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The Huntsmen MC #1
Piston
Piston
I didn’t want an old lady,
Or a family.
Growing up with a drunk for a father, it puts you off wanting to settle down.
I gave my life to my club instead,
Enjoyed the benefits of what the cut meant.
She was only supposed to be fun,
Something to pass the time until the next one came along.
But then she lied to me, tricked me.
I did something I didn’t want to,
I gave her my cut, and now, because of club laws,
I’m stuck.
I push her away at every turn, waiting out the terms of the club.
But then I started watching her more.
Something didn’t add up, and I realized I was wrong.
I fall for her, but she’s not willing to give me a chance.
She hates me, but what she doesn’t understand, Is that she’s been mine for years.
It just took me time to realize it,
And whether she likes it or not, I’m hers too.
Natalie
Growing up with a woman who hated that you were born,
Who was willing to make you unhappy,
It was hard, but it made me stronger.
I studied hard, not allowing anyone to bring me down.
I didn't want a relationship; I didn't want a true love.
That's why I agreed to his arrangement.
I've been burned before and not wanting to be again.
But then I fell, and I fell hard.
I knew he didn't want me or want there to be an us.
I was willing to walk away, but things happened.
He thought I tricked him, thought I was after his leather,
When all I was doing was trying to protect him.
And now we're stuck because of club rules.
He ignores me and tries to throw money at me.
But what he doesn't understand is that I don't need him.
I don't need anyone.
Then suddenly, he's always around, trying to get me to talk.
I ignore him, adamant about handing him his cut back after the allotted time.
He's not accepting it, though,
He wants me, but maybe too much water has run underneath the bridge….
This can be read as a standalone. It is book 1 of 4 of the Huntsmen MC series, with a HEA. Due to mature content and themes, this book is recommended for readers aged 18+; this novel may contain triggers.
I didn’t want an old lady,
Or a family.
Growing up with a drunk for a father, it puts you off wanting to settle down.
I gave my life to my club instead,
Enjoyed the benefits of what the cut meant.
She was only supposed to be fun,
Something to pass the time until the next one came along.
But then she lied to me, tricked me.
I did something I didn’t want to,
I gave her my cut, and now, because of club laws,
I’m stuck.
I push her away at every turn, waiting out the terms of the club.
But then I started watching her more.
Something didn’t add up, and I realized I was wrong.
I fall for her, but she’s not willing to give me a chance.
She hates me, but what she doesn’t understand, Is that she’s been mine for years.
It just took me time to realize it,
And whether she likes it or not, I’m hers too.
Natalie
Growing up with a woman who hated that you were born,
Who was willing to make you unhappy,
It was hard, but it made me stronger.
I studied hard, not allowing anyone to bring me down.
I didn't want a relationship; I didn't want a true love.
That's why I agreed to his arrangement.
I've been burned before and not wanting to be again.
But then I fell, and I fell hard.
I knew he didn't want me or want there to be an us.
I was willing to walk away, but things happened.
He thought I tricked him, thought I was after his leather,
When all I was doing was trying to protect him.
And now we're stuck because of club rules.
He ignores me and tries to throw money at me.
But what he doesn't understand is that I don't need him.
I don't need anyone.
Then suddenly, he's always around, trying to get me to talk.
I ignore him, adamant about handing him his cut back after the allotted time.
He's not accepting it, though,
He wants me, but maybe too much water has run underneath the bridge….
This can be read as a standalone. It is book 1 of 4 of the Huntsmen MC series, with a HEA. Due to mature content and themes, this book is recommended for readers aged 18+; this novel may contain triggers.
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Published November 9, 2024
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December 14, 2025
Begins well and the plot has potential, but then a lot of lazy, confusing narrative happens.
The book plays push-pull with the reader.
One moment, tension is built up for an angsty/conflict moment, and then suddenly we are veered off in to fluff mode courtesy cutesy-clumsy moves by the h.
Total, mood and moment kill. Plus no real resolution of the said conflict, or a conversation is left incomplete about the things at hand.
Like in these scenes -
She goes to tell him about his father attacking her, and walks in on the mmc watching club-wh*res pleasuring each other (his thing since they got married after she 'trapped' him, as he thinks this is not breaking his vows). She leaves crying and runs into the prez.
All good, till here.
But then, she bumps into the mmc's bike (in her patented 'clumsiness') - and the mood shifts.
The prez is snickering and she's scared of what the mmc will say about the bike etc.
Priorities, woman!
Later, same night, the Prez calls a meeting to tell the mmc about the attack, and what she saw when she came in. Yes, the mmc's upset about what she witnessed, and all riled up (about the attack) and decides to go to the fmc.
But before that, why why why does the author think she needs to do 5-6 pages about another couple's 'war' with male stripers, glitter bombs and irrelevant stuff thrown in that the mmc has to tackle before he can leave?
AND THEN - why is she not shown as angry or upset about all that has happened, but is amused seeing him covered in glitter etc. And then again, instead of discussing her attack or his visual sexcapades, the discussion veers ooff to her childhood - that he has never asked about in their 6-yo situation-ship!
Total let down of how one would expect a situation to unfold.
He has a house on the club land that he has never invited her to in their 3 years of marriage.
She has visited the MC club about twice I think in their 6 years relationship, and he never brings her over for family days etc.
She's his old lady but has never been on the back of his bike?
Okay, so he is upset and all but still it has been years, and he is playing house with her.
Plus, apart from blaming her for trapping her, he withholds orgasms for her for almost 3 years???
That imo is very cruel and unforgivable!
His bike getting scratched should be the least of damages she should be doing to him!
So, ofc veering from the angst buildup to fluffy moments is pretty dissatisfying, as also whiplash-y.
Why, again, is she so clumsy?
Not cute!
Maybe get a neurological eval?
Then, after their resolution, the book continues for good 25% more.
Two many characters and couples vie for space and the book gets overlong.
The book plays push-pull with the reader.
One moment, tension is built up for an angsty/conflict moment, and then suddenly we are veered off in to fluff mode courtesy cutesy-clumsy moves by the h.
Total, mood and moment kill. Plus no real resolution of the said conflict, or a conversation is left incomplete about the things at hand.
Like in these scenes -
She goes to tell him about his father attacking her, and walks in on the mmc watching club-wh*res pleasuring each other (his thing since they got married after she 'trapped' him, as he thinks this is not breaking his vows). She leaves crying and runs into the prez.
All good, till here.
But then, she bumps into the mmc's bike (in her patented 'clumsiness') - and the mood shifts.
The prez is snickering and she's scared of what the mmc will say about the bike etc.
Priorities, woman!
Later, same night, the Prez calls a meeting to tell the mmc about the attack, and what she saw when she came in. Yes, the mmc's upset about what she witnessed, and all riled up (about the attack) and decides to go to the fmc.
But before that, why why why does the author think she needs to do 5-6 pages about another couple's 'war' with male stripers, glitter bombs and irrelevant stuff thrown in that the mmc has to tackle before he can leave?
AND THEN - why is she not shown as angry or upset about all that has happened, but is amused seeing him covered in glitter etc. And then again, instead of discussing her attack or his visual sexcapades, the discussion veers ooff to her childhood - that he has never asked about in their 6-yo situation-ship!
Total let down of how one would expect a situation to unfold.
