It Ain't Me, Babe
By Tillie Cole
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Sinning never felt so good...
A fortuitous encounter.
A meeting that should never have happened.
Many years ago, two children from completely different worlds forged a connection, a fateful connection, an unbreakable bond that would change their lives forever...
Salome knows only one way to live—under Prophet David’s rule. In the commune she calls home, Salome knows nothing of life beyond her strict faith, nor of life beyond the Fence—the fence that cages her, keeps her trapped in an endless cycle of misery. A life she believes she is destined to always lead, until a horrific event sets her free.
Fleeing the absolute safety of all she has ever known, Salome is thrust into the world outside, a frightening world full of uncertainty and sin; into the protective arms of a person she believed she would never see again.
River ‘Styx’ Nash knows one thing for certain in life—he was born and bred to wear a cut. Raised in a turbulent world of sex, Harleys, and drugs, Styx, unexpectedly has the heavy burden of the Hades Hangmen gavel thrust upon him, and all at the ripe old age of twenty-six—much to his rivals’ delight.
Haunted by a crushing speech impediment, Styx quickly learns to deal with his haters. Powerful fists, an iron jaw and the skillful use of his treasured German blade has earned him a fearsome reputation as a man not to be messed with in the shadowy world of outlaw MC’s. A reputation that successfully keeps most people far, far away.
Styx has one rule in life—never let anyone get too close. It’s a plan that he has stuck to for years, that is, until a young woman is found injured on his lot... a woman who looks uncannily familiar, a woman who clearly does not belong in his world, yet a woman he feels reluctant to let go...
Contemporary Romance/New Adult Novel.
Contains sexual situations, violence, sensitive and taboo subjects, offensive language and mature topics. Recommended for age 18 years and up*
Tillie Cole
Tillie Cole hails from a small town in the North-East of England. She grew up on a farm with her English mother, Scottish father and older sister and a multitude of rescue animals. As soon as she could, Tillie left her rural roots for the bright lights of the big city. After graduating from Newcastle University, Tillie followed her Professional Rugby player husband around the world for a decade, becoming a teacher in between and thoroughly enjoyed teaching High School students Social Studies for seven years. Tillie has now settled in Calgary, Canada, where she is finally able to sit down and write, throwing herself into fantasy worlds and the fabulous minds of her characters. Tillie writes Contemporary Romance, Dark Romance, Young Adult and New Adult novels and happily shares her love of alpha-male leading men and strong female characters with her readers. When she is not writing, Tillie enjoys dancing, singing, reading, horse riding, listening to music or spending time with friends and family. Her books include Raze, Reap, and Ravage.
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Reviews for It Ain't Me, Babe
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/54.5 stars! It's a win for the biker book. I'm going to just go ahead and predict that if this turns into a series it could rival the Undeniable series. (My fave MC series) It was just as grimy, dark and wrong in so many ways. And I loved it! Certain parts actually made my stomach hurt but I powered through because I'm just that kind of twisted. I did have issues with some of the character development which is why it didn't get a full 5 star rating but damn...it was still a good story. There are so many sequel and spin off possibilities that could really take the Hangman MC to a new level!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5one of my new favorite books. I can't wait to read more.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5If you like Sons of Anarchy this is the book for you!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5AMAZING!!! Styx handsome, gruff and rugged full of raw power and Mae's timid but strong character and beauty... Such a beautifully written MC romance!!! I enjoyed it thoroughly!!! I'd really like to know Flame's story, his past and possible future with maddie!!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love this book! wish it were a series!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved it.. I want more! :-)
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really liked this book (and the second one in the series; I haven't read the third yet). This book is a lot darker than many contemporary romance novels, and some of the thematic issues are...squicky. But I thought that the story and the characters were very interesting, and that the dark material lent depth to both. The only thing that annoyed me (hence the 4/5 stars) was they way the men in the MC refereed to all women as "bitches". According to the glossary at the beginning of the book, it's meant as a term of endearment, but it's pretty hard to not think of that word in a negative way.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This was... Not worth the time I spent to download it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hoping there is a second book!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5amazing
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I very much liked this book. the characters are real and we'll developed. The plot consistent and we'll written. it's like reading son's of anarchy. I love that show :) my only thing is they use the word "B" a lot.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5oh I think I'm love with this Sutherland read two of her books straight now I love how she has her own style and her story's are always so unique!!!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5love this book everything was so good
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Wow, I really, really did not enjoy this. Two stars because I read it very quickly and the writing wasn't terrible but I did not have a good time.
