Review: Not Dark....Not Violent....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 6, 2014
Why do I say this?  Well a book needs to have some degree of realism in it for it to feel dark and violent.  This book was so over the top and unrealistic it was almost cartoonish.  Where to begin....That is hard.  There is so much wrong with this book.  One positive, I liked the writing, it flowed easily for me.  At first I liked our bad guy Cain.  He was actually interesting.  Then he crashed and burned into looney toon territory.  Our h, Julia, was hard to like.  Her actions were totally selfish.  She steals from the MC.  At the time she is the old lady of the then MC Prez, Ace.  Ace is abusive to her so she steals money from the MC and skips town. How did she do that?  We are never told. She spends all the money on her cocaine habit.  A man finds her on the streets, takes her in, sends her to rehab, and then marries her.  He is well to do.  She does not love him.  The MC finds her, kills her husband in front of her and then take her back to the MC compound.  Cain, the VP of the MC wants to torture her before he kills her.  She bargains for her life.  She is an awesome pool hustler and can make money for the MC.  Cain states he will take her as his old lady and watch her while she does her pool hustling thing.  He abuses her.  Most of this is off camera.  She commences to make more money for the MC than any other business they are involved with.  WTF?  Seriously?  Now everyone in the MC loves her.  We are not shown this.  We are told this.  Spike, a newly patched in member of the MC,  loves Julia and she loves him.  Why?  They are both gorgeous of course.  He needs to get her away from Cain.  Cain has become very erratic and unmanageable due to his sudden addiction to a new drug on the streets called Red.The book goes on about the downward spiral of Crazy Cain.  He made no sense.  His actions became evil just for the sake of being evil.  There is gun fire in the streets, breaking and entering, and dead bodies.  Where are the cops?  Cain gets arrested but stays in jail, not for his crimes but because his Prez wanted the cops to keep him there in hopes he would calm down.  What?  Since when can a MC, or any criminal organization, control the local cops when their most lucrative enterprise is a pool hustler?  How?  That makes no sense.  Cain gets out of jail on his own.  How?  Who knows.  He shoots a few people, goes to jail for a few weeks and is released.  Again, makes no sense.  Crazy Cain is out for revenge.  He gets it.  More violence and crime but no cops.  People going to the hospital with gun shot wounds and no cops.  Nope, not buying it.  In a nut shell this book was so off the mark and unbelievable that it totally suspends belief.  No, I would not recommend.