Kincaid

Cerberus MC Series, Book 1

By: Marie James

Narrated by: Kasha Kensington, Aaron Shedlock

Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins

Publisher's Summary

I am Emmalyn Mikaelson.

My husband, in a rage, hit me in front of the wrong person. Diego, or Kincaid to most, beat the hell out of him for it. I left with Diego anyway. Even though he could turn on me just like my husband did, I knew I had a better chance of survival with Diego. That was until I realized Kincaid could hurt me so much worse than my husband ever could. Physical pain pales in comparison to troubles of the heart.  

I am Diego "Kincaid" Anderson.

She was a waitress at a bar in a bad situation. I brought her to my clubhouse because I knew her husband would kill her if I didn't. Now she has my protection and that of the Cerberus MC. I never expected her to become something more to me. I was in more trouble than I've ever been in before, and that's saying a lot considering I served eight years in the Marine Corp with Special Forces.

Contains mature themes.

©2016 Marie James (P)2019 Tantor

where is chapter 23?

Chapter 23 missing. it repeats Chapter 21. so sad to think what I am missing. 🙁

✫✫ 4 Stars ✫✫

I love a good guy MC series!
I will admit that the story is a little to much insta-love or insta-attraction for my taste but I still enjoyed it very much. I loved that these guys were mercenaries and an MC instead of the usually illegal gun selling, drug smuggling MC books I normally see. Diego was my favorite think about this book because I love a good Bad-Boy! Can't wait to check out book 2.

The narration was FANTASTIC! Aaron Shedlock had the perfect voice for this type of book. I love his gravely deep voice! Kasha did a good job too.

Kincaid

I loved this book from start to the very end, it draws you in slowly without being boring. Granted the main female was annoying me like hell with jumping to conclusions. But it came together very well I’m gonna buy the books in the series.

Romance...

I'm not sure why this book got such bad reviews. It's an MC Club of X military men, why do they need to be anything but, caring strong men who fight for women's safety and have a lot of sex and party. I really enjoyed this book and the narration was spot on, I love Aaron Shedlocks voice. Worth a credit, at least I think so....

Goodness, this is sexy!

I read the book on KU and loved it so much when I finished it I bought both the book and the audio. Putting a voice to Diego makes his character so much more sexy. Kasha and Aaron gave perfect depictions to the characters of Em and Diego. Excellent job on the voice artists and Marie James created such an incredible world for these extra hot and surprisingly compassionate characters.

Poor character development!

This novel could have been so much better. In my opinion, the author did a poor job of constructing believable characters. For example, the Heroine starts out as an abused women preparing for her escape; resolute, strong and determined to make a change. When she gets her chance, she changes into an immature, weak minded, abuse victim falling into an abuse pattern. Then she shows glimpses of being a former abuse victim that has a 180* view on life and relationships, just to immediately go back to a victim pattern. It would have been more believable if she evolved from a victim to the 180* turn to emotionally healthy and capable of a healthy relationships. Instead she comes across as being a willing participant of multiple personality disorder. The Hero is also a contradiction. He starts as a mature, war survivor who has shut down his emotions as a survival response to PTSD to an emotionally vulnerable wimp who take any abuse by a woman, because he can’t live without this woman. Then he goes back and forth with these characters. His initial character change happens in a 30 minute time period, in the plot.

Instead of feeling empathy and becoming emotionally invested into the plot and characters, I found myself feeling annoyed and whiplashed.

I won’t ever listen to this book again, I struggled to get through it the first time, therefore, I will be returning it.
-V from Kansas

Emmalyn and Diego/Kincaid

This was an enjoyable book. I really liked Kincaid and how he went on missions to rescue trafficked people. He saved Emmalyn from an abusive husband when he sees him beating her. He ends up wanting her for himself. There was a club woman who wanted Kincaid and tried to cause trouble by showing up in his bed. The ending is good but I expected more with the couple. I am glad that there are other books in the series available on Audible and I hope that this couple appears in them. Kasha Kensington and Aaron Shedlock did a great job with the narration.

Triggers Abuse

Well written book and great narrating. This 1st book sets the pace for the series.

Herione not for me

the story had promise but she was not my type of female lead.... too weak and doesn't stand by HER man

Well performed, kept my interest

Every time I listen to a new book read by Aaron Shedlock, I enjoy his narration more. I love the way he brought the MC to life and thought Kasha Kensington did a great job as well. This story started out with a bang, giving insight into the special abilities the club made a living with. I thought the way Diego and Emmalyn met was cute and enjoyed watching them slowly build their relationship. There were a couple times Emmalyn made decisions that made me want to shake her, but other times I was cheering and her confidence grew. I really enjoyed the way the author created her world, focusing on just a few characters, but dropping plenty of breadcrumb characters to comeback and pickup later.

Brilliant

I was pulled into this book right from the get go, which is where I stayed until I had read every single word that was written all the while I had it playing out in my head like a little mini movie.
There are twists, turns and surprises through out this book. Some of the surprises you may see coming and others you might not, some of the surprises are large, while others are small, but each and everyone has equal importance in the book and help to make the book the fantastic read that it is.
I went on a bit of an emotional rollercoaster ride with this book, I did cry, so if you are anything like me you might want to have your tissues available to be on the safe side. Each and every emotion that the characters go through can be felt and some will even pull on your heart strings. I went through the emotions with the characters. For me personally if I go through what the characters are going through, I usually enjoy the book better.
There was a time or two I wanted to reach into the book and smack a couple of the characters, but they redeemed themselves.
I loved every single word that was written about this book.
I highly recommend this book, this series and this author. If you haven't read anything by Marie James you are missing out on a wonderful experience.

Great start

to a great series of books. Aaron Shedlock & Kasha Kensington’s narrations fit with the characters quite well. An enjoyable audiobook

Really enjoyed this book

Loved this book and the story line, Would happily recommend for others to read\ listen too.

Ironic nonsense

Mercenaries go to save women in other countries kidnapped to be sex workers, then celebrate their success with sex workers?? The female MC goes to Victoria Secrets (owned by friend of Epstein) to buy something sexy "to wear under her clothes" - isn't her skin sexy enough for her man for their first time? Even though the narration is excellent it's not possible to get past the constant ironies even in a fiction story. DISAPPOINTING

Fantastic

Loved it nice to listen to an mc book with no criminals, and lots of alpha heros

Brilliant

Loved it carn't wait to start the next chapter in the series , hope to here more of their story in the next chapter as i felt the end came too soon