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Vandal (Ashes & Embers Book 2) Kindle Edition

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Carian Cole brings you a twisty, sexy, emotional journey of trust, love, and healing.

She takes my breath away.

She’s so beautifully damaged.
A mirror of my own tortured soul.

I was powerless to stay away from her.

I was responsible for all the pain and grief that brought her to her knees in front of me.

Broken. Hopeless. Reckless in her agony.

But what I took away I can give back…in ways she cannot even begin to imagine.
Ways that I can’t stop thinking about.

Together we spun a tangled web of lust and need. Power and submission. And dare I say... trust and love.

We’re everything right in all our wrongs.

We found redemption. We found happiness. A chance for a new beginning.

But... she has no idea I’m the one who destroyed her life.

Author's note: Vandal has D/s themes. None of the other books in this series have D/s or dark themes. Vandal is a stand-alone with a happy ending, but this book can be skipped in the series.

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Ashes & Embers
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Joe Arden's narration has been described as "sensual," "sexy," and "hot." His recordings range from sweet and romantic to steamy and raw. In his spare time, Joe raises and trains rescue pitbulls and restores vintage motorcycles.

Maxine Mitchell is passionate about animals, traveling, coffee, a good bottle of wine, and great stories. Raised an Army brat, she had a mobile childhood (affording her the opportunity to meet people from many different backgrounds) that she would not trade for anything. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

Carian Cole is the author of the Ashes & Embers series, which includes the novels Storm, Vandal, Lukas, and Talon. Born and raised in New Jersey, she now lives in New Hampshire with her husband and a multitude of pets. Visit her at cariancolewrites.com.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00TZ8A0O4
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Carian Cole (23 February 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2923 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 314 pages

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Wendy Smith

Vandal

Reviewed in Australia on 21 July 2023

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Carian Cole has outdone herself with Vandal, he is so hot, sexy and wild. Makes a girl want to be Vandalised lol. I absolutely loved Vandal and Tabitha’s story ❤️❤️❤️ It’s a heartbreaker for sure. Such a tragic experience leads them to be together and when Tabitha learns Vandal’s secret she is numb, not knowing what, when or why. 100% recommend this book to everyone ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ you won’t be disappointed 😎

Reviewed in Australia on 27 April 2023

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Another binge read ahead, I was invested in the story and the characters.
It deals with so many emotional scenes that it result in a binge of ugly crying.

My only negative was the D/s side of it. I’ve read a lot of books on this genre and I felt this could have been portrayed better.

It’s a yes from me.

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Jo

a collision course

Reviewed in Australia on 9 March 2015

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All throughout this book, I was waiting for the truth to be revealed. I was blown away at the end with Tabitha's confession. This was book was a story full of pain and angst and haunting in many respects. Despite the heartbreaking moments it was a great story and one I wish that the end had a little more about them as a "couple". Looking forward to Lukas story! I found this book way more interesting than Storm so hoping that my expectations are exceeded again.

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Beyond the Pages Charli

Vandal and Tabitha

Reviewed in Australia on 14 November 2023

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A steamy read for Vandal and Tabi but I wanted more despair and heartache from them as a couple... particularly given the loss they have both suffered.

Reviewed in Australia on 1 October 2016

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OMG this was amazing, I could reread it immediately!! what a spunk

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Sandra R

Rock star romance - dark

Reviewed in Australia on 3 February 2022

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I'm a bit conflicted by this book. It's dark and dramatic (which I enjoyed), with lots of possible triggers for some and many disturbing scenes. The author has dabbled with cutting, alcoholism, drugs, rock bands, motorbikes and BDSM. Not sure that they all needed to be lumped together in one story though, as it felt a bit like putting too many eggs in one basket. The kitten was adorable.

I would have appreciated a slow burn romance for this tragic couple, instead of insta lust after two seconds. It's a heartbreaking story and very confronting. I listened to the audio version and it was beautifully narrated by Joe Arden and Maxine Mitchell. I also wish narrators could read the male/female dialogue as it stands - no matter who is narrating the POV chapter - rather than changing their voices; that would be way better. However, when I heard the ending, a lot of the story made so much more sense. I wavered between 3 and 5 stars throughout.

