Helpful Score: 5
I have mixed feeling about this book. This is a new author to me, though I see she has many loyal followers, I had never heard of her. I actually picked this book up randomly at Barnes & Noble--where I RARELY buy books (other than children's books), but I thought--what the heck I'll give it a try.
Sometimes I felt like the author was trying too hard to act like she knew what she was talking about (Chaos: a "badass" biker club)--her words, not mine, and sometimes I felt like she was taking Sons of Anarchy and romanticizing it up a bit with a lot less violence. (There were waaaaaaay too many SOA parallels, in my opinion.) All of that is fine. I don't know a lot about biker clubs either, except what I see on TV and in movies...well, there was that one time I was ducking bullets in a trailer in that illegal biker camp in Reno in 1984 on old Red's property (true story--for another time)...but that is beside the point. Back to this author. She annoyingly switched her story back and forth from first person to third person depending on if you were reading as her male (Shy--3rd person) or her female (Tabby--1st person)...a LOT...and rarely wrote in complete sentences (wait--am I doing that now?) In fact, she made her characters often seem uneducated with their lingo, even though the main character is a college educated nurse. There were so many phrases that started with "My Man does...", "My girl does...", that it was getting annoying and the author really over-used superlatives like "super-awesome", "super-badass", etc., that I sometimes wondered if a 15 year old wrote the book--until I got to the sex scenes which I figured a 15 year old BETTER NOT be writing it.
So all-in-all, the story line was good--but it took a long time to get there. Every dozen pages or so would say something like "two months later...", "6 weeks later.." until eventually 5 or 6 years passed by through the whole book and the two leads finally take their vows. The problem is, neither character seemed to mature in their vocabulary. She, Tabby, went from being 18 to 25 and still talked like a 15 year old. Grrrr. Oh well. This is actually the first book in a series and is connected to a previous series (through Tabby's badass-biker-king-president dad--of course). I haven't read any of the others, so I can't really compare it to anything. Would I read more? probably--if I got them through a book trade. LOL. ;-)
Sometimes I felt like the author was trying too hard to act like she knew what she was talking about (Chaos: a "badass" biker club)--her words, not mine, and sometimes I felt like she was taking Sons of Anarchy and romanticizing it up a bit with a lot less violence. (There were waaaaaaay too many SOA parallels, in my opinion.) All of that is fine. I don't know a lot about biker clubs either, except what I see on TV and in movies...well, there was that one time I was ducking bullets in a trailer in that illegal biker camp in Reno in 1984 on old Red's property (true story--for another time)...but that is beside the point. Back to this author. She annoyingly switched her story back and forth from first person to third person depending on if you were reading as her male (Shy--3rd person) or her female (Tabby--1st person)...a LOT...and rarely wrote in complete sentences (wait--am I doing that now?) In fact, she made her characters often seem uneducated with their lingo, even though the main character is a college educated nurse. There were so many phrases that started with "My Man does...", "My girl does...", that it was getting annoying and the author really over-used superlatives like "super-awesome", "super-badass", etc., that I sometimes wondered if a 15 year old wrote the book--until I got to the sex scenes which I figured a 15 year old BETTER NOT be writing it.
So all-in-all, the story line was good--but it took a long time to get there. Every dozen pages or so would say something like "two months later...", "6 weeks later.." until eventually 5 or 6 years passed by through the whole book and the two leads finally take their vows. The problem is, neither character seemed to mature in their vocabulary. She, Tabby, went from being 18 to 25 and still talked like a 15 year old. Grrrr. Oh well. This is actually the first book in a series and is connected to a previous series (through Tabby's badass-biker-king-president dad--of course). I haven't read any of the others, so I can't really compare it to anything. Would I read more? probably--if I got them through a book trade. LOL. ;-)
