Review: Dax overcomes
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2014
Earning the Cut (Riding the Line #0.5)By: Jayna Vixen5/5 starsThis is the prequel novella to Satin & Steel (Riding the Line #1). It is told from Dax’s point of view and is his history of childhood, adolescence and how he came to be a prospect and later a patched brother of the Phantoms MC.Dax Jamison grew up an unwanted child. First neglected by his mother and abused by her and the men in her life, until he was taken away and then was bounced from foster home to foster home. Dealing with the abusive foster homes and manipulative foster parents sharpened an edge that Dax had to him.No one cared about him or stood up for him. He was used to being on his own, alone in the world. Finally placed in a good foster home, he was still wary of when his time would be up, he never felt fully at home with the Bodeckers. Dax never opened up, to anyone or anything.Trish Wagner changed some things for Dax. He actually started to do things differently and Trish was the cause of the good change in him. However, her parents being from old money, super-strict and her college plans of becoming a doctor set them at odds in their future plans.As much as this is Dax’s back story, it is also of a first love & first heartbreak. All the things that shaped Dax into the man he is today.The only thing I found somewhat annoying was all the “instinctively” and it gets a little tiresome to continually read it as well. Dax is just an instinctive man evidently.Since I’ve seen some reviews complain about this being SOA fan fiction, I thought I would add this acknowledgment. In the author’s acknowledgements, she does say that the Riding the Line series is loosely inspired by the hit TV show Sons of Anarchy and also thanks the show’s creator & director Kurt Sutter and the cast & crew of SOA who inspired her to write this series.