Book Description:
Trapper Montgomery
His darkness drew me in.
A mystery with a past I wanted to solve.
He was cold, like ice, but set me on fire.
A heat I hadn't felt in ages.
But when I saw his face, I burned...
In mourning
Again.
Brea Bradley
She melted from my voice--shuddered from my touch.
But trembled from the memories
That my face brought back.
She wanted more...
Maybe even him.
I wasn't the hand she counted on.
But I was what she was dealt...
A Wild Ace with no way to win
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Our Review:
Reviewed by Donna ~ 4.5 stars
***ARC received for an honest review***
“Do whatever you’ve got to do to
quiet the screams.”
Marni Mann was an author I found by accident one day while trawling
Amazon and when I read her first book I fell in love with her voice, as more
and more books are released, the growth in her writing has only made that
addiction all the more addictive. One thing I love is that with a Marni Mann
book you never know what you are going to get but you know that it is going to
be extremely well written and engaging.
Trapper Montgomery will trap your hearts in Wild Aces. A boy
who has been wronged his entire life turns his life around in this emotional
story from Marni Mann, take a gamble on this poker player with a heart of gold,
he is more than worth it. This book had me burning the midnight oil into the
early hours of the morning. With a little suspense this book was perfectly
balanced and had those pages frantically turning.
“There was something about him
that I trusted, something deeper than our kiss and the words we’d spoken to
each other.”
This book contains one of the most intense prologues I have
ever read, what a way to pull you into a book. With tears streaming down my
face I was worried just how this book was going to go, if that was the
beginning what state would I be in by the end?
“We were all fucked up in our own
way, all victims of some kind of tragedy, all trying to make it out alive in a
world that got darker by the day.”
Brea was Frankie’s best friend so we have already met her in
The Unblocked Collection, however this can definitely be read as a standalone.
Brea had lost her partner a few years ago and still hadn’t really recovered.
She was extremely closed off emotionally and the flashbacks she has of her life
before do not help either, they haunt her. Frankie and Derek were having a masquerade
party and begrudgingly Brea tags along, however a masked man with magical lips
was the last thing on her mind but would be the only thing on her mind for days
after.
“This didn’t feel like a first
kiss. There was no awkwardness, no trying to establish a tempo, and no learning
the places inside me. This was a kiss from a man who somehow already knew every
inch of my body. I didn’t want him to stop.”
Brea was shocked of her behaviour with this masked man, she
had never felt a connection like it since her last partner but there was
something unmistakably familiar and settling about the man behind the mask.
Finally willing to try to move on Brea embraces her feelings and throws herself
into what the masked man has to offer.
The masked man was Trapper, he had learned early on that the
only person he could depend upon was himself. His childhood had left him with
an immense amount of baggage but it was baggage that he was slowly but surely
unpacking. Through playing poker and his other extra-curricular activities
Trapper was slowly righting some wrongs. Being a professional poker player had
given him an outlet, but it seems he may have just found another…the woman
behind the mask.
“Could she be the escape I found
in poker, the silence I found in the cards.”
When Brea and Trapper next meet the masks are removed in
more ways than one and herein begins the story. Marni Mann covers some tough
subjects in this book but these are perfectly balanced with a little mystery
and intrigue with some scorching hot chemistry that has the pages burning. The intense
connection between Trapper and Brea was palpable and the intensity that Marni
Mann manages to convey through their story was intense and believable. For two
broken characters you will find yourself championing them along. These two have
a lot to overcome once they finally found out who the other really is but while
some may say it is a tad unbelievable, this is fiction and the author always
has artistic licence. For me I read this as fates way of helping two
emotionally broken characters find love and friendship when neither thought it
would happen or deserved.
“Where did you go?”
“I got a little lost in your body…and
then I completely vanished when I saw your dick.”
Once again I take my hat off to Marni Mann, this was an
engaging, gripping, swoon worthy read that I couldn’t put down and once again I
have to mention that Prologue…what a fantastic start to an amazing story. I
cannot wait to see what Marni Mann pens next; I will be 1clicking for sure.
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