He has a house on the club land that he has never invited her to in their 3 years of marriage.
She has visited the MC club about twice I think in their 6 years relationship, and he never brings her over for family days etc.
She's his old lady but has never been on the back of his bike?
Okay, so he is upset and all but still it has been years, and he is playing house with her.
Plus, apart from blaming her for trapping her, he withholds orgasms for her for almost 3 years???
That imo is very cruel and unforgivable!
His bike getting scratched should be the least of damages she should be doing to him!
So, ofc veering from the angst buildup to fluffy moments is pretty dissatisfying, as also whiplash-y.
Why, again, is she so clumsy?
Not cute!
Maybe get a neurological eval?
Then, after their resolution, the book continues for good 25% more.
Two many characters and couples vie for space and the book gets overlong.
November 10, 2024
DNF @ 51%
Heroine was way too much of a pushover. Why the hell she would confide in the man who treated her like shit and liked to watch other women get off, I have no idea. Why was she bending over backwards to accommodate him? And her little brother not having her back but instead blurting out all of her secrets to this man? Does no one in this book have her back? Oh, but let’s villainise the dad, but not this man who she is married to??
Yeah nah.
Heroine was way too much of a pushover. Why the hell she would confide in the man who treated her like shit and liked to watch other women get off, I have no idea. Why was she bending over backwards to accommodate him? And her little brother not having her back but instead blurting out all of her secrets to this man? Does no one in this book have her back? Oh, but let’s villainise the dad, but not this man who she is married to??
Yeah nah.
November 11, 2024
If your jam is reading about pathetic FMC. Im convinced this author hates women.
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March 1, 2025
I like this author for mindless biker drama-llama, but she can be VERY formulaic and tends to get sloppy with details. This is the first book in the Huntsmen MC series, and it has many of the same story elements we’ve seen before: meddling wannabe OW/clubwhores, pranks, rasps, clueless Hs, and loads illogical bits.
The blurb sets this up, Piston/Elijah is in college getting a dual major in engineering and business to be the Treasurer of his MC 🤷♀️ when he meets Natalie and starts a 3-year no strings (invisible strings) relationship, stuff happens, he thinks she’s trapped him, and they’re forced to get married. Piston is BITTER, and Natalie is just counting the days until she can get out.
The timeline is messy with several jumps, but my BIGGEST grump is her tendency to tease us with yummy drama then fail to execute the landing. For example,
I didn’t find his actions unforgivable, IMO it was fairly tame for an MC book. What bothered me was the loss of potential drama. I don’t need pages of filler; I just want the good stuff.
Another ongoing grouch (other than her characters having paranormal-esque healing abilities) and this is a Jac thing, but the author is British but setting her books in America, so there’re hiccups that are constantly pulling me out of the story. Like, calling people love, or saying another think coming (even word wants to correct it), or the fact that it’s impossible to casually throw someone from a car off the Brooklyn Bridge. Forget her bones would’ve been shattered hitting it flat, but it’s encased in a steal infrastructure keeping vehicles from careening into the East River.
Bottom Line- It ok for what it is which is basically an OTT unrealistic biker soap opera-ish read. It’s not serious and the writing isn’t tight. She sort of reminds me of Faimen and Nicola Jane, she’s just less frustrating because her H’s don’t mess up as badly, so when she drops the ball on cleaning up her mess, it’s not as annoying. I did think this drug on about 50 pages too long.
Totally Random but I was so confused. Does anyone know who Aurora is and how we were supposed to know her? She just dropped in like we knew her but was never introduced. Also, at the end of the book
The blurb sets this up, Piston/Elijah is in college getting a dual major in engineering and business to be the Treasurer of his MC 🤷♀️ when he meets Natalie and starts a 3-year no strings (invisible strings) relationship, stuff happens, he thinks she’s trapped him, and they’re forced to get married. Piston is BITTER, and Natalie is just counting the days until she can get out.
The timeline is messy with several jumps, but my BIGGEST grump is her tendency to tease us with yummy drama then fail to execute the landing. For example,
I didn’t find his actions unforgivable, IMO it was fairly tame for an MC book. What bothered me was the loss of potential drama. I don’t need pages of filler; I just want the good stuff.
Another ongoing grouch (other than her characters having paranormal-esque healing abilities) and this is a Jac thing, but the author is British but setting her books in America, so there’re hiccups that are constantly pulling me out of the story. Like, calling people love, or saying another think coming (even word wants to correct it), or the fact that it’s impossible to casually throw someone from a car off the Brooklyn Bridge. Forget her bones would’ve been shattered hitting it flat, but it’s encased in a steal infrastructure keeping vehicles from careening into the East River.
Bottom Line- It ok for what it is which is basically an OTT unrealistic biker soap opera-ish read. It’s not serious and the writing isn’t tight. She sort of reminds me of Faimen and Nicola Jane, she’s just less frustrating because her H’s don’t mess up as badly, so when she drops the ball on cleaning up her mess, it’s not as annoying. I did think this drug on about 50 pages too long.
Totally Random but I was so confused. Does anyone know who Aurora is and how we were supposed to know her? She just dropped in like we knew her but was never introduced. Also, at the end of the book
November 10, 2024
4 - ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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Predictable story, but I was entertained until the end of the book. I simply loved the fate of OW, I love it when unalived the bitch. I'm curious to know how the next story will develop.
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Predictable story, but I was entertained until the end of the book. I simply loved the fate of OW, I love it when unalived the bitch. I'm curious to know how the next story will develop.
November 22, 2024
Copy paste repeat
March 2, 2025
Very OTT and honestly for mildly stupid reasons. It’s very contrived, forced. Another thing that’s forced is the location this club is supposedly set in, NYC. I am born and raised in NYC and other than the names of specific things like the Brooklyn Bridge (BKB) or the Statue of Liberty, you would not be able to distinguish the town from any place other than a rural country town in nowhere’s-ville. So I wish the author had just stuck with having the club be in NY but no actual mentions of any notable features so the reader isn’t jarred out of the story when things are mentioned and are so incorrect that it’s very noticeable. Like mentioning Memorial hospital. The only “Memorial” hospital in NYC is Memorial Sloane Kettering (MSKCC) which is a world famous cancer hospital so it would NEVER be a place an abused boy would be taken to. Weill Cornell NY Presbyterian which is right next door to MSKCC would be more appropriate. Just saying.
The scene on the BKB would be impossible if the author had ever actually been on that bridge to know that car traffic is completely separated from the pedestrian walkway and there’s no way you can hit people or throw anything over the bridge from the road way itself. I mean the two miles of road from the clubhouse with no on or off exits until you get to a freeway is impossible in NYC(including the all five boroughs). NYC (manhattan) is only 9 miles long. That amount of wasted space just can’t be found here. Even if you try to justify it with the FDR Dr, Hudson River Dr, Belt Parkway, or any freeways here, it still doesn’t allow for all the rural features the author has described in other ways for the settings. Diners aren’t the same here either. There are a few in the outer boroughs but in the city it’s no different than any other restaurant setting. I guess I’m nitpicking because it finally pushed me out of the story with how wrong it is.
