Fear Us by B.B. Reid
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
KEENAN
It’s been four years since I ran away—from home, my brother, and my maybe father. I created a life free of expectations while pretending I wasn’t being hunted by all of the above. I managed to stay under the radar all this time… or so I thought. When big brother shows up and saves my ass, I’m forced to face everything I left behind, including her.SHELDON
It’s been four years since I became another statistic. I made a lot of mistakes when it came to Keenan Masters. The first was loving him at all. He took something from me the night he left, and when I told him I still loved him, he told me he’d always hate me. After that, I learned how to be okay… until he came back. Gone was the boy who always knew how to make me laugh, and in his place was a cold, arrogant monster.Fear Us
Cruel and entitled antihero!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💚💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 😕😊😄😘
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration
The heroine: Sheldon – it seems she had always loved Keenan. They dated all through high school and she constantly forgave him for cheating on her, because when they were together, it was so good. They loved each other fiercely, but she could never really understand him and why he did the things he did. When he was shot and nearly died, he was in a coma, and she didn’t visit him because she was determined that the last time he cheated (with a teacher, no less), was the last time. When he left, she was broken, and she put herself back together piece by piece.
The Hero: Keenan – He grew up feeling unwanted and thinking Kieran was his cousin and that his father was actually his father, though an absent one. During his senior year, he finds out that Kieran’s father, the man that sold Kieran when he was young was actually his father also. From the time Kieran was eight years old they were brought up in the same house as brothers, but after their father came back into their life, everything changed. He found out it was his brother that killed their mother years ago. He broke all bridges when he hit on Kieran’s girl Lake.
The Story: Keenan wanted to prove that nobody really loved him. He asked Sheldon to run away with him, but when she said no, he told her he hated her and that if he came back, she would be the one running, from him. Four years later, Sheldon was in college, just a few weeks away from graduation. She had been seeing Eric Spenser, the guy all the girls wanted. He was handsome, sweet, wholesome, and loyal. Though she never brought him to her house, where she had secrets.
I liked the fact that Sheldon finally put her foot down on Keenan’s cheating. Though him getting mad at her for breaking up with him and not being there when he needed her was par for the course for a narcissistic man like Keenan was. He was actually kind of funny about it, how he would first blame himself for things that he did to her and tell himself that she had every reason to hate him, but then turning around the next second and blaming her for betraying him.
What wasn’t funny was how abusive Keenan got towards Sheldon after he returned. He actually held her in a scalding hot shower till she passed out, and a one point put her in the trunk of the car when she said something he didn’t like. This is one guy I would have gotten a restraining order on, for certain. The story held my interest, but I never did like Keenan as a romantic lead, even in the first two books, when he was fun loving. Though I kept thinking, once a cheater always a cheater, so I couldn’t understand how Sheldon kept forgiving him. In this book, he had none of the fun parts of Keenans earlier personality. He was just cruel and entitled.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Teddy Hamilton and Ava Erickson. These are two of my favorite narrators. Teddy has a deep sexy voice and always does a great job. Ava has a sweet and youthful feminine voice which is very pleasant and sounds age appropriate for Sheldon. They both do a terrific job.
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