nice evening, dreaming of the future.

Dougie – Well let’s just say he is proof that with the right torture, a human brain can be reduced to dust. Dougie suffered and developed some weird sick love for his captor, Stockholm syndrome at his best. I want to believe that he did it to survive but then again, I wanted him to be strong for Mat too. Dougie’s personality change made me loathe him at times, even with all his suffering, then at the same time i felt sorry for him, wanted to hug him and protect him, just like Mat. His road to recovery was a difficult one to read, and more realistic. There were no magic dicks here, just plain old family and friends support and therapy.

“Responding to men, liking men, it was a thing I had to convince myself was true to survive, you know? I couldn’t . . . I couldn’t fake it, not with Nikolai, and not to myself and still get up every day. So that programming went deep. Who knows, maybe it’ll never go away. But at least now I know it for what it is. And you know, if a man asked me out right now? Like, wanted to date and he was nice and even wanted to take it slow, I don’t think I’d say yes anymore. It wouldn’t be fair to either of us, because even if I can’t know

Allen- Let’s not talk about this piece of fucking trash, I might end up breaking things I can’t afford to replace



Roger- Another example of Stockholm syndrome, this beautiful soul was reduced to a shell by Nikolai for his own pleasure.

Nate – Fresh breath of air that this series needed, the one person who never gave up on the brothers when everyone else did. And Mat’s love interest. We all need Nate to be on our side.

Mike and Coach Darryl – just the parents Mat and Doug needed, their unconditional love for the boys had me all mushy.

Madam and the Guards 🤬🤬

And the character we would all love to hate!

NIKOLAI! Fucking NIKOLAI! - His character was villain perfection. The authors created a character that no matter how much I hated him, I was intrigued with him at the same time. Nikolai the slave trainer, did his job using the most deplorable torture and mind games. We get a glimpse of his past and it was a horrible one, but does that justify his carrier choice? I would like to think no! Nikolai is the best Villain. By the end of this series, I have decided I love him and hate him at the same time…….and I would love to read his book where he is the main MC.. Ummm! Yap It is a weird case of Sympathy for the Devil.

“You really do love me?” he asked, barely above a whisper.
“Forever and always, above all others,” Nikolai promised. Just say yes.
For a moment—a perfect, fleeting moment, so beautiful it couldn’t survive—Douglas’s expression softened to Nikolai, softened like the face of a man about to be kissed.
He stood. “You don’t even know what love is, Nikolai. And you never, ever will. You’re going to die alone, just like Roger, and it serves you fucking right.”
For the very first and, gods willing, last time, Nikolai Petrovic found himself at a loss for words.



The Story

Well! This series is about two brothers, Mat and Dougie, who are kidnapped by human trafficking cartel and auctioned to a slave Trainer by the name Nikolai! (you don’t want to meet this guy anywhere, he will make you love him, hate him, want to kill him, then love him again) and the brothers go through hell while in captivity. They areRaped repeatedly, beaten, forced to rape each other, injected with drugs as a form of torture, get their minds played with by Psycho Nikolai, sold to another low life named Allen where they undergo more torture and the list goes on and on. The sad thing is that, this also happens in RL, the human trafficking is still going on even to date, reading this made my stomach churn, turned me into a Vigilante, i killed so many character in my head but also opened my eyes.

I just read the most interesting story, that will stay with me forever.

We get a HEA for the brothers and it is well deserved.



I would recommend this to anyone who wants to experience the dark side of everything.

That last page was everything and held so much promise.

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