Title: Souls Unfractured
Series: Hades Hangmen #3
Author: Tillie Cole
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Dark Contemporary Romance
Release date: 11th August 2015
"For fractured souls are like magnets.
Drawn to collide into an impossible bliss…"
Labeled a ‘Cursed’ woman of Eve from birth, Maddie has endured nothing but pain and repression at the hands of The Order’s most abusive elder, Moses. Now living with her sister in The Hangmen’s secluded compound, finally, Maddie, is free. Free from the suffocating faith she no longer believes in. Free from endless years of physical and mental torment.
Just… free…
At age twenty-one, the timid and shy Maddie is content to live within the confines of her new home—safe from the outside world, safe from harm and, strangely, protected by the Hangmen’s most volatile member; the heavily pierced and tattooed, Flame.
Flame.
The man who ceaselessly watches over her with his midnight dark and searing eyes. The man who protects her with a breath-taking intensity. And the man who stirs something deep within her numbed heart.
But when circumstances conspire for Flame to need HER help, Maddie bravely risks it all for the broken man who has captivated her fragile soul.
The Hangmen’s most infamous member, Flame, is ruled by one thing—anger. Plagued by haunting demons from his past, an all-consuming rage, and isolated by an abhorrent hatred of being touched, Flame's days are filled with suffocating darkness, pierced only by a single ray of light—Maddie. The shy, beautiful woman he cannot purge from his thoughts. The woman he has an overwhelming need to possess…
... the only person who has ever been able to touch him.
Flame’s mission in life is to protect Maddie, to keep her safe. Until a trigger from his troubled past sends him spiraling into madness, trapping him in the deepest recesses of his disturbed mind.
His Hangmen brothers fear that Flame is beyond saving.
His only hope of salvation: Maddie and her healing light.
I don't think Tillie Cole writes anything that's not intense. I had step away from this book a few times. Souls Unfractured is a lot to take in. We all know that Flame is the darkest of all the brothers. He's has a tortured past. People who are supposed to love and care for him hurt him. It's understandable that he is as affected as he is. Flame's character shows what the side effects of negative socialization has on someone. He spent years trapped away from the world. He no interaction with others unless it was when he was tortured. Flame's personality isn't because he has something wrong, it's because he was never taught any differently. Instead of being scared of Flame, you sympathize with him. He's hard a hard life and is a product of it. Flame isn't a bad guy, I think deep down he is a good person.
To Flame, Maddie is the light in his constant darkness. He's trapped in a never ending loop that is his past. He sees Maddie and instantly wants her. She different. She's the only person he has ever let touch him. That is a big deal because Flame hates being touched. Since he stepped foot on the scene in the first book, Flame has been a character that I wanted to know more about. He is standoffish and he has a story to tell. When you read Flame's story, you realize that he and Maddie have a lot in common. I think that is why Maddie is the perfect fit for him. She's his match in every way. She has the patience of a saint, especially when dealing with Flame. He can be as stubborn and hardheaded as they come but only she can get through to him.
This story is dark and grizzly. It's not a story that the faint of heart should read. I'll admit that, when reading, I was stuck between wanting to cry and wanting to throw up. I'm not saying that the book was bad. By no means am I saying that. I'm just saying that Cole didn't hold back in this book and the story will leave a mark on you. I think in some aspect a story like this has to be written. We live in a world that is not made up of fairy tales and things like this can truly happen. Not only can the romance between Flame and Maddie be entertaining but the story itself can be an eye opener.
After reading three of Cole's books, I realize that she is an author who likes to push the limits. She takes her readers to the brink of madness before bringing them back to earth. After all of that, you realize that you enjoyed the ride. Her writing is in a category of its own. I don't recommend that everyone read this book. It really isn't for the faint of heart but if you can handle the ride, it is well worth it.
5 out of 5 Stars
Tillie Cole is a Northern girl through and through. She
originates from a place called Teesside on that little but awesomely sunny
(okay I exaggerate) Isle called Great Britain. She was brought up surrounded by
her English rose mother — a farmer’s daughter, her crazy Scottish father, a savagely
sarcastic sister and a multitude of rescue animals and horses.
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