4.5 Smooches!
Synopsis
After ten years of surviving as a walking, talking, living doll, Laura feels dead inside.
She has sacrificed everything for her family, marrying a man she could never love. Her husband doesn’t beat her, doesn’t berate her. He transforms her, forcing her to live as a stand-in for his long dead wife. She stays silent as piece after piece of herself disappears, willing to do anything to protect the people she loves.
When his demands go too far, she finally tells her brother the ugly truth.
Wanting to protect her without putting the rest of their family at risk, he sends her to the one place he knows she’ll be safe. He places her into the hands of his best friend, Vice President of the Savage Outlaws MC.
Once again, she is transformed into someone new; Shay.
Bowie has spent many nights dreaming about his best friend’s little sister. The reality is so much sweeter than his dreams. He wants to be more for Shay, needs to protect her, but he’s not sure if he knows how.
Can an Outlaw show her how beautiful life should be?
Review
Wow. I read this a few days ago and I had to sit on it a bit and let it marinate before I wrote my feelings about it down. This was a very different biker book than I have ever read before. I love MC books and this one was really very good. Emily Minton can definitely weave a good story. I am still not sure if I love Bowie or not but even so, he was still sexy as all get out!
It is not often in a biker book where the woman is given to the biker for protection. Usually she is hooked up with the biker is some kind of illicit way and I found this quite different and interesting. At first Bowie doesn’t like Shay but eventually he sees “THE REAL” her and ends up head over heels. This doesn’t mean he is nice to her. He is still a big time asshole about ninety percent of the time. Bowie does not have a lot of redeeming qualities which is perfectly fine, because this is an MC book and it is meant to be gritty and raw. Even though Bowie is an asshole, he is still smoking hot and I found myself swooning despite myself.
“You’re mine, baby. This pussy is mine. Say it, Shay.”
We get to meet a lot of interesting characters in this first book in the series and I, for one, am pretty damn excited for Tin-Man’s story! Another great MC book by Emily Minton!
~Amie