Sorry, but this book is not one of this author’s best. Needs lots more grammar editing too. Nothing much to add about the actual story other than it could have been better. I’m a little disappointed, as I held off from reading this until the series was completed. I love to binge read this author as her stories are always interconnected and I can’t remember details from one book to the next if I have to wait on them. So finding so many things wrong with it and it having a lackluster conflict between the main characters just has me deflated. Good luck.
FINAL UPDATE
I cried for a few situations in the book, a couple de@ths that were sad but not pivotal to the sorry. Just sad. All the sob backstories of the characters needed something more to garner more than just passive sympathy from me. It was used too much as the sole motivator for these characters to be so commitment shy. I do have to say that the MMC being celibate for the FMC from the moment he met her was a nice touch. He still was unfaithful in the sense that he would have voyeur sessions with CW’s pleasuring each other. Meaning he looked, A LOT, but never touched. It’s still unfaithfulness in the form of betrayal of his vows. He was a celibate married voyeur. Interesting twist for once.
Anyhoo, I love this author even if I don’t like certain aspects of a story. Good luck.
The scene on the BKB would be impossible if the author had ever actually been on that bridge to know that car traffic is completely separated from the pedestrian walkway and there’s no way you can hit people or throw anything over the bridge from the road way itself. I mean the two miles of road from the clubhouse with no on or off exits until you get to a freeway is impossible in NYC(including the all five boroughs). NYC (manhattan) is only 9 miles long. That amount of wasted space just can’t be found here. Even if you try to justify it with the FDR Dr, Hudson River Dr, Belt Parkway, or any freeways here, it still doesn’t allow for all the rural features the author has described in other ways for the settings. Diners aren’t the same here either. There are a few in the outer boroughs but in the city it’s no different than any other restaurant setting. I guess I’m nitpicking because it finally pushed me out of the story with how wrong it is.
Sorry, but this book is not one of this author’s best. Needs lots more grammar editing too. Nothing much to add about the actual story other than it could have been better. I’m a little disappointed, as I held off from reading this until the series was completed. I love to binge read this author as her stories are always interconnected and I can’t remember details from one book to the next if I have to wait on them. So finding so many things wrong with it and it having a lackluster conflict between the main characters just has me deflated. Good luck.
FINAL UPDATE
I cried for a few situations in the book, a couple de@ths that were sad but not pivotal to the sorry. Just sad. All the sob backstories of the characters needed something more to garner more than just passive sympathy from me. It was used too much as the sole motivator for these characters to be so commitment shy. I do have to say that the MMC being celibate for the FMC from the moment he met her was a nice touch. He still was unfaithful in the sense that he would have voyeur sessions with CW’s pleasuring each other. Meaning he looked, A LOT, but never touched. It’s still unfaithfulness in the form of betrayal of his vows. He was a celibate married voyeur. Interesting twist for once.
Anyhoo, I love this author even if I don’t like certain aspects of a story. Good luck.
November 13, 2024
Almost DNF
I love this author and I genuinely enjoy reading her books. But this one, for lack of a better word, was insulting. The FMC was the true definition of a doormat. She allowed the MMC to treat her the way he did for years. 6 years! And just one conversation makes up for all the hurt feelings and emotional pain?! GTFOH! Why can't there ever be books where the MMC truly feels the hurt and pain they caused their so called loves of their lives?! Books where the FMC has a spine and freaking stands up for herself?! Such a disappointment. The side characters are the only highlight of this book.
I love this author and I genuinely enjoy reading her books. But this one, for lack of a better word, was insulting. The FMC was the true definition of a doormat. She allowed the MMC to treat her the way he did for years. 6 years! And just one conversation makes up for all the hurt feelings and emotional pain?! GTFOH! Why can't there ever be books where the MMC truly feels the hurt and pain they caused their so called loves of their lives?! Books where the FMC has a spine and freaking stands up for herself?! Such a disappointment. The side characters are the only highlight of this book.
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October 4, 2025DNF @ 65%
The typos and grammatical errors got to be too much. And the weird kink with this girl being clutzy felt like overkill…or like the author was infantilizing her. Either way, I hated it.
The typos and grammatical errors got to be too much. And the weird kink with this girl being clutzy felt like overkill…or like the author was infantilizing her. Either way, I hated it.
November 11, 2024
Same old storyline. Though the H is tamer than a lot of the heroes you see in Charlotte's books. H was a manwhore and voyeur. He meets the h Natalie in college and they start a three year fling with zero commitment. Both only with each other. They break up. h is pregnant and shit flies because the H Piston freaks out thinking Natalie is trying to trap him. Which wasn't the case at all and Piston used as an excuse to treat her badly. They get married because of baby. she ends up miscarrying. They only having sexual relations with each other. Except when Piston still watches club whores getting each other off. 🤷 He knows it's wrong, but hey he wants to punish Natalie. Which made no sense. I didn't think Natalie was a doormat. She stuck to herself waiting until they could divorce by club rules of being married for five yrs. Natalie is clumsy. At first it was cute, but then it was just annoying. I like how she beat a lot of people up including an ow stalker of Piston's, and her evil stepmother. One thing that makes me chuckle is the heriones in Charlotte's books have nine lives, and pull through injuries that otherwise would kill the average person while being pregnant. 😂 For instance Nat is in a car accident. Thrown through the windshield. Bad guy's pick her up. Proceed to throw her over the Brooklyn bridge. She codes three times. Loses her spleen and miraculously stays pregnant. I mean. Those injuries are not mathing as everyone likes to say. Anyways, it ends, but the story and series isn't finished. It's a HEA for this couple, but there's a rat in the club and two girls have gone missing. Next book is Acid's which is Piston's older brother.
November 17, 2024
This book lasted way longer than it should have.
A one night stand, turns into a 3 year fling. Then soon as it ends, Nat tells Eli she’s pregnant. He forces her to get married, in her work clothes no less. And proceeds to treat her badly. Then his dad attacks her causing a miscarriage, and she lies saying it was a false positive. Despite him being some kind of tech guru, he never checks. Some time later, things change, he admits he loves her. They open up about their rubbish upbringing and why they both tried avoiding the relationship that they were in. But decide they love each other and want to give it a real chance.
That was around 50% of the book!
The second half, just seemed to drag from various scene to scene. A lot of the other couples taking room in it and their drama making it feel like it wasn’t just Nat and Eli’s book but Steal and Cass, Acid and Perrie.
There’s some drama with step monster which was a bit random, just felt like it was added to give drama and not context. And then there’s the abusive father in law who is president of the rival club….
The rival club pops up maybe 3 times. No real reason why or what they’re up to. And then suddenly, GONE. No mention of them past the hospital scene. There’s no mention of them or Eli’s dad. They don’t find him, he isn’t found or even talked about. It is just, left. Completely unresolved. I can only assume that the author intends to continue this plot into the other couples book, but it’s purely a guess as the author hasn’t made any indication.
All in all, it dragged on to the point I was glad it was finished
A one night stand, turns into a 3 year fling. Then soon as it ends, Nat tells Eli she’s pregnant. He forces her to get married, in her work clothes no less. And proceeds to treat her badly. Then his dad attacks her causing a miscarriage, and she lies saying it was a false positive. Despite him being some kind of tech guru, he never checks. Some time later, things change, he admits he loves her. They open up about their rubbish upbringing and why they both tried avoiding the relationship that they were in. But decide they love each other and want to give it a real chance.
