Review: Fantastic
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2014
I really enjoyed reading this book about Preach and Daisy, and it was also great that the authors featured Ice and Kidd so we could continue to find out what happened to them.  Preach and Daisy are young and fall in love pretty quickly, but both have a lot of baggage to overcome: Preach comes from a physically and emotionally abusive home and at one point in the book really struggles with alcohol abuse; Daisy has the mother from HELL - her mother Lula might win the Most Hateful Mother in a novel, hands down.  We watch the couple struggle to come back together and also to deal with life in an MC.  I liked the first book, Renegade Lady better because I LOVED Ice - she is fierce.  I also thought the love between Kidd and Ice was REALLY INTENSE.  Daisy is sweet and more innocent than Ice; Ice was also dealt a raw deal in her life but she took lemons and made some great lemonade; she took charge of her own destiny.  But Renegade Reject was still a great book; Preach had a lot of setbacks but while he kept pissing me off, I never gave up on him and I'm glad that in the end Daisy didn't either.I know that some reviewers who don't like the book think that the MC world is abusive, the language is foul, etc. but to me, at the end of the day, this is about a fantasy.  Do I want to live in the MC world - NO. First, I'm an African American, and from what I understand of the MC world, its pretty segregated and sometimes racist, so, no, this wouldn't be where I'd live.  Do I want a man to call me an Old Lady and tell me I'm "property" and my body basically belongs to him  - HELL NO!  But, is it fun to read about anti-heroes who have their own world and their own rules they abide by and live a kind of renegade lifestyle that works for them? YES!  They don't live by society's rules, but they DO have a sense of ethics and morality, not ones we live by, but ones that work in their world.  Are the men hot - YES!  Are they protective of the women they love - YES.  Is it nice to kind of fantasize about having an alpha male kind of take charge of your life - HELL YES!  We don't read the books because they reflect the reality we live in; we read them because the don't.  We read these romance novels because they allow us to escape that reality, for just a few hours and live vicariously thru the characters without any real consequences in our own lives (except for the occasional fatigue I have for staying up too late to finish a book). Believe it or not, this book is tame compared to Beautiful Ink by Nicole Reed (which I highly recommend if you like books about MC's or Tattoo artists) So, yes the characters are sexist and violent and sometimes crazy, but its still fun to read about them without living the lives they lead.  Good read and I can't wait to read about Tabby and Timber!