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Ashy Walker

Twisted reading with lots of anticipation

Reviewed in Australia on 4 February 2019

Not your usual BDSM or dark romance that's for sure, so many times during this book I was internally screaming "what the heck are you doing?".
This story is heartbreaking, dark, a little twisted and just a really great read.
I wanted to uncover all the characters secrets and I love how some aren't revealed to you until the end. While you're agonising about the secrets you know and waiting for them to be uncovered and see the reaction. You don't actually expect the ones they reveal to you in the end. Gosh such a thrilling read and nothing usual about it. Definitely worth the read

Reviewed in Australia on 26 July 2018

So I never considered that I would enjoy a D/s book quite so much. The story is heart breaking and heart warming at the same time. I love how there are surprises in how Lucas and Asha feature in the story too. At first I wasn't sure I would like Vandal BUT decided that even with the authors write up I would push through to the end. Boy I am so glad I did. Cannot wait to keep reading more from Carian Cole and see what she does next.

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Yours Truly, Diana

Better Find Your Lovin'

Reviewed in Germany on 13 December 2021

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I don't have a lot to say about this book mainly because I said it all in my tears while reading it. I didn't think it would go where it went, and HELL, it hurt so much. I felt so sad for these characters! I hurt so much for the hero. The heroine. The cat. Carian Cole took my broken heart and trampled all over it - and holy moly, it was worth it. This relationship is inconvenient, definitely ruffling feathers. The hero is not really likable. He's not fun. Carian says so herself. But he deserves love nonetheless. A whole lot of kinky love. And who doesn't like a fictional man with abandonment issues. Deep inside, he's got a man who needs loving too. So yeah. This book was everything I didn't know I needed to read today!

Diane McWhinnie

Another good read

Reviewed in Canada on 16 October 2016

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Wow, this one was a little different from Storm, the story line a little on the crazy side but still a great read. The characters both grieving for their lost loves, find away to bond, and make it work....well at least as much as it can for two damaged people. But once again Carian manages to keep you turning the pages because really you need to find out how it all ends up. I reallY enjoyed this book as well...Let's see what book 3 is all about....

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Lisa

5 “Get Vandalized” Stars!

Reviewed in the United States on 7 March 2015

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5 “Get Vandalized” Stars!

“Loving me will not be easy, loving me will be war. You will hold the gun and I will hand you the bullets. So breathe, and embrace the beauty of the massacre that lies ahead.” ~R. M. Drake

Vandal is book two in Carian Cole’s Ashes & Embers series. I became a fan of this author upon reading book one in this series and discovered that she could pen a humorous and witty tale with an edge. With this second installment Carian Cole took that edginess to a whole new level and what we get is a raw, ugly, gritty, painful and gut-wrenching story. It was powerful and I was enthralled. Two individuals tied together and united by one twisted and devastating tragedy. Both are destroyed. Can they be the each other’s saviour and the one brings the other out from under the ashes?

“I like to hurt people; I always have. I want them to feel the pain that I feel and the disappointments I’ve been forced to feel. That just seems fair to me.”

Vandal Valentine, bass player for the band Ashes & Embers and sizzling hot tattoo artist, has always been more than a little messed up. With a harsh childhood and upbringing Vandal has learned to embrace his darkness. He’s broken, self-destructive and music, pain and women seem to be his outlets of choice. He’s never been one to want commitment and has gone from one meaningless relationship or encounter to another. With trust issues and substance abuse problems, Vandal is no poster boy for the sane and well-adjusted. One devastatingly catastrophic incident sends Vandal further into a tailspin of despair.

Tabitha Bennett is a broken shell of the woman she once was. She was once someone who lived life to the fullest, someone that liked the small things in life like cookies and ice cream. All that changed in the blink of an eye. Tabitha is now on the verge of despair, she is ravished and barely hanging on by a thread. Her happiness is now a distant memory. It all changes when a sexy, long-haired dark angel offers her something she had no idea she was looking for.

“The ties that bind us to one another may not always be visible. But they’re there like thin, transparent veins. I don’t know why, but this is one vein I don’t want to slit.”

