Flawed Justice

I grabbed this one during a freebie sale and can now say with all certainty I am hooked on The Asylum Fight Club series! I really wasn't sure how this was going to work. The Asylum which is considered a safe place, a family if you will, for "Anniston Falls’ gay leather culture". It houses a BDSM club and offers a nightly MMA style fight club where blood 🩸 and brawn 🥊 reign and differences are put to rest. Don't know why I even hesitated. In this first book, we are briefly introduced to most of the primary members of The Asylum and given just a glimpse of its history. Enough for us to get a vague outline going that I assume will eventually be colored in. I know it is a lot to take in but I find with long-running series - such as this one - it is easier to move forward when a solid foundation has been set. Matt and Law are the main romantic couple in this first book. Matt is younger and he is doing his best to provide and protect for his little brother but the streets have other ideas and he soon finds himself trading his freedom for his brother's life... Or so he thinks Law is about as cold and distant as they come (personal opinion there). He was a little off for me in the beginning. Hard to explain but he eventually grew on me. Law needed someone to knock some sense into him and Curtis was just the right person to push him. It was obvious to an outsider that he was not handling the loss of their partner and lover well. After a whole lot of miscommunication, misplaced blame and learning as we stumble things begin to click into place for the men at The Asylum Off to the second in series because I soooo want to know how things work out for Reed - I fell in love with his flamboyant backside. This was an emotional read packed with angsty backstories, plenty of violence, action, mayhem, and family by choice. Oh and let us not forget some of the sweetest (and a little dirty) smexy moments.

This book was amazingly wonderful! If it wasn’t for the fact I needed sleep, I would never have set it down once I started. As it was, I stayed up way past when I should, have to read it 😊 😊 😊. This is a wonderful world, full of people who were less than valued, thrown away, not wanted, and they found a place where they all fit in. They all fit in their own ways, with their own strengths, and they have their own weaknesses as well. They carry the scars inflicted on their souls, and they hope for better, while making this place, their world, their better place Matt never gave up, and life had been pretty crappy to him. He is the hope, and the hopelessness, that drives our story. Lawson long ago gave up, and even when he was given hope, he feels it is all gone again. Until he meets Matt. Their worlds collide violently, and they crash into each other emotionally. Everything hurts, but everything is better, when they are together. It takes some to work things out, and the path is fraught with sharpness and pain, blood and bone, but they make it, because Matt has the willpower, and Lawson needs the peace he finds with Matt