Shattered Skull by Tabatha VargoMy rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ stars
Shattered Skull is book one in the Son of Sinister series by Tabatha Vargo and boy is it a page turning read. The story focuses on Aiken ‘Skull’ Cross and Everly. Everly is just coming to terms with her father’s death when she has been moved across the country to live with her aloof mother and brother who seems to be up to no good. Being new to school, she knows that she doesn’t fit in, not only due to her grief but also her anxiety and how she feels in general. We see her story develop as she makes friends with one of the girls at school who is also in with the Son’s of Sinister MC club; a club which doesn’t follow the rules, races bikes, fights and does other debaucherous things whilst trying to evade the police. One night when she is out watching the racing, she catches the eye of no other that Aiken ‘Skull’, a serious bad boy if there ever was one. Even though Everly doesn’t belong in his world, she keeps showing up and putting up with his acerbic tongue and ill-treatment. Aiken knows he can’t have her, but he just can’t stay away.
Aiken is one of those main characters that you love to hate as he is just so cruel to Everly and makes these huge assumptions about her throughout the story until he learns some home truths. I really liked that he wasn’t perfect and that he made these huge mistakes throughout the book which made him and his gang a more believable as characters.
This story has so many twists and turns. Not only do we have Everly and Aiken’s developing relationship, but we also have Everly’s mother and brother who just seem to cause devastation throughout the whole book. Everly’s mother…. OMG! if there was an instant dislike for a person, she would be it. Then you have the other side story’s such as Everly’s fathers death, the MC gang popping in and out of her story plus their own side story and what is going on with their MC, Aiken’s backstory as well as a whole heap of other things going on that by the end of the book you’re emotionally exhausted but in a good way.
This is certainly a slow burn to melting book, where yes, Everly might come across as naive, but she certainly wasn’t stupid and after everything she has endured, she was still a nice human being. Even the way Aiken goes out of his way to protect her borders on obsession but is really sweet at the same time. This is certainly a fast paced read and quite difference from another MC book where the MC doesn’t have a specific club but more a house where they stay in.
This definitely was an intriguing read and if it seems like you’ve waited forever for this book to come out…trust me it was worth it!
ARC received for a fair, honest and sometimes long review 😊
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