Review: This series just keeps getting better
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2014
I'm continually amazed that this author has been able to churn out one book a month in this magnificent series without sacrificing quality, detail or drama.  Signal Bend and the people who inhabit it have become old friends and although my heart was initially lost to Isaac and fell for Showdown, I think Havoc has earned a place as a book boyfriend as well.Whereas Isaac was the one people leaned on, Show was emotionally wrought and Bart felt as if he didn't find his fit, the level of Havoc's angst is probably the deepest.  Though loyal to the bone for his club, he feels lost.  He has lost his best friend (Bart) and, one by one, his brothers are settling down and starting families.  To him (to coin Ms. Fanetti's phrase) "chicks ruin everything" with the exception of his ma and sister Sophie.  The love he is able to squeeze out and convey is a result of those two women as his disciplinarian father has caused Havoc to keep his emotions at bay.  His own self-loathing makes him feel as if he isn't good for any woman.Other than to satisfy his needs, he keeps them at bay and draws a fine line with any woman employed in club-owned busineses - including one  Corinne Hawes, a folk singer who winds up managing the Valhalla Vin bar which Havac has the displeasure of managing.  Translation - he's her boss and their very different personalities cause them to clash.  It's not Corinne, but her 15 year old son Nolan who acts as the catalyst who brings them together.  Lacking a proper father figure, Nolan finds kindred spirits in the younger prospects at the club where he begins to sneak off and hang out to where Havoc winds up taking him under his wing.  Cory is skeptical at first of her son hanging around the world of bikers, but it brings him out of his shell.  And it eventually brings Cory and Havoc together and typical Fanetti-style fashion to where these two just smoke the pages.But of course, the story surrounds the world of outlaw bikers and the drama which ensued in Alone On Earth has carried over, thus threatening a dent in Signal Bend's rebuild. Havoc is caught in the middle of it, a result which causes Cory to see the man he truly is and learn that, through true love, you can conquer any obstacle, no matter how violent.The characters are well-rounded, their backgrounds have depth and everything about Signal Bend and the Horde is richly displayed.  Even in Book 5, the continuity from prior books blend in well while new danger is well-thought out and establishes itself as the catalyst which will propel the final two books.