Review: Unleashing Hound - Harley Stone

Unleashing Hound by Harley Stone
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ stars

Unleashing Hound is book 8 in the Dead Presidents MC by Harley Stone. It focuses on the characters Mila and Hound. Hound is ex-Navy, but has been left broken, is a recovering addict and has very low self esteem and worth. He is just starting off with the Dead Presidents MC, a club which helps former military people get back on the right path, gives them a sense of self and a brotherhood, all of the things which Hound needs. He is just starting to find his place as a prospect when out of the blue Mila turns up.

Mila is an enigma and not what she seems. She has two very different persona’s which she has worked hard at: the school teacher and the escort. But that isn’t everything she is and she yearns to find a place to fit and who she is. As she distrusts everyone, when she starts getting random biblical email messages and people around her start dying, she runs to the only family member that she has left, Morse, her cousin.

This story is really different from the other books in this series in the fact that it mainly focuses on the two characters who keep flitting around each other, not wanting to get close but not wanting to stay away either. There is a lot of back history for the two and they are both coming to terms with how their life has turned out and the choices they have made. Mila’s story is deceptive as at the beginning you don’t really get to know too much about her other than a basic background, but as the story develops, you actually get to see how messed up she is and how that was caused. Her relationship with her cousin is interesting as he can dish it out, but so can she and nothing hurts worse than the truth.

We also have hound’s story, of his struggles and his lack of family support other than his sisters. It takes him becoming part of the MC to realise that other people have his back. He has an instant attraction to Mila, but he knows that she is hiding secrets and when those secrets come to light, they may be a little bit more than he can handle.

This felt like a slow burn book for me as even though the two characters were attracted to each other, it was a slow build up, mainly due to the fact that neither wanted to get hurt or believed that they could invest in the relationship. That being said they do eventually get there but there are a lot of twists and turns throughout the book to keep you going and you never quite know what is going to happen.
Harley Stone for me, is a must-read author and this book was no exception. A really good read!

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