THE ACES SONS: CRAVING TRIX by NICOLE JACQUELYN

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Reviewed by Jenny & Gitte

✯✯✯ 1/2 Stars

“I know I should say somethin’ good…somethin that you can remember later. But, fuck, Bea. I’m just so happy right now, can’t think of nothin’ to say.”

“That sounded good enough to me.”
“Kiss me.”

Nicole Jacquelyn writes some of THE best MC books we’ve read, she never shies away from delivering the hard blows invariably making her fictional MC world a gripping, raw and addictive place to be. Her stories present the rough with the smooth, the ugly with the beautiful and we can’t help but devour her books time and time again.  We especially love her heroines. They’re feisty, loveable and admirable and together with her menacing biker men who live hard and love harder we’ve been won over by her Biker books time and again.

‘Possessiveness didn’t bother me. In our world, it was a sign of love, no matter how outsiders chose to perceive it.’

When we heard about this book, we were over the moon! After all, we’d witnessed Cameron and Trix growing up and couldn’t wait to devour their love story and spend more time with the Aces originals as well!

‘She was mine. She’d always been mine.”

So it pains us to say Craving Trix didn’t entirely work for us. It really was a case of some things worked, some things didn’t. What absolutely worked was Cam’s character! We knew all along Cameron was going to steal our hearts. This young man had lived through the most horrific trauma as a little boy and we grieved with him, all the time waiting for the day Cameron would grow into a man who showed loved, and was loved and wow Cameron didn’t disappoint!. Oh yes he could be a little overbearing at times, but…. what a heart!

“What are we doing here, Cam?”
“Well, I was tryin’ to kiss ya. Not sure what you’re doing’.”
“Do you want…are we together?” “Is this a thing?”
“A thing?” I asked incredulously, trying to figure out what she was getting at. We weren’t a thing…we were us.

We both adored Trix as a little girl, sadly as a woman we found her quite unlikeable at times. Whilst we acknowledged she was dealing with some deep rooted issues, we didn’t feel they warranted her extreme attitude towards Cam, especially considering what he himself was having to deal with. In that respect, Trix came across as self absorbed and sadly their love story didn’t give us the intense emotional feelings we were anticipating.

“I’m jealous.”
“Good.”
“I don’t know how to not be jealous. I just…this feels like it came out of nowhere, and I’m….”
“Mighta came outta nowhere for you…but it feels like I’ve been waitin’ forever.”

The drama that unfolded didn’t sit well with us on the whole. In fact, what played out somewhat changed the landscape of the existing Aces Series and we feel kind of sad about that. Yes, we understand that drama needed to be introduced in order for the story to play out as it did, however what occurred felt unnecessary, with the reasoning behind it implausible and coming out of left field.

Cam’s character was definitely a highlight! He completely had our hearts and our empathy. As if he hadn’t suffered enough in his young life….to go through what he did….and still muster the strength he did whilst falling apart on the inside…he damn near broke our hearts AGAIN! What a man he’s grown up to be! So loyal, loving and yeah…a completely possessive yummy alpha to boot.

“You’re okay, I’ve got you, I’ve got you.”

Nicole Jacquelyn writes some of the best intimate scenes we’ve read and in that respect, she delivered again in Trix, conveying the desire and  need between Trix and Cam. We couldn’t help but feel the passion between these two in that regard.

We relished catching up with Aces from previous books, with the father/daughter relationship between Dragon and Trix, his ‘Little Warrior” warming our hearts to the ninth degree – Dragon really did shine in this story and that along with other aspects of the story did work for us…..just not everything.

“You did good, baby girl. I know it hurts, Little Warrior, but you did real good.”

 **Reviewed from an ARC copy provided by the author with thanks**

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 THE ACES SONS : CRAVING TRIX by NICOLE JACQUELYN
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THE THE ACES MC SERIES by NICOLE JACQUELYN

♠ CRAVING CONSTELLATIONS – BOOK ONE
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♠  CRAVING REDEMPTION – BOOK TWO
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♠ CRAVING ABSOLUTION – BOOK THREE
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♠ CRAVING RESURRECTION – BOOK FOUR
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