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Synopsis
Liam Knight, a sexy panty-melting, hard-bodied streetfighter and renowned tattoo artist, is rising up the ranks of the UFC Middleweight Division, but he’s about to get knocked out by his past.
Quinn Kelley is a semester away from becoming a college graduate when her mother’s death sends her spiraling, forcing her to go back to her hometown and a past she can’t outrun.
Nearly a decade ago, Liam and Quinn fell in love while surviving on the city streets together, but they were torn apart by one irreversible night. Now each has moved forward without the other, but like a tattoo on the heart, absolute love creates a lasting burn.
Quinn has kept a tight rein on her emotions, but with the passing of her mother, the foundation she’s built begins to crack. Will seeing Liam again crumble her fortress to the ground, uncovering the flame that still burns? Or will it extinguish the fire forever?
Liam’s tough exterior and resentful demeanor hides more than a wounded heart. He’s tormented by guilt over what happened to Quinn—and the secret he kept, even from her. But revealing his secrets would require unearthing the all-consuming monster he keeps caged in the darkest part of his soul, the one that threatens to devour him.
When they’re given a second chance, will they let go of their fear and pride and let the flame between them become one?
Or will the heat burn them both?
Review’
“How can you love somebody so much, so deeply that it burns inside of you like a consuming flame . . . but they don’t love you back?”
I am not sure what my expectations were with this book, I read and loved the first because it was witty and fun with a dash of drama and angst. Not a difficult read and right up this fighter book loving reviewers way. Burn was very different for me but in a surprising and exciting way. If there is one thing I love more than a fun fighter book it is a angst ridden new adult book and wow was there some angst in this one. Spanning the ten years from when Quinn and Liam were two kids on the street together to present day when a tragedy reunites them.
Burn is not an uplifting story about how things get better it is a story about acceptance and moving forward. Bad things happen to good people and that cannot be changed. I was overly anxious and eager to get to the HEA that these two deserved and I have to say Allie worked me hard and made me wait till the last possible moment. Ever page in Burn is dripping with emotion and depth and as I held back tears for these two lost kids I struggled with how much could go wrong for two souls detained to be together.
“Nothing has been right since you left, Quinn.”
The brothers of ink and steel is a bond we all can appreciate. There for each other no matter what, we know from Dare that the bond they have wasn’t always there. As youths living together in North House they struggled to get along and fought all the time. In Burn we get to find out the details of how they came together for the love they all shared for a girl in trouble. Formed together in a tragedy they have since always been there for each other and one of the best things about this book was seeing their transformation from angry teens to the brothers we are coming to love.
Being the only girl in the mix never bothered Quinn, both hard and soft, strong and weak, I loved her from the moment I met her and her story caused many a tear to fall from my eyes. I honestly don’t think there has ever been two people more deserving of a happily ever after and when at they finally get to that point in their lives after ten hard years the sad tears reside and the happy ones started to pour without abandon.
~miranda
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