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Read reviews » Posted November 8, 2015 by Felicia in Felicia, Reviews / 0 Comments Hold Me Down by Jackie Ashenden
Series: The Deacons of Bourbon Street, #3
Published by Loveswept on December 8th 2015
ISBN: 1101884681
Also by this author: , You Are Mine (Nine Circles, #3), In Bed With the Billionaire
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A great continuation of the Deacons of Bourbon St series!  Not only do we get a great romance we are finding more out about the mystery that brought the Deacons back together.

This is the 3rd book in the Deacons of Bourbon St – the story continues with Blue and Alice (aka Red).  Blue comes from an affluent family in New Orleans who joined the Deacons at 18 to try to get away from his families history.  Alice has known Blue since she was 16 when her mother worked in Blue’s home as a maid.  They were best friends who talked about everything.  When the Deacons had to break up 10 years ago Blue left with no explanation to Alice who then had to join the rival MC gang Ministry who vowed to protector her after her father passed away.    When Blue has to come back to New Orleans after the Deacon’s patriarch is murdered, Alice and he reconnected and sparks fly from there.

This is the first book of Jackie Ashenden’s I have read and I really enjoyed it.  Especially the character of Blue – he starts off as most male characters do in MC novels, thinking of women as property, but as the book progresses he starts to change his view point specifically his relationship with Alice and that definitely has an impact on the Deacons as well as an impact on Alice.  Alice is strong and did everything she could to survive after the Deacons left and her father past away.  Jackie does a great job showing her strength and vulnerability.  I also really liked the dual POV’s and the third person narrative it helps to see the where our 2 main characters are coming from.

If I have anything I didn’t like it was that I would have liked to seen more of the characters we have already met, specifically Cash and Billie.  I would have also liked more back story for Blue and his family, I think there is more story to tell there and would have loved to have meet them as well as answer some questions for me.  Such as how does Blue make his money to afford to live in the Bayou for 10 years?  We learned about that history for Ajax and Cash but not for Blue.  That being said I don’t think this took anything away from our core characters nor did it for the murder mystery which we did find out more about.

All in all this is another great addition to the Deacons of Bourbon St series.  Each book keeps getting better and better and I am really looking forward to the last book in the series to see how this all ends.
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