Review: 3 Cupcakes
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2014
Because I am just an ordinary woman, with an ordinary family, living an ordinary life in my ordinary house in an ordinary town in the UK I love books that are extra-ordinary. Whether it's a film or a book, Sci-fi, paranormal, whatever - I want to be transported away from the mundane into a world that is so different that it fuels my imagination and just for a while I can live vicariously through the characters.One of my particular favourites to read are MC books. It's a lifestyle so alien to anything I've ever experienced that I find myself almost hearing the rumble of a Harley's pipes, the smell and feel of the leathers, the freedom of living on the very edge of society with a different moral code to life so when I was asked to review this book there was no way I wasturning it down especially as I had not read anything else by the author.Unfortunately almost from the beginning I struggled. Having finished the book (something I wasn't sure I was going to be able to do) I am still not sure if I actually enjoyed it or not. The POV switches frequently between the two central characters and also, at times, comes across as if the female is actually writing a letter to some unexplained person detailing her life events. It might also benefit from re-editing although I did find phrases such as "carved like a turkey" to describe the male character's muscle definition!The two central characters are Madison, who at the start of the book is 15 and due to parental neglect is not living the good life, and Ford the 17 year old VP of The Bare Bones MC. Ford's father, Cropper, is the President of the MC and has recently moved in with Madison's mother to give himself and his club the air of respectability.The story then becomes one of young love between Maddy and Ford but with Cropper always a menacing presence in the background. Things happen that force Maddy to run away from home and the story then picks up a few years later. Ford is still the VP but is now also an ex-SEAL veteran and Maddy is a well-respected cardiac nurse.The book contains many very dark themes including, but not limited to, child molestation, the use of drugs to enable multiple men to participate in unconsensual sexual acts and murder which readers may find offensive.Till next time ~ Sweets Books(written by Tina ~ Sweets Books After Hours)