Review: Third time's the charm.....
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2013
Knox's Stand is the third installment of the Last Riders.  The back story of the murder of Viper's brother, Gavin, continues with the involvement of Samantha, who was self destructive path by becoming the easy lay for multiple MCs.  Knox's story opens with Knox thinking with the wrong head, thereby implicating himself in a death by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.Diamond Richards is the attorney character introduced in Viper's Run.  The Last Riders involve Diamond in their quest to defend Knox.  Knox isn't a smooth charmer.  Knox is a big, bald, sex on a stick kind of guy or at least that's the surface facade.  Diamond is working at becoming a successful lawyer but with her family history comes major baggage - her father, the president of the Destructors, another local MC, a sister, Sex Piston, a proud member of the Destructors.  Something happened when Diamond was a young impressionable 14 yr old girl that caused her to turn her back on her father and distance herself from that life and her family as she matured.As Diamond works to uncover what really happened with Knox, the Last Riders become her protectors whether she wants it or not.  Knox tries to protect his heart by fighting his attraction to Diamond by doing what he's familiar with - use her, then lose her.  The story flow of Knox's Stand is much better than Razer's Ride and Viper's Run, although everything else Diamond learns of Knox is not shared by Knox, but by Pastor Dean.  It has been interesting to see Jamie Begley's writing style evolve and I hope is gets better because the Last Riders is worth reading even if it's sometimes stilted.