Review: Could have been better
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2014
** spoiler alert **I’m still scratching my head and trying to decide whether to rate this book 3 stars or go lower. I read the book description on Good Reads when it was first released with no reviews and decided to take a chance. This story had so much potential but the execution left much to be desired. I started the book and initially thought it was a train wreck because of so much going on in the first chapter but I couldn’t put it down. I had to see what was going to happen. I really didn’t care for the H (Cade) or the h (Lainey) but the author wrote one character, Moloch, so well I could visualize him in my mind. Moloch is the devil incarnate in the book and the author’s description captured my imagination. I thought the story would even go over into the PNR, but it didn’t. I think this could have been a very good book if the characters had been fleshed out a little more and if there had not been major questions left unanswered.Things I didn’t like:Gratuitous sex. I like good sex scenes, erotic, BDSM on the lite side, sweet, etc. But the sex in this book was OTT. It was unbelievable that a 19 year old could take all the men she took and how they took her. Add to that the fact she loved it. The other sex scenes just did not engage me. We have another big O by Harley that she experiences as she rides away from her trailer.Lainey. She came across as self-centered and at times TSTL. She becomes the hero and savior by the end of the story, which was a little unbelievable to me.Cade – Weak, weak, weak. How can he fall in love with two women on separate occasions within mere hours and then take them and leave them with what he knows to be a deprived, sexually deranged individual?I got so confused at the end of the book when Lainey saves Pauline and there is this reunion between Cade and Pauline where it appears that Cade still loves Pauline. Pauline leaves and he immediately takes Lainey to his cabin. Lainey clings to him and convinces herself Cade really loves her. This relationship triangle was just a cluster freak to me. I’m saying WTF?This book had just way too much going on. The story needed to slow down and maybe go easy on the shock value.What I did like:The way the author wrote about and described Moloch. I wish she had been able to write the other characters this well so that they jumped off the page at me.Lainey - Lainey is a motherless 19 year old living with her abusive step father. She lives in a small town where the Devils Due MC holds a meeting each year. She decides to escape by getting the MC to take her away. When the MC comes to town, early one morning she goes to the bar dressed as club whores usually dress. She's not a virgin and has been sexually active. She meets the H, Cade, at the bar and within minutes has sex with him behind the bar. He tries to tell her to go home and forget joining the club. The VP arrives and she goes back into the club and VP says she has to pay the devil his due for them to take her. So this wild sex orgy occurs in the bar with her on a table and having sex with 3 to 4 men at the same time and with them changing places. This wild sex orgy cannot be described as rape because the h is willing and ready for it. VP sends her home and tells her they will let her know if they will take her with them. Cade and his brothers ride into the trailer park and wish her away. Cade says she will be his old lady but the President (Moloch) must approve all old ladies first. Lainey was not a likeable character at all to me.Cade – Cade’s deceased father was the previous MC president. When his dad died of a heart attack, Cade disappeared after Moloch pulled a coup and took the president’s title. Prior to the father’s death, Cade helps his junkie biological and MC brother rob a bank. I still don’t quite understand why he wanted to rob the bank. The robbery goes wrong, people are killed including the brother and Cade escapes with the bank teller, Pauline, leaving his brother behind. So he is guilt ridden for leaving his brother to die. He immediately makes Pauline his old lady and is in love with her. Upon Moloch’s assumption of the presidency, he makes a rule that he must approve all old ladies. So Cade takes Pauline to Moloch and leaves her with him. Moloch tells Cade she ran away. Pauline is the sister of one of the rival Rat Kings MC. So now Cade immediately, like within 24 hours, makes Lainey his old lady and takes her to Moloch and leaves her there for days.I could keep on with more spoilers but I think I’ve given a pretty good picture of my thoughts. Writing a review for this book was hard because like the book because I can’t say I hated it but I know there will be more negative reviews than positive on this book. That is sad because I think the author had the potential and writing skills to make this story a good one. I guess you can say there is a HEA since Cade/Lainey ride off into the sunset with him going back to assume leadership of the MC since Moloch was killed.