Review: I liked it BUT..........
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 7, 2014
I got this last night and as it says, I liked it BUT!! So what's with the but you may be asking. Well, a heck of a lot actually. I read this late at night and maybe my reading defences were down, and it was only after I was in bed that I started to go through and question what I had just read.**There may be spoilers and things revealed below so stop here if you don't want things given away!**I have read all of the other books Ms. Bonde has written about the Sons of San Merced MC so I was used to the writing style and the typos and the stories were ok. It also made me start to wonder about the sudden proliferation of books about MC but that's something else altogether and not an issue here.Kayla meets Famine when she is enjoying a piece of cake and he is waiting for his bike to be towed. She makes a move and all of a sudden they are in the toilet engaging in some fun and games. They decide to continue their fun and games at her place and she goes to get the car, gets waylayed by evil goons and he gets attacked and the shit hits the fan.Somehow the bad guys knew that Kayla was with Famine - how, who knows - did the bartender tell on them?  Then we learn that she struggled through a nursing program but we still have no idea what she does for her EDJ. Ok, maybe not so important, but you get through a nursing program and you don't know how to stitch up a wound and someone without medical training can do it better than someone who had some??The bad guys somehow also know where Kayla lives and are there when Famine and Kayla get to her place. How did this happen?? Who told them where she lives - she just met the guy, all of his gang took off on their bikes before they even did the dirty in the toilet and suddenly she's on the radar of these goons???From then on it gets worse - Kayla just follows meekly and instead of going to the police - he says that the police can't help, so any help from law enforcement is out of the picture.They get to the club, he gets stitched up - not by Kayla, and then she gets to go on this wild ride and learns all there is to know about the Horsemen and what they have been doing. Now that is just a kind of crazy right there - MC clubs and their members keep their business to themselves and don't spill the beans to all and sundry, especially a woman one of them just met and hooked up with in the toilet of the bar they were in!A road trip is next on the agenda and on the way some revelations about his life are made, but not really explained, just put out there and left to dangle in space. My next question is does she not have a job or family that she can go and stay with or does this all take place on a weekend when she doesn't have to work????? Who knows! She just up and leaves with Famine  - are we supposed to suspend our disbelief and just go with the flow here - yes, probably, but it gets worse.They get to his 'safe place' where they stay overnight and make love and at the end of that session - direct quote from the book here - "My body knew. Somehow it could sense it. I am pregnant..." Now this was a real WTF moment for me. They have made love once and a few seconds after they are done she knows that she is pregnant??????? How on earth does that happen???At this point I am still trying to work out how all of these WTF moments fit together and how Kayla fits in with this but I kept reading  and Famine just keeps spilling all of the beans to Kayla who he has only known for TWO days!!! It is as if she has been accepted by the club without question, which from what I know about MC and membership is basically impossible!So they continue on their merry way to meet up with the rest of the club members and now we start getting some kind of backstory about guys they dealt with in the past who have all of a sudden reappeared and again names are mentioned and nothing is explained. They meet with some weird lady in Vegas, Lucy,  who is able to give them some information that sends them on their merry way again and her role is glossed over but she is sort of friendly and sort of menacing at the same time and all Kayla can do is wonder at the glory and price of Lucy's house.So now they go on another road trip to LA, to confront the ghosts of their collective past. Some guys get killed by someone called Nash (who is Nash???) and I have yet to figure out why that even happened and the Horsemen go to war along with their women because the women will help to drive them to bigger and better things - yeah right, and according to Famine, it is time for Kayla to learn what it really takes.  Doesn't she know that already, I mean she has been attacked, dragged on a road trip across country and been exposed to the business of the MC???So, according to my calculations this is now day three, or it could even be day four and they are off to confront the evil baddie from their past. Well, the proverbial shit hits the fan as it is want to do on these occasions and I won't give any more away here, suffice it to say they all get injured in some way and it seems that Kayla has some sort of weird out of body experience. So, day three or four, and Famine has found out from reading her chart in the hospital that she is pregnant. Another WTF moment and the end of the story.As I said I read it all and now after explaining all of the issues I had with the story, I am really wondering what I was thinking as I was reading. Not much obviously and my only excuse is that it was really late. Having said all of that, I could see this novella becoming a really good story with some more development and elimination of the WTF moments and fine tuning of the story line. One last thing is that this story is called a novella and the other stories aren't, yet they are novellas as well, so why the distinction? I also have to say that for something that cost $4.99, I did expect much better. It is not value for money.