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Fall is the fourth installment in the “Gentry Boys” series and it is the end of the road for me. I loved the first two books, Risk and Draw, in this series but I hated the third, Game, so much I couldn’t even finish reading it. I gave Fall a chance because I was interested in Declan’s story after reading about him in the other books and because I figured 2/3 wasn’t bad odds for getting another book that I really loved. I didn’t completely miscalculate. I was able to finish Fall, fairly quickly in fact, and I certainly didn’t hate it. I just didn’t love it and I think I know why.

Let me start with the reasons I didn’t hate this book: The book is well written, there is a plot outside of the romance that is developed although not compelling and the main characters are likeable.

Fall is the story of 28 year old Declan and 19 year old Jenny. Both Declan and Jenny are struggling with issues created by their pasts, Declan has “not good enough” syndrome because of his history of manwhoring and one massively failed relationship from his youth. Also, if you’ve read any of the other books in the series you know that Declan is a Gentry which means he comes from a long line of people considered absolute good for nothing trash. Jenny is mildly defiant and confused about her place in the world because the majority of her life was spent in a creepy religious cult. Jenny and Declan get together when Jenny is in need of assistance and Declan happens to have his cape handy, he swoops in and saves the day…well, sort of. From that point on they embark on a relationship which brings me to my reasons I didn’t love this book.

The relationship story line is relatively flat. Once the characters get together, there isn’t a lot of internal or external conflict in the story. With the exception of a few minor hiccups, the characters basically admit their feelings for each other and that’s it. The conflicts in the plot are all focused on the personal issues of the two main characters. This can leave you with the impression of reading three different books. You are reading the Declan/Emblem story, Jenny/College/Post-Cult Life story and the Jenny/Deck story. The problem is that the three stories don’t necessarily need to be in the same book and I could’ve done without 1 or 2 of them.

Next problem, Emblem, the city where Deck is from, is like a really great dessert that you got carried away one time and ate entirely too much of. Now when someone so much as mentions the dessert, you get nauseated. That’s how I feel about Emblem. The story of Emblem was ok in the first Gentry Boy books but now it’s just effing depressing. Emblem is like the worst place on Earth and I absolutely do not want to hear anything else about it ever. The fact that like half this book takes place in Emblem and deals with Emblem’s hopeless cast of characters did nothing for me. Even worse, I don’t think it did anything for the romance.

I am not a fan of “struggle” romance [Read my thoughts about it at LJoyReviews.Blogspot.Com]. I read romance to escape the struggles of everyday life. So I am naturally biased against books where people are poor and eating at dive joints and staying at sleazy hotel. I was a broke college student eating out of cans and what not and I’m not interested in reliving that part of my life in a romance novel. That scenery is patently unsexy to me. That’s what this book is though. At the beginning of the book Deck lives in an actual trailer with one chair for furniture. At one point the characters eat a meal of jerky and crackers. I just canNOT.

Also, there isn’t a lot of sex in this book but the way Deck talks about sex is entirely too crude. Now don’t get me wrong, I am no prude, I like very explicit language but there is a difference between that and what happened in this book. Let me give you a few examples of Deck phrases:

“I’m going to tear that shi! Up”

“I’m sure as shi! not done hitting that hot pocket”

“You know you’re gonna be some kind of saddle sore tomorrow.”

No, just no. Absolutely not to all of that and everything like it.

My last issue is that this book is a standalone even though it is part of a series. Why is that a problem? Because I’ve read the three other books in the series but Brent assumes you might not have and retells a lot of information from other books. That’s why I’m exhausted with Emblem and that damn chicken place. I think I’m just over the whole series at this point.

If I had to sum up my reading experience I would say this was decent writing, a so-so romance and a plot that didn’t do anything for my individual taste. If you are a fan of new adult novels with a bit of an edge, maybe this is for you. If you’re like me and prefer more adult romance in upscale settings with erotic content, I recommend you pass on this book.


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FALL Gentry Boys #4 edition by Cora Brent Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

