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Unattainable

By: Madeline Sheehan
Narrated by: Tatiana Sokolov
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Tegen Matthews is the daughter of Dorothy Kelley, a club whore in the Hell's Horsemen. A plain little girl, Tegen falls into the gritty world of the motorcycle club. When she meets a sweet, caring boy, she embraces the warmth and affection he shows her.

Cage West is the son of the president of the Hell's Horsemen. Tall and blond with deep brown eyes, as he grows up Cage realizes the power of his dimpled smile and smooth drawl. With one chance encounter, Tegen becomes forever tied to Cage.

Following is a wayward journey that is filled with regrets, mistakes, and heartache, pulling at the threads that hold them together. Cage and Tegen fight hard but love harder, and in the end, what matters is where the journey takes one girl and one boy, who have been twined with one another since the beginning.

©2013 Madeline Sheehan (P)2013 Tantor

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lots of drama, sex, violence, drugs

These books aren’t for everyone, but I love the raw, gritty world that these bikers live in. It wasn’t quite as intense or extreme as the first two books, but it still had it’s moments! There were two stories in one, the main story is about Cage & Tegen but you also get Dirty and Ellie’s story. Cage & Tegen's love story is the main story. They started out childhood friends, but when Tegen was sixteen, one night changed everything between them. Cage West changed in Tegen's eyes. No longer was he the sweet guy always looking our for her, no longer was he her best friend. No. Now Cage West is only the asshole who broker her heart. No matter what happened between Cage, how much she hates him at times, she has loved him since she was eight years old. That much hasn’t changed. As much as she wants to deny it, she's never stopped loving him. The second story is about Dirty and Ellie which is a love story is one born from tragedy. What I enjoy most is that in this ugly world there is still beauty and love, and it just highlights the small things we take advantage of. There is a big sense of family in this book, and although they may not be all blood, they are family where it counts most. The author did it again, she has taken broken, damaged, and completely imperfect characters and managed to write a dark and gritty book that you will not be able to put down until the very last page.



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Undeniably great biker romance

When it comes to biker romance, nobody does it better than Madeline Sheehan. I loved this book just as much as the others in the series and I can't wait for more. The narration was off-the-charts great as always! I just seriously hope the next book is about ZZ.

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The Good, The Bad & the out right Sexy!!

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This is Tegen and Cage’s story. "Love doesn’t erase a broken heart, and it sure doesn’t change people. But no matter how old, how flimsy, how frayed the rope of love is, it keeps you tethered to the people you love" Madeline Sheehan is an author who isn't ashamed to write the dirty, gritty and horrid parts about a love, she isn't afraid to write about people suffering from the wrongs they've came across in life, and she isn't afraid of writing that not everyone's love story is easy but that it takes work, and it's literally blood, sweat and tears. I for one have to applaud Madeline for that. Her work is truly one the rawest and most realist stories I've come across and it's honestly a pleasure to read anything written by her! Madeline is my favorite author for the above reasons... In Unattainable we get the long awaited story of Tegen and Cage. I have to say the previous encounters we get with Tegen from the first two books, I wasn't overly impressed with her. All we ever saw was her shouting her mouth off and frankly, it was a tad annoying. So I guess I was going into Unattainable expecting to hate her. As you can see I was wrong. I loved Tegen. Once she started telling her story, I could completely relate to her and see why she acted the way she did. The only way she knew how to handle everything was by shouting, being mean and especially keeping her distance from Cage. At sixteen years old, Tegen lost her virginity to Cage - the guy she'd been in love with all her life. However, it definitely wasn't what she hoped it would be. Cage basically shuns her afterwards - baring in mind he was only nineteen years old himself and was just starting to discover what the club life was all about. I'm not agreeing with his choices but I think he acted like any other nineteen year old would that is surrounded by women that throw themselves at him and alcohol at all the time. But of course, Tegen is seriously devastated by this...and then goes into her own shell. Like I said, I can see why Tegen acted the way she did. She was loud, rash and angry - she becomes even more so angry when she's around Cage. I actually found it pretty humorous at times seeing these two together because they have such fiery tempers that every time they were together, it was pretty explosive. But when it's good, it's good. The sex is more than hot! The tense is more than great! And the relationship between these two is definitely not perfect, but it's freaking awesome! However, there was one part of their story I didn't like, and that was ZZ's involvement. I didn't feel it was necessary, nor do I think it was fair to ZZ. I felt for him in Unbeautifully and he's yet again dragged through the ringer this time around. I am however super excited for his story. I think it's going to be dark and dirty and I just can't wait!Now Dirty and Ellie - Ummmmm.....I had to think hard about this one. Dirty is one f**ked up guy, but for some reason the more I read of his story, the more I started to like him. I don't completely understand his and Ellie's relationship, I can't see how it could work with all his troubles but I do applaud Ellie for being her sweet self and falling in love with a guy with that many issues, and whose willing to try and make things work.In all, Unattainable comes with many ups and downs, it comes with beautiful moments and some very ugly moments too but, once you start reading you honestly won't be able to put it down! Well done Madeline Sheehan!! You rocked my world yet again!

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AN UNPREDICTABLE & UNSTOPPABLE LISTEN

Another gritty, raw and emotional book centred around the rough members of the Hell's Horsemen MC and they're mean, imperfect, damaged, foul-mouthed, sex crazed, broken and dangerous but, to their fellow brothers and the women and children they love, they can be obsessive, loyal, honest and true.

