Wilde's End (The Wilde Men #1)

Here's Saxon James's "Wilde's End." It's the first novel in her new series, The Wilde Men.

["Hudson
Give me the smallest reason to make a bad decision, and I’ll jump in with both feet. Case in point: thinking that drunkenly buying an abandoned town with my brothers is a good idea.
As builders, we plan to renovate and flip the town, maybe turn it into something worth seeing, but the longer we’re here, the more things feel … off.
It’s not until a bearded mountain man breaks into my room in the middle of the night and threatens for us to get out of his town that I realize Wilde’s End isn’t as abandoned as we were told.
But there’s nothing waiting for me in the life I left behind, and in making his demands, Wilde has accidentally tapped into my competitive side.
Terrible decisions? Me?
Wilde can bring it on.

Wilde
I escaped to Wilde’s End twenty years ago, and since then I’ve dedicated my life to the town and the people who live there. Because if I focus on others, I don’t have the time or energy to face everything I’ve been running from.
The Bellamy brothers coming to town is like three horsemen of the goddamn apocalypse. They leave destruction in their wake, and when the eldest, Hudson, ignores my very kind request to leave, it’s time to take things into my own hands. Protecting this town is all I know how to do.
But I’ve never faced someone like Hudson.
His stubbornness matches mine, and his attitude has an irritating way of worming under my skin. The more I push him, the harder he pushes back, until we’re locked in a game neither of us will walk away from.
With his smart mouth, bullheaded recklessness and those damn eyelashes I’m starting to question whether I can win this one.
But if I lose, this town isn’t the only thing on the line."]

This book was emotional as fuck...then again, I've been, too. I cried a lot, but it felt really nice. I'm sure Hudson and Wilde would agree that every once in a while, you need a good cry. Even if their cry was due to past traumas and broken hearts.

This book was a lot deeper than I expected. It was your typical Saxon romance (and a reeeaaalllllly great start to what's going to be a fabulous series), but it was also a commentary on capitalism, environmentalism, small towns, found family, and more.

These two weren't easy on themselves let alone on each other. They had to face some seriously hard truths to get to their HEA, but they compliment and strengthen each other in the best of ways (and challenge each other in the must fun of ways).

I can't wait for the rest of this series. There's so much potential with soooo many of the characters. 

Trigger Warnings: past substance abuse, reference to parental neglect, reference to death of a family member, dark humor surrounding death/suicide, and more.

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