That was around 50% of the book!
The second half, just seemed to drag from various scene to scene. A lot of the other couples taking room in it and their drama making it feel like it wasn’t just Nat and Eli’s book but Steal and Cass, Acid and Perrie.
There’s some drama with step monster which was a bit random, just felt like it was added to give drama and not context. And then there’s the abusive father in law who is president of the rival club….
The rival club pops up maybe 3 times. No real reason why or what they’re up to. And then suddenly, GONE. No mention of them past the hospital scene. There’s no mention of them or Eli’s dad. They don’t find him, he isn’t found or even talked about. It is just, left. Completely unresolved. I can only assume that the author intends to continue this plot into the other couples book, but it’s purely a guess as the author hasn’t made any indication.
All in all, it dragged on to the point I was glad it was finished
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June 8, 2025I can't be doing with worn out door mats
DNF 58%
DNF 58%
January 31, 2025
Good book
This was a good book I love MC books like this they focus on family and the MC club it was fun in places and the way it ends draws you in the read the next one in the series
This was a good book I love MC books like this they focus on family and the MC club it was fun in places and the way it ends draws you in the read the next one in the series
June 22, 2025
Came across this series which I had not read. Going right to book two. This book was awesome. Full of angst but in a lighthearted way. Great characters, great plot. Fall in love with all men from the MC!
November 13, 2024
Natalie and Piston
Do I ended up going 3 stars because it got a bit repetitive going over their fears because of the past. I just wanted more of the turmoil and angst before they jumped into their HEA. So was the father ever caught?
Do I ended up going 3 stars because it got a bit repetitive going over their fears because of the past. I just wanted more of the turmoil and angst before they jumped into their HEA. So was the father ever caught?
August 9, 2025
I really liked Priston and Natalie in Steal and Cassidy's book
But actually reading their book?? Nauseating
THIS is the Priston that was so down bad for Natalie??? That was worried sick about her?
He treated her like shit for YEARS, accusing her of trapping him in marriage
And his " loophole" to cheat without cheating is to get off on watching the clubwhores pleasure themselves and each other.
I almost threw up when Natalie witnessed it and it was right after his dad attacked her
Does he ever apologize? No
Ever grovels? No
Does he chanage? Also no
He was only decent in others books
And Natalie the lovely doormat that she is keeps thinking a good man and the love of her life
Safety:
Not safe
Major Owd
Contains Cheating, to me getting off on watching your clubwhores orgasm infront of you IS CHEATING no matter how he wants to sugar coat it
But actually reading their book?? Nauseating
THIS is the Priston that was so down bad for Natalie??? That was worried sick about her?
He treated her like shit for YEARS, accusing her of trapping him in marriage
And his " loophole" to cheat without cheating is to get off on watching the clubwhores pleasure themselves and each other.
I almost threw up when Natalie witnessed it and it was right after his dad attacked her
Does he ever apologize? No
Ever grovels? No
Does he chanage? Also no
He was only decent in others books
And Natalie the lovely doormat that she is keeps thinking a good man and the love of her life
Safety:
Not safe
Major Owd
Contains Cheating, to me getting off on watching your clubwhores orgasm infront of you IS CHEATING no matter how he wants to sugar coat it
December 21, 2024
quantity over quality
This author is more interested in getting more books out than them having any true quality. Every story is the exact same situations as the other series’ just different questions
A couple of things -
1. White glass over the actual situations of the book? We probably got a total of five paragraphs going through what actually happened. Would have loved to see when she found out she was pregnant and when she went to the clubhouse to tell him, I would love to see the wedding. But the author just glossed over all of that.
2. I’m sorry, but the pranks have now officially given me the ick. Nobody is doing that many pranks and it’s just the point where it’s uncomfortable. And it’s like the author is trying to make the book funny relatable when it’s doing the exact opposite.
3. She cannot be that clumsy. Like there is no possible way and there’s a fine line between actually clumsy and it just not being real and the author has jumped over that line. Honestly, her being clumsy almost made me want to DNF this book.
This author is more interested in getting more books out than them having any true quality. Every story is the exact same situations as the other series’ just different questions
A couple of things -
1. White glass over the actual situations of the book? We probably got a total of five paragraphs going through what actually happened. Would have loved to see when she found out she was pregnant and when she went to the clubhouse to tell him, I would love to see the wedding. But the author just glossed over all of that.
2. I’m sorry, but the pranks have now officially given me the ick. Nobody is doing that many pranks and it’s just the point where it’s uncomfortable. And it’s like the author is trying to make the book funny relatable when it’s doing the exact opposite.
3. She cannot be that clumsy. Like there is no possible way and there’s a fine line between actually clumsy and it just not being real and the author has jumped over that line. Honestly, her being clumsy almost made me want to DNF this book.
January 31, 2025
Another he-man woman-hater book by this author. this one I couldn't stomach enough to finish - another BAD book in a growing pile of bad books by this author, who needs to learn how to make her heroines a lot less weak & pathetic without making them obnoxiously nasty. I doubt she can do that. Charlotte really gives women-hating vibes in almost every book!
February 17, 2025
It felt disconnected. Random bits of drama with characters you didn’t know much about. Probably will not be reading more in the series.
March 28, 2025
I liked the story, I really did. I just didn’t connect with the characters as much. That’s probably my own fault because I was in such a slump, but this was a good series and I enjoyed it.
February 8, 2025
3,75 ⭐️
December 10, 2024
I swear this author used to be something special and now is just getting worse. She writes weak ass FMC and overbearing misogynistic man whore zero’s who abuse the women they love and do nothing to deserve happy endings. This one was boring, predictable, repetitive, and sexist as all fuck.
Natalie- FMC aka Diamond, a product of a ONS between her dad and some lady who did not want her. Her mom leaves her on her dad’s doorstep as a baby. Her dad had remarried and the evil stepmother hates her. Abused her, starved her, gave her nothing and her POS father just went right along with it. On her graduation date (which no one shows up to) she finds her boyfriend of 3 years, Chris, fucking her stepmother and records it. Walks out and goes to college.
Elijah- MMC aka Piston, in line to be treasurer of his MC, brother to Acid another MC member, lived with a very abusive father who would routinely beat him and his brother then fuck women in front of them (?), specifically mentions one time when he woke up in his hospital bed after being beat only to watch his dad fucking a nurse in the corner of his room. Is a man whore and will only sleep with women ONE time until he meets Natalie in a bar and takes her home.
Natalie and Piston meet in a bar in Natalie’s first year of college, they’re both in college, he’s in the MC also. Natalie goes to school and works two part time jobs. They decide to be exclusive but sex only, no feelings. When Piston graduates college, it is over.
Time Jump. Two years? Three years?
So, they fuck for 2-3 years straight but do not date, meet family, go anywhere together, he leaves in the middle of the night, he avoids her apartment for a week when she’s on her period and he repeatedly tells anyone and everyone although he doesn’t sleep with other people it’s just sex. The minute Natalie mentions feelings, he’ll dump her ass. Of course, Natalie is secretly in love with Piston and caught feelings. Basically, he treats her like an on-call whore. The night of Piston’s graduation they fuck one last time and he dumps her.
Time Jump. Two Years.
