Gypsy Brothers: The Complete Series Paperback – January 14, 2015

“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittensBright copper kettles and warm woolen mittensBrown paper packages tied up with stringsThese are a few of my favorite things”Having just finished the Gypsy Brothers, I find myself going back to it over and over in my mind. In fact, I started singing Julie Andrew’s My Favorite Things because after that dark and effed up ride, I really needed to think about a few of my favorite things.“When the dog bites, when the bee stings…”I like a dark read, but I have to be in the right frame of mind. Being the EDGy biker guru, I’m kind of embarrassed I kept passing over the Gypsy Brothers. At first it was because it was a series that had a bunch of cliff hangers. I had friends that were devouring each book as they were released one by one, so I knew I was going to love the series, but I also knew it was dark….. like black dark.“When I’m feeling sad…”When the complete series came out, I still passed it over. Why? Because the entire series revolves around Juliette, who at 15 years old was brutally raped almost to death by the man who she considered like a father and 6 of his 7 sons. This story is about her need for vengeance and the sacrifices she makes to get it. There is a romance, but it’s not what the book revolves around. If you’ve got triggers or are easily offended, you need to stay far away from this book. The things she subjects herself to in the name of revenge will leave you going “Oh my God.” but in the back of your mind, you are cheering her on, even while thinking “WTF?!”“I simply remember my favorite things…”Ms. St. Germaine explains at the end that this series wasn’t really about the romance between Juliette and Jase, it was about revenge. This was not an easy story to take since vengeance is pricey. It was dark, violent and hard to take. There was beauty to be found here too when you think about the bonds forged between Juliette and Elliot who saved her all those years ago, and also in the love Juliette and Jason had that never died, even when Jase thought she was gone. In the end, everyone she loved paid dearly for her vengeance. The end was beautiful in its brutality, but who paid more, Dornan Ross and his sons or her?“And then I don’t feel so bad…”I started this book at midnight when I found myself wide awake. I thought I could read just a couple chapters then set it down. Next thing I knew it was 3:30 AM and I did not want to put it down. I’m pretty sure when I finally fell asleep I even dreamed about it. The next day, I had one heck of a time tearing myself away to do the fifty gazillion things I needed to get done. Horrible and heart-wrenching it may have been, but I was caught in its blood-soaked clutches. Half the time, I wondered it Juliette had gone too far in her vengeance making her just as bad as her attackers. Even so, I was mentally high fiving her as the bad guys fell. She’ll never make my top ten list of favorite h’s (she’s too effed up), and Jase is no hero (although the love he has for Juliette is freaking epic), but I loved their story. Can’t say I particularly enjoyed it but I am 100% glad I read it. Now I’m going to go and put My Favorite Things on continuous play for a few hours while I try to get over my massive dark and twisty book hangover.PS: Although not a cliffhanger, this story is complete but there is more coming in Julz and Jase’s story and I can’t freaking wait to get my hands on Zero Hour when it finally comes out.Spice’s Rating: 4.5 stars.Suggested Song that reminds me of Juliette: Breaking Benjamin: I Will Not BowSuggested Song when your done reading: My Favorite Things

There are books you read, there are books you devour, there are books that devour you and there are books that give you a hangover.This book is None of the above. Instead it subsumes your being, physical ,emotional and metaphysical. It gives you an insight into the psyche of a dark and horrific nature of human being, what happens when he's wronged, he turns into this monster - Dornan Ross, who has no qualms about picking a young, tender , flower soft girl of 15 and extracts revenge.The basic word of torture does not have the ability to encompass the horrors this beautiful, tender sweet girl goes through that night. (And I'm crying again). She's pinned down and the monster -Dornan, unleashes his wild pack of dogs on her - his 6 sons .what follows is gruesome, gory, barbaric and animalistic.....How that girl survives and why she doesn't die , boggles your mind. I almost wished she had 😣But I guess she way revived to bring down Gypsy Brothers MC.She single handedly brings down half the clan before the Beast discovers her. What he does to her is not possible for any human, animal or living organism to endure.Each and every word made me cringe and I prayed....I begged the Dear Lord to kill her to end her misery. She survives. How ? Why ?..... To finish her job.During her journey for revenge she meets the first boy she fell in love with , but here's the brilliance of lili.st.germain , she NEVER for a second deviates from the plot. The story never strays from the path.it follows a tight passage of this girls journey and I sincerely wished for respite from pain, but Dornan is more than a Beast , he's like an Omnipotent Medusa that crushes Juliettes life even from afar. He pulls the strings and she drives back in to his lair. Does he feel sorry for his acts, is he redeemed, is there any closure for julz and Jase?I can't tell you , but hear this , I'm crying still when I write this review.The story impacts you like a meteor. There's nothing subtle about it, nothing beautiful about it , except in complete devastation there's a path for julz towards her happiness.......maybe!This book is not a love story, yet it's a book about Love.its not about jase and Julz, it's about Dornan Ross and Juliette PortlandThey are tied together by ties stronger and far more tighter than love. They are ties of blood, revenge, torture, pain and DeathI went on a rant, sorry, but this book impacted me harder than any I've read and I hope and pray lili writes another book about julz and Jase where they find peace and love and maybe pieces if her broken heart come together . Thank you for writing this book and making me cry

If you are looking for a pretty love story with HEA written all over it, walk away now. This is not that book/series. It took all I had to muscle through the torture to the redemption. Thankfully the writing is so beautiful that it was like a salve to my soul. I cannot relate with just how F-d each of these characters truly are but my heart broke for each of them over and over as they tried so hard to get right. Kudos to the author’s imagination for the depravity that continued to pull my eyes to the screen. I thought I couldn’t take any more each time, but I lost it when (no spoilers here!) the call came in at “16!” Holy $H1T! But then again as Lili warned us: This story wasn’t a love story. This was a story about love, yes, but it wasn’t a love story. It was a story about vengeance, about redemption, about retribution. ... So so so true. Main reason why this wasn’t a five star read for me is personal. I literally get the hives when characters/people go back and forth keeping secrets from the people they love because they are so worried they aren’t going to accept them. Yeah, I get it, it’s my deal. Believe me, the movie Meet The Faulkers gives me the hives. So you can jmagine my flair up with Julz and Jase. Jesus H, just spill your baggage to each other—neither of you can win the One-Up award—you’re both jn it to win it. However, having said all that, this is an amazingly good read. I need a bit of a heart-soothing break before I can launch into more ugly but I definitely plan to go get the other books!