Review: Bland and Below My Expectations
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2014
Rating:  2.5 StarsI had been looking forward to getting the details on the hot mess of a 20 year relationship between Dorothy, Jase and Hawk.  Unfortunately, I did not get it in "Unbeloved".  This was the story of Dorothy (Club whore, Mistress of Jase, having affair with Hawk, mother of Christopher [Hawk's son]), Jase (MC member, MC brother to Hawk, married, having affair with Dorothy) and Hawk(MC member, MC brother to Jase, having affair with Dorothy) and the aftermath of a love triangle that did a lot of damage to many people.  This book did not tell the story of their past relationship, it told the story about who Dorothy ultimately decided to be with.  No one, Jase, Hawk, someone new?  I'm not telling, read the book to find out.Some serious motorcycle club drama happens that has Dorothy going back to Deuce and the Hell's Horsemen Motorcycle club.  She is finally confronted where she has to deal with her mistakes and decisions she made in the past concerning her affairs with Jase and Hawk.  She finally comes to terms with who she truly loves and wants to be with.  This book basically follows Dorothy's journey to finding love with one of the men.  The man she did not choose to be with, the book follows his journey of him moving on without Dorothy.  This was the long and short of the book.The motorcycle club faced a new threat that aligned with an old enemy to bring some much needed drama to this bland story.  The MC drama had the potential to be interesting if it was covered in more detail.  I was very glad that some of my favorite characters made appearances:  Deuce, Eva, Cox, Kami, Ripper, Preacher.  The banter between Cox and Ripper was so funny!  There should have been more of their scenes in the book.  Deuce was Deuce!  It was pleasing to see Deuce's emotional side in this book.  The reason he took over the club and recruited some of the club members was absolutely beautiful.  I was treated to seeing many faces of Deuce, but he still remained the strong, dominant, sexy Prez!  He will always be my favorite book biker!!I don't know what happened with this book.  The only reason I'm rating it as high as 3 stars is because Deuce, Cox, and Ripper played a role.  This started out as a cutting edge series and it looks like it is headed in the wrong direction.  I'm hoping it gets back on track in the coming books.  Since our main bikers are getting older, perhaps it's time to let the young-ins' come to the forefront and let the older bikers consult.  I would love to see how Cage is handling things and for Tegan to just go away (death, divorce, serious illness...just go away).Why Not 5 Stars?The story of Dorothy, Jase and Hawk was not told!!!  There were a few flashbacks on Dorothy meeting Jase for the very first time and Dorothy hooking up with Hawk a couple of times.  That was it.  I still did not understand what was so special about Jase that made Dorothy endure waiting for him for years to leave his wife.  I did not understand why she loved him so much.  I did not understand why she thought Hawk was so special when he was blackmailing her.  Because I did not understand their twenty year history, I could not relate to these characters at all.  In fact, I found them more interesting as secondary characters in the previous books.Time jumps were not effective.  This book covered about 14 to 15 years and not in a good way.  It starts the day of the shooting incident at the BBQ told from Dorothy's point of view.  Then the story jumps 7 years into the future, with Christopher on Christmas and the resulting drama.  What happened during those 7 years to Dorothy, Jase and Hawk?  The story then covers about 2 months of time with Dorothy, Jase and Hawk and the MC drama, then it jumps 7 years again.  There was zero mention of what happened to Dorothy, Jase and Hawk during this time.  While the time jumps in "Undeniable" were very effective, they did not work in this book because zero time was spent understanding the connection/love between the characters.The action and hotness factors were missing.  In the previous books the 'action' scenes where the Horseman had to get down to some ugly MC business was non-existent in this book.  There was some of it in the beginning, but that was it.  I wanted to read about the MC getting their hands dirty, getting in the face of their enemy.  The bedroom action was bland, very bland.  There were very few intimate scenes with Dorothy/Hawk/Jase.  There were two short flashback scenes, but not enough to carry an entire book.Based on the content and ultimate direction of this book, I question if it was really necessary.  Perhaps this could have been a novella, but not a main story.  Now a book about Cox and Kami...there you go!