First off, to get some pettier complaints on the way, the Texan dialect in this book was terrible. It seemed to me that Cole, who I believe is British, didn't really understand the grammatical rules of a southern dialect and it made for some sentences that, as a southerner, were physically painful to read.
"I weren’t d-dealin’ with shit like a Prez shoulda."
This sentence makes no sense; this is not a correct sentence, even in the dialect. It makes me think that Cole thinks Texan dialect is just English with bad grammar and it's not. There were also some parts that made me think that Cole thinks that the KKK and neo-nazis are the same. There's definitely some overlap in their beliefs but they are not the same.
I was having a really hard time suspending my disbelief with some elements of this relationship. Mae goes from knowing absolutely nothing about the outside world to being okay with being in a relationship with Styx within weeks despite the horrible sexual abuse she went through. For how long this book is, there's no excuse for her trauma to be acknowledged more explicitly. I've read four other books by Cole with traumatic themes and dark characters but I thought it was handled a bit better in those books. I know that Cole writes stories with love-at-first-sight elements but I don't think that should be an excuse to not deal with the dark themes she puts in her books.
I also hated the love triangle in this story. It felt like Mae was having a very weird reaction to Rider and I just didn't really understand her thought process at all. It seemed like it was an attempt to lay the groundwork for things that happened later in the book and I think that really didn't work. This book was really long and I think the elements with the love triangle could have been cut back to improve the pacing of this book. It also took away focus from the relationship between Mae and Styx and I do think it meant that the relationship was still underdeveloped by the end of the book.
I also don't really like stories where love fixes some disability one of the characters has. In this book, Mae magically improved Styx's stutter. I think this is a pretty bad idea about how disability worked and the idea that some perfect person can "fix" you. I didn't realize how central this theme was to the plot and it really affected my enjoyment.
I've liked Tillie Cole's dark romance in the past but this one came out a bit earlier so I think she's improved since this book come out. I don't anticipate continuing this series. There is the potential for there to be some interesting themes explored in this series but I just don't think this series is for me. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5best MC book ever!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love this book
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm very picky with my MC books, and this is one of the best!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This isn't my first Tillie Cole book, so I knew that I wasn't going to get something that was all light and fluffy. I settled myself in for something dark, intense, twisted, and maybe even unsettling at times. I was not disappointed. Tillie Cole can write the frak out of a book.
Mae is on the run from the twisted, terrible cult that she was raised in. She's been told all her life that she's one of the Cursed, a woman created too beautiful, one who will tempt men beyond reason. She ends up running away on her 23rd birthday because she's been told that she had to marry the fat old pervert who runs the cult she belongs to. On her way out, she gets attacked by a dog and is bleeding. When a nice woman picks her up, Mae gets the woman to drop her near a compound in Austin, TX so that she can hide. She curls up, and slowly starts to bleed out.
Styx is the Hangman's Mute. He has a severe stutter, so he really only speaks to one living person, and 3 people in his whole life. So, Styx uses ASL and his best friend Ky to interact with the world. Since his father died a year ago, he's been the Prez of the Hades Hangmen. While he's never been short of available women, there is only one female he ever thinks about, and that's a wolf-eyed little girl that he met 15 years ago. She was behind a fence, but he could talk to her. She was the 3rd person in the whole world that the python around his throat loosened enough to talk to.
When Mae comes to, she's in Styx's bedroom, being doctored. When she leaves the room, she sees Styx, and he recognizes her eyes. And thus, everything starts.
There are a lot of interesting things that go on in this book. There are all kinds of things going on in the background, some we see, more that we don't. One of the biggest twists I had no idea was coming, which well, duh, that's what makes it a twist, but I didn't even get a hint of it coming, and sometimes I can see what's going on. The upcoming books are going to be interesting, especially with who I think one of the couples is going to be. I'm not entirely sure how that's going to work, so I'm definitely going to have to read it and find out. - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Confusing plot and one dimensional characters
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