Sin and Tonic

As expected there is so much going on this book. The little things, as always, just crushed it for me. I love the interactions of Kane and Kel. And the moments between Miki and Brigid -- just all the feels.

It's bittersweet that this is the last, but it wrapped things up so well. Not perfectly, because these books are always underlined with a gritty reality that make perfect not quite right.

I received a review eArc from the author. I loved this book - it’s the last book in the Sinners Gin series and it closes out Miki and Kane’s storyline well. I admit I was skeptical about finding out about Miki’s parentage but the way Rhys Ford wrote it - it made complete sense. I listened to a podcast she did with WillandJeff and she stated during editing they added words and chapters vice taking them away and it was a great decision since the book really flowed well and was rich in details but not so much where the storyline was lost. I’m sad this is the last of the novels but I’m really happy that it ended on a great book. I know when I reread the series it will have a satisfying ending and you can’t ask for more than that. Thank you and I’m looking forward to the audio book too. Since I have all the other books in ebook and audio. Awesome book and a great finale. Definitely 5 stars.

As you may recall "Absynthe of Malice" ended on a bit of a cliffhanger. Edie came to Miki and Kane, and told them she'd been approached by a woman who claimed to have information about Miki's mother (no, not Brigid, his current Mom, but the woman who gave birth to Miki).

Miki's first decision, though it actually takes place off-page, is if he wants to meet this woman or not. Does he want to know anything about the piece of his life before going into the nightmare of his foster-kid-do. Does Miki want to know about the part of his life from before he was a toddler found wandering on the street alone? It turns out that a piece of him does. For safety's sake (and because some things are just more than even strong Miki can handle) Edie sets up a meet-and-greet with the woman. After all, for all they know she could be just some crazy kook with a fame-fetish. It turns out that the woman really DID know Mikis birth-mom back in the day, and has a packet of birth-mom's personal effects that she wants to pass on. It turns out that when Miki was found alone that day it was because bio-dad wasn't in the picture and bio-mom had just been murdered.

A little boy survived the evil mayhem worked upon his mother, and with her gone so was the little boy's identity. The boy was found, put into foster care, and named for the street corner he was found on. Today that little boy is all grown up, he's a famous musician, and he's somebody's loose end. Whoever was responsible for Miki becoming an orphan wants to tie up the loose ends. That person (or group of people) sent a knife-weilding thug after Miki in Vegas (remember the stabber who ended up under the wheels of a bus, but whose body disappeared before getting to the morgue?). Now Miki is at home in San Fran, but he's still in the cross-hairs.

By chance Kane is on-site when some of the loose-end-tying starts to go down. It's up to Kane and Kel, plus the rest of the SFPD (and by extension all of the Morgan clan) to keep Miki alive until a 20+year-old mystery can be sorted and all the old secrets brought to light.

To say any more about the plot from here would be just one giant spoiler, but I will say that Miki DOES finally get answers to the questions nobody's ever had anwers to, answers that will finally help Miki to heal. And through it all, he's got Kane holding both his hand and his heart; the rest of the Crossroads Gin boys are at his side; and the Morgans have his back.

Since this is, after all, Rhys ford you KNOW that Miki WILLget his happily ever after. In this case, it's also pretty much guarranteed that you WILL need a box of kleenex at your side in order to get through the book.

This book is different from the rest of the series in that it's really a thriller/suspense book, and not so much about the romances/relationships of the Crossroads' boys, but it's a fitting end to the series. It's a capstone that needed to happen, and Rhys Ford knocked it OUT OF THEPARK.

What can I say. Sin and Tonic brought out all the feelings. I cried on the bus during Chapter 20, I slowed down my reading for the last part of the book, I just didn’t want it to end and the story brought together all the love stories, Miki and Kane, Damien & Sionn, Connor & Forest, Quinn & Rafe and Donal & Brigid.
I love the different relationships and how we got to visit them again and especially Miki and Donal and Brigid. Brigid is the fiercest mother and Donal is everyone’s best father.
The story includes a great mystery that’s more than just murder. Sinner’s Series is one of my favourite series and I loved Sin and Tonic and how it brought the series to an end. I plan to reread them many times.
So if you haven’t read any of the series, why? And you need these characters in your life. I mean, Dude!

Sin And Tonic is the last of the Sinner's series by Rhys Ford and I was lucky enough to receive this in exchange for an honest review.

This book was amazing from beginning until the end. It all begins with a ghost from Miki’s past that has information on his birth mother’s life. Miki is not sure if he can wade through the emotional hell if he finds that she didn’t love him and really did just throw him away. Miki finds that his darkness is slowly eating him alive, as well as the person who is trying to murder him, and he is terrified he may lose the love of the family he has been given in spite of everything they hold dear. But that doesn’t stop Miki and Kane from fighting back.

Traveling through Miki’s past and present with the help of Kane and the rest of the family was like walking through Chinatown with its mazes, side alleys, and dead ends it was wonderful, painful and just downright heartbreaking.

Rhys with her wit, humor and love of her boys we find that sometimes love really does conquer all. So let’s all raise a glass to the Boys and the family we have come to love, live and laugh with in this series. We love you❤️