Lanie Heron isn’t looking for love—no surprise, considering her last serious relationship nearly got her killed. So when Lanie propositions Hop Kincaid, all she wants is one wild night with the hot-as-hell biker who patrols with the Chaos Motorcycle Club…
For Hop, Lanie has always been untouchable. She’s too polished and too classy for his tastes. But when she gives Hop the once-over with her bedroom eyes and offers him a night in paradise, he can’t say no. And he doesn’t regret it when he finds that Lanie is the best thing that’s ever happened to him—in or out of bed. Now the trick will be to convince her of that
Lanie Heron approaches Hop Kincaid at one of the Chaos MC’s hog roasts and propositions him in a not so subtle way. He gives her a good argument but eventually he caves and they head up to his room at the MC’s compound. It was only supposed to be one night but after that one night Hop isn’t ready to give up what he thinks might be his new addiction: Lanie.
Hope and Lanie continue to see each other but decide that it’s just going to be a strictly sexual relationship but really neither Lanie nor Hop are made that way – under all the talk, they’re each looking for that one special person. Unfortunately Lanie’s drama, her family, her history and a whole slew of other things has Lanie messed up emotionally. Hop has his own emotional demons but is willing to talk and work through them for Lanie because he thinks she’s worth it. Lanie is scared and that might end up ending their relationship for good.
This is my first foray into the Chaos Motorcycle club. I didn’t read book one, which a friend tells me is something I absolutely need to do. I have read one other book by Ashley before and I have to say that after having read her work I was more than a bit surprised that I didn’t like this book more.
I really liked Hop. I thought he was a great character although surprisingly very open and communicative, which was a good thing. He knew what he was getting into with Lanie before he took that plunge and slept with her. Lanie I didn’t care for as much. At the beginning of the relationship when I thought she should have been either defending herself or speaking up to Hop, she didn’t. When she should have been keeping her mouth shut she spouted off. I’m not sure drama is a strong enough word, quite frankly.
The frustrating part of this book for me was the dialogue. It was heavy and with Hop leaving out the first part of almost every sentence I had to go back several times to reread so that I could verify what he was saying. He said some great stuff it was just almost stuck under WAY he spoke. A couple of other issues – the long stares and requisite eye to eye contact that Hop demanded frankly got a bit old and Lanie’s nickname for Tyra “Ty-Ty” made me want to throttle her as it just sounded like she was referring to a preschooler.
The end of the book seemed to last a darned long time. They wrapped up their issues and worked things out and then…it just kept going. I’m sure this was some sort of set up for the next book but I just thought it could have been nixed and I would have been a lot happier. 😉
Overall the book was a bit maddening but a decent read.
Rating: 3 out of 5
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