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The Rising (Badlands, #2)

• 21.04.2025 - 22.04.2025

• 22.02.2026 - 23.02.2026

Loose Ends (Badlands #3)

• 31.01.2021 - 02.02.2021
• 21.04.2023 - 22.04.2023
• 22.04.2025 - 23.04.2025
• 23.02.2026 - 24.02.2026

No Surrender (Badlands, #4)

• 22.04.2023 - 23.04.2023
• 23.04.2025 - 25.04.2025
• 24.02.2026 - 25.02.2026

Point Blank (Badlands, #5)

• 25.04.2025 - 26.04.2025
• 25.02.2026 - 27.02.2026

Thunder Road (Badlands, #6)

• 01.03.2026 - 02.03.2026

Hell, no.

Hah. I picked this book hoping for less annoying characters than in the first book of the series. But wouldn't you know it... Annoying, mentally challenged and talking-like-a-toddler Maggie also gets a lot of screentime in this book, since she now WORKS FOR BUD - probably trying to ruin his new store the way she miscalculates prices and behaves towards customers... urk...

Listened to this one in audiobook form and sadly the 2nd main character (Pascal) is French - and the audio narrator doesn't know any French and mispronounces the simplest words... and adds a fake French accent to EVERYTHING written from Pascals POV (which is about half the book!!). Pascal sounds like some cartoon villain, which is really annoying for the love interest in a romance book.

Reading the book would probably have been the better choice. Just can advice everyone to do that instead of listening to the audiobook.

I'm sorry to say this, but the way Mitch's sister Maggie talked and behaved (supposedly she's like 30? but you would think she's max. 10 years old and mentally challenged) kinda ruined it for me. [Plus the audiobook made her probably more annoying, with her stupid baby-talk... urg...]

It was my impression that most of the women in this book were super annoying, which grated on my nerves. I really wished so many MM romances wouldn't make female characters so unlikeable...

This series started of so good, but kept getting worse with every following book. 😐