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Title: Justified Steel
Series: Steel Crew 4
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: September 1, 2020
Rating: 4 Stars
Told in the first person. Alternating persons.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book for review from Wordsmith Publicity and the author. I was not compensated nor was I required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am posting this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising".
"It's raw, it's real & it's a little raunchy & hot as hell!!! Once you read that first chapter I guarantee you won't be able to put it down till you're done!!" - Goodreads review
When offered the keys to the kingdom, I all but pissed on the throne.
I didn’t need the figurative crown to become the king, and I sure as hell didn’t want anything more to do with the little queen.
When the power started to shift and lives were being torn apart, justice needed to be served.
Who better to serve it up … than me?
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My Thoughts:
Justice is a young man who seems to be angry at the world – or at the very least, a certain someone. As he’s telling us his story, he gives the reader some interesting visuals. Be prepared to laugh at his expense. After that, the story gets very serious. One word I thought of was “bully”. If you had issues with bullies growing up this could possibly be a stark reminder.
When we first meet Gabrielle, she may answer some questions you’ve formed while getting to know Justice. This seems more his story – he commands attention. That could be one reason that you can’t seem to look away from what is going on. Something else I found was that the young people seem more college age than high schoolers. Then there was trying to figure out why they felt they had to behave a certain way.
The person I felt most sorry for was Gabrielle. She’s the one who tells us what she’s having to deal with. I didn’t feel as if there was anyone she could turn to. Adults make an appearance but it always seemed to be brief and part of that is because it’s not their story to tell. It seemed more as if these young people were raising themselves instead of just being young adults. I think this had to be one of the toughest books to read this year. The authors gets my mind working though. It has me wondering about what I might do and why did it seems as if the adults were failing here.
If you’ve not read this series yet, I would say that your best bet would be to start at the beginning. This way you get to know who the Steel Crew are from the beginning. The ending of this book helped me decide whether to continue or not because redemption is possible. Lucky for us the next book isn’t too far away.
“Next question: who’s the asshole following me around, telling you what I’m up to when we’re not together?”
She lifts her nose in the air and walks past me.
“Goddammit, this shit’s important,” I snap as she hurries to the door and opens it.
She slips out into the foyer, and I slow the fuck down because, as I just lit into her about showing a united front, I need to do the same, no matter how fucking hard it is.
I catch up to her and grab her paw. She looks at me.
“I wasn’t done with you in there.”
She leans against me, grabs the back of my head, and pulls it down to whisper in my ear, “You.”
I pull back and lock eyes with her. “The asshole following me around is me?”
When I feel her slide her paw into my jeans pocket, I smile for show and ask, “What the fuck are you doing?”
She laughs and says loud enough for those around us to hear, “Oh, my bad, is that not your phone?”
I play along and tell her, “A little to the left.”
She pulls my phone out, turns, and leans against me. “Take a selfie with me?”
I whisper in her ear, “You’re fucking pushing it a bit here, huh?”
“Smile, JT.”
I look up, and she takes a picture. Then she opens up the messenger app and sends it to herself before turning and putting the phone back in my pocket, making a big damn show of it, too. All I can do is stand here, telling my cock not to feed into her bullshit.
I wrap my arm around her waist and pull her tightly against me, hoping to still her little fucking paw. “A little clarification and a little less cock teasing.”
She pulls her paw out of my pocket and reaches up, placing both paws on my neck, and begins running them up and down my neck. “You shared your location with me.”
“The hell I—” I stop and narrow my eyes at her at the realization that she just opened my phone without asking for my password.
“United front, JT. Smile in place and present.” She pops a quick kiss to my cheek then turns and walks away.
I pull my phone out and check my settings. Along with my entire crew, I’m now sharing my location with her.
When I look up at her, she looks over her shoulder, smirking at me.
Well played, Queenie, well played.
About the Author:
MJ Fields is a USA Today bestselling author of new adult and contemporary romance novels. She lives in New York with her daughter and smoochie faced Newfie, Theo.
When she’s not locked away in the cave, she enjoys spending time with her family, listening to live music, going to the theatre, singing off key, dancing to her own beat, listening to audio books, and reading— of course.
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