4.5 Smooches!
Synopsis
There are bad boys and then there are the men of Devil’s Rock . . .
Some men come with a built-in warning label. Knox Callaghan is one of them. Danger radiates from every lean, muscled inch of him, and his deep blue eyes seem to see right through to Briar Davis’s most secret fantasies. But there’s one major problem: Briar is a nurse volunteering at the local prison, and Knox is an inmate who should be off-limits in every way.
Knox feels it too—a shocking animal magnetism that drives him to risk his own life to protect Briar’s. Paroled at last, he tries to resist her. She’s too innocent, too sweet, and she has no idea what Knox is capable of. But a single touch can lead to a kiss—and a taste . . . until the only crime is denying what feels so right . . .
“When the prison doors are open, the real dragon will fly out.”—Ho Chi Minh
Review
OK, so I went into this book kind of blind. I have only read one other Sophie Jordan book and it happened to be NA. But I really REALLY loved it so I wanted to give All Chained Up a go. I am so glad that I did because, wow…this one was super action-packed, angsty, and just crazy sexy!
I honestly didn’t know at first if I was going to like Knox. I didn’t think I could find myself actually attracted to a man who had committed a very horrible crime. The beginning of this book was a bit slow for me and I think part of that was because I didn’t fully connect to Knox until a good 40% in. But then I did and I actually couldn’t put this book down. I was immediately sucked into the story and totally devoted and rooting for this couple. And Knox. Gah. He won me over with his heroics and then I just felt so incredibly bad for his circumstances.
“Don’t confuse me with some hero. I’m as tarnished as they come.”
Swoon, ya’ll! Because I really do love a bad boy and Knox is definitely that. Briar won me over too! She is feisty, sweet, kind and for someone who was weary of men like Knox, she sure gave him a fighting chance. And her inner dialogue was pretty funny at times, too.
‘A guy like him wasn’t going to give her the things she needed. Well, aside from orgasms. She needed those. She loved those.’
So, even though this one started off a bit slow for me, when the story picked up I was completely sold. I think I found it a bit slow because the author had to give background on quite a few of the rest of the inmates and such. Often first novels in series, I find a bit hard to get into at first for this very reason. But I am so glad that she did give me that background info because some crazy stuff went down in this book and now I find myself really wanting the next book in this series. I am dying for it actually because I just know it is going to be SO good! The writing was really fabulous and I enjoyed it immensely even though it wasn’t first person, which is my preference. But I found that I still connected well to the characters and enjoyed the witty moments, the sad ones, and definitely the sexy ones. This book is smoking hot, folks. Grab it!
~Amie
