Review: Brilliant Adult Romance Novel
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2014
Her Ride was definitely a rush of a ride to read! Racheal Osborn has created a novel based around bikers that is not your typical “biker book”. The plot is excellent with Ryan (Shannon Ryan) returning home from the military, to the life she left behind and the man she thought she could forget. Striving to make it on her own, away from the gang and her brother’s over protective ways, she walked into a situation that rocked the world around her and has left her with many secrets she isn’t willing to share. But with a boyfriend that demands to know your every move, a brother who has someone constantly looking over her shoulder and reporting back to him she feels trapped………Something has to give but not everything is that easy.Ryan is the nickname she grew up with as Shannon Ryan and her brother were orphaned at an early age leaving him to take care of her. Being in a motorcycle gang left her in an environment that has her wanting to prove she was not just another “girl” and she worked hard to earn their respect and standing like any man would within the gang which is how she acquired the name Ryan. No one calls her Shannon anymore, no one. At 16 she joined the military because she felt trapped by her Brother Patrick’s overbearing protectiveness. The book begins the day she comes home just over 6 years later.  Ryan has not lost any of her attitude and is still one fiery, feisty woman who has desires that run deep and hot, with a fine line between pain and pleasure.What she doesn’t expect is to run straight into her childhood crush Ellis (Dirty) and straight into a wall of mixed emotions and feelings, she thought she was over him…….Maybe she just needs to get him out of her system. But with Jeremiah in the background things aren’t always that easy.Ellis is one hell of a sexy, well defined Greek God of an man – the way he is described you could bounce quarters off his ass they are that hard….hmmm… Ellis has always had his eye on his best friend’s sister but that is one of the main reasons he has never acted upon any of his thoughts. When she comes home 6 years later, not only does he realise just how much he has missed her and that he will never let her go again (he just has to convince her of that) he realises just what he has been missing because she is fit, lithe, provocative, stubborn and has a body to die for, but also is loving and loyal – the perfect woman. There is only 2 thing standing in his way: Patrick, her brother, his best friend and head of the gang, and secondly Ryan’s Boyfriend Jeremiah. His mission to show her he is the man for her and that she can let her walls down to someone is something that is not going to come easy……..Does he have the patience to wait or will he force them down?Secrets, revelations and even things that will leave you stumped are all interwoven in the plot of Her Ride, along with this Amazing romance between Ryan and Ellis – the sexual tension between them is something you can almost touch it’s that thick! I have only one negative and that was the end seemed a little rushed, once Ryan’s secret was out. The book has taken it’s time putting out all of the information about the plot out, going into great detail, leaving you wanting more but the ending is short but sweet shifting gears somewhat. The plot had a whole availability for it to be slightly longer which I think would have balanced it out a bit more. There is going to be Her Ride #2 but that is Patrick’s Story and I cannot wait to get my hands on it when the time comes.Rachael Orman is a very talented author, with a natural gift for writing and I think she is really going to go very far! 5 STARS *****