Review: Astonished, Floored, Wowed…5 Stars!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2013
I just finished reading Holding On (Lights of Peril) and I can barely breathe. I was hoping that the ending was a dream and that Mace would wake up and realize everything was okay, but that didn’t happen. I was scheduled to read an anticipated book that released today but I am so torn up over Holding On, that I need a breather. Please take the authors caution to heart regarding the rape scenarios and in the fact that the book does not contain an HEA.This book is very different than other MC books I’ve read and I will never forget this one. What I enjoyed most about the book was the comradely, friendship and love between Mace, Hem, Sadey and Shame. In this book the MC President puts his real family first, not the club. And the club is clean, they don’t traffic women or run drugs (well only once).There was more story, plot and depth than sex, and I find a lot of MC books are all about the sex. Although, I guarantee there are some great sex scenes. These biker men treat their women like gold, not like trash, as they sometimes do in comparable MC books. I’ve read several reviews indicating that the typos were bad to the point that you couldn’t tell what was going on. A good book and a great author doesn’t have to be the most grammatically correct, or the best at spelling or proofreading, but they have to be a good story teller and capture the attention of the reader and make them feel an emotion (whether it be happy, sad, angry etc.). This book did exactly that, it affected my heart and touched my soul. The spelling errors didn’t matter because the book was so engaging, it was easy to look past. And if a word is supposed to be “his” and the author wrote “this”, it’s pretty easy to put it together and figure out what the wording is supposed to be.Another thing I loved about the book was the Ernest Hemingway quotes before each chapter. The MC President’s nickname is Hem because he is known to be poetic, hence his nickname, short for Hemingway.There are so many facets to the story that were fantastic (too many to explain). The storyline about Mace and Hem’s mother…heartbreaking. And ACE, oh you’ll be in for a surprise with him. I think we’ll see more of him in book 2 (and that’s a good thing).I am scared to read the next book in the series but I will definitely have it on pre-order to get the HEA I am hoping for. Hat’s off to the author for an amazing job on creating these beautiful characters and provoking heart felt emotions in her readers!