A Fractured Reign by Veronica Eden

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Crows are more than nightmares lurking in every shadow.
They’re a brotherhood. Family. When threats creep in, they’ll protect what belongs to them.

Quinn
Does a wrong make a right?
In my case, it has to.
The Kings gave me no choice, no chance to fold.
I betrayed the guy who believed he was protecting me while I gave his secrets away.
Now we’re enemies once more.
My brother and I burned all our bridges. Begging Colton DuPont for his help again is my only option.
The Crows demand a steep price, but to buy our safety I’ll do anything.
Even sell my soul to the man who wants me dead.

Colton
Our unmatched reign is going up in flames.
And I know exactly who our enemy is. Quinn Walker.
My queen turned out to be my downfall.
Any danger to my brothers is a threat I won’t allow.
Once these flames sputter to ashes and the dust settles, our next hunt begins.
My monster has come out to play, and I won’t rest until I get revenge.
Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice?
Baby, you better run, because I’m coming for you.

A Fractured Reign

Cliff-hanger ending with no next book in sight!

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

The heroine: Quinn – She is a hacker, one of the best out there, she is also a card shark and is able to make bank at underground casinos and online poker. Quinn is a bit eccentric in that she dresses the way she wants, and she has a colorful personality. She tries to stand her ground and doesn’t back down. Though the Kings of Thorne Pointe, one in particular, named Fitz Mortimer, had her in a frying pan and she has been trying to get herself and her brother Sampson out of the fire. The only way she could do that was to betray the Crows in a terrible way. Especially Colton, because he trusted her and helped her and her brother when she said they needed it.

The Hero: Colton – He and his three best friends are known as the Crowned Crows of Thorne Point. They ran the night at Thorne Point. They have a bunch of underground revenue streams including underground fights, illegal casinos and a weekend nightclub called the Crows Nest, where they live as well. Colton is the tech wiz of the group. He is awesome at hacking and coming up with all kinds of tech gadgets to make their lives easier. However, he has recently been made aware that though he has a bunch of underling techies that work for him, there is someone out there that has gotten around his coding.

The Story: This one started out with a bang, or maybe I should say the last one ended with a bang. Either way, things were not looking good for the Crowned Crows. Just when they thought they got one over on the Kings, they were taken down another notch and this time it was a big one. Quinn has a very high IQ, and she comes from an extremely wealthy family, but all the money was stolen, and she and Sammy ended up in foster care. The she took the job with Fitz Mortimer because she needed the money for herself and her brother to go to Crown Point University. However, she didn’t know how far Mortimer would go to get his way and she regrets what she did to the Crows.

Fitz Mortimer has been using Sammy and his future as a way to keep Quinn in line. Though I don’t really get why she did what she did. I mean she was there in Colton’s apartment when the Crows were talking about rescuing women from human trafficking. I mean, if I were her, I would have switched loyalties right then and there and fessed up to Colton about who she was and why she was there. Apparently, Quinn knew much less than I would have guessed about her employer.

I wasn’t too fond of the cover on this book. I mean the guy was cute, but he looked like he was about 15 years old. I do have a pet peeve about books set in high school when they have like a 35-year-old man on the cover, but this kid looks like he is too young to be a senior in college and way to young to have tattoos. But despite that fact, I was really looking forward to Colton’s book. He has an awesome personality and I love that he is so intelligent and imaginative. This book went more into his background and abuse he suffered at the hands of his father.

One thing I really like about this one was that the Crows were all jazzed up about taking down the Kings and I couldn’t wait for that to happen. Especially Wren’s father, Levi’s uncle and Colton’s dad and Mortimer, who was a new villain in this book. Though they did take down most of the Kings that were set up in earlier books as the baddest of them all, this book still ended on a huge cliffhanger with the one at the very top still in control and wreaking havoc on the Crows. To make things worse, the next book seems to never have been written. So, we don’t get an ending at all.

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