Broken Wings, Broken Trust & Broken Legacy (Dark Legacy).

Author(s) : Jaymin Eve, Tate James.

Publisher : Kindle Edition.

Release date : March 18th / May 16th / July 31st 2019.

Personal note : ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Synopsis : They rule my new town, my school, and with more money than God, there’s very little out of their reach.

Four gorgeous, perfect, scary boys. There used to be five, but one of them died, leaving a fifth position that I now fill. I didn't ask for this. I didn't want to be part of this billionaire-boys-club. But no one cares about what I want.

Sebastian Beckett is the worst of them. Their leader. He draws me in, and strips me of every defense I have. He calls me Butterfly, but it's not a pet name, it's a threat. Beck wants nothing more than to break my wings, pin me to a board and watch me writhe. He wants to see me broken. Body, heart and soul. And what these elite want, they get. Only they've never met Riley Jameson. Let the battle begin.

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Yes, books about a new girl in a academy having to deal with powerful men are my guilty pleasure, I admit it. And the Dark Legacy trilogy by Jaymin Eve and Tate James isn't an exception. I devoured one book per day and lost a lot of hours of sleep, but it was worth it, aha. Anyways, let's begin. This story follows the main character Riley Jameson, a girl living in a poor but loving family and who loves driving. The book directly start with the car accident of her family, which ends by her being the only survivor and being forced to move into a foster home because she isn't eighteen yet. That's where the troubles begins with the arrival of Catherine Deboise, birth-mother of Riley and who, suddenly, wants her back in her life.

This event leads Riley to meet one night two of the four main male characters ; Sebastian alias Beck and Jasper, and later on in the story on her first day of school, Dylan and Evan. As usual in that kind of story, these men are presented as beautiful, extremely powerful because of their family name and, with no respect whatsoever for the women because they're weak and useless and blah blah blah (you know the drill). Of course, our dear little Riley won't accept that kind of attitude and that's where the story truly begins ; she now have to deal with the fact that she's the only heiress of Catherine, who is a part of Delta, a group of powerful families who rule over most of the world, but she also have to deal with the guys who happens to be also heirs of the Delta.

At this point, I wasn't really expecting much from this story, it seemed like every other romances of this kind, but then, I changed my mind after a surprising turns of events ; on their way to a meeting, Riley and the boys barely survive a plane crash that was supposed to kill them, after their pilot shot himself in the head to protect his family. And this is where things gets interesting. This "accident" forces the group to help and learn more about Riley, which make them realize that she isn't just a useless girl but someone that they can rely on, especially after she "saves" Jasper from being killed. After that, the story gets more and more interesting with Riley slowly discovering everything that happens in Delta and how much power they truly have, while her feelings slowly grows towards Sebastian.

The thing that I liked the most about this trilogy is the close blond the five characters have, even during the worst events. The boys always have Riley's back and would do anything to protect her, and she feels the same way towards them. But while we're on this point, I have to mention something that truly bothered me during all the books ; Riley's lack of training. It is mentioned a lot of times that the guys, while growing up, had to learn a lot of things like fighting, killing, surviving etc. Which makes them strong and able to take care of themselves. But Riley, even if she's attacked at least ten times in the three books, never got more than ONE training, which was cut short because Sebastian and Dylan had an argument. We're supposed to see Riley has a strong independent woman (which she claim to be) and yet, we didn't saw her trying to get stronger. And afterwards, we're supposed to be surprised when she gets kidnapped and isn't able to fight back ? Honestly, she's asking for it, aha.

Another point that truly bothered me is related to Riley's adoptive parents (who died at the beginning of the first book). It's said at the beginning that she wasn't able to go to their funeral because she was at the hospital, which is totally understandable. But in three books, she NEVER visited her parents grave. Not once. I don't know if the authors simply forgot about it or if it was a decision made on purpose, but I think it's really bad. Riley always claim how her name is Jameson, how Catherine will never be her mother and etc, but excepted couple of times, Riley barely talk or thinks about her parents. That's truly disturbing. I thought it would happen after she visited Oscar's grave (her dead brother that she never met), but no. I feel like, in the whole trilogy, there's was a clear lack of back story for Riley. We just know that her family was pretty poor, that Dante has been her best friend since childhood and other details like this, but that's all. Hence the four stars for my personal note.

To finish this review, I'd say this story biggest flaw is that there was too much happening, which didn't gave enough time for the authors to develop some events, relationships etc. I do not say the action wasn't good because it was, but I would have liked to actually see more depth and construction of the story and the characters. Other than that, the trilogy itself was amazing and I really had a good time reading it.

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