Fallen Empire by K.A. Tucker

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

From internationally bestselling author K.A. Tucker comes the thrilling conclusion to the dark and sexy Empire Nightclub series.

Mercy Wheeler and Gabriel Easton’s sordid tale ends in Fallen Empire as Gabriel must save Mercy and escape his father’s grip once and for all.

Fallen Empire is the fourth book in the Empire Nightclub series and should be read after Sweet Mercy, Gabriel Fallen, and Dirty Empire.

Fallen Empire

Mercy and Gabriel, book 4 of 4

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

The heroine: Mercy – her father is still in prison, she is in love with Gabriel from a mafia family, she now knows for sure he and his brother are killers, and the Feds are breathing down their necks. She recently found out her best friend has been lying to her. Nothing in her life seems to be going the way she wants, and she is right in the middle of a sh*tstorm of epic proportions.

The Hero: Gabriel – he has finally admitted to being in love with Mercy and he trusts her more than anyone else. He and his brother Caleb have been trying to get out of their father’s drug business, they have been working with the two youngest brothers in an enemy family. Everything blew up in their faces when they finally met with the entire family. Their uncle, who they think put a hit out on them and blew up their plane, is still on the run and claiming not to have done it. Also, their father Vlad is still trying to run their lives from jail.

The Story: The last book ended in a huge reveal as well as a massive cliffhanger, so this one started off with a bunch of suspense. The suspense didn’t end right away either. There is nothing I hate more than a cliffhanger that turns out to be nothing. Like when a gunshot is fired at one of the main characters and the next book starts out with it just turning out to be a graze that didn’t even land the character in the hospital.

One thing I really liked about this series was the fact that at the beginning of each book, there is a quick recap of what happened in previous books as Gabriel thinks about what is going on. I binged these, so didn’t really need the recap, but I like the fact that it was there. I hate it when I go to read a second or third book in a series, a while after reading the first and I can’t remember what is going on. This book was pretty great with a ton of action, suspense and romance. There was steam, but not too much, It ended perfectly.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Alex Kydd and Ada Sinclair. Alex Kydd is a good narrator; I like the voice he uses for Gabriel; it is kind of low and gravelly. He is great at using completely different sounding voices for other characters as well. Ada Sinclair has a soft, feminine voice which I find I really like. Though I have one pet peeve of something that has been said over and over in this series. Ada Sinclair keeps saying oogle instead of ogle when she talks about how men ogle her or when she ogles Gabriel. I don’t know if it was spelled wrong or if she just doesn’t know how to say ogle but it really started to bother me.

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