Knight

I won't mince words. I loved this. This is my first toe dip into the [a:Kristen Ashley 2958084 Kristen Ashley https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1442937365p2/2958084.jpg] world, and though the line on [b:Knight 18806659 Knight (Unfinished Hero, #1) Kristen Ashley https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1384508571s/18806659.jpg 19143978] is that it veers from her usual m.o., reader I dug it!Why? If I'm honest a whole star is solely for the narration. [a:Savannah Richards 4657107 Savannah Richards https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] is awesome, particularly when she does Knight's voice, but awesome in total.As for the rest I know what people may say about this type of book. This type of couple. The dynamics of the relationship. My response is that these couples exist and whatever we may think: they are un-PC, the heroines are doormats to their men, the men are controlling cave men? They live and breathe in the real world and who are we to say their mode of love is wrong. Who are we to approve or disapprove? Especially those of us who also read M/M and pound our chest loudly & declare that #LoveIsLove. The world is a big place and there is room an Anya & Knight.On another note this couple just rocked. In Knight speak they get each other almost from the very beginning and the book is nothing more, and I don't mean that in a bad way, but two people in lust falling in love pretty quickly and delineating the boundaries and shape of that love. What each is willing to give or take and it so happens that they are each other's missing puzzle piece.Furthermore I love Knight. He is someone who knows himself and is honest about who and what he is from the moment we meet him. We may or may not agree with how he is, how he makes his living, some might call him an anti-hero. I don't. He does and says things in his own unique style but he is open and clear with Anya and those around him about what he wants, expects and will give in return and Anya ... I found her refreshing and endearing. Anya came from a hard upbringing and just wants a little of life's simple pleasures. Who can blame her? She has goals and dreams, is a good friend and an honest human being. I found her refreshing because her goals are to finish beauty school and maybe one day open her own spa! [a:Kristen Ashley 2958084 Kristen Ashley https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1442937365p2/2958084.jpg] is brilliant for giving us a heroine who is someone we perhaps recognize in the mirror. Not knocking the the lawyers, doctors, spies and plethora of badass heroines in romance but sometimes someone who just wants to do nails and do it well is heroic enough. I for one love every hairdresser, manicurist, masseuse etc. in whose hands I've put myself and who does their job well and with pride. I love it.So yeah. I loved this. Loved that when Knight says “Fuck me” in a low grumble it's a form of “I love you” and when Anya says “Okay” it's “I love you too”.*Note: No one in KA's world just says something. They order, command, demand etc. also no one drinks anything, the chug, pull, gulp etc. It is her own argot and I gotta say it suits the stories.Now I'v got to go. In Knight speak: Got shit to do.