Review: Loved the idea - execution was lacking
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2014
The book starts off strong. A US Senator, and potential  Presidential candidate, comes home to find his 18 year old daughter missing and her room ransacked. Beth has been kidnapped by a local biker gang whose leader sees Beth as his ticket to the big time. There is a conflict within the gang because another member named Roads thinks the kidnapping was a very bad idea. Beth starts working her training as a very important guys daughter from the start and forms a bond with Roads who acts as her protector from the other bikers.My first hint that this book was not going to work for me came when Beth tries to figure out where she is. We experience the kidnapping from her POV. She hears glass breaking on her second story bedroom window and instead of running for safety to another room and calling 911, she grabs a bat and tries to fight off her attacker. If Sen. Sterling is so important he has his own secret service is detail, why is Beth home alone without even a basic security system that would have at least sounded an alarm? Then the next scene Beth is upset that Roads has her leave the door open when using the bathroom so she decides to give him a show at which point Roads tells her that most of the bikers in his gang would take that as an open invitation.This book is full of plot holes and things that made me scratch my head. I think it takes place over two days but I could be wrong. The author confuses blackmail and ransom for example. I don't want to give out any spoilers so I can't point out the other problems.Then there is the sex. And there is a lot of it and most of it does not involve the main characters. The author made a interesting choice when she decided to make the bikers so unattractive/scruffy and crass then go on and describe multiple sex scenes involving them. The mental images weren't pleasant so I skipped them.If you are looking for motorcycle erotica with lots of sex, you might be interested in this book. I was expecting a romance not erotica and the rave reviews raised my expectations. If you are looking for a romance with well developed plot and believable characters this book misses the mark. It was a really good idea but it never reached its potential.