Review: Good set up of a new series - lots of twists
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2014
Olivia Masters grew up surrounded by the Nordic Lords motorcycle club. But that changed the day her mother was killed and Olivia was shot. The last five years of Olivia’s life have been spent avoiding everything from her past. Though she has moved back to the small town where she grew up, she doesn’t speak to or see her lifelong best friends, her old boyfriend or her father, all of whom are tied up in the Nordic Lords motorcycle club. She has been dating a town cop, working at a tattoo parlor and carrying on with her life. But one phone call to her old best friend opens the gates of contact and suddenly, Olivia is confronted by everything she’s been avoiding, and the knowledge that she isn’t as safe as she thought she was.Daemon has spent the last five years filling his father’s shoes as VP of the Nordic Lords. After his father died and his brother left town, he was the only family left to keep the family in the club so he stepped up even though his plans before that night had been to leave town with Olivia.Olivia is strong, independent, and feisty, but she is also a runner. She never wanted to be a part of the club as an adult, and had things gone as planned, she would have been gone at 18. Every time she faces hardship, her first instinct is to run. But she isn’t interested in being a doormat to any of the strong men around her, whether it’s her boyfriend, Daemon, or her father. There were times it seemed she forgot what it was like to live in the MC world, and her actions caused more trouble for her and those around her than they prevented.The relationship between Daemon and Olivia picks up pretty quickly once Travis is out of the picture. The feelings they once freely admitted and shared came back when there was nothing else keeping them apart. But just because they loved each other didn’t mean they had an easy road. No, if anything, the feelings between them made Daemon’s decisions harder for him to act on as he feared the reactions Olivia might have to them.This book sets up the action for future books really well. There is so much going on with the various characters and the club in general that at times it was easy to forget this was supposed to be about Olivia and Daemon. In fact, most of the conflict between Olivia and Daemon didn’t revolve around their relationship forming or not forming, rather it was tension created by the things going on with club business and keeping Olivia safe from an unknown threat.Point of Return was gritty and full of action. At times a little rough around the edges, the story moved quickly with many twists and turns to what seemed like a straightforward plot. We were introduced to  characters that will make up subsequent books in the series and the rest of the motorcycle club. The tension between several couples has already been set up, and the only thing to do is wait for their books to sort out the history between them.Thank you to Stacey Lynn for providing a complimentary copy in exchange for an honest review.