Commanded by Stacey Kennedy Series: Club Sin #6
Published by Loveswept, Penguin Random House on July 7, 2015
Pages: 177
Format: eARC
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Stephanie’s 4 Star Review:
I received a copy of this book from the publisher for an honest review.
So, in this edition of Club Sin, you have an Alpha male police detective who is a Master at Club Sin. Sawyer Quinn hasn’t had a full time submissive in quite a while. He’s just wanted to play at the club then go home and back to his life. That is until his sister winds up in the hospital and he hires Chloe Nash, PI to help find the man who beat his sister to a pulp.
Chloe has not been introduced to the BDSM lifestyle before and she’s very attracted to Sawyer. Though she tries to keep a professional relationship that just goes right out the window when his Dominate side takes over. She’s very good at her job…probably the best PI the company has aside from the owner. Her work is very important and Sawyer allows her to lead when she’s working. The need to find the guy who hurt his sister is a definite need as he may come back to finish the job he didn’t get to complete.
So back to the love story here…(there are elements of suspense) Sawyer is slowly filling out to see if Chloe would make a great submissive partner. She definitely has the traits…but is she willing? Of course the first introduction into the lifestyle she has outside of Sawyer’s training has her so freaked out. Personally, I think I would be to. BDSM doesn’t seem like it’s something you completely throw yourself into the first time you hear about it. There’s lots of background information you should look up and make sure that you’re very sure that’s the type of sexual relationship you’d prefer.
With Sawyer and Chloe they definitely have a bond. When the story gets intense the gang for Club Sin step in to help and rally. That’s definitely what they’re good at. Being there for each other. I will say that this story didn’t feel as warm as the author usually writes with the characters. I’m not sure if it’s just the mood I was in when I was reading the story or if I just didn’t click all the way with these two. I still devoured the book and it’s one of my favorite BDSM series for sure.
If you’ve not read the other Club Sin books, you can read each one as a stand alone, however, you may want to start at the beginning so you understand all the players.
“She’s lucky to be alive.”
Sawyer heard his father’s statement as he took in the sight before him. Even after a full minute of standing in the hospital room he couldn’t process seeing his little sister, Ashlyn, lying in the bed. The harsh scent of antiseptic in his nose, the beeping noise coming from the monitor, and the morphine drip attached to the needle in his sister’s hand all faded into the distance as the beaten state of her face filled his vision.
Black and blue bruises covered her cheekbones. Cuts and scratches spread over every inch of creamy white skin, and stitches outlined the right side of her mouth. Only her long brown hair remained untouched, and that lay beneath the bandages on her head.
Consumed with a wrath foreign to him, Sawyer inhaled a sharp breath through his nose, controlling the desire to explode. He fisted his hands and turned to his parents, Beth and Roger Quinn, asking the obvious: “Where is Travis?”
“Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, son.” His father—a few inches shorter and slightly softer in the middle, with a full head of salt-and-pepper hair—continued in a stony voice, “We need to wait for Ashlyn to wake up. We can’t make assumptions about who attacked her.”
Sawyer heard what his father said, but the darkness rushing into his Roger’s hazel eyes contradicted his words, a confirmation to Sawyer and what he suspected. Travis, Ashlyn’s boyfriend of three months, had done this to her.
His father added, “The police are involved and are interviewing friends and acquaintances to see if anyone knew anything or saw anything out of the ordinary.”
“This attack is brutal, and based on what I’ve seen, it looks personal.” As Sawyer spoke he gestured to his beaten baby sister. “Look at her, for Christ’s sake.” Sawyer was a cop, and he’d seen it before. A beating like this, so intense and violent, typically involved someone the victim knew. “We all know Travis is capable of this and more.”
Travis was an up-and-coming mixed martial arts fighter and had the skills to beat someone into unconsciousness. Sawyer suspected Travis had used steroids on more than one occasion, and he’d seen evidence of Travis’s ’roid rage from time to time. It had never been directed at his baby sister before, though.
A sob ripped from Sawyer’s mother’s mouth. Noticing the pallor on her face, he moved toward her, offering comfort. His chest constricted as he wrapped his arms around his mom’s slender frame. “Please don’t cry, Mom.” Nothing broke him more than to hear her weep.
“Look at what he’s done to her.” His mother sobbed against Sawyer’s chest, her short curly blond hair tickling his neck as she clung to his black T-shirt. “How could he do this?”
Anger bit into Sawyer like a sharp blade while he examined his battered sister. So sweet, so tiny, and so young—she had turned twenty-two only three weeks ago. He was eleven years older, and he had always tried to protect her. His parents hadn’t planned on having a second child—given his mother’s endometriosis, they had thought that conceiving again after Sawyer’s birth would have been impossible. They were shocked when they found out about her pregnancy, but Sawyer was overjoyed that he’d have a playmate, even if it was a much younger sister.
“He’ll be arrested.” Sawyer gently rubbed his mother’s back. “Don’t doubt that.”
“How will she recover from this? My poor baby . . .”
His mother’s despairing voice made Sawyer vividly imagine pummeling Travis. Sawyer rejected the thought; as a member of the police force, sworn to serve and protect, he had to let justice be served through the law. Having served in the military and now as a member of Las Vegas’s SWAT team, however, he’d found that sometimes his morals got in the way of what his heart wanted to do, and right now what his heart wanted was to make Travis feel pain.
He held on to his mother tightly, feeling her trembling beneath his arms, and it made Sawyer realize just how Travis had broken into a happy life full of happy memories. In his line of work, he often saw people who experienced horrific childhoods. Not Sawyer and Ashlyn. Their dad, a white-collar worker, had always exceeded the role of a father. His mother, a stay-at-home mom, lived through her children. Travis had brought darkness into the Quinn family.
Sawyer wouldn’t forget that.
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Stacey Kennedy is the USA Today bestselling author of the Club Sin series. Growing up, Stacey’s mind wandered the path less traveled, and that path most often led to love. She has always broken rules and she continues to feed off emotion—always staying true to her heart. Those traits are now the bones of her stories. She lives in southwestern Ontario with her husband, who puts any of the heroes in her books to shame, and their two young children. If she’s not on Mom duty or plugging away at a new story, you’ll find Stacey camping in the summer, hibernating in the winter, and obsessing over Penny Dreadful, Game of Thrones, and Sons of Anarchy.
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