Pam's Reviews > All the Rage

4 expect the unexpected stars



All her life Hope was forced to face the fact she wasn't like other girls, knowing the real her made everyone around her nervous or uncomfortable she attempted to conform, but a girl could only take so much. Her true self wanted to break free, so after her last ditch effort at being normal, she took her shot and free she was. Leaving Hope behind



and letting Rage take over.



Finding her nitch she turns her need into a business, "creating my art in the form of destruction", one that earned her a reputation to fear. There is nothing in the world that phases her, nothing in the world that she fears...until Nolan.

“Well, then. I guess it’s nice to meet you, Rage-not-your-real-name, germaphobe-hypochondriac with anger issues, no last name, not running from anything anymore. I’m Nolan, recently injured, ex-fuck buddy decided to become a cum dumpster online, lost my hockey scholarship, wallowing in self pity, alcohol most certainly is a food group, Archer.”

For Nolan, Rage was a "innocent"-beautiful-destructive-distraction from his pity party. His injury may have threw his life off course, but now a new plan is brewing, she just doesn't know it yet. After all she isn't the only one keeping a secret.

“You and I are going to have a coming-to-Jesus moment. You’re gonna tell me your shit. I’m gonna tell you my shit, and then I’m going to fuck you. Long and hard, until you don’t remember your real name or the one you chose to go by because you’ll be too busy screaming mine.”

Too bad the past never forgets and messes up their happy place of chaos.

All the Rage gives us the "in" on Rage, she is who she is and I for one was glad she was able to free herself from the norm. Quite an interesting story, one you gotta take for what it is and not rationalize too much about. Nolan's character I think I was too quick to judge and therefore when the real Nolan was introduced it was a very welcomed changed but made for an awkward transition for me, if that makes any sense. Inside their happy place of chaos, I loved everything about them, the perfect compliment to the others madness. Their story is told from both their POV which helped understand where they were both coming from. Rage was a complex character but the author did an amazing job bringing her to life, making us feel all her emotions. Nolan is dominant and sexy as hell, he was the perfect man to calm the fire within Rage.

This spin off has me reeling, wondering what's next. There are some stories in the works and hopefully one of them is Smoke's, he's another man I wouldn't mind taking for a ride.

ARC kindly provided by the author, via *Sixty First Reads*, in exchange for an honest review.

***Quotes above are taken from the ARC version of the book and may differ upon publication.