Mary Catherine Gebhard

If Grayson and I are fated, then our fate is forbidden.Our happily ever after will only end one way...in heartbreak. Forbidden Fate is the third book in the Crowne Point universe. You need to have read Stolen Soulmate to read Forbidden Fate.

Forbidden Fate

Sara Uribe

REVISED 7/12/20

This book. This book messed me up. I’m telling you, fucked with my mind, kinda messed up.
 
What in the actual hell did I read?
 
Okay. Okay. I think I’m ready. I’ve literally taken three days to fully digest this book and I still don’t know what to say. Mary Catherine Gebhard you’ve truly made me speechless.
 
I thought I prepared myself for this book. I understand Mary’s writing abilities and what she can do with the story, so I really shouldn’t have been surprised by anything that happened. But I was left speechless. I was not expecting really anything that happened, especially that ending. No matter what you do to prepare yourself for this book, I don’t think anything would help. Definitely just go into it with an open mind. Don’t get me wrong I really love this book. I did. But there are many things that I can’t get into detail about without giving anything away that made me doc a star for my review. I love Mary’s writing. I get sucked into the worlds that she builds. I thought this was a great book, it just left me disappointed to say the least. Which I am really sad and slightly mad about because I’ve been waiting forever for this book. I really wish I could give this five stars and maybe a few weeks after this book is live for a while I can get into greater detail about why I didn’t give this five stars. I just really don’t wanna give it away for anybody. I had very high expectations for this book and it just didn’t hit that same level as Stolen Soulmate did.

ADDED 7/12/20: I don’t know what it is about this book that made me feel like I was just on a merry go round. I felt like I was going around and around and around with Gray and Story. Every fight, every conversation, basically anything that they did together was just the same conversation every freaking time. I really don’t get how there’s going to be another book after this one. I really just don’t understand it. I feel like everything could’ve been wrapped up in this book. I don’t see what the point of dragging this story out any longer and/or how it might help these characters progress. And what’s with the relationship with West and Story? Is she really going to be in any kind of relationship with him. Why would she ever think that being with him in the first place was a good option for her? And why didn’t she just leave and live on her own without any of them in the first place. She has the money to do it. Instead she stays with West? He treated her like complete shit when she was younger and even even now. He is sneaky and I mean for god sakes, he raped her when she was younger. I don’t get it. Am I the only one that sees it this way?

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I received an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Nouran Hazem

4.5 this is insane and do I really love this but can’t stop reading it ⭐️

Nouran

Néomi

Now I know why this couple's book a trilogy because it had a lot of drama and I sure love every minute of it even a part of my brain thinks some of it is completely unnecessary. I can't read it straight and have to take a few breaths before continuing. The angst? It was right there. Like. Every. Damn. Chapter. Tho I got tired at some point because the problems just never stops and the groveling scenes kinda getting repetitive but I still enjoy reading it. What also funny is that everyone in this family are stupid. Especially to the leading characters promising to themselves or whatever that they won't be their own shadow but they act like it since from the start. 🤣 Hello guys, you forgot emotional cheating exists! But Grayson and Story really nailed it and I love them!

Dani Edgin

Gutted Here, just take my heart that you just ripped out of my chest.

MCG ensnares once again with Forbidden Fate. I tore through this book, needing more after having been emotionally devastated byStolen Soulmate. I’m clearly a glutton for punishment, and was not disappointed by Forbidden Fate. 

Story & Grey are back, and everything is STILL a hot ass mess. FF is full of so much turmoil and heartache and D R A M A!!! So much drama, sometimes to the point of ridiculousness. I was an emotional, anxious mess the entire book, and absolutely lost my mind at the “twist”. 

Even with the way the book ended, I’ll (foolishly) keep hoping that my star crossed lovers will have the happy ever after they deserve🤞🏻

Lisa W.

I am at the top of the rollercoaster suspended in air, upside down with no way to get off this ride. Most reviews I see are disappointed that the saga continues but I can't share those exact sentiments. I am conflicted on how to feel. At the beginning of this book I was optimistic, towards the middle I was annoyed, now having reached the end I am speechless. The entire time I thought I would give the book a 3 but then I reached the 80% mark and shit hit the fan! 

Hats off to Mary Catherine Gebhard, she is a woman after the deep dark parts of my heart. This book truly goes to lengths that I never thought an author would go. She has written a book that I find myself hating and appreciating at the exact same time. How is it possible? 

Before Forbidden Fate started I had a thought of where I wanted it to go... Of course that's not at all what M.C. had in mind. She said, "I am the author, and you will take what I give you." - Very similar to Grayson . I had dreams of West being perfect and Story falling in love, her having to break his heart and running into the sun with Grayson, leaving Lottie and West to comfort each other as siblings. Boy was I utter wrong. 

I've said it before and I will say it again. Lottie is getting the absolute worst end of the stick.... let's not even call it a stick, it is a switch. This is par for the course of black women, which is the hardest part for me. I wish she weren't a black woman being put through the ringer; constantly being compared to another black woman. The looming victory of Story is the demise for Lottie. I should be ashamed to reading this and taking pleasure in certain parts while ignoring others. However I can honestly say, it is not until I write the review that I even think about Lottie as a person. She doesn't deserve any of the cards that life has dealt her. 

West. I don't even know how to put my thoughts of you into words. I always want more. I want a back story for his feud with Grayson. I want to know how he actually feels about Story. I want to see his relationship with his sister, his mother and his low down ass daddy. I want more! I know this isn't about him but rather the fraught love story of Grayson and Story but you can't add him into the mix and think I will ignore him. (Although I have ignored Lottie). Sometimes I root for him to win a battle, not the war but just a battle. Then he reminds me, like Story, I am caught up in what I believe him to be not seeing the strategy being his actions. Part of me wants her to keep you both. I appreciate two things that M.C. brings to light about his character. Can you really hate West when he in truth his balance between cruelty and care matches Grayson? I think not. Also I appreciate that M.C. made mention of West being thicker than Grayson.... he is a black man. I would hate to believe he was lacking in that department. 

I think my biggest pain point lied within Story. Not the fact that she is hot and cold between the two men. It's understandable that she is torn but the fact that she doesn't believe Grayson has only ever cared for her. He has never been the problem. I know as a character it is unrealistic that you would get to see all that he is doing behind the scenes to be with you. But so help me, I can't take another second of you mentioning "It's always been Lottie, he married her, he loves her, he only wants me as a mistress.." blah blah blah bull. I could scream! These men are moving heaven and earth to be with you, bruised knuckles and bloodied face, broken hearts, agony and embarrassed egos. Only for your to sit here having a damn pity party. GET OVER IT! You have always been the prize. WTF. 

Grayson. That's it. That's all I've got. You have stolen every single word, every thought, every thing. 

Although the scenes in Stolen Soulmate were better *except the one scene, you know which one I'm talking about* the words of Forbidden Fate were breath capturing. Favorite lines as follows. 

"You were mine before you were his. Angel" - Factual information
"I want to be civil because we are trapped in this hell together, but I don't want you to get confused. She comes first. She comes first, second, third. You could try for a thousand fucking years, and you wouldn't even break top ten." --- Absolute best line in the book!
"Get this through you head, Snitch. When you're with him, you're cheating on me." -- chills down my spine
"If this were a fairy tale, we would be the villains." 
"What do they say about glass houses" -- West dropped the mic and walked clean the hell away. *round of applause for him*
"Maybe I can't be my sister, maybe I can't ever leave this hell, but I can rule it." -- what a beautiful thought!

Forbidden Fate

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