Review: Grady & Holly
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2014
Rev (Bayonet Scars #3)By: JC Emery4/5 stars*Trigger warning* There is an incredibly descriptive gruesome rape scene involving a secondary character. Please be advised an object is also used. It is horrific. And no, I won’t describe it now.Holly Mercer has had more than her share of bad luck. But most of it has been brought on by her always giving too much of herself and never standing up for herself or making herself a priority. Time after time she has done this and now the cows have come home. She’s 26 and has to move in with her parents and just got a job at the Fort Bragg High School as a secretary. The principal is the kind that doesn’t want to have to tackle the “hard kids” or do any of his own dirty work, so he assigns those kids to other people. Oh, and that definitely means the MC kids.Sterling “Knuckles” Grady is the Sargent at Arms for the Forsaken MC and father to a teenage daughter, Cheyenne. Recently Cheyenne’s attendance and grades have slipped because her dad is occupied with the club troubles and losing his best friend Chief (from book 1 when Alex was kidnapped by her brother.) Grady definitely doesn’t want to have to deal with someone from the school and doesn’t need to be told how to raise his daughter.Of course, since it is Holly’s job to contact the parents of the students under her directive, she has several run ins with Grady. To say that they are combustible is an understatement. Anytime they speak to one another, it turns into an insult hurling argument. Even though they drive each other crazy, they areAfter some “club business” goes down, Grady protects Holly, and they enter into somewhat of a faux relationship. But that doesn’t mean that they spend any time with each other cultivating appearances for this faux relationship, it is alive in words only.The mafia problem comes back to town and causes some issues since the club is still holding Michael Jr. and Alex is with Ryan. We don’t see how any dispute is solved and it remains to be seen whether or not it actually is, but I’ll bet is that we’ll continue to see this plot in upcoming books. Also, the Darren Jennings retribution against the club issue comes back into play. Again, there are no conclusions to that problem, only clues, so we’ll see that later.I didn’t like the timeline of this book. We never knew how far apart things happened until a couple pages into a new chapter, so parts of the book didn’t flow & just jumped around. Like the characters knowing that the other loves them & they love the other. There was no, scene there or how it happened, it was just mentioned.The epilogue takes us 2 years out, but with the next book being Jeremy & Cheyenne’s, I’m not sure if we’ll see the mafia/Jennings issues or if the book will proceed from this epilogue. I really liked Ian in this book & can’t wait for him to get his own!!