Beard with Me

So if you've kept up with the Winston's thus far, you know that they've had not such a great upbringing with their violent criminal father and his motorcycle club buddies. You know that Claire aka Scarlet and Billy Winston have history and that it likely was a messy one from the tension that still exists between them. So when Penny Reid announced an origin story for these two, you were probably pretty excited.

I don't want to say I am disappointed in this because that doesn't feel like the right word, but I didn't love it. From Claire/Scarlet's and Billy's interactions (or lack there of) in the previous Winston Brothers books, I was expecting this great love story that somehow went horribly wrong and I don't feel like I got that?? The horribly wrong part was definitely there but the build-up to that point wasn't what I was hoping for. I also still have so many unanswered questions that hopefully will be answered in Beard Necessities.