Saturday 28 March 2015

Review: Teaching Aleck by Muriel Garcia





Teaching Aleck (The Last Hangman MC #2)




Aleck Sanford had everything growing up, absolutely everything, except for the one thing he and his sister desired the most: the love of their parents. After many years of emotional neglect, Aleck only understood the love between siblings, his parents certainly didn’t love them or even each other. How do you pick yourself up when everything around you falls apart? When the only person to love you has to leave?


Everything changed when he met Charline Dane. Still affected by his past, Aleck doesn’t understand or do relationships but he wants her. He just doesn’t know what to do about it. When Charline’s past catches up with her Aleck is forced to make a decision: fight or flight? 


Will Aleck finally give into his feelings for Charline and save her before it’s too late or will their pasts get in the way? Will they both be able to overcome history and start anew?




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Review:

4 Stars


I quite enjoyed this and can see an improvement in the authors writing from her debut book, I do believe that once she gets a few habits pressed out that Muriel has the makings of a promising author. I will say that you do really need to read book 1 in the series to be able to fully understand some of book 2, as events from book 1 are just referred to without any back cover which at times does interrupt the flow of the story as you have to stop and recall what is being referred to.


We briefly met Aleck and Charline in book 1 of the series where there was an obvious attraction between them and so in book 2 we get to look deeper into these characters and their relationship or non-relationship.


Aleck has a complicated background and he believes he is incapable of love as a result of bad parenting along with some unfortunate events in his past. As a college dropout he chooses to immerse himself deep in the M/C and club business in order to keep his mind occupied and often as way of keeping his distance from others, including Charline. As such we do get to experience a little more of the M/C lifestyle in this book.


Charline is a good girl from an ideal home with loving parents and after finishing college she returns to her home town to start her career as a teacher, you can almost see her halo shine. Trouble is this is exactly how Aleck sees her, he doesn’t think he and his lifestyle are right for Charline and so continually refuses her advances with his rejections. She is very much on the edge of the M/C as a friend to Ayden the M/C princess and after one too many rejections from Aleck she sets out to find a life away from him and the club. I have to say Charline has way more patience and perseverance than I do, I was urging her to shake Aleck on more than one occasion.


However, these two have secrets that make their paths inevitably cross as much as they try to stay away from each other and soon these secrets are revealed, some quite sweet and some with devastating consequences. As her past catches up with her Aleck is the person Charline reaches out to and every time he faces the inner battle of his feelings for her. But is Charline able to teach Aleck he is worthy of her love?


I have to admit I did find the beginning of this book a little slow and the characters were initially a little juvenile for me which I found hard to connect with but honestly once the twists started coming I was hooked in and enjoyed seeing the characters develop along with the story. Muriel plays the twist and turns in this story well and I really didn’t see them coming. I look forward to more from this series and Muriel and seeing her writing develop. 



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Author Bio


Muriel Garcia grew up in Belgium. She loves music, tattoos, hot tattooed men, travelling, and cooking. She always had an overly imaginative and creative mind but never thought of writing a book up until a couple of months ago. Now she couldn't imagine not writing stories that are near and dear to her heart.


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