Biker Chick

by Dakota Knight

Crystal Sells is a biker chick, not one of those honeys who hang on the back of a motorcycle with their arms around some random man. The self-proclaimed "baddest bitch on two wheels" likes to ride alone on what she calls her "steel."
Crystal hustles knock-off designer purses and bootleg DVDs to make ends meet, until she meets Ray Jackson of the Phantom Cruz, a local motorcycle gang, and begins living the life of a wifey. When their sweet life goes sour, Crystal is forced from their home and finds herself working at a gentleman's club.
Never one to let a bad situation keep her down, she comes up with a grand idea to market the dancers at the club. Before she knows it, she has turned one of her best friends, Lala, into an exotic dancing superstar; but the way Lala repays her catches Crystal off guard, and Crystal finds herself seeking revenge with the intent to end someone's life.
Biker Chick gives new definition to a "ride or die chick."

300 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2007

Reviews

[Shanae · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's just not captivating to me.

[Aimee Massey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this one while on vacation in North Carolina in the fall of 2013, and it was the perfect book for a beach vacation. In the past I've been disappointed with the genre of urban romance; most of the UR books I've found have been either stumblingly written or so full of unsympathetic characters screwing around and fighting that the romance was pretty much lost.
But "Biker Chick" was a pleasant surprise.
Crystal loves nothing more than her motorcycle, which she tells us is a steel and not a bike. She's a smart, streetwise girl with a lot of potential, but she skates the edge of the law by holding "purse parties" where she sells stolen designer purses to the ladies in her neighborhood.
When she meets Ray, sparks fly. Ray is an outlaw, dealing drugs and settling scores to fund his very comfortable lifestyle, a lifestyle he is happy to share with Crystal. Their passion for each other is genuine, and their future together seems bright.
But being Ray's girl leads Crystal off the path her mother hoped she would follow; she quits going to school and spends all her time with Ray. her mother eventually leaves for California, telling Crystal not to call her until she is ready to turn her life around. Crystal is crushed but tries hard to brush it off.
Things are good for awhile, then someone anonymously tips Crystal off that Ray is seeing someone else. They have terrible fights, make up passionately, then fight again. And then Ray is arrested.
Crystal begins waiting tables at a high-end strip club, where she's astonished to find her best friend Lala working as a dancer and making top dollar. The enterprising Crystal hits on the idea of producing and selling a hot calendar featuring Lala and the other dancers, and soon the money is rolling in.
Crystal is not entirely happy with the turn her life has taken, not proud of the way she's making her living. But things don't hit rock bottom till Crystal learns that all along it was lala that Ray was cheating on her with. The double betrayal leads to a fierce confrontation with Lala, and then Crystal plans to visit Ray in prison and have it out with him.
Riding her steel in a downpour, distraught and numb, Crystal is involved in a serious wreck and is nearly killed. And finally, as Crystal at last faces her demons and begins to put her shattered life back together, she is ready to leave those demons behind and start afresh ... this time with her mother's support.
The story was sad and sometimes humorous. The characters are well-drawn and complex, and mostly likable. Ray turned out to be not so great, but he still seemed to have no malice about him, and the disappointment I felt at seeing his treachery exposed was authentic. Crystal makes disastrously bad decisions and is sometimes too blinded by her emotions to see the trouble she's creating for herself, but she is still someone I rooted for and cared about.
Fun fact: Very unusually, Crystal, at 18, has silver hair; after her father's violent death when she was ten, her hair began turning white, and nothing could stop it. After brief and unsatisfactory experiments with dyes and wigs, Crystal has elected to let her silver mane be her trademark, and the color is greatly admired, especially by Ray, who dubs her the Silver Fox, and gives her a motorcycle emblazoned with the phrase.

[Melissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was OK. Not good,not bad. It had a lot of filler. It took the main character (Crystal) until the very end of the book to find out that one of her best friends had slept with her boyfriend. It also seemed to take her quite a while after everything(her mother leaving the state, her boyfriend getting put in jail), to get her life in order. These things do take time but, I don't know. Maybe this book moved in slow motion to me.

[XoXoSIMBAXoXO · Rating 5 out of 5]

THE GURL IN THE BOOK IS THE BADDEST ON TOW WHEELS.

[La.day.sha · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. I want a steel now.

[JazzyRacquel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved It ! <3