Opens to Piston watching two club whores fuck wishing he would get hard so he can fuck them both. We get his internalization of him hating Natalie because he “gave her his body” for three years only to have her fuck him over. We learn 3 weeks after graduation, Natalie told him she was pregnant. He married her but unwillingly. Then 2 months after that, she lost the baby. He insists she lied and is a lying, deceitful whore who “patch trapped him.” He watches the CW’s all the time but tells himself he is not cheating (because he cannot get fully hard, but would if he could).
Natalie offered to divorce him but their club has a rule going back generations that if you marry and give your patch to someone, you must stay married for 5 years.
So, for two years that they’ve been married, Piston shows up one day a month to fuck her without letting her come otherwise he doesn’t see Natalie at all. He does not talk to her, does not live with her, does not bring her to anything and does not protect her or let the club protect her. He has very small moments of guilt but keeps telling himself only 3 more years and he’ll get rid of her ass. He did buy her an apartment but doesn’t even know she doesn’t live there and doesn’t touch his money.
What’s worse is when we get Natalie’s side and see that when she told Piston about the baby, he blamed her and only her like it doesn’t take two. He mentioned marriage and she SAID NO. Because of her past she’s TERRIFIED of marriage and what it represents. Like her dad letting her step mom beat his own kid because he was loyal to the woman he married and not his daughter that didn’t ask to be born. Piston then threatens her that he’ll take full custody if she doesn’t marry him. He screamed in her face that he hated her.
SO HOW DID SHE TRAP HIM?!? We also learn Piston’s father is part of the rival club, the Killers. He learns Piston got married so corners Natalie, beats her and threatens her. She has a miscarriage and when she tries to call Piston, he has a club whore answer the phone and tell her he’s too busy fucking other women so answer the phone for his lying whore wife who trapped him
Natalie also now has a relationship with her 8-year-old half-brother. He showed up at her place a few months ago, beaten by the evil stepmom. So now Natalie helps take care of him and threatens the step mom that if she hits him again, she’ll show the video of her ex-boyfriend and step mommy fucking to her evil dad.
Yeah, it’s a stupid fucking plot. Super unbelievable too.
Yes, Piston bought an apartment. Yes, he gave me his card, but I don’t want anything from him, and now, I don’t even think I want his heart anymore.
At the beginning, I did, hopeful we could make things work, that I could put my fears behind me, as he forced this marriage on me, and not by his choice. If anything, though, he’s pulled further away from me. He sees me as an enemy.
Gone is the carefree man who would joke and laugh with me, and in his place is a bitter man who makes me feel dirty after we have sex, rarely giving me pleasure, only thinking of himself.
Why would I want to be with someone who treats me that way? A man who would dismiss you as soon as he’s pulled out and come in the condom, not trusting you not to “trap him” again?
The answer is you don’t. I deserve more than what he’s given me. I deserve respect, if anything. I know my worth now. I’ve come to learn that I deserve better, and that I deserve to be loved, even if it just means by being by myself with a house full of animals, and my brother.
I deserve to put myself first for once; Piston doesn’t do that. Heck, I’m his wife, his old lady, and I’m not allowed to use his given name or attend the club’s family BBQs.
ALL OF A SUDDEN about 60% of the way through the book Piston hears about Natalie getting attacked by his father, AGAIN, and does a complete 180. He loves Natalie, he can’t live without her, he’s been in love with her this whole time and wanted her to have his baby and wanted her to marry him so she couldn’t escape him and that’s why they were “exclusive fuck buddies” for three years. He just has SO many demons (like she doesn’t?!?!?!) and he wants her to stay his wife. So they go on a romantic date and tell each other everything they didn’t know (mostly all their past shit like childhood trauma and why he was scared to love her and blah blah blah blah) and then yay!
THIS IS SIX MOTHER FLUFFING YEARS THEY’VE BEEN TOGETHER!
Of course there’s more drama, Natalie is hurt again and put in the hospital but this time she’s pregnant and doesn’t lose it….. after being in a rollover car crash, beaten, thrown off the Brooklyn Bridge yeah mmmmmk , the step mom tries killing the little brother (wtf?) the club whores try and make it seem like Piston is cheating (he’s not), the step mom tries killing Natalie (wtf?) and that quickly they are couple goals.
Hugging, kissing, smooches, living together, helping raise her brother, having a baby and the world makes sense again.
Even worse, the author used THIS book about another couple to VERY obviously set up the next few books because we start to hear WAY more about Acid and Perrie and Steal and Cass and all their mother-freaking drama so you want to read the next book. There’s a girl missing and a rat in the club and more and more storylines. Ugh. Well done author.
I read it. I didn’t hate it. I want to read Acid’s book because I’m interested in his fuck up.
Natalie- FMC aka Diamond, a product of a ONS between her dad and some lady who did not want her. Her mom leaves her on her dad’s doorstep as a baby. Her dad had remarried and the evil stepmother hates her. Abused her, starved her, gave her nothing and her POS father just went right along with it. On her graduation date (which no one shows up to) she finds her boyfriend of 3 years, Chris, fucking her stepmother and records it. Walks out and goes to college.
Elijah- MMC aka Piston, in line to be treasurer of his MC, brother to Acid another MC member, lived with a very abusive father who would routinely beat him and his brother then fuck women in front of them (?), specifically mentions one time when he woke up in his hospital bed after being beat only to watch his dad fucking a nurse in the corner of his room. Is a man whore and will only sleep with women ONE time until he meets Natalie in a bar and takes her home.
Natalie and Piston meet in a bar in Natalie’s first year of college, they’re both in college, he’s in the MC also. Natalie goes to school and works two part time jobs. They decide to be exclusive but sex only, no feelings. When Piston graduates college, it is over.
Time Jump. Two years? Three years?
So, they fuck for 2-3 years straight but do not date, meet family, go anywhere together, he leaves in the middle of the night, he avoids her apartment for a week when she’s on her period and he repeatedly tells anyone and everyone although he doesn’t sleep with other people it’s just sex. The minute Natalie mentions feelings, he’ll dump her ass. Of course, Natalie is secretly in love with Piston and caught feelings. Basically, he treats her like an on-call whore. The night of Piston’s graduation they fuck one last time and he dumps her.
Time Jump. Two Years.
Opens to Piston watching two club whores fuck wishing he would get hard so he can fuck them both. We get his internalization of him hating Natalie because he “gave her his body” for three years only to have her fuck him over. We learn 3 weeks after graduation, Natalie told him she was pregnant. He married her but unwillingly. Then 2 months after that, she lost the baby. He insists she lied and is a lying, deceitful whore who “patch trapped him.” He watches the CW’s all the time but tells himself he is not cheating (because he cannot get fully hard, but would if he could).
Natalie offered to divorce him but their club has a rule going back generations that if you marry and give your patch to someone, you must stay married for 5 years.
So, for two years that they’ve been married, Piston shows up one day a month to fuck her without letting her come otherwise he doesn’t see Natalie at all. He does not talk to her, does not live with her, does not bring her to anything and does not protect her or let the club protect her. He has very small moments of guilt but keeps telling himself only 3 more years and he’ll get rid of her ass. He did buy her an apartment but doesn’t even know she doesn’t live there and doesn’t touch his money.
