Almost two years we waited to get our hands on this book. Phenomenal X was awesome and amazing but it also left us hanging, for quite a while. I did have to go back and skim the first book in the Hard Knocks series, just so I could refresh my memory before diving into Xavier Cold.

First impression? I was bored at the beginning and part of the middle of this book. It was just missing something that the first book had. I don't know if maybe I built it up so much in my mind or what, but it just didn't work for me. When the book finally began to pick up, I was seriously biting my nails. I kept thinking there was so many unresolved plot points that there was no way it was all going to be wrapped up with an neat, little bow in this book. That we'd be waiting for a book 3.

Well fear not, there's no massive cliffhanger. This is indeed the final installment of the sexy wrestler that is Phenomenal X. The ending was so rushed. There was so much meat left on the bones of this story. Stuff that could have been expanded on. I needed to know more. I waited so long for this book and I'm sad that I can't give it the five stars I gave the first book.

~ Lia, 3 Stars