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Ironside Academy, Book 3

By: Jane Washington

Narrated by: Jennifer Sterling

Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

As friends become enemies and enemies become villains, the Ironside underbelly casts a very wide shadow over everyone within its walls.

The academy that once promised Isobel Carter salvation has pulled back the curtain and revealed itself for what it truly is: A pretty little prison.

She may have been reduced to a puppet behind a screen, but at least the Alphas of Dorm A are there to heighten her performances, quicken her breath, and flood her face with color for the cameras. Maybe they will even catch her when she falls. Or maybe they have been pulling the strings all along.

The bars of her prison may be gilded, but survival is a messy game, and what do Sigmas do when they can’t keep their hands clean? They get filthy. Beware the pretty monsters, because this social media game just got brutal.

©2023 Jane Washington (P)2024 Jane Washington

SIGMA NOOOOO!

Firstly, I dislike the harem genre because important female traits tend to get lost and smothered in male testosterone. With that said, I am finding it difficult to see this female MC as a heroine and not a constant victim that make the story unbearable at times for me. Don’t get upset this is merely my opinion. For reasons I can’t reconcile, I abhor weakness in my gender in whatever form it’s expressed: So the Sigma fragility, her lack of control, confidence, lack of a backbone and inability to dispel unwanted alpha commands in important situations tend to trigger my inner Xena Warrior Princess. Her mother was broken and damaged and taught her daughter how to be the same type of woman. The kind I find detestable. Don’t get me wrong, there were moments I celebrated in the book when I saw a bit of steel/black widow in the MC but those moments were fleeting. Towards the end, I thought that the MC was finally becoming something more. Something new. Someone fierce and strong to rival the alphas but alas that was a stupid hope: I am curious about the overall direction of the story. b/ c of the ridiculous amount of issues the MC seem to be drowning in. I am hoping to see a new cunning,, unbound and empowered heroine instead of a subjugated, victimized and fragile person forced to conform and submit to politically correct societal standards and stereotypes in that world. So until the next twisted episode of a broken Sigma at Ironside Academy I will be waiting.

The cliffhangers are going to kill me

When Jane said “if it’s kinky it will be in these books” I didn’t know she meant ALL THINGS KINK hahaha. This book was hot, emotional, funny and soul crushing. Illy and her 10 men are finally getting closer emotionally as well as physically and I am HERE FOR IT!

Love the story development

Jane Washington never fails to keep me on my toes with her stories. I’m looking forward to the next book.

This is why we don’t start unfinished series!

I cannot handle this! Honestly, why do I do this to myself? I just binge read 3 books in fewer than three days and now I have to wait for book 4. Additionally, we aren’t 100% sure how many books there will be. Rant over.

It’s getting easier to keep the characters organized in my head. Who’s who, first and last name, ability and how they fit into the group. With Eleven main characters (and not nearly enough fanart) it was difficult to keep them straight in my head.
I love the super slow burn, the intense world building, the behind the scenes politics.