Review: 3.5 stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2014
3.5 starsRevolving around the activities of motorcycle club president Axel, and daughter of a rival club leader Meadow, Angels in Leather is full of suspense, anger, revenge, and of course, chemistry.It opens with Meadow running from Axel. She has something he wants, something she promised her father she wouldn’t allow Axel to get. She has been on the run and on her own for over a year. The man she knew growing up is not what she sees when she looks at Axel. All she sees now is the man who killed her father and has spent the last year chasing after her.I had a hard time in the beginning. There was so much animosity and hatred between Axel and Meadow, despite their memories, that I just couldn’t see their relationship changing so drastically. The transition from hatred to an attraction was fuzzy at best. It was obvious that at one time they had liked each other, but with an 8 year age difference, more than a friendship at that point isn’t even hinted at (since she is 12 at the time he disappears from her life). I’m still not sure about the timeline for the bridge scene vs the present day scenes and how he ended up at the right spot at the right time.Once she got over her hated of him, Meadow’s determination that the guy she admired as a child was somewhere underneath the hard exterior was a near constant through the entire story. Even during the times when they were on the outs with each other, she constantly looked for that man she remembered.Some of the sex scenes were borderline uncomfortable. Axel’s preferences are explained with a backstory, but it was just a little extreme for me. The thing that made me feel better about it was that as the story continued, his healing process changed some of his sexual needs to the point where I wasn’t uncomfortable any longer.This was a relatively quick read. For an MC book, it wasn’t overly gritty or violent but there was plenty of the roughness one expects with a book like this. Ultimately it was an entertaining escape for a few hours.Thanks to Bella Jewel for providing me with an arc copy in return for my honest review.