Review: What just happened?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2014
I was so excited for this book, having loved both Ride and Thrash.  This story felt disjointed,  it skips around a few times and it had me going back to make sure I didn't skip a page,  I didn't.  I had a hard time connecting with both Holly and Grady,  there were some funny moments in the beginning and I appreciated that.  They were not bad characters, I just didn't feel drawn into their story.  It takes quite a long time for them to get together,  over halfway.  Perhaps that's it.  But what has left me reeling was the ending, there is a brutal rape scene that happens,  it left me feeling sick right before bed ad I wish I had been warned ahead of time it was coming.  I would have put that off until the next day.  Not the heroine but someone else.  And then right after this brutal scene you are brought to a rather cliché epilogue with babies all over the place and everyone is happy and pregnant and ..I just wasn't feeling it.  I was still left sick over what happened the chapter before.What I liked -The club stuff is cool,  JC Emery does well with that no questionThere was some humor in the beginning,  the heroine's reactions to a wound and everything that was happening around her.The father/daughter relationship between Grady and Cheyenne was lovely.Jeremy and Cheyenne make a great hookup!What I didn't like -Felt disjointed and rushed,  like the author could have spent  some more time fleshing everything out.Not much to do with the mafia in this one,  it's brought up in the beginning but then that storyline drops. I guess saved for the next one.  I would have liked to see more follow through on that in this book.Brutal rape scene -  I personally felt that was totally unnecessary and wish the author hadn't gone there.The happy baby epilogue was out of place given what we'd just witnessed the chapter before.  Aside from the timing, I thought we were past the point in a romance novel where the heroines had to end up pregnant or with babies in the epilogues.As I said, I loved the first two and even though I read them in ebook I have planned to buy them in print too.  I love MC books, I love JC Emery's heroes,  but this one just didn't live up to the promise of the first two.