This review may contain spoilers, so fair warning, upon reading the review.

Book Evaluation:
Plot: 🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️
World Building:🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎
Cover:📔📔📔📔📔
Hero: 🦸🏻🦸🏻🦸🏻🦸🏻🦸🏻
Heroine:🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️
Intimacy Level: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Relationship Building: 💒💒💒💒💒
Heart & Feels:💞💞💞💞💞
Witty/Banter/Reaction of Laughter: 😂😂😂
Page Turner Level:📖📖📖📖📖
Ending:🧧🧧🧧🧧🧧
Overall View: ✨✨✨✨.5

First Impressions
Damnable Grace is the fifth installment in the "Hades Hangmen" series and in this one we have a story of redemption and healing and going through PTSD trauma and trying to work through that. I honestly just jumped into this one, I knew from teasers from the previous book that it would be about the KKK and how the cults of the sisters would be connected to it, but boy, Tillie Cole really stepped up her game with this one. It was wildly intense and really pushes the boundaries. I really thought I had my boundaries solid for this one but I just wasn't expecting what we deal with here. I highly recommend paying attention to the trigger warnings that I am sure the author has on her site because its wild in this book and intense and might be a bit too much for some.

First Line
"I'm going to be a Marine!"

Summary
In Damnable Grace, we have a story of a ex sniper Marine veteran and a young woman used as a sex slave. Sister Phebe has only known the cult life and she has been used a their whore for years since she was ten years old. But despite what she has gone through, she still has a fighting spirit and one of grace and love. She is being trained as the leader for a man who believes himself to be the leader of the KKK as well as the Aryan Brotherhood, Meister. But then she is saved by a man who has kind eyes and gives her hope for a new life, a life she has never imagined but wants to life desperately. But even when hope and love enter her grasp, both Phebe and AK will have to deal with their trauma and realize that healing takes time and doesn't get recovered from overnight. But with each other, they are able to aid each other through the process of redemption and acceptance...

What I Loved
There was so much to love about Damnable Grace. These books really can be tough for any reader but especially if you are new to the MC world, this author really writes them super gritty. So I wouldn't necessarily recommend them if you don't like women being termed as "Bitches" it can sometimes bother me how this author writes it, but honestly I have learned to just replace the word with women or females most of the time. I do love how she incorporates the cult life with the MC world and crafts it in such a way that leaves you wanting more and by the end of the book, you are a hot mess of feelings and heart. There is something about how Tillie Cole is so effortlessly able to deliver deep emotion. And most especially in the later half of this book, this author had me all over the place with my feels. Seeing AK and Phebe find each other, and slowly work through their past and what they have suffered was so intense at times. I did appreciate that the author doesn't just magically heal the wounds. That from the style in which she writes these books, its healing that obviously take time to overcome. But be ready for a wild ride on this one.

What I Struggled With
There was one section of the story I really struggled with where the heroine does something really stupid. I was like thinking why on earth are you doing this? And of course worse things happen after she makes this decision. So I get that she was so secluded and wasn't educated or anything but still why couldn't she just trust AK to help locate her daughter?

Overall View
Damnable Grace is a intense, leap off the pages emotion, delivering all the fields and intensity that only this author is capable of in one book. Its wild, dramatic and an intense tale of healing and grace....

Favorite Quote(s)
“Think of your face like the sky. The freckles, the stars, only make the sight more worth looking at.”

Book Details (also in my shelves)
Sub Genre: Dark Romance, Suspense, Contemporary
Character Types: Bikers
Themes: Tear Jerker, MC, Danger, PTSD

Book Perspective
duo POV

Relationship Conflict vs Plot Conflict
A Mix of both

Recommendation For Reading Order
Yes I highly recommend reading these in order if possible

Steam/Spice Explanations

Steamin' up the room -the sexual content is more explicit in the language and tone, heavier amount of sexual scenes. ( )

DNF
Too dark! I really struggled. Might as well add trigger warning to those who are easily disturbed by some scenes and themes in this book. I mean it's excellent character development and story building, I just couldn't stomach it. Apolgies. ( )

Another excellent entry in the Hades Hangmen series. Tillie Cole's books are so intense and dark and twisted and are good at screwing with your head. I binge read these books and just couldn't wait to read them, and yet, when I was done, I was sad that I had finished. It's kind of a Catch-22.

Phebe is Liliah's blood sister. She was also a harlot for the order. She would go out and have sex with guys to drag them into the cult. When Judah saw her, he decided that he wanted her as his primary consort, right up until he didn't anymore and handed her over to Meister, the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood and a sadistic SOB who is into all kinds of terrible things. Now she just prays for him to be done quickly and to give her another dose of potion so she doesn't have to remember or feel any pain.

AK was a Marine but then a personal tragedy pushed him from his path as a Marine sniper to a sniper for Hades Hangmen. When he went with his brothers to rescue Lilah from the cult, her sister Phebe was there. Instead of killing her, he tied her to a tree. He hasn't been able to get her freckles and red hair out of his mind since. When they find out that there is a chance to go get her, he signs up. The problem is that she's currently in Hell and he's going to have to figure out how to go there and how to bring her out.

OMG, I didn't think anyone or anything could be worse than the cult or Judah, but I was wrong. I'm pretty sure that Meister and his little town of pasty Nazis are scarier. They are terrifying and they don't even have the excuse of God made me do it. I have to say, every one of them that got got deserved everything that they got.

I was so glad to see that Phebe was able to get out and be safe and be safe with her family. ( )

AK and Phebe

I love this series. So great to see AK finally beginning to heal and see his love for Phebe. Can't wait for the next one! ( )

5 stars

In every book the author works on another aspect of the aftermath of what these women live through and somehow always finds a male with the same issues only in a different way. It is the yin and yang of healing the broken and making them whole. Mind blowing how she does this.

This might be my favorite of the series. AK and Phebe. It was still harsh but I liked that AK didn't reference her as a "B" nearly as much. It's okay every now and then but I'd love it if they even replace it with the word woman. ( )