What’s worse is when we get Natalie’s side and see that when she told Piston about the baby, he blamed her and only her like it doesn’t take two. He mentioned marriage and she SAID NO. Because of her past she’s TERRIFIED of marriage and what it represents. Like her dad letting her step mom beat his own kid because he was loyal to the woman he married and not his daughter that didn’t ask to be born. Piston then threatens her that he’ll take full custody if she doesn’t marry him. He screamed in her face that he hated her.
SO HOW DID SHE TRAP HIM?!? We also learn Piston’s father is part of the rival club, the Killers. He learns Piston got married so corners Natalie, beats her and threatens her. She has a miscarriage and when she tries to call Piston, he has a club whore answer the phone and tell her he’s too busy fucking other women so answer the phone for his lying whore wife who trapped him
Natalie also now has a relationship with her 8-year-old half-brother. He showed up at her place a few months ago, beaten by the evil stepmom. So now Natalie helps take care of him and threatens the step mom that if she hits him again, she’ll show the video of her ex-boyfriend and step mommy fucking to her evil dad.
Yeah, it’s a stupid fucking plot. Super unbelievable too.
Yes, Piston bought an apartment. Yes, he gave me his card, but I don’t want anything from him, and now, I don’t even think I want his heart anymore.
At the beginning, I did, hopeful we could make things work, that I could put my fears behind me, as he forced this marriage on me, and not by his choice. If anything, though, he’s pulled further away from me. He sees me as an enemy.
Gone is the carefree man who would joke and laugh with me, and in his place is a bitter man who makes me feel dirty after we have sex, rarely giving me pleasure, only thinking of himself.
Why would I want to be with someone who treats me that way? A man who would dismiss you as soon as he’s pulled out and come in the condom, not trusting you not to “trap him” again?
The answer is you don’t. I deserve more than what he’s given me. I deserve respect, if anything. I know my worth now. I’ve come to learn that I deserve better, and that I deserve to be loved, even if it just means by being by myself with a house full of animals, and my brother.
I deserve to put myself first for once; Piston doesn’t do that. Heck, I’m his wife, his old lady, and I’m not allowed to use his given name or attend the club’s family BBQs.
ALL OF A SUDDEN about 60% of the way through the book Piston hears about Natalie getting attacked by his father, AGAIN, and does a complete 180. He loves Natalie, he can’t live without her, he’s been in love with her this whole time and wanted her to have his baby and wanted her to marry him so she couldn’t escape him and that’s why they were “exclusive fuck buddies” for three years. He just has SO many demons (like she doesn’t?!?!?!) and he wants her to stay his wife. So they go on a romantic date and tell each other everything they didn’t know (mostly all their past shit like childhood trauma and why he was scared to love her and blah blah blah blah) and then yay!
THIS IS SIX MOTHER FLUFFING YEARS THEY’VE BEEN TOGETHER!
Of course there’s more drama, Natalie is hurt again and put in the hospital but this time she’s pregnant and doesn’t lose it….. after being in a rollover car crash, beaten, thrown off the Brooklyn Bridge yeah mmmmmk , the step mom tries killing the little brother (wtf?) the club whores try and make it seem like Piston is cheating (he’s not), the step mom tries killing Natalie (wtf?) and that quickly they are couple goals.
Hugging, kissing, smooches, living together, helping raise her brother, having a baby and the world makes sense again.
Even worse, the author used THIS book about another couple to VERY obviously set up the next few books because we start to hear WAY more about Acid and Perrie and Steal and Cass and all their mother-freaking drama so you want to read the next book. There’s a girl missing and a rat in the club and more and more storylines. Ugh. Well done author.
I read it. I didn’t hate it. I want to read Acid’s book because I’m interested in his fuck up.
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November 22, 2024Spineless heroine lets hero set the terms of their relationship and change said terms as he sees fit, with no regard for her own boundaries or needs. Hero rejoices in having a booty call that never asks him for anything and eats up whatever scraps he gives, until she gets pregnant. Then he decides to force her to marry him??? And of course our invertebrate heroine goes along with it.
Couldn't root for this couple at all, but I found them both annoying in complementary ways so I guess they're perfect for each other.
Couldn't root for this couple at all, but I found them both annoying in complementary ways so I guess they're perfect for each other.
December 11, 2024
I’m not a fan of MC books and the more I read them the more I sigh.
The promiscuous heroes, the sex with other women, the double standard and the extreme violence just don’t suit me.
This one was somehow better.
There are a hero and a heroine who had both very difficult childhood, she had a stepmother who was abusive and a father who allowed the abuses, and he had a father who is a psychopath and a sadist.
They meet when they’re 18 and 19. He is a fuckboy, never with the same girl for more than one night stand, but after being with the heroine he decides to offer a FWB kind of agreement until he finish college.
Three years later they end their affair, the heroine being herself quite against commitment, family and marriage. Both have feelings but try to deny it. The hero misses her already after two weeks but guess what, she’s preggo.
He bulldoze her into marriage, even if she begs not to, and he feels betrayed because he thinks she wanted to trap him. Why he is thinking that, I just don’t know. In fact she was very adamant not to marry him.
Things get worse.
And this is where the heroines dumb choices will ruin them both.
She is attacked by his abusive father, and loses her child. Instead of telling him what happened, she decides to lie and tell she wasn’t pregnant.
So he thinks that she definitely wanted to trap him.
His prez forces them to stay married for five years, which thing I just didn’t understand, so the hero, since he’s an immature and self centered man, decides to abandon her, giving her a credit card and a flat, and going to her once a month for some bad sex.
So, for three years he goes on like that, holding a grudge and hurting because he loves her but thinks she doesn’t love him and is only using him.
He is faithful, even if he tries to watch op having sex to see if his lil useless penis can work, but sadly, and this is something that I really found very sad, since he’s very young, he can’t even get hard watching naked women have sex in front of him. I think it’s effect of overexposure to sex. It’s not good for libido. I don’t think he wanted to be unfaithful, he also has a stalker who continually offers him sex and he keeps rejecting her, so I think he didn’t really want to be unfaithful, not with his body and not with his mind. I don’t even think he was emotionally unfaithful since he didn’t even enjoy watching sex and didn’t have any attachment to any women, so imo he was only being stubborn doing something he knew would hurt his wife.
About the heroine, well, she’s not weak, she’s not a doormat and she’s not pining for him, she even admits she doesn’t know if she still has feelings for him, after all she didn’t want to have a child while she was working two jobs and trying to get her degree, and she never wanted a family, so she is the one who is doing better, because she manages to find a job as a teacher, as she wanted, and she moves into a flat of her own, even if it’s small, and she even manages to have friends and a good relationship with her lil brother who is being abused by her evil stepmother.
Basically she’s only waiting for a divorce to get rid of the hero, and it never seemed to me she was waiting for him to change his mind.
All in all, she’s resilient and strong.
I loved this.
The hero eventually finds out that his father is threatening and has threatened her in the past, so he decides to let his hurt pride go and plans to win the heroine back.
A lot of things happen, the evil stepmother doing her things, the hero’s stalker doing hers, his father’s club trying to kill, rape and sell people.
Both the hero and the heroine are hurt, because this is MC romance and you have to expect it.
