Royal Savage by Victoria Ashley

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

ROYAL SAVAGE 
I CAN’T CLOSE MY EYES… I refuse to. Every time I do, all I see is blood, death, and pain. I can feel it – almost taste it, bringing me back to that night. 
It doesn’t matter that I’m still breathing; I no longer need it, I no longer want it. I despise it along with everything else around me. 
The only thing I long for is to fucking fade away. I’ve given up. Until her at least… 
AVALON. 
She comes into my world, knocking me on my ass. 
It turns me on to have her around me. Makes me want to wrap my hand around her tight little throat and fuck her until she feels my pain, feels the monster in me, but also makes me want to protect her from the very thing that she should be afraid of… me. 
Once she sees the damage that I’m capable of; she’ll look at me like everyone else around me does: with fear. 

AVALON KNIGHT 
HIS EYES… THE DARKNESS IN them draws me to him, making me want to taste him, feel him… and save him. I shouldn’t have gotten on the back of his motorcycle that day. I know that now. Colton warned me. I was told it was dangerous. I was told that nothing would be the same. He was right. 
ROYAL is dangerous, dark, and seductive; the very thing that keeps me hanging on, willing to give my last breath just to touch him… breathe him in. 
He’s savage, inked, and highly captivating. So different from his brother… 
He’s hazardous to my health, mind, and body, yet the only thing that I crave. I want to free him. I want to change his mind, but I’m afraid that he’s already too faded…

Royal Savage

Moving right along!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💚💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 😕😊😄😘
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Avalon Knight – she works long hours at Stylin’ the hair salon she manages, so she isn’t much of a partier in her free time. Though when her best friend Mattie begs her to go to a party at the mansion of a guy named Jax who throws parties once a month, she agrees. Mattie says Avalon needs to forget about her boyfriend Colton and his small package.

The Hero: Royal Savage – after suffering a devastating loss nearly two years ago due to someone dealing drugs in his bar, he wants nothing more than to fade away and die. He owns a tattoo shop and a bar called Savage and Ink. The only two things he has left in this life are feeling the wind on his face as he rides his motorcycle and hooking up with random women, and even that he only does as an escape for a few minutes.

The Story: While at the party, Avalon has to go to the bathroom and can’t take the long lines, so she goes downstairs where she was told not to go. Apparently, Jax told Mattie that his friend had a bad day and doesn’t want to see any partygoers. Avalon walks in on Royal, while he is working out. She sees that he is handsome, tattooed and his eyes are full of darkness and pain.

It turns out that Royal is half brother to the uptight Colton, and Avalon doesn’t formally meet him until the day she is helping Colton with a party for his fancy work clients. Colton is a Real Estate agent who likes to think he is much better than the common folk. When Colton offends both Royal and Avalon, she leave’s his house on the back of Royal’s motorcycle.

The story is good, and I liked the characters, though I definitely think a bit less of Avalon for staying with Colton as long as she did. I mean he wouldn’t even call her by her name, he thought her middle name, Marie sounded more conservative, so he would only call her or introduce her as that no matter how many times, she asserted that wasn’t her name. The dialogue was a bit too simple at times, like they said things that people would never really say, but otherwise I liked the story and there were some surprises that I didn’t expect.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Samantha Cook and Lorenzo Matthews. Both of these narrators are new to me. Samantha has a nice voice and sounds intelligent though you can definitely tell she is reading. Lorenzo Matthews has a deep, gravelly voice, which I really like and is perfect for Royal. He is good at doing different voices for different characters.

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