Unbeautifully (Undeniable, #2) in Flirty and Dirty Book Blog

Apr 03, 2013 Michelle rated it it was amazing

I was on the fence with Undeniable, but Unbeautifully completely pushed me over the edge. Seeing the added story to Eva and Deuce's time after all the Frankie mess made me appreciate the first book more as well. Ripper's struggles are the kind that just tear you apart from the inside. A boy that lost everything given a chance to have a new family of brothers - then horribly damaged and wishing he had just died that night.

But enter Danny. Danny is Deuce's daughter. She is all things frilly and pi

I was on the fence with Undeniable, but Unbeautifully completely pushed me over the edge. Seeing the added story to Eva and Deuce's time after all the Frankie mess made me appreciate the first book more as well. Ripper's struggles are the kind that just tear you apart from the inside. A boy that lost everything given a chance to have a new family of brothers - then horribly damaged and wishing he had just died that night.

But enter Danny. Danny is Deuce's daughter. She is all things frilly and pink. But she is torn with her father who is never around, a mother that left her, Eva who is broken and having to step up to help with Ivy. She needs an escape - something to make her happy. Well hello there Ripper.

“You’re nothin’ but fuckin’ beauty and I’m a whole lot of fuckin’ ugly who’s already halfway to hell.”
But he was wrong.
Everything has beauty. Even the ugly. Especially the ugly.
Because without ugly, there would be no beauty.
Because without beauty, we would not survive our pain, our sorrow, and our suffering.

Ripper was badly scarred by Frankie, his flesh cut, torn into but there is something about him that Danny sees. She sees beyond his scars and sees him as beautiful. But with Danny being the Prez daughter she is off limits. Ripper knows that he is just asking for a bullet by messing with her but he can't seem to get her out of his head. She is not the girl that you just have sex with. She is the girl you put on your bike - the kind you make your old lady. She is not a club whore.

He can't have her. But she is the only thing that makes him forget about the pain. When things get complicated he leaves. He knows she deserves better and the only way for her to move on is if he is gone. But staying gone is not always in the cards and upon his return he realizes that leaving was the biggest mistake.

Not only do we get to see a tormented side of Ripper that just crushes your heart, we get a glimpse into struggle with Eva and Deuce after the Frankie bullshit and before the HEA. That little added insight really made me rethink my feelings on book one. We also see the struggle the other boys in the club. We get a piece of all of them as the story continues and each one starts to grow on you a little more than before. The ones that you overlooked in book one are suddenly brought forward in book 2 and it just makes you want to know their story even more.

Even though Ripper is the most physically damaged of the group, he was beyond hot. Something about his damaged exterior made him seem so much more appealing. When left without the exterior beauty to rely on we got to see the parts of him that really matter. The lone wolf after his parents died, the brotherhood of the MC, the way he loved Danny and the way he finally saw himself.

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Apr 18, 2013 Mary Jo rated it it was amazing

Madeline Sheehan has me hook, line and sinker. I am totally sucked into the Hell's Horseman's world even though there are times I question why I like these stories. My boundaries get pushed in every book but in the end the stories are about people and what happens in their daily lives. The story doesn't tap dance around the true trials and tribulations that each character faces - it is no holds barred honesty and makes no apologies for what happens. Danny and Ripper are the main focus to this st ...more

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May 15, 2013 Naomi Flirty and Dirty Book Blog rated it it was amazing

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Madeline Sheehan I Love You for writing this book!!! (yes that is complete fangirling right there!)

Any book that starts with this as the opening paragraph is just going to be AMAZING:

**I don’t believe in fate. I firmly believe that life is what you make of it, that life will react to your actions, and that your final destination has nothing to do with destiny but instead everything to do with the choices you make along the way.
With one exception.
Love.
There are no rules when it comes to love. Madeline Sheehan I Love You for writing this book!!! (yes that is complete fangirling right there!)

Any book that starts with this as the opening paragraph is just going to be AMAZING:

**I don’t believe in fate. I firmly believe that life is what you make of it, that life will react to your actions, and that your final destination has nothing to do with destiny but instead everything to do with the choices you make along the way.
With one exception.
Love.
There are no rules when it comes to love. Love is not a reaction or an action; it is not a destiny or a choice. Love is a feeling, a real, raw, and unscripted emotion so sensationally pure, unable to dull even under the strain of a world against it, strong enough to heal the broken and warm even the coldest of hearts.
Innate.
Unavoidable.
Undeniable.
And sometimes, love is unconventional and it breaks all the rules and blurs all the lines and basks in its glory, shining as bright as the sun, unapologetically glowing even under the narrowed stares of society and its screaming, self-righteous morals, berating and judging that which it doesn’t understand.**

I had been in a bit of a funk with my reading and although I have been reading a couple of books a week I just wasn't getting the spark, well Undeniable and Unbeautifully totally changed that. I absolutely loved this book just as much as the first and I just wish I had a time machine so I could go into the future and get the rest of the books to come and read them all NOW!!!!

This book had everything that the first book had, all the emotions, heartbreak and pure unadulterated love. But it also had the message of how important the truth was and when you keep secrets the huge and sometimes devastating effects they can have, not just on you but the ones you love.

I love Duece and his family and I was so delighted that the story involved his and Eva's story just as much as Danny and Rippers. But it has to be said I adored Ripper his story is such a heart breaking one that you know you just won't be able to help but love him. All the guy's in the Hell's Horsemen MC are great in there own special way but I have to say Blue is one of my favourites and although he plays a small roll it wouldn't be the same without him.

So all in all I absolutely loved this book and this series and cannot wait for the next
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Apr 12, 2013 Trisha rated it it was amazing

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"All scars tell a story, beautiful girl". WOW! I loved it! True what others have said; definitely not as gut wrenching for me as the first but so much more in other places. This book should have been titled Redemption... But since it doesn't fit with the series name, Unbeautifully works since this story is as much about the beautiful and sometimes truly unbeautiful facts about life, love and family. ...more

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