Review: Sparrow

Title: Sparrow
Author: LJ Shen

(May contain Spoilers)

Synopsis:

Troy Brennan

Every southie in Boston knows that name. The son of a dead mobster. The heart throb with steel blue eyes. “The Fixer” who can make or break you in this city.

Oh, and my new husband.

Sparrow Raynes

That’s me. No one seemed to remember my name up until he barged into my life.
But then he caged me.
Kidnapped me.
And killed every chance I had to runaway from the place where we grew up.
Put simply, Troy Brennan clipped my wings.

I have dreams, big ones, but I doubt he’d ever let me chase them. I have no idea why he’d decided to take me as his wife. But I do know this: pissing off this man will not do me any good. At all.

Sparrow is a standalone, full-length novel. It contains graphic violence and adult situations some may find offensive.

Review:

So, before I read this I read about the four Hotholes also by LJ Shen & also plan to read Blood to Dust. And i went in with knowing how she writes her men. Rich. Dirty. Filthy. Assholes. Troy was no different.

Troy is the son of a late mobster. And he is on the hunt to avenge his father’s death- strike off the 3 people on his list who had something to do with it. But he isn’t about living the mobster life. Boston has been over run with gang activity since his father passed away. Just because he wasn’t the crime-boss meant he was clean. The wasn’t called “the Fixer” for nothing. And, he decides to marry Sparrow. A girl 10 years younger, whom they hardly ever interacted before. But it isn’t out of love. He paid her father off. So why is he marrying her in the first place?

Sparrow was a kid who lived in a not-so nice part of Boston. Then one day, she was swept away to marry Troy. Why her? She wasn’t anything like the girls he had on his arms, or his mistresses he slept with. She was pale, with freckles, bright red hair, and tomboyish in how she dresses and looks. But she was one of the first people who stood up to him. He was used to never hearing the word no. Everyone did exactly what he wanted when he wanted it. Except her. She didn’t care about his money, or his reputation- she knew he was trouble- and that standing up to him could break her. But she wasn’t going to sit around and be the good little wife he expected either.

Would this marriage be the end of him and the death of her?

This book was great- filled with yet another asshole book boyfriend to add to my list of book boyfriends. And boy was Troy an asshole. He was after all the son of a Boston mobster. And it was filled with secrets, and lies, of sex and betrayal, and so much more in between. I give this book 4 out of 5. I loved it, but I didn’t captivate me like the Hotholes did, and I was able to figure out one of the mysteries in this book even before the halfway point, long before the characters did themselves. Still a great read from a great author.