Just a Bit Ruthless

Alessandra is back in Rutledge territory with Roman Demidov and that's a good thing.
Sure this is yet another story of otherwise heterosexual men falling for gay men and that whole GFY category is utterly ridiculous (though I do have a shelf for that category). I choose to look at it as someone who had not yet met the person who brought out their latent homosexuality meeting them and a switch going off. ;-)

Here we have Luke & Roman who fall for each other after Roman kidnaps Luke because of things the his father has done. We are firmly in Hazard territory here and thus in good hands.

I like how Roman allows Luke to be comfortable in his true self without becoming some touchy-feely sweetheart but rather his own badass, semi Russian-gangster self. As I said: good stuff.

This series is unapologetically what it is and made to be enjoyed as the fantasy that it is. It doesn't hurt that Roman is hot, just the right amount of domineering and very clear that Luke is his.

The spanner in all of this is that Alessandra has told us the next book will be the last in the series so that kind of sucks. I'm still hoping for a Rutledge short story told from his POV. fingers crossed