In the end all is well, and we have the pleasure (not) to meet other future despicable heroes and the women they will abuse and betray before they are together, and by what I could read, I won’t be reading their story. There is a man who has sex with the girl who’s pining for him and then one week later he has sex with her bff, having a pregnancy scare, there is a man who threatens his gf because his ex lied to him and they’re separated for years, of course none of them is celibate. So I don’t think I will read their stories.
This one, beside the hero watching other women having sex and failing to get hard, has a celibate hero, and only a lot of silly misunderstandings. Both characters are broken, both have commitment issues, but imo they are both very strong and surprisingly their love appears to be strong enough to overcome whatever issue they will have.
She’s no doormat and he’s no cheating ahole.
They are also very young, in their early twenties so I can be more lenient than if they were in their thirties. When you’re very young you tend to see everything in black or white, so I can accept him thinking she betrayed him and her not being able to communicate what happened. She was told he was with ow when she was miscarrying so she didn’t tell him at all.
So, a lot of action here, and some dumb characters who cannot communicate properly, the book was not difficult to read.
The promiscuous heroes, the sex with other women, the double standard and the extreme violence just don’t suit me.
This one was somehow better.
There are a hero and a heroine who had both very difficult childhood, she had a stepmother who was abusive and a father who allowed the abuses, and he had a father who is a psychopath and a sadist.
They meet when they’re 18 and 19. He is a fuckboy, never with the same girl for more than one night stand, but after being with the heroine he decides to offer a FWB kind of agreement until he finish college.
Three years later they end their affair, the heroine being herself quite against commitment, family and marriage. Both have feelings but try to deny it. The hero misses her already after two weeks but guess what, she’s preggo.
He bulldoze her into marriage, even if she begs not to, and he feels betrayed because he thinks she wanted to trap him. Why he is thinking that, I just don’t know. In fact she was very adamant not to marry him.
Things get worse.
And this is where the heroines dumb choices will ruin them both.
She is attacked by his abusive father, and loses her child. Instead of telling him what happened, she decides to lie and tell she wasn’t pregnant.
So he thinks that she definitely wanted to trap him.
His prez forces them to stay married for five years, which thing I just didn’t understand, so the hero, since he’s an immature and self centered man, decides to abandon her, giving her a credit card and a flat, and going to her once a month for some bad sex.
So, for three years he goes on like that, holding a grudge and hurting because he loves her but thinks she doesn’t love him and is only using him.
He is faithful, even if he tries to watch op having sex to see if his lil useless penis can work, but sadly, and this is something that I really found very sad, since he’s very young, he can’t even get hard watching naked women have sex in front of him. I think it’s effect of overexposure to sex. It’s not good for libido. I don’t think he wanted to be unfaithful, he also has a stalker who continually offers him sex and he keeps rejecting her, so I think he didn’t really want to be unfaithful, not with his body and not with his mind. I don’t even think he was emotionally unfaithful since he didn’t even enjoy watching sex and didn’t have any attachment to any women, so imo he was only being stubborn doing something he knew would hurt his wife.
About the heroine, well, she’s not weak, she’s not a doormat and she’s not pining for him, she even admits she doesn’t know if she still has feelings for him, after all she didn’t want to have a child while she was working two jobs and trying to get her degree, and she never wanted a family, so she is the one who is doing better, because she manages to find a job as a teacher, as she wanted, and she moves into a flat of her own, even if it’s small, and she even manages to have friends and a good relationship with her lil brother who is being abused by her evil stepmother.
Basically she’s only waiting for a divorce to get rid of the hero, and it never seemed to me she was waiting for him to change his mind.
All in all, she’s resilient and strong.
I loved this.
The hero eventually finds out that his father is threatening and has threatened her in the past, so he decides to let his hurt pride go and plans to win the heroine back.
A lot of things happen, the evil stepmother doing her things, the hero’s stalker doing hers, his father’s club trying to kill, rape and sell people.
Both the hero and the heroine are hurt, because this is MC romance and you have to expect it.
In the end all is well, and we have the pleasure (not) to meet other future despicable heroes and the women they will abuse and betray before they are together, and by what I could read, I won’t be reading their story. There is a man who has sex with the girl who’s pining for him and then one week later he has sex with her bff, having a pregnancy scare, there is a man who threatens his gf because his ex lied to him and they’re separated for years, of course none of them is celibate. So I don’t think I will read their stories.
This one, beside the hero watching other women having sex and failing to get hard, has a celibate hero, and only a lot of silly misunderstandings. Both characters are broken, both have commitment issues, but imo they are both very strong and surprisingly their love appears to be strong enough to overcome whatever issue they will have.
She’s no doormat and he’s no cheating ahole.
They are also very young, in their early twenties so I can be more lenient than if they were in their thirties. When you’re very young you tend to see everything in black or white, so I can accept him thinking she betrayed him and her not being able to communicate what happened. She was told he was with ow when she was miscarrying so she didn’t tell him at all.
So, a lot of action here, and some dumb characters who cannot communicate properly, the book was not difficult to read.
September 30, 2025
3.5⭐ - this was good good good but also kinda dark? not for me i don't think
December 5, 2024
stretched thin
This was good, but it also left a lot to be desired.
Natalie and Piston met in college; they were each other’s one night stand that got repeated/drawn out for three years. Each coming from a childhood full of abuse, Natalie and Piston deny their love for each other, afraid of mirroring their childhoods in their current relationship. What happens is a lot of miscommunication and secrets and harm (physical AND emotional).
I like that Natalie is a strong independent woman. I don’t like how her clumsiness is a danger to people around her and it’s downplayed as a quirk. She had her brother with her and she caused a kitchen fire for crying out loud. And she constantly hurts herself with her clumsiness. It’s a wonder she hasn’t hurt her students, what with stuff falling down on her all the time. I feel like this was a weirdly placed personality trait, like this was the only rhing making her an “interesting” person outside of her relationship with Piston and her brother.
I like that Piston cares for his family but has a misguided sense of values which caused him to ALSO abuse Natalie, which was never fully identified as such nor addressed and I hated it. What he did was emotional abuse. Period.
And then when they finally got together, the story dragged on with this issue with both Natalie’s and Piston’s dads—the former being resolved in one sentence, and the other being completely unresolved. The author also introduced the stories/conflicts of the other couples (I’m guessing the succeeding stories in the series will be theirs), and while they fave a good insight to the community, I felt that there was too much a focus on them that the author could have cut that part out to keep the focus on Nat and Piston or just ended the novel already.
The last thing I didn’t understand and consequently hated was that Christy’s constant return was unwarranted. There was NO reason for her to keep coming back to Nat and bothering her.
I’d like to add that there were quite a number of typos in the text. Not dealbreakers for me, but enough of them were present to make me think the author either had to edit or proofread on her own or that she needs a new one.
So yes, great premise, but not the best execution.
This was good, but it also left a lot to be desired.
Natalie and Piston met in college; they were each other’s one night stand that got repeated/drawn out for three years. Each coming from a childhood full of abuse, Natalie and Piston deny their love for each other, afraid of mirroring their childhoods in their current relationship. What happens is a lot of miscommunication and secrets and harm (physical AND emotional).
I like that Natalie is a strong independent woman. I don’t like how her clumsiness is a danger to people around her and it’s downplayed as a quirk. She had her brother with her and she caused a kitchen fire for crying out loud. And she constantly hurts herself with her clumsiness. It’s a wonder she hasn’t hurt her students, what with stuff falling down on her all the time. I feel like this was a weirdly placed personality trait, like this was the only rhing making her an “interesting” person outside of her relationship with Piston and her brother.
