Burke's Indecent (Phoenix Club 4) SPOILER FREE NETGALLEY

Indecent (Spoiler-free NetGalley)

Darcy Burke

Stars:  Excellent ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ (you know I love a redemption arc)

Heat rating:     🔥🔥🔥🔥 (this was spicy and I LOVED IT)

Okay, I loved it. I’ve read the previous three books in the series and enjoyed them, but this one was just amazing.

So we’ve seen Prudence throughout the series. She has been a pretty significant secondary character throughout all of the Phoenix Club novels. I remember meeting her in the first one and liking her immediately. In the third book, we learn that she’s eloped, which is one heckuva surprise to us because she’s never even mentioned a man. I won’t lie; it fooled me. But, as you learn in this book, it’s a case of mistaken identity, and she’s actually been kidnapped by, of all people, Viscount Glastonbury, who I absolutely loathed in the previous book. What’s more surprising is the fact that I ended up LOVING him by the time I was several pages into this book, Darcy Burke is a wizard! It happened so quickly, I was not even prepared. I went from gritting my teeth whenever his character was mentioned in the previous book to hoping to see his name in this one.

This book goes into depth about why he’s been such a horrible fake person, as well as providing more about Prudence’s mysterious past (which we’ve gotten hints of throughout the books).

I love Darcy Burke’s writing. She’s very good at closing up potential plotholes without rushing things. What I really like is how she ensures that characters are fleshed out three-dimensionally in prior books before giving them their standalone novels. I felt invested in Prudence from the previous books, even though she was a secondary character in those. I didn’t feel like she was just thrust on us to round out a series—Darcy Burke really has a way of introducing characters that will become more important in subsequent books without just dropping them onto the reader. This keeps me coming back to her series. I actually cared what happened to Prudence in the previous book, making me more than ready for the story to continue in this one.

Overall, this one gets a strong 4.5 rating and I also purchased it for my own library. And I cannot wait for the next book in the series.

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