Vandal and Tabitha essentially are parallel mirrors of one another when it comes to their agonized and tortured souls. They are both reckless in different ways and any hope they had has long disappeared into the distant mirage of what was once their lives. Vandal can’t seem to stay away from Tabitha and is drawn in by her own darkness and “sensual innocence”. She becomes this craving that he needs in his life, a wrong that he needs to make right. Tabitha and Vandal are tragically linked and if there ever was a relationship destined to fail it would most definitely be theirs. With this damaging connection between the two of them, secrets and lies, together they will embark on a sinfully dark and erotic journey that will ultimately test their limits and perhaps be the key to set them free.

“I don’t know s** about love and romance, but I know that true submission goes far deeper than love. It gives more; it takes more. Love is fragile and can be destroyed. Submission is strong and only strengthens with time. Love leaves people weak and devastated, as she is now. Submission heals and awakens. Submission is love on f**** steroids.”

*****

“He is a drug that I cannot get enough of. A little is never enough; I always need and want more.”

Vandal takes Tabitha on this dark and enticing voyage into the world of submission. It was something they both needed. Vandal needed to control and to give back while Tabitha simply needed to let go. The BDSM elements in this story were very well done in my opinion. The exchanges between Vandal and Tabitha were powerful and all-consuming. They both did not necessarily end up where they thought they would; however, Vandal and Tabitha slowly begin to put the pieces of themselves back together.

I can’t help but be vague when it comes to this review and my interpretation of this book. It is a hauntingly beautiful story that will rip your heart to shreds and it is also one that you need to experience for yourself without any misguided interpretations and spoilers. I really did not expect Vandal to be the book that it turned out to be. After reading Storm I was expecting something more or less the same. Well, color me surprised. What Carian Cole has provided to her reader with this book is angsty torment at its best.

All in all, Vandal (and frankly the first book in this series as well) is a must read. This is a series that has taken me by surprised and I am well and truly hooked. I will patiently be awaiting Lukas, the next book in this series. Carian Cole, I do hope you write fast!

“Our love will never be pretty. It will always be tarnished by the past and we will carry those scars forever.”

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A Brown

Tabitha and vandal

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2024

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This story was so powerful, the emotions expressed and portrayed in this book was fantastic.
Two people suffering with grief, loss and gulit collide into each other past.
Great writing couldn't put this book down highly recommend.

Amjedi

Wow!

Reviewed in the United States on 6 May 2015

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I'm not sure how I feel about this book. This is the story of Vandal, the sexy, brooding member of the Ashes and Embers band and Tabitha. Van meets Tabitha at a cemetery where she is grieving over the death of her husband. In a cruel twist of fate, Tabitha's husband was killed in a car accident by Van, who was driving and fell asleep at the wheel. Tragically, his daughter was also killed in this crash. Reeked with enormous guilt, Van is drinking and drugging his life away and is forced to take.a sabbatical from the band.

After seeing Tabitha at the cemetery a few times, Van ends up taking Tabitha away to a vacation home he has for a month where he introduces her to some soft BDSM to help ease her pain over her grief. Before long, they both start to develop deep feelings for each other but Van is also deathly afraid she will find out that he is responsible for her husband's death.

This book is very intense and erotic. I don't really like BDSM books and although I intellectually feel it's fine between two consenting adults, in my heart I think it can be emotionally abusive and demeaning, which I really don't get. But I kept on reading the book bc I wanted to see what happened to this couple when Tabitha found out the truth. While this is not something I could personally participate in and Van was dead wrong for not being able to be honest with her up front, this is still a love story, albeit a really different one.

The book has a real surprising twist at the end; I wont give it away but I definitely didn't see that coming. I think this is a book you will either love or hate, I found I couldn't put it down and ultimately , that's a sign of a well written story so I'm giving it 4 stars. The book doesn't end on a cliffhanger but the story of Van and Tabitha definitely isn't over, so I would say it ends on a TBC and I definitely plan to read the next book about Lukas and hope there is another book about Van and Tabitha.

Side bar complaint: the covers of both Storm and Vandal look like the same person; Van is supposed to look like a Native American and the model on the cover DOES NOT look Native American!!!!

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