Review: 3.5 stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2014
This is not a typical MC romance read but it was an interesting one none the less.Shannon Ryan, or Ryan as she is known, has recently come out of the military after seven years and is back home to see her brother, Patrick, who happens to be the president of the Tormented Souls MC. His right hand man and VP is Ellis aka ‘Dirty’ who Ryan had been crushing on before she left to join up. He, however, took all avoidance tactics up so nothing ever was established between them, but on returning home it appears Ellis is now the one after Ryan!Ryan is holding back secrets that she doesn’t want anyone to find out so for her this is a pit stop home then she is moving on to DC. The reader is not given an insight into what or why DC until much later in the storyline. One of her secrets that is let out is about her boyfriend, Jeremiah who turns up on the doorstep to re-establish his ownership of Ryan. What follows next is a violent and at times ‘reading through squeezed eyes’ episode.I wouldn’t say this is a full on MC read as there is not much brotherhood interchange, in fact the only brothers focused on is Patrick and Ellis. The mc tends to be a background feel, there is no talk of the compound (they all seem to be in a large house), cuts, rags, or charters but there is an understanding of who and what Patrick stands for.Ellis, for me, although highly likable was a little ‘soft’ as an mc VP but I still fell for him. Ryan on the other hand was a bit more complex and throughout the book was a total contradiction. One minute she was sweet and loving, the next she was all hard lines and aloof. In some areas I thought that as a marine and the sister of a hard head mc president, she would not put up with situations she found herself in. Some of these scenes were violent and disturbing.Near to the end a huge curve-ball is thrown that I was not expecting and I was sat there scratching my head with a big WFT moment.Overall it is an interesting but not a typical mc read. However, if you put that out of your mind it is a sexy, smutty but edgy read. At the start I did not realise this was a series but there is a next book which is Patrick’s story.