Damaged and the Beast by Bijou HunterMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Angsty New Adult Romance
This is the first in an ongoing series. I recently started in the middle of the connected stories with a spin-off series, White Horse and enjoyed it so much I wanted to start at the beginning of it all. There isn’t a cliffhanger, just a hook for the next book.
Caution: This book refers to sexual assault. It is not detailed, more inferred, however the emotional results of the damage this trauma did are discussed in detail as it is relevant to the story.
Farah is 18 years old and just starting college. Her grandmother has agreed to pay for it provided she goes to the college local to where her mother is living and shares an apartment with her. She hasn’t seen her mother in 5 years when something so awful happened her father took Farah and her sister Tawny away from their mother and took them on the road with him. This life wasn’t really any better as their father was a con artist, gambler and a drunk. Farah always dreamed of having a normal and stable life and she wanted to become a teacher in order to have that. She’s at college to try and make that happen.
Cooper is a student at the same college and they share one class as he is a senior. He’s local to the area and his dad runs the local MC. He has two sisters, and a brother and the two eldest are also at college with him. Cooper is the really smart one in the family and he’s studying pre-law in order to help the family out. He’s also expected to take over from his dad one day as the MC president. He’s charming, good looking, rich and powerful. People don’t mess with him or his loved ones, women throw themselves at him and men are scared of him unless they want to be him.
When Cooper sees Farah he wants her, not realising that she’s damaged beyond all recognition by her really awful parents and the severe trauma that happened 5 years ago. Farah doesn’t expect anything from Cooper, in fact, he scares her quite a lot as in her experience bikers and dangerous men cause you harm rather than protect you.
This book covers the very turbulent first few months of Farah and Cooper’s relationship. They go through so many ups and downs you can’t help but wonder why on earth they are together. However, they do care for each other and they work through their problems, which are very real and not because of stupid misunderstandings or miscommunications, they are about fitting two very different people together into a relationship when one of those people has suffered years of abuse.
Some of the book makes for some uncomfortable reading, but I couldn’t put it down because it was pretty well done. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of this series now so I can catch up to the White Horse part and then go past it!
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