Review for Brigand Children

 

I received an arc from the author in exchange for an honest review.

The Brigand Children by Lainey Delaroque is an interesting sequel. Honestly, I don’t feel like it should be labeled as a stand-alone because it relies heavily on things that happened in the first book to shape the characters. If you have not read the first book The Lavender Phantom you might struggle with this book a bit because it talks a lot about what happened in the first book but you need to have read the first book to understand why it affects them so much because I feel like it was downplayed in this sequel. That is the only negative thing I will say about the book.

Now onto the positives:

Sophie and Damien are so sweet and I love how they take care of each other. They will never do anything the other one is uncomfortable with, nor will they push for it. There are a couple kinky sex scenes, but it was okay reading then because of the love and respect that they have for each other. I love that because so many times authors feel the need to have the male be dominate and not respect the woman which makes those books not okay in my book. I’m glad Lainey did not feel the need to go down that route it made me love Damien even more. I was kind of hoping for more of Damien’s past* and feel like it could have been fleshed out more, but the little bits and pieces that we did get were beautiful. 

*I thought we’d get things like how he built the club in the first place, the meeting of Pen for the first time, their marriage etc. Those were the things that intrigued me, but I’m okay with learning a bit about his father and the birth of their son. I guess those things are important to Damien.

The world building was good. It didn’t really build much in this one and was mostly things we know in the first book.

There is just something about sequels that never seem to meet up to the expectations of the first book.

4 out of 5 stars.