Book Blurb
In the searing fourth novel in the Mastered Series, followingUnraveled, only one woman can set a hardened fighter free from his past.…
In order to survive a life of tragedy, Deacon McConnell embraced his roughest edges and learned to fight on the streets. Then a life-changing jujitsu seminar led by Sensei Ronin Black led Deacon to become a professional fighter. With his muscular physique and his body covered in tattoos and scars, the MMA fighter defines mean, both on and off the mat.
But everything changes when innocent Molly Calloway signs up for his kickboxing class. Molly is Deacon’s opposite in every way: She’s kind, sweet, thoughtful, and educated. After a heated argument between them turns into a passionate encounter, Deacon realizes Molly is eager to experience more, and she looks to him to take her to the darker edge of lust....
The last thing either of them expects is how deeply their lives will be thrown upside down by the passion they find together.
In order to survive a life of tragedy, Deacon McConnell embraced his roughest edges and learned to fight on the streets. Then a life-changing jujitsu seminar led by Sensei Ronin Black led Deacon to become a professional fighter. With his muscular physique and his body covered in tattoos and scars, the MMA fighter defines mean, both on and off the mat.
But everything changes when innocent Molly Calloway signs up for his kickboxing class. Molly is Deacon’s opposite in every way: She’s kind, sweet, thoughtful, and educated. After a heated argument between them turns into a passionate encounter, Deacon realizes Molly is eager to experience more, and she looks to him to take her to the darker edge of lust....
The last thing either of them expects is how deeply their lives will be thrown upside down by the passion they find together.
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Toot's Review
Caged by Lorelei James is the fourth book in the Mastered series. It's the story of Deacon and Molly. We first met the two when Deacon was Molly’s instructor for some self defense classes and the two sizzled on the pages, so this was an addition to the series that was a long time coming. Unfortunately Molly ruined it for me. The story was good. The hero is freakin' awesome but once again a heroine becomes a winey, self centered b*tch. Molly's character started out great. As a chubby girl who was tortured through her childhood by her cousins and has to face them when she goes back when her grandmother passes. She stands up to them a little until Deacon shows up to support her after only dating for a few days and unfortunately this was the beginning of the end for me. First let me say that I thought this side story line was a missed opportunity for the author. Once the characters leave her home town with the family issues unresolved, we never go back to that story line or find a resolution. Molly just blocks the cousin’s number and that's the end of that. What really bugged me throughout the book and why this scene was the beginning of the end for me was that she became very hypocritical. At the beginning of the scene Molly makes excuses why she didn't tell Deacon why she left (Grandma dies) yet every time the shoe is on the other foot, she throws a fit and leaves Deacon for doing something similar. Also all her internal dialog throughout the story was more motherly caution towards him (i.e. be patient, he doesn't know what he does, he's new to this relationship stuff.....blah, blah, blah). She almost had a holier-than-thou/do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do vibe and treated him more like an innocent virgin child then the alpha male fighter he is. There’s also another scene towards the end where I think there was another missed opportunity to strengthen Molly’s character where Deacon is going through a family issue and Molly, having put up with her cousins, could have had Deacon’s back and stood up for him with similar people but again, she shrivels and runs away.
Other then Molly, I loved revisiting the main characters and seeing where their lives are now. Along those same lines though, lots of new characters were introduced as well. The organization has grown by leaps and bounds and the original tight-knit group from the dojo days is gone. It's become a full fledge mass organization with many, many characters. Growth is inevitable, especially for a series but I do miss the original nucleus that made the series so great. It was a little hard to keep up with the many faces. To me the story boiled down to lots of fighting, lots of f*cking, a righteous selfish girlfriend heroine and an innocent hero just trying to do the right thing by everyone. As my niece said when reading this review, I loved him, hated her, the story was fine. 3 Stars
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