Review: Just excellent.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2014
Review of ROPED, by SJD PetersonReview by Jaycee, for Books ‘N Cozy Spots Book Reviews, [...]Not your average beginning for a ‘Guards of Folsom’ story, but what a set up.  From the creation and evolution of a friendship with a bond that stems from a connection deeper than they could know, this is the tale of a couple of bikers who defy that life, and ultimately the odds, to be together:  to heal, to discover, and to live as they needed to be.Not for the faint of heart, the first half of the book or what I call “the biker years”, is gritty and raw and uncomfortable in its nature.  The life is graphic and violent and unforgiving.  It is a life in no way romanticized, and yet that life is key to the men and the partners “Tek” Cain and Jamie Ryan ultimately become.  From their immutable, from-the-cradle bond, the two grew into the heir-apparent and the spare for the Crimson VII MC, inseparable as friends, ‘brothers’ and eventually as lovers.  Exposure to their Club brothers would have been fatal, and through a twist of fate (or twist of Fed, as the case may be), that possibility became reality.  In a feat that put them in the cross-hairs of both sides of the law, the two passed from this life into the next……which just happened to be at The Guards of Folsom BDSM Club.  Finding relative security in their new lives, working at the Club and making friendships that were based on trust and respect, and not a code based on fear of reprisal, the two became as comfortable as two fugitives from life can be.  They accepted friendship and mentorship and most importantly, reconciled their past.  They began to live and love with a freedom of spirit that made them feel almost whole for the first time in their lives.…And they did so with friends who were not as oblivious to the existence of a “past” as the boys might have thought.  Just as well, because it seems the past is about to come knocking.An HFN story?; definitely.  The dreaded ‘cliffhanger’?  Perhaps merely another fork in the road, which is just as well, because methinks neither the Feds nor the Crimson VII have met the collective force that is “The Guards of Folsom.”This is just a stellar story from a stellar series.  I recommend both, wholeheartedly