Tegan, the daughter of the Club's once resident whore, had a sweet natured childhood friend Cage, the son of the Club's President and, at 8 she had a crush on him, then by 16 it grew into undying love.... that is until he took her virginity then broke her heart and she's been angry at him, and life, ever since. Meeting handsome and drool-worthy Cage again brought back bad memories she'd rather forget but he's fed up of all the endless, faceless, nameless 'action' he's been getting and craves something but what? He soon finds out it's Tegan but he's got a lot of bridges to mend and she's got a lot of heartache, baggage, secrets and misunderstandings to get rid of before they can ever try to get their week by week HEA ending.

The sub plot of Dirty who's a broken, tortured, abused wreck of a man fighting and losing to demons from his childhood, comes to the aid of Ellie and their lives are challenged in more ways than one.... and someone's got to be 'put in the ground' because of it. This touching, tender and volatile secondary love story nearly stole the show.

This is another shocking tough-love drama romance where the heroes can cheat, lie, kill and die there's also conflicts, heartbreaks, drugs, sex and anger in an ugly world but within that world love, laughter passion, tender hearts and beauty can also be found. Deuce played the bad guy in this book which I didn't like but there was a shock or two for his character. Plenty of characters from previous books make their appearances too.

Worth a credit? This listen certainly isn't for everyone - but I loved it and found it very credit-worthy.

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Best in this series so far!

I'm totally a biker chic now! Cage & Tegen are HILARIOUS, seriously a toxic couple but it works for them. I am so hooked on this series, with this book being one of my favorites so far. There are moments when I'm literally cringing, but, these bikers and their relationships are packed with emotions, hot sex, and totally off the hook behavior.

The main thing I've enjoyed about the series so far is that the stories are about the lifetime of these characters, so there's quite a bit of ups and downs before getting to somewhat of a happy ending. There's so much packed into this book including supporting characters that are very interesting and provide just as much content to the story.

If you like romance with a really rough edge, this is a great book. Start from book 1, and sit back and enjoy. I highly recommend this book/series and can't wait for more!

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Love this series!!!

It draws you in and hooks you!!! Each book gives you a taste of the next book where you want to know more!!!!

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i liked half of it

T and Cage annoyed me. Dirty and Ellie, I liked a lot. their story was more flushed out that T& Cage's

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This one I didn’t like as much as the others

There was just way too much arguing and fighting and cussing in this book.
The bikers are supposed to be about family and brotherhood. I enjoyed the first couple books in the series. But this was not a book that I would listen to again. Too much anger and not enough story. w
I couldn’t really call it a romance
Cage and his woman spent most of the book fighting and hating each other.

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Tegen is a Damn Hypocrite and the Worst Character

Would you try another book from Madeline Sheehan and/or Tatiana Sokolov?

I would and I have. I love the Undeniable series, it is gritty, violent and actually realistic. This is probably my least favourite of all the books, mainly because Tegen is such a painful character.

I love Ellie and Dirty's story, it held me riveted, listening to every word with a sad heart. Dirty is such a badly damaged man, almost damaged beyond repair. You find out what made him the way he is and though you know he has done awful things, you understand it. Ellie wasn't the "here's some sunshine, now you're all better!" kind of character. She was understandably alarmed by Dirty and his dysfunction, but as she understands what has made him that way she feels the urge to try and help him. It isn't an easy road for either of them, but listening to them slowly over come the issues was really touching.

I only gave the book 3 stars as I found Tegen and Cage's story just too damn frustrating. Tegen isn't a cool, take-no-shit, strong female character. She is an immature, disrespectful and most of all HYPOCRYTICAL asshole. Every time she said something I felt like rolling my eyes and saying "Oh, just shut UP!" I honestly don't get why Cage is attracted to her at all. She is nasty, negative about every damn thing and spiteful. Tegen is constantly calling Cage a slut/ whore and stupid and fighting with him over the smallest, stupidest things. It's exhausting listening to her shit. Any self respecting person would have told her to fuck off already. I find it funny how she is talking shit about Cage, his club and how much she hates Bikers, yet she's been pining for Cage all those years and even when she moves away from the Club she starts fucking Zizi? That makes no sense.

It also irked me that Tegen was seemingly dumb to Zizi's feelings towards her when he outright told her that he wasn't sleeping with anyone else, only her. Then she goes and starts sleeping with Cage and getting ga-ga about him, not once thinking about Zizi.

Tegen is a hypocritical, dumb bitch who doesn't deserve the nice guy Cage becomes for her.

Would you recommend Unattainable to your friends? Why or why not?

Yes, because I really enjoyed Ellie and Dirty's story.

What does Tatiana Sokolov bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Tatiana Sokolov is a great narrator. She really gets into the emotions the characters are feeling and I really like her narration of male characters - she somehow manages to make them sound sexy!

Was Unattainable worth the listening time?

Yes it was, except for Tegen's parts. I sometimes skipped ahead.

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Tegen is disgusting.

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Sex, drugs and violence... Oh my!

Where does Unattainable rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

In this genre, among the highest. Again, in this genre... If the reader can listen without moral judgement, this series is a wild ride, one I'm glad I'm experiencing through my iphone and not actually living.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Can't pin it down to one. What I loved was how the story continues giving the perspective of the characters in the last book, avoiding telling an exclusive tale about one couple. Makes the club feel like a character, affecting the lives of everyone, including the main leads. Also like how flawed the characters are - more human. Violent, selfish, childish, often not even realizing they are and if they do, its done after severe damage has been caused. Each gaff seems to be a learning experience, making the characters grow - like real life.

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