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Donna Reads: Reaper’s Stand (Reapers MC, #4)

30 Tuesday Aug 2016

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imageIn Reaper’s Stand (Reapers MC, #4) by Joanna Wylde we get to meet London Armstrong, new cleaning lady working for the Reapers Motorcycle Club. President of the club, Reese “Picnic” Hayes has had a rough few years since the death of his wife, Heather. He shut down after she died from cancer, and he focused on raising his two daughters and running the club. Reese doesn’t want any serious relationships. London has also had a difficult time. She’s been raising her drug-addicted cousin’s daughter, Jessica, a young girl with serious health and developmental issues. When Jessica gets messed up with dangerous people, London has nowhere to turn. When the safe and solid man she was dating turns out to be less than dependable, and the man she thought was a dangerous criminal turns out to be the one who’s always there for her, London has to make some tough choices.

Overall I liked this one. There were certainly parts of it that I hated. I hated that London was so stupid at times. For a woman running a thriving business, she was awfully dumb. If she thought her boyfriend was so big, bad and tough, he should’ve been the first one she turned to. Instead, she betrayed him. She was terrible at reading people, and she made some comically bad decisions. She did a lot of things the wrong way, but they turned out okay in the end. Reese was also a first class douche during the first part of the book. The scene where London went to ask him for help finding her cousin, and he was in the middle of receiving certain “services” and wasn’t polite enough to stop or ask her to come back later was just gross. This type of scenario happened twice with him. Once was bad enough. Why London would have been so attracted to this pig was questionable. I guess it fit with the bad decision-making part of her character. I also thought it was too convenient and too ridiculous that London saved the day over and over again. She saves Reese’s daughter, she saves her cousin, she kills the bad guy. Really? Why was the motorcycle club even there with her? Why didn’t she go in all alone and do it all herself? It was pretty implausible.

If you’ve read the series thus far, go ahead and read this one, too. I enjoy the author’s writing style even if her characters do irritate me at times. Her books are fast reads.

Donna Reads: Reaper’s Property 

22 Monday Aug 2016

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I just finished Reaper’s Property by Joanna Wylde.
Marie needs to save her brother Jeff’s life. He’s messed with the wrong people. Stealing $50,000 from a motorcycle club and thinking he could get away with it without paying in some fashion is a clue that Marie’s brother isn’t all that bright. Marie has just gotten away from her abusive husband and is living with her brother as she figures her life out. She ends up getting caught in her brother’s mess and being used for collateral. One of the gang members, an ex-Marine called Horse wants Marie. To save Jeff’s life, Marie becomes Horse’s property. 

This is my first biker romance. I liked that there was an alternating point of view. While it was mostly told from Marie’s POV, we get to see some of Horse’s motivation and some of what goes on behind the scenes with the club.

In reading a number of the reviews on Goodreads, this seems to be the type of book that people either love or hate. What cracks me up is that many who wrote negative reviews missed the point. It’s a romantic FANTASY. It’s not real, people, and the characters are fictional. He’s supposed to be rough, crude and domineering. He’s a biker. He’s not Casper Milktoast, the Accountant. I didn’t take as much offense to his aggressive, rough side as some did because that’s what I was expecting from the character. Marie wasn’t all virginal sweetness either. She’d had a rough upbringing, her family is less than impressive, and her marriage was horrible. 

While I did find her character stupid at times, most romantic heroines are. They do the exact opposite of what they are told to do, and they get into trouble so that the hero can save them. I liked the twist in this story where Marie came to his rescue instead.

I enjoyed this book enough that I read it in one day. I don’t mind my heroes a little rough around the edges. He made more sense to me than those otherworldly (totally unbelievable) heroes (vampire, demon or some other immortal or non-human type lover/romantic lead). Yes, the story is a little racy, but racy is good, and it has the happily ever after that I need in a romance. 

Count me as someone who really liked this book. I’m reading the second installment in the series now.