Savage

What I Liked:-The action and gore scenes were very descriptive and left a vivid picture in my mind.-Both characters had distinctive personalities and traits that balanced one another.-The book was a moderately long read. It wasn't too short or too long. To feel like you got your money's worth.-The romantic scenes were are off the charts.-The book did a good job of touching bases on a lot of issues like domestic violence and mental health.-The author's music playlist was a great addition to the story and elevated the reading experience.What I Didn't Like:-I feel like the mystery of who was targeting Savage fell flat. The story painted Savage as an elite assassin with impeccable instincts. Yet, his boss and team member constantly doubted that someone was actually trying to kill him. I felt that the story made you believe that you knew who the suspect was (I'm looking at you Harlem!), but it kind of came out of left field when the culprit(s) were revealed. I think the the author used a "Red Herring" to keep you from guessing the real culprit(s).-Sometimes, I felt like Savage overreacted or talked too much. He had some really good monologues, but he definitely was long-winded.-I felt like there wasn't enough interaction between Zaire and Savage's family, as well as between Savage and Zaire's family. To say that both of them really cared about their family's and talked about them in-depth at the beginning of the story. You saw little to no action with them.-There were a lot of plot fillers that had no real depth or were dead-ends. I felt no real emotional connection to these scenes other than a quick giggle or headshake. For example, the beef between Austin and Longhorn, the relationship troubles with Zaire's friends (Kim and Allison), Zaire's stalker, Savage's expertise at Blackjack, the purse jacker in Las Vegas, etc.-I didn't like Zaire (Eva) as much as I wanted. Yes, she was a good match for Savage but she never truly redeemed herself in my mind. Ms. Laveen did a great job of making her seem like a know-it-all. Unlike Zaire, Savage was able to balance his arrogant and know-it-all traits with humor and a certaint innocence.I would definitely recommend anyone who is interested in badass assassin biker romance novels to purchase this book.

First I want to thank the author for the artwork. She’s one of the rare authors who gives us an interesting and unique cover.I liked both of the protagonists. A strong female leadwho was really annoying at first with her superiority complex and a male lead who was unapologetic about who he was. I also appreciated that they were adults (in their late thirties who were a bit broken and definitely not billionaires but « regular «  people). The book was funny but also raw as some real issues were tackled, no convoluted reason for them to breakup but instead a real building of a relationship while going to their core as human beings. I didn’t enjoy her trying to shrink him about him having issues with women and linking it to his mother. To me this came across as her not accepting that he could be unfeeling at times and a born killer. Some people just are and it’s not due to trauma but their nature and there is nothing wrong with that. He used to sleep with a lot of women but that doesn’t mean he has no respect for them. Some people just have a strong sex drive and given his job he needs an outlet and it was his. It doesn’t have to be deeper. Let’s not be judgmental and say that unless you’re in a relationship there’s something wrong with you and you must have some sort of trauma. She used to have a lot of one night stands. Does this mean she has issues with men? I would have liked to have read the scene between Maximus and her dad, a few scenes with them in social situations and definitely the birth of their child. For the next book could the editor make sure that the physical description of the black woman is the same throughout ? We went from soft brown to mahogany to earth color. Could we also have more light skin or biracial heroines please? They are under represented in your body of work.

This book took me to a world that very few know exist, the world of a killer for hire. A man with a real license to kill. Maximus Savage was crude, rude, brilliant, sexy and sexual. His occupation forces him to be a chameleon, he has to fit into any world that he may be thrust into in order to carry out his missions. So when it came to his personal life he is unwavering in his needs and desires. He made no bones about what he wanted out of life. He enjoyed the finer things, be it houses, cars, bikes or women.Eva or Zaire as she is known to most, definitely fit the bill. She checked all of his boxes, while he, on the surface, was nothing but a huge red flag "hell no" in her book. She'd been burned by the bad boy type time and time again. And when he tossed her a crudely wrapped invitation to spend an evening with him, she knew he was nothing but trouble.But what happens in Vegas, or so the saying goes. Zaire decides to throw caution to the wind, let her freak flag fly one final time and then wash her hands of the annoying, abrasive, gorgeous tattooed brute that decided she was worthy of his attention. But, that weekend would change everything for them both, taking the pair on a journey that neither could have anticipated, leading to love, loss and forever.

The storyline was good and the characters were interesting but what spoiled it for me was the constant lectures throughout the book. Everyone seemed to have some sort of psychology degree. Paragraphs and paragraphs of speeches. That was frustrating and I found myself skipping sections of the book to get to the dialogue. Savage was funny and “savage” and I love alpha male characters

I enjoyed this book. I liked Savage right away. It took a moment for me to warm up to Zaire.These two people who had difficult pasts had more in common than you would've thought. The chemistry was felt from the beginning. Some scenes were somewhat unbelievable but highly entertaining. I liked that as they got to know each other they used their first names.One glaring error I noticed was the fact that Max's mother was Armenian. Very late in the book it appears that the author changed the mom's family to Albanian. There's a huge difference between Armenia and Albania. Two totally different countries, thousands of miles apart.I enjoyed some of the side characters. The banter between Max and Harlem was funny.Max was rough around the edges but definitely knew what he wanted. I liked that Eva didn't try to change him. She just got him to open up and see things in a new way.Lots of complex issues were part of this book and it was a very good.My favorite book by this author is still The Fight Within. The main character in that book, Sean, was also a tell it like it is, person.