Asa (The Marked Men, #6)

by Jay Crownover

[Sam@WLABB]

Rating: 4.5 Stars
This is Asa and Royal's story, but it's also the closing the door on the Marked Men

"We were marked and had been marked in unforgettable and forever ways."

Crownover did a great job of given us closure or at least letting us know the near futures for all our lovely Marked Men, as well as, setting up the first Saints book. This book was a farewell to people we had grown attached to and it was awesome that each and every one made a cameo at some point. But, the point of this book was Asa and Royal. They were both wounded and laden with guilt. Royal's guilt came from what happened to her partner, while Asa's guilt came from his criminal past. Sometimes, I just wanted to pull a Cher a la Moonstruck, you know, I wanted to smack Asa and tell him to "snap out of it!", but Royal actually did a decent job of that. She wanted that man and she went after him with everything she had, and I loved them together. They both were in alien territory and they were learning this relationship stuff together as they went along, but they were also learning to live in the now and let go of the past. I liked all the opportunities Crownover gave to Asa, I was rooting for him, since I met him, and I found the way she dealt with the BIG conflict between Asa and Royal interesting. And alas, I bid a fond adieu to the Marked Men.