The Initiation (The 4 Horsemen #1) by Elena Monroe
Publication Date: August 4th 2020
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅโ๐ด ๐ซ๐ถ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ด.
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LA wasnโt homeโฆ just home for now.
Transplanted here to model I learned Hollywood isnโt where dreams survive the harsh reality of millions all sharing that same dream.
Executive assistant is who I am now.
Slave.
Hollywoodโs darling took a liking to me. One not easily ignored when they give you a taste of the high life.
I was supposed to give up hope and give in to LAโs bad reputation but I had rules.
Well, just one: read the rules before you break them.
Unwilling to abandon all my morals, the filter came off my life to see the world I was one foot in was invitation only…
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Iโm not sure I was ever really Jason.
Whoever he was, was a distant memory now.
Grimm is who I am now.
Death.
I abandoned my birth name, companionship, happiness that wasnโt shaped like Xanax all because I was expected to be the kind of elite that pulls the strings.
Pull the strings but follow the rules.
No distractions.
No serious relationships.
Keep what we do secret.
Born into a rite I didnโt ask for, a society of puppeteers.
An invitation I marked not attendingโฆ
โThatโs the thing with bad boys with pretty faces: Theyโre everything inviting so you donโt see the bite coming.โ
Book one of the Four Horsemen and my first read by Elena Monroe, was not a disappointment. Grimm and Abigail have such a great chemistry and sexual tension throughout the entirety of the book. I really donโt wanna say anything else about the book just because I feel like Iโll give something away so Iโll say this:
Elena has a beautiful way with words. Itโs lyrical and every Word feels like itโs well thought out before itโs put into sentence. What I mean by that is there is nothing in this book that wasnโt meant to be put there. Sometimes I feel authors go off on tangents or put dialogue into a scene just to fill the time. Elena doesnโt do that. Her reading and storytelling is easy to follow and understand. I did think the beginning part was a little slow and the ending felt kind of rushed, but other than that I thought this book was great.
Overall, I really loved this read and I am excited to read the rest of the books in the series once they all come out. Iโve obviously already started reading book two And Iโm excited to see where weโre taken.
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I received an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
About the Author:
Elena Monroe grew up in Florida scribbling down stories from a very young age. These stories were really just wavy lines filling the paper, but she knew each word, each emotion, each character’s name, and there was no tricking her into forgetting what each line signified. Just like her unconventional way of writing as a toddler Elena is setting her own rules and just telling stories.
Much like her debut novel, The Best Years, life certainly imitated art. Transplanting from the South to the East Coast, Elena currently lives in Connecticut with her husband, reformed bad boy.
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