Cadiva's Reviews > The Revenge Agenda

This might be my favourite book yet from Saxon, not just in this series, but overall.

I absolutely adored Rush. I also loved how Hunter was just innately kind, even to a man he believed knew he'd been cheating with his fiancé.

Of course poor Rush is just as much, if not a bigger, victim of Ian's manipulations than Hunter, given that Ian had pretended to also have ADHD to get Rush to trust him and had then used those vulnerabilities, and Rush's inability to read all social cues properly, to give him excuses anyone else would probably have spotted as dodgy straight away.

When the deception comes to light in the most humiliating way for Rush, he retreats back into himself and the security of Big Bertha and his housemates and we're left wondering where things will go next.

That it then turns into the most wonderfully swoony, and just all round gorgeous romance, between two people who have chemistry that just draws them together like magnets, is down to Saxon's great ability to put you firmly in the heart of the narrative.

We get to see what it's like to be in Rush's head, the disordered thoughts, his methods of coping, we get to see Hunter struggling against how much he just likes Rush, because he is a good guy and a victim of Ian just as much as he is.

We're thrown into the madcap plotting that Rush's friends come up with to gain revenge on Ian, and we see the journey both men take both at work, and as they gain a tentative friendship that turns into something deeper.

Seriously, I don't think I could have loved this book more if I tried. I loved how these two were with each other. There's no deception, no games played, Rush is incapable of anything but honesty, even if he doesn't always know how to express it.

They're also smoking hot together, they just know how to push the other's buttons, but they're also super sweet and swoony and watching Hunter make changes in the workplace to help Rush not feel as different to his colleagues is really lovely.

Madden also cements himself as one of the best book best friends ever. He's there for Rush without judgement, he knows when to draw him out and when to let him fixate, staying with him and supporting him through all his disordered chaos.

I can't wait for his book next!

#ARC kindly received from the author via Foreword PR. I am voluntarily leaving a review.