[Series Review] King, by: TM Frazier

KING SERIES

by: TM Frazier

Genre: Romance, Dark, New Adult

 

 

#1 & #2

KING & TYRANT

Published: June 24th & August 16th, 2015

Read: June 7th, 2019

Format: Kindle Edition

Pages: 303 & 294

Homeless. Hungry. Desperate.

Doe has no memories of who she is or where she comes from.

A notorious career criminal just released from prison, King is someone you don’t want to cross unless you’re prepared to pay him back in blood, sweat, pu$$y or a combination of all three.

King’s future hangs in the balance. Doe’s is written in her past. When they come crashing together, they will have to learn that sometimes in order to hold on, you have to first let go.

 

#3 & #4

LAWLESS & SOULLESS

Published: December 6th, 2015 & February 23rd, 2016

Read: June 8th, 2019

Format: Kindle Edition

Pages: 276 & 276

Ruined. BROKEN. LOST.

Thia’s lost it all. With no options left she turns to the biker she met as a kid to cash in the favor he swore to return all those years ago. 

Bear’s best friend is dead. His old man wants to put him to ground. He has bigger things on his mind than the pink-haired girl from the gas station he never thought he’d see again.

Until her battered body is tossed onto his doorstep. 

Keeping his promise to Thia means Bear has to be willing to risk everything, including his life...and what’s left of his heart. 

Thia’s bruised and battered.

Bear’s leather and lawless. 

It will never work between them.

It’s a lie they ALMOST believe.

  

#5, #6 & #7

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SAMUEL CLEARWATER

Published: October 25th, 2016, January 24th, 2017, & April 26th, 2017.

Read: June 9th & 10th, 2019

Format: Kindle Edition

Pages: 300, 282 & 282

You thought Preppy was dead...you thought wrong.

Samuel Clearwater, A.K.A Preppy, likes bowties, pancakes, suspenders, good friends, good times, good drugs, and a good f*ck. 

He s worked his way out from beneath a hellish childhood and is living the life he s always imagined for himself. When he meets a girl, a junkie on the verge of ending it all, he s torn between his feelings for her and the crippling fear that she could be the one to end the life he loves. 

Andrea Dre Capulet is strung out and tired. 

Tired of living for her next fix. Tired of doing things that make her stomach turn. Tired of looking in the mirror at the reflection of the person she s become. Just when she decides to end it all, she meets a man who will change the course of both their lives forever. 

And their deaths. 

For most people, death is the end of their story. 

For Preppy and Dre, death was only the beginning.

#8

UP IN SMOKE

Published: February 16th, 2018

Read: June 10th, 2019

Format: Kindle Editon

Pages: 358

I’m a man without a conscience. 

I deal in murder and mayhem.

I’m the best at what I do. 

Frankie Helburn is supposed to be an easy job. 

A means to flush her father out of hiding.

Simple. 

Except there isn’t anything simple about Frankie or the secrets she’s keeping. 

She’s stubborn as hell and the sexiest god damn thing I have ever seen, sending dark, dirty animalistic desire coursing through my veins. 

She’s cocaine with legs. A f*cking addiction that makes me question things I’ve never questioned before. Want things I’ve never wanted before. 

I might have her, but she isn’t mine to keep. 

If her father doesn’t show his face, she will be mine. 

To KILL.

#9

N9NE: THE TALE OF KEVIN CLEARWATER

Published: June 18th, 2019

Read: June 27th, 2019

Format: Kindle Edition

Pages: 326

Stalking is such sweet sorrow...

Nine lives. 

Nine inches. 

One chance to make her his. 

Preppy's brother is about to live up to the family legacy in more ways than one.

This is the story of Nine, The Tale of Kevin Clearwater.

my overall rating & thoughts

t was a long time ago when I start seeing these books popping up in my feed on Goodreads, since then they have been in my TBR. So it has been a long time. Recently I have been trying to stumble upon books from back in the days and just read them. I have been getting this feeling of “why the hell did I not read this before?” so I guess I have been doing a good job.

That is exactly what happened with this series. I just finished N9ne and I have absolutely no regrets in reading them now that they are all out because some of these books ends were very fucked up for me waiting for the next one. I’m very grateful to stumble upon them when I did. All the drama is mostly set in Logan’s Beach, Florida, where there is a King, a Preppy, a Bear, and later on, a Prince named Nine. These books ripped my heart apart just to give it back with a few words little by little. I have a feeling that I might actually reread some of these books.

King is that, the motherfucking King. There is nothing much I can say to describe him. His backstory is hard, so that is the way he is a ruthless as he is. No one messes with King and lives to tell the tale. Unless you are Preppy, the diarrhea of things that comes out of that mofo is just unbelievable. But when a Jane Doe crashes his party, his room, and his thoughts… let say that this King might as well claim his Queen. Obviously, there is more than what meets the eye with Doe but too bad she remembers shit and when she does, damn, shit hit the fan as messy as a pig in a pen.

Bear is another story. Because King found his soulmate without looking for her. But, Bear, Bear found her young and never thought of her again. She, Thia, never stopped thinking about him and the promise he made her. So when the time came, Thia went straight to Bear. Cannot say that it was the right time for him after all the shit that went down with everything, but it was the right time for THEM. So Bear had to do the tough job, he had to get his head out of his ass.

Preppy’s story wrecked everything I have inside of me. Spoilers ahead. I swore up and down that he was dead and I almost couldn’t deal with it, so the chance to read a book of him was not on my list until at the end of Bear’s story he came crashing down on them. Preppy’s wife was just that for at least three years and no one knew about, only him. Dre is a powerful lady, let me tell you. That girl got to the lowest point, only to go back up for herself and, deep down, for him. Reading their story made me weep. I swear I’m still trying to get used to everything that happened in these three books.

Smoke is a really far away character that we see once in Preppy’s story, and then he just did that. He went up in smoke. Reading his story was easy, there was still heavy shit and my heart hurt how he came up to be who he is, but I enjoyed the ride. Frankie is smart. Like smarter than anyone smart. But she’s still in harm’s way and in so much shit that only Smoke can help her even though it doesn’t look like help in the beginning. I swear these two are one for the other.

Nine’s story is as heavy as Preppy’s backstory. These poor kids had it hard growing up, but finding out each other did them good. I was devastated reading about how he lost someone that would change his life for good when he knew that Preppy was dead. But losing her made him found himself and then his brother that wasn’t really dead. That whole scene is the MVP in both books (Preppy’s and Nine’s). Lenny’s story wasn’t my favorite, but these two together were the bomb. That plot twist in almost the end gave me chills.

The bonus epilogue at the end of N9ne of him receiving the key of the kingdom and becoming the prince give me seriously good vibes that I wanted to cry. This series is going down with me for a long time. I swear you will not regret reading these.