There are loads of reviews so I'm not going to go into lots of details. The motivation for reading this book is to find out more about the H having read the triplets stories and enjoyed them. The H in this book pops up in the 3 previous stories and he was definitely intriguing and when I saw he got his own book I had to read it. it might be quite difficult to read as a stand alone although I understand that there are some other crossover characters from the biker series that I haven't read (it wasn't a problem).This author's work isn't my usual type of read since she writes very sexy, raw, angsty books full of the F word BUT her stories are incredibly compelling and I'm a fan. I really enjoyed this story since I know what to expect from Ms Brent. She found a unique way to give the H his own story by giving him a mostly innocent but worldlywise young h (she's almost 10 years younger than him). The h comes from a weird cult family background and she's trying to make her way in the world when she meets the H. He's attracted but not keen from the beginning because she's so young and he's a manwh**e who really only hangs out with trashy girls. I loved the story and enjoyed how the author worked it all out.
This is the fourth entry in the Gentry series. Deck (Declan) is the cousin of triplets Cord, Creed, and Chase from the earlier books. Five years older at age 28, Deck has always looked out for them, considering them more like younger brothers than cousins. Although he could've left their depressing small desert hometown of Emblem too, he's continued to stay there, continuing to act as a buffer between his cousins and their sadistic father and do what little he's able to do for their junkie mother. Like his cousins, he shares the Gentry legacy to growing up in a town overshadowed by a state prison and town perceptions of all Gentrys as worthless, violent human trash. Jenny, age 19, has recently escaped from a repressive religious cult. Now she's enrolled in college (in Tempe (where the cousins live) and struggling to discover her identity and independence in the outside world. For spring break she came home with her dorm roommate to Emblem, which turns out to be a disastrous mistake. She and Deck meet when he rescues her in a bar parking lot from a man who doesn't want to take no for an answer. She really had been through a lot for being her age. The story also provides fuller details about the pasts of both the triplets and Deck, as well as deeper insight into the toxic relationship of the triplets' parents and how it impacted not only the triplets, but also Deck. Although I don't usually like stories with such a large age gap between the couple, I was able to enjoy this one. Even though Deck didn't feel he deserved happiness in life (both because of the Gentry legacy and an event in his past), he really was a very decent guy, and the respect I felt for him based on his appearances in the earlier books increased.
Fall is the fourth installment in the “Gentry Boys” series and it is the end of the road for me. I loved the first two books, Risk and Draw, in this series but I hated the third, Game, so much I couldn’t even finish reading it. I gave Fall a chance because I was interested in Declan’s story after reading about him in the other books and because I figured 2/3 wasn’t bad odds for getting another book that I really loved. I didn’t completely miscalculate. I was able to finish Fall, fairly quickly in fact, and I certainly didn’t hate it. I just didn’t love it and I think I know why.

Let me start with the reasons I didn’t hate this book The book is well written, there is a plot outside of the romance that is developed although not compelling and the main characters are likeable.

Fall is the story of 28 year old Declan and 19 year old Jenny. Both Declan and Jenny are struggling with issues created by their pasts, Declan has “not good enough” syndrome because of his history of manwhoring and one massively failed relationship from his youth. Also, if you’ve read any of the other books in the series you know that Declan is a Gentry which means he comes from a long line of people considered absolute good for nothing trash. Jenny is mildly defiant and confused about her place in the world because the majority of her life was spent in a creepy religious cult. Jenny and Declan get together when Jenny is in need of assistance and Declan happens to have his cape handy, he swoops in and saves the day…well, sort of. From that point on they embark on a relationship which brings me to my reasons I didn’t love this book.

The relationship story line is relatively flat. Once the characters get together, there isn’t a lot of internal or external conflict in the story. With the exception of a few minor hiccups, the characters basically admit their feelings for each other and that’s it. The conflicts in the plot are all focused on the personal issues of the two main characters. This can leave you with the impression of reading three different books. You are reading the Declan/Emblem story, Jenny/College/Post-Cult Life story and the Jenny/Deck story. The problem is that the three stories don’t necessarily need to be in the same book and I could’ve done without 1 or 2 of them.

Next problem, Emblem, the city where Deck is from, is like a really great dessert that you got carried away one time and ate entirely too much of. Now when someone so much as mentions the dessert, you get nauseated. That’s how I feel about Emblem. The story of Emblem was ok in the first Gentry Boy books but now it’s just effing depressing. Emblem is like the worst place on Earth and I absolutely do not want to hear anything else about it ever. The fact that like half this book takes place in Emblem and deals with Emblem’s hopeless cast of characters did nothing for me. Even worse, I don’t think it did anything for the romance.

I am not a fan of “struggle” romance [Read my thoughts about it at LJoyReviews.Blogspot.Com]. I read romance to escape the struggles of everyday life. So I am naturally biased against books where people are poor and eating at dive joints and staying at sleazy hotel. I was a broke college student eating out of cans and what not and I’m not interested in reliving that part of my life in a romance novel. That scenery is patently unsexy to me. That’s what this book is though. At the beginning of the book Deck lives in an actual trailer with one chair for furniture. At one point the characters eat a meal of jerky and crackers. I just canNOT.

Also, there isn’t a lot of sex in this book but the way Deck talks about sex is entirely too crude. Now don’t get me wrong, I am no prude, I like very explicit language but there is a difference between that and what happened in this book. Let me give you a few examples of Deck phrases

“I’m going to tear that shi! Up”

“I’m sure as shi! not done hitting that hot pocket”

“You know you’re gonna be some kind of saddle sore tomorrow.”

No, just no. Absolutely not to all of that and everything like it.

My last issue is that this book is a standalone even though it is part of a series. Why is that a problem? Because I’ve read the three other books in the series but Brent assumes you might not have and retells a lot of information from other books. That’s why I’m exhausted with Emblem and that damn chicken place. I think I’m just over the whole series at this point.

If I had to sum up my reading experience I would say this was decent writing, a so-so romance and a plot that didn’t do anything for my individual taste. If you are a fan of new adult novels with a bit of an edge, maybe this is for you. If you’re like me and prefer more adult romance in upscale settings with erotic content, I recommend you pass on this book.