The Enforcer

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

When I selected to read this book off of BookSirens, it indicates that it can be read as a standalone. This is book 6 in the series, and I felt like there were things I was missing throughout the book, so I am not sure that is wise if you have not read the others.

I will start more with the things I did not like, and end on the things I did. There were moments in this story where I really did enjoy the book, but mostly overall, a lot of parts felt forced and underwhelming. Please keep in mind, I may feel this way because I have not read any other story in this series.

Alicia’s bratitude is a bit on the extreme end. When she is in her feelings and getting ready to make a run for it, she is incredibly rude to her other coworkers/friends, who are showing her a kindness they don’t have to. I did like that you saw her grow and come into herself as she dealt with her trauma and everything happening in the story. I do think her and Brock go well together, but again, parts felt forced, meaning a lot of the conversations felt choppy. A lot of this story is super fast paced and it was hard to really establish a timeline of events in the story. I felt because it was a shorter book, scenes had to be rushed through and I had to go back and re-read pages because I was confused by the conversations as they did not seem to match up with what was happening in the story.

I have mentioned in past that I have issues with repetitive things in stories, such as repetitive descriptors. I became hyper fixated on the the amount of times the story mentions something about “being family” that it almost felt the like the Fast and Furious franchise. It felt like almost every single chapter, someone mentioned being family and Alicia being family.

I did like the uniqueness to the story. I do not want to give away spoilers, but I did like the premise. I wish there were more to it, it just kind of felt like it ended after Ewan was taken into custody. I pegged who the mole was at the beginning, not sure if that was intentional or not. It was interesting to see how certain characters in the story got linked together. This book has DD/lg elements to it. I do wish it had more of that d/s element, such as playing in the club. The book kind of just ended after coming back from a restful vacation. There seems to be a bonus chapter, but it blends in with the last chapter of the book and it threw me off a little bit at first. I do feel if I had read some of the other books and learned more of the dynamics of the characters and Cerberus, that I would have liked everything more.

When there are spicy scenes, they are pretty decent. I like the elements of consent, and enthusiastic consent. I liked that Brock stopped when he thought Alicia was unable to consent after they had gone out and had some adult beverages. Definitely check your trigger warnings, as there are some heavy things happening in the story.