I like that Piston cares for his family but has a misguided sense of values which caused him to ALSO abuse Natalie, which was never fully identified as such nor addressed and I hated it. What he did was emotional abuse. Period.
And then when they finally got together, the story dragged on with this issue with both Natalie’s and Piston’s dads—the former being resolved in one sentence, and the other being completely unresolved. The author also introduced the stories/conflicts of the other couples (I’m guessing the succeeding stories in the series will be theirs), and while they fave a good insight to the community, I felt that there was too much a focus on them that the author could have cut that part out to keep the focus on Nat and Piston or just ended the novel already.
The last thing I didn’t understand and consequently hated was that Christy’s constant return was unwarranted. There was NO reason for her to keep coming back to Nat and bothering her.
I’d like to add that there were quite a number of typos in the text. Not dealbreakers for me, but enough of them were present to make me think the author either had to edit or proofread on her own or that she needs a new one.
So yes, great premise, but not the best execution.
February 8, 2025
Tough start
This is a new author for me and a new series so I give a lot of grace, especially when it’s a series that the first book isn’t always the best. Having now read 3 of this series, it’s sad to say ironically out of the three this is the best and the one I read the most without skimming. Although I did skim a lot by the end.
The writing is weak, the main characters start of interesting but then get childish and boring, there is no real development or plot.
I have read a lot of biker books, part of the appeal is the stereotypical ‘male’ behaviour that is developed and ‘re-educated’ in an environment that would not always be expected to. This book is so full of misogyny. I understood the initial ‘plot’ was the biker MMC thinking he had been ‘trapped’ by a pregnancy, but the fact that both the MMC in his misguidance and the FMC who knew the truth still kept referring to this none existent ’trap’ even after the truth was revealed was infuriating. At no point, did the MMC ever admit he had made a mistake or admit that he was the ‘trap’ the fact everyone acted like the FMC had done something, even once they knew the truth was just victim blaming and really made me not connect with the characters at all.
It was hard to ignore too when it is mentioned on nearly every page! The repetition of this book is just none ending and the issues and behaviour of the MMC that are never addressed is just ridiculous but she just glosses over it and never mentioned it again. Yeah, real healthy.
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This is a new author for me and a new series so I give a lot of grace, especially when it’s a series that the first book isn’t always the best. Having now read 3 of this series, it’s sad to say ironically out of the three this is the best and the one I read the most without skimming. Although I did skim a lot by the end.
The writing is weak, the main characters start of interesting but then get childish and boring, there is no real development or plot.
I have read a lot of biker books, part of the appeal is the stereotypical ‘male’ behaviour that is developed and ‘re-educated’ in an environment that would not always be expected to. This book is so full of misogyny. I understood the initial ‘plot’ was the biker MMC thinking he had been ‘trapped’ by a pregnancy, but the fact that both the MMC in his misguidance and the FMC who knew the truth still kept referring to this none existent ’trap’ even after the truth was revealed was infuriating. At no point, did the MMC ever admit he had made a mistake or admit that he was the ‘trap’ the fact everyone acted like the FMC had done something, even once they knew the truth was just victim blaming and really made me not connect with the characters at all.
It was hard to ignore too when it is mentioned on nearly every page! The repetition of this book is just none ending and the issues and behaviour of the MMC that are never addressed is just ridiculous but she just glosses over it and never mentioned it again. Yeah, real healthy.
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April 1, 2025
Piston & Natalie: triggers- child abandonment, child abuse, domestic violence, assault, loss, grief, stalking, kidnapping. What a rollercoaster ride and I liked that this storyline happens at the same time as "Sniper: Devil's MC" with the disappearance of Piston and Acid's cousin, Aurora. So we get to see kind of how the MC dropped the ball with her. It seems that a lot of the books have the same idea as far as the MC members go... Single members, not wanting a relationship or an old lady until that ONE shows up. This happened here as well. Piston is in college when he meets Natalie. They both have a bad family background though they don't find this out about each other until later in the book. But their history makes them avoid relationships like the plague. So they end up in a exclusive FWB situationship until the stick pops positive. Piston makes some huge mistakes and it pushes Natalie further away. Now someone is threatening her and he'll kill just to protect her. Such a good story. Even if the concept is the same the backstory is where they differ and where the excitement is. Natalie learns to build a backbone and stick up for herself over the years even if it's against the man she loves. Piston has to learn that he is not his father and own up to his feelings. Really good. Sometimes a little emotional.
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May 25, 2025
false advertising
FIRST and most importantly, it is absolutely shameful how Natalie’s miscarriage was completely glossed over. And the fact that Piston got away with not being there for Nat during said miscarriage. How she held no resentment towards him as she was left alone during the worst time of her life as she was brushed off by him for the clubwh rs is beyond me. She blamed everything on herself and yet she still had to make pissant Piston feel better because of his “boo hoo” past.
There was absolutely no hard grovel on Piston’s part. Actually, there wasn’t a soft grovel for that matter, because of Natalie’s ingrained insecurity due to her painful childhood she immediately forgave the man no problem. Frankly, Natalie seemed to carry the heavy load in their relationship and still managed to have to be the one to constantly reassure Piston’s whiny butt and all the while he steps out on her during their marriage. No real resolution here. Piston had no character development whatsoever. From beginning to end all he focused on was her trapping him and his traumatic childhood. He didn’t push for divorce? Wow how romantic. Certainly excuses how she treated her like crap during the first two years of their marriage. Be still my heart. Bar is low ladies.
FIRST and most importantly, it is absolutely shameful how Natalie’s miscarriage was completely glossed over. And the fact that Piston got away with not being there for Nat during said miscarriage. How she held no resentment towards him as she was left alone during the worst time of her life as she was brushed off by him for the clubwh rs is beyond me. She blamed everything on herself and yet she still had to make pissant Piston feel better because of his “boo hoo” past.
There was absolutely no hard grovel on Piston’s part. Actually, there wasn’t a soft grovel for that matter, because of Natalie’s ingrained insecurity due to her painful childhood she immediately forgave the man no problem. Frankly, Natalie seemed to carry the heavy load in their relationship and still managed to have to be the one to constantly reassure Piston’s whiny butt and all the while he steps out on her during their marriage. No real resolution here. Piston had no character development whatsoever. From beginning to end all he focused on was her trapping him and his traumatic childhood. He didn’t push for divorce? Wow how romantic. Certainly excuses how she treated her like crap during the first two years of their marriage. Be still my heart. Bar is low ladies.
June 4, 2025
C.L. McGinlay launches the Huntsmen MC series with Piston, a raw and gripping story that dives deep into love, loyalty, and redemption in the ruthless world of motorcycle clubs.
Piston has never been one for attachments—his club is his family, and he's never wanted an Old Lady. But when Natalie enters his life, everything changes. Their arrangement was supposed to be simple, but tangled emotions and strict club rules make it anything but. Hardened by a past that taught her not to trust, Natalie isn’t searching for love either. Yet sometimes, the most unexpected connections are the ones that matter most.
McGinlay masterfully crafts a tale of resistance, passion