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A review by ivanareadsalot
Man of Honor by Parker St. John
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I would like to thank GRR for the opportunity to read and review this ARC.
I love me some Parker St. John ngl! The MCs are always bruised and torn up from fighting the good fight...most times in the shadows of their own grief. They're always intensely gorgeous, like only a dangerous creature can be. And they're always always just trying to survive the hand they got dealt by outrunning the cruelty that made them the hard bastards they were -before love found them- at the start...and at the heart...of every story! Needless to say, i ate. this. up. And the drama was as ferocious as they come!
The boys Boone adopted were all so very different from each other, so this series promises to be pure adrenaline fueled mayhem with each installment for sure. In Man of Honor, Gage and Wyatt's story was all kinds of sexy, dark, and bloody, but also a bit frustrating at times to read. Corruption always makes me furious and imagining the helplessness overwhelms me sometimes.
Love Parker's writing style, as always. Everything just worked for me! It was very easy to get caught up in this because a lot of this narrative was buoyed by the natural spooky allure of southern noir. You honestly can't miss because VIBES. Crooked cops with a generations-long grudge. An atmospheric foster home for the kids Wyatt saves. The moody broody bayou and a handful of troubled boys who Boone bonded as brothers, now grown men as formidable and vicious as a hurricane with teeth.
And between them there's loyalty in that way of being found and saved from the violence of others. The violence within is another story...actually it's more like 4 more stories, one for each of the Beaufort brothers still to come! Anyway, the OTT "misunderstanding" at the end there was crazy work without a doubt, but also understandable. So I do love the idea of these brothers being bound by savagery, vigilante justice and retribution. There was a lot here that was exciting and sinister, and i hope each installment gets even grittier because i know St. John and this series can handle the weight.
Man of Honor was an awesome start to a thrilling series that can only get better! Man of Lies is up next, and that's Mason and Silas' story, and i can already tell that it's gonna be wild and i absolutely cannot wait!
I love me some Parker St. John ngl! The MCs are always bruised and torn up from fighting the good fight...most times in the shadows of their own grief. They're always intensely gorgeous, like only a dangerous creature can be. And they're always always just trying to survive the hand they got dealt by outrunning the cruelty that made them the hard bastards they were -before love found them- at the start...and at the heart...of every story! Needless to say, i ate. this. up. And the drama was as ferocious as they come!
The boys Boone adopted were all so very different from each other, so this series promises to be pure adrenaline fueled mayhem with each installment for sure. In Man of Honor, Gage and Wyatt's story was all kinds of sexy, dark, and bloody, but also a bit frustrating at times to read. Corruption always makes me furious and imagining the helplessness overwhelms me sometimes.
Love Parker's writing style, as always. Everything just worked for me! It was very easy to get caught up in this because a lot of this narrative was buoyed by the natural spooky allure of southern noir. You honestly can't miss because VIBES. Crooked cops with a generations-long grudge. An atmospheric foster home for the kids Wyatt saves. The moody broody bayou and a handful of troubled boys who Boone bonded as brothers, now grown men as formidable and vicious as a hurricane with teeth.
And between them there's loyalty in that way of being found and saved from the violence of others. The violence within is another story...actually it's more like 4 more stories, one for each of the Beaufort brothers still to come! Anyway, the OTT "misunderstanding" at the end there was crazy work without a doubt, but also understandable. So I do love the idea of these brothers being bound by savagery, vigilante justice and retribution. There was a lot here that was exciting and sinister, and i hope each installment gets even grittier because i know St. John and this series can handle the weight.
Man of Honor was an awesome start to a thrilling series that can only get better! Man of Lies is up next, and that's Mason and Silas' story, and i can already tell that it's gonna be wild and i absolutely cannot wait!