Troy Brennan
Every southie in Boston knows that name. The son of a dead mobster. The heart throb with steel blue eyes. "The Fixer" who can make or break you in this city.
Oh, and my new husband.
Sparrow Raynes
That's me. No one seemed to remember my name up until he barged into my life.
But then he caged me.
Kidnapped me.
And killed every chance I had to runaway from the place where we grew up.
Put simply, Troy Brennan clipped my wings.
I have dreams, big ones, but I doubt he'd ever let me chase them. I have no idea why he'd decided to take me as his wife. But I do know this: pissing off this man will not do me any good. At all.
I didn't hate this book,
but I didn't love it either.
Troy & Sparrow have some hate/fuck going on, which was kinda fun for a while,until it wasn't.He resented her reasons that are revealed to us later in the book.As a result, he treats her like a Grade-A sshole most of the book.
Now, I usually thelove them. But in this case, Troy says and does mean things to her through the vast majority of this thing.
And when he DOES say something nice to her...he admits to the reader during his POV segment that he made up what he said,and only said it to shut her up.
And what annoyed the most the he f*cks his mistress after they got married.And if its not bad enough he does that in their own bedroom.
Something that actually bothered me more than that was how inconsistent Sparrow was.
She would say in her inner narrative that she cared for Troy despite his "deeds" (especially a big one that she finds out about at the end) but then immediately after that she would verbally tell Troy she didn't think she could overlook those same deeds...it just seemed like she was constantly contradicting herself...and not in a way that always made sense to me.
Plus, when she got so mad about [the fact that Troy buried her mom and didn't tell her? It's not like he KILLED her. And it's not like she hadn't already LEFT Sparrow and her Dad - by her own choice- WAY prior to that.
Both the romance and the plot had very abrupt "A-HA!" moments that seemed a little too...forced and unrealistic.
Troy's realization that he has feelings for Sparrow comes very late and very sudden. And that, when paired with his behavior and inner thought process up until that point, just made it feel...flimsy. I didn't believe in their love.
