Forgiven : Con (The Four #3) de Sloane Kennedy

Salut mes p’tits chats!

J’espère que vous allez bien. Je vous retrouve aujourd’hui avec la chronique d’un roman de Sloane Kennedy qui est tombé à point nommé. Mon mois de juin a été plus que compliqué niveau lecture et je dois dire que ce roman m’a permis de sortir d’une énorme panne de lecture. Il s’agit du tome 3 de la série The Four (chronique du tome 1 ici et du tome 2 là) qui comptera 4 tomes et dont le dernier est annoncé pour septembre 2021. Résumé :

Con
I have everything I’ve ever wanted… so why do I still feel like the kid who came from nothing?
Please help him…
Three little words that have haunted me for years.
Three little words that I know I’ll take to my grave.
It was supposed to be just another fight. Another few minutes of using my fists and my so-called natural “gift” for fighting to raise the cash I needed to save my little brother’s life.
But it wasn’t just another fight.
Yes, I had walked away with the prize money and yes, I had saved my brother, but I’d also destroyed not one, but two lives. I’d left my opponent broken on the ground with his eight-year-old brother begging the onlookers around him for help.
Begging me for help.
But I’d walked away…
Fifteen years later and that little boy is now a bitter, broken young man standing over his brother’s grave; the grave I might as well have put him in. I want nothing more than to help Micah Fox escape the hell his life has become, the life I condemned him to, but he wants nothing to do with me.
But I can’t walk away this time.
I won’t.

Micah
I’m so close to escaping my ugly little world that I can practically taste it. No way in hell am I letting the man who put me there try to play hero now.
That night was supposed to change my life.
It did.
Just not in any way I could have ever conceived of.
Fifteen years ago, the man known only as Zeus to his fans left my brother a broken man who wanted nothing to do with the world around him. I couldn’t save my brother, but I sure as hell can make sure my niece and nephew have a future… the one their father should have had.
Zeus or Con or whatever the hell his name is wants to help me now? Not happening. He might know how to turn on the charm and play to his legions of adoring fans, but he and I both know what kind of monster lurks inside him.
Okay, so what if strange things happen in my belly when he touches me? What if I feel a little stronger when he wraps his arms around me and promises me that everything will be okay?
It’s not real.
It can’t be.
Because hate is all I have right now. If I let Con take that from me…
Like I said… it can’t be real.
I won’t let it be.

FR- Alors alors… alors que vous dire de plus si ce n’est que j’ai adoré? J’aime énormément cette série de Sloane Kennedy qui pour moi, renoue un peu avec ses premiers romans. En grande fan de sa série The Protectors et surtout des premiers tomes, je suis tout de suite tombée sous le charme de ces quatre frères si différents les uns des autres mais si proches et si soudés.

J’ai adoré l’histoire de Luca. L’histoire de Lex m’a touchée. Celle de Con m’a bouleversée. Je n’ose même pas imaginer dans quel état je serai à la fin de ma lecture de l’histoire de King.

J’ai adoré le personnage de Con. S’il semble très sombre et très « dangereux » dans les tomes précédents, on découvre dans ce tome le pourquoi du comment et on ne peut que craquer pour Con et son coeur d’or. J’avais envie de le prendre dans mes bras toute ma lecture et de l’aider à porter le poids de ses regrets et de ses remords.

Face à lui, le personnage de Micah est tout simplement touchant. Une fois de plus, c’est un personnage qui en a énormément bavé et qui continue d’avancer et de se battre pour donner à ses neveux la meilleure vie possible. Il est très fort sans s’en rendre compte et il va, auprès de Con devenir un homme merveilleux tout en révélant le meilleur de Con.

Ce que j’aime particulièrement dans cette série c’est que bien que les personnages aient vécu des choses atroces c’est toujours dans le passé et il n’y a aucune scene difficile dans le roman.

J’aime que l’auteure se concentre sur la relation entre les deux personnages plus que sur leurs malheurs passés sans que pour autant ces derniers soient occultés. Et c’est le cas ici avec les traumas de Con qui ont des répercussions sur sa relation avec Micah mais également sur ses rapports avec ses frères et surtout avec King.

J’ai adoré les clins d’œil récurrents aux Protecteurs et retrouver quelques personnages dans autres séries ainsi que Luca, Lex et leurs amoureux.

Encore une fois, Sloane Kennedy nous livre un roman qui se dévore, qu’on a du mal à lâcher à peine commencé et qui nous fait ressentir tout un tas d’émotion.

Vivement le tome sur King!!

ENG – So well well well… well what more can I tell you except that I loved it? I really like this Sloane Kennedy series which for me, revives a little with his first novels. As a big fan of his series The Protectors and especially of the first volumes, I immediately fell in love with these four brothers so different from each other but so close and so united.

I loved Luca’s story. Lex’s story touched me. Con’s upset me. I don’t even dare to imagine what state I’ll be like when I read King’s story.

I loved the character of Con. If it seems very dark and very « dangerous » in the previous volumes, we discover in this volume the why and how and we can only fall for Con and his heart of gold. I wanted to take him in my arms all my reading and help him carry the weight of his regrets and remorse.

Facing him, the character of Micah is simply touching. Once again, he is a character who has had it all and continues to move forward and fight to give his nephews the best possible life. He is very strong without realizing it and he goes, with Con to become a wonderful man while revealing the best of Con.

What I particularly like about this series is that although the characters have gone through terrible things it is always in the past and there are no difficult scenes in the novel.

I like that the author focuses on the relationship between the two characters more than on their past misfortunes without being obscured. And this is the case here with Con’s traumas which have repercussions on his relationship with Micah but also on his relationship with his brothers and especially with King.

I loved the recurring nods to the Protectors and finding a few characters in other series as well as Luca, Lex and their lovers.

Once again, Sloane Kennedy gives us a novel that devours itself, that we have trouble releasing as soon as we have started and that makes us feel a whole lot of emotion.

Can’t wait for King’story!!!

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