Revival by Rebecca Sherwin

With explosive suspense and dark sensuality, Revival, book #2 in the Twisted series, is a passionate, riveting tale of power, conflict and dangerous desire, told by Cut Throat Curtis Mason.

I was a failure. An orphan. A quitter. A heartbreaker. A screw-up. A criminal. A monster.
The life I was imprisoned in was the life I deserved.
Beep, beep, beep.
Ollie’s death shredded my tenacity, chipped away at my confidence and stole the will to fight out from under me. When the toxic worthlessness swimming through my veins made me reject the only girl I’d ever loved, she took the rest of my life with her.
Beep, beep, beep.
Alone, away from home and emotionally desolate, I was propelled into a life of greed, control and crime when fate played a hand and forced mine into the clutches of Charlie Alexander Tattersell. My vixen. My poison. My villainous addiction.
Beep, beep, beep.
I fought for and against the life that held me captive, but one painful reminder returned to haunt me.
I was the only one who knew the truth.
Skye’s truth. My love. My driving force. My life’s obsession.
Beep, beep, beep.
After enlisting the help of my protégé, Jesse ‘the Gentleman’ Kennedy, the mission began. 
I had to find answers, retribution and the spark that would release me from the claws of the abyss and bring me one step closer to the Skillet.
Beep, beep, beep.
With new secrets waiting around every corner, a vicious Charlie waiting to bury me and the haunting memories of every mistake I’d ever made hanging over me, I missed one vital clue.
The key to my revival… 

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Review by Brittany

Wow! Where do I begin with this book… This is book two in the Twisted series and it is written in Curtis’ point of view. If you read Survival, you will have read Skye’s point of view. But that’s the great thing about this book, while it does go over some of what you’ve read in Survival, you’re not reading the same story in just a different point of view. There are years that Skye and Curtis were apart and in Revival, you get to see what Curtis was up to.

            Curtis was an angry kid. After he lost his parents, he moved in with his aunt and uncle. Tired of her nephew getting in fights at school, his aunt took him to a gym to live and work where he eventually got to train to become a fighter.

            Later on in his fighting career, he met Ollie, a young boy trying to work and save enough money to get him and his twin sister out of the terrible place they were living. Curtis made the decision to train him to fight, which eventually led to the greatest mistake ever.

            After losing her brother, Skye begins a “relationship” with Curtis. I use that term loosely. After Curtis lets Skye go, he begins a downward spiral, finding himself in trouble time and time again.

            Will time heal all wounds or will Curtis go through his entire life regretting the day he let Skye walk out the door?

            I absolutely loved the first book. The emotions I felt during that read were unbelievable. And so I was very excited for this to come out.

            I could not put it down! I was so anxious to read what was going to happen. I wanted so badly for each page I turned to have Skye and Curtis getting back together. These two were meant to be!!!

            And the thing is, the way it’s written, there are dates at the beginning of each chapter. So you know what Skye is up to as you read, and you’re yelling at the book, trying to get Curtis to understand that Skye needs him, then you realize you’re yelling at a book.

            Rebecca Sherwin has grown immensely from her first book written, Second Chance Hero. I knew this lady had some amazing talents inside her. I know she can only get better and better and now that this book ended on a somewhat confusing cliffhanger for me, I am back to anxiously waiting for her to write more.

            There were some scenes to me that just didn’t seem to flow right, where I was confused as to what was happening, but that’s my only complaint about this book.

            Rebecca Sherwin, four and a half stars! I love you chick!

            Oh, and guys, Benny the Hunter is pretty hot. Just sayin’.

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About Rebecca Sherwin

Rebecca is a coffee drinking, music loving, working single mother and writing insomniac. When she’s not writing, she’s reading and when she’s not reading she’s squeezing her eyes shut and willing sleep to descend. 

She writes about serious issues, giving emotional turmoil a twist and adding a little humour and sarcasm. Her stories are real and relatable, yet unexpected and unpredictable. Every writer was a reader first and Rebecca owes her passion for creating and telling emotional tales to the stories she has read and the people, places and experiences that have, and continue to, inspire her. Rebecca wants her readers to escape to a world where fairy tales and true love exist, wrapping her stories up with angst, passion and curveballs you won't see coming.
Her writing aims to bring problems and tragedies people face every day to light, make them relatable and leave her readers thinking long after they’ve read the last page.

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