Review: I'm not sure if I like it or not
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2014
Exquisite Trouble, Ann Mayburn’s first book in her new Iron Horse MC series. Well there is a fine line between disliking and liking a book and I’m right there on the line with this one, and that’s not a first for me when it comes to Mayburn, usually I like her stories well enough though little things bug me. I love her writing style she manages to pull me into the story even when I’m not enjoying the story plus she writes some pretty steamy hot scenes. I am probably a minority but I don’t really like MC series, I have been trying to find one I could get in to but so far no luck. It just seems like one genre I can’t get into. One of my issues is that it always seem like the guys while undoubtedly have the marshmallow center, are more a-hole then I like in a male protagonist.  Side note if my hubby ever called me his “old lady” he would get smacked upside the head, Gibbs style.Sue Wanda Anderson, or Swan to her friends, is very much like her namesake she is beautiful, with an aura of elegance but cross her the wrong way and she can mess you up. She was separated from her identical twin at such an early age she met Sarah for the first time as a teenager. Her sister and her mother have done nothing but make her life hell, she has shut out her mother but her sister is her other half, and not matter what she will always love her. But now they have dragged Swan into the dangerous life of the Iron Horse Motorcycle Club. Sarah has run off looking for their good for nothing mother leaving her fiancée the President of Iron Horse looking for Sarah and her Mother, Billie. Being Sarah’s identical twin helps nothing but putting her in danger.Smoke, or Miguel Santos, has been put in charge of keeping Swan safe. First it was just a favor for her sister that he keep an eye on her, now with the shit getting ready to hit the fan security has tightened. After following her for almost a year Smoke has come to realize that there is only one woman for him, Swan. Smoke has done things for the Club that would make the average person shutter but being with Swan and her innocent and gentle heart humbles him, and will do anything to keep her. Smoke is also a former man-slut and virginal Swan takes issue with running into an ex-lover at every turn. Especially since one of those is a major Drama mama who loves to cause problems and make up shit to get her way, also doesn’t help that she is his sister-in-law. Swan being a virgin has never felt like this about a man before and she is really embracing the effect he has on her and she on him, but Smoke is wanting to do the right thing and waitin the mean time….. they do everything but the actual act. It gets pretty creative and really hot.I warn you now it doesn’t really end, I wouldn’t call it a cliffhanger to me it felt more like I ran into a cliff-face. The main story is Smoke and Swan’s relationship and overcoming their issues and well lots of sex that gets resolved sort of. The underlining story of Swan and Sarah’s Mom which initially starts the story and Smoke and Swan getting together leaves off. It felt unfinished and like I was missing something. I think I will read the second book only to see if they ever resolve the Billie issue and especially if it centers around Hustle and Lyric, don’t ask why I think they would be good together I just have this feeling. Like with most series I don’t discount the series if I’m on the edge I give it a couple of books.