Review: Sexy ride!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2014
This is the first in the Hellion’s Ride series and I really liked it. It wasn’t overly hardcore but none the less a great mc read.Delilah ‘Doll’ Reklinger is the daughter of Roundman, the founder and president of the Hellions MC, as such she finds herself overly protected by him which is a problem when she is wanting to date. However she is not a pushover and is quite a kick-ass character but the club ‘princess’ label is an issue as not one of the brothers would dare to go ‘there’ and disrespect Roundman. She has a great relationship with her best friend Sass, who is also the daughter of one of the original brothers. But Sass seems to get away with more things than Doll.It’s at an annual party that Doll meets Talon ‘Tripp’ Crews, the president of one of the Hellion charters and to say she is drawn to him is an understatement. However, no matter how hot he is she knows she cannot go there.Tripp was taken under the wing of Roundman as a teenager and has become a part of the Hellion’s brotherhood at an early age. He has devoted his life to the club in that Roundman gave him the presidency of his own charter in Catawba. Tripp has not had an easy childhood with his non-existent mother and has had more of a relationship with his aunt and cousin, Rex who is VP of the Catawba Hellions. Both are man-whores who use women like they were running out of fashion but no woman has ever given him reason to give up his ways. That is until he meets Doll but then he knows that is a dead end before it starts. There is no way he would lose the respect and relationship he has with the pres.The ‘one ride’ story takes off after Doll becomes involved with a threat from the local mafia who has threatened all the women of the Hellions, especially Doll. Her father immediately takes steps to get her and Sass out of town and instructs Tripp to take her out of state. The road trip of Doll, Tripp, Sass and Rex covers cross state miles and …..well that is the joy for the reader to discover.I just loved the main characters in this book, Doll who is kick-ass, Sass with her attitude, Tripp and his alpha tendencies and Rex who made me laugh. Tripp tries to shun any attachment with Doll but with her cavalier attitude of this is a ‘once in a lifetime and won’t happen when we get back’, he finds it hard to resist. It was great to see the gradual thawing of this sexy biker who started to realise there was something to be had. I loved how he kind of showed what he was feeling in his alpha way growling ‘Are we gonna do this Doll?’ meaning I really want to be with you so let’s have a relationship! Rawr! Sex-ay!I did find the beginning of the book to be slow going and trying to remember all these names being thrown at me was a nightmare. I kept having to flick back to remember who was who. It would have been better to introduce the characters as and when they had an impact on the storyline. I know it’s difficult in the first book of a series establish the world and its people for the reader but done gradually throughout the book would have been better.However, I really enjoyed this and can’t wait to read the next one in the series, Forever Ride, due out in June 2014. A well-deserved four star read for me.