Review: Heart melter of a story.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2014
Not really a fan of biker bks but this one is sorta-kinda-not-really a biker bk so that absolutely worked for me. The story is more relationship based and the “biker” club thing is just sort of a back drop for the romance between Dex, an owner of a tattoo shop and Iris who’s just come to town to live with her brother and needs a job. Where?  You guessed it, at the tattoo shop. Iris/Ris/Ritz and Dex have a rocky start.  Iris hangs on to her hurt feelings over Dex’s careless, thoughtless, smartass comments about her in the beginning of the story. But have to give her props, the girl makes Dex work for her forgiveness and thankfully gets an honest apology out of Mr. big, hot and sexy.  LOL! Loved Iris’s colorful names for Dex when he was at his surliest.  The author takes her time in the buildup of their relationship and its ahhh oh so sweet. Because the story takes its time, Dex and Iris get together FINALLY around the 60% mark or so and even then they take their time. I would have loved to have read even more of them together.  Dex is “alpha book boyfriend material” and when he falls for Iris you’re gonna swoon. The side characters are very likeable and there’s some drama here but no angst (thankfully), this is a single read with Dex/Iris getting a nice HEA with an Epilogue.What I didn’t like:  Could have rated this one higher except for the pacing. It seemed to drag. At 900 pages the story felt every bit of that length.  On the other hand it’s an easy read. If the large amount of spacing between lines and paragraphs had been eliminated this could have easily been a 500 pg bk in my opinion.The author's telling of this story is unique and different so I’m definitely up for another bk from her and hopefully soon. Read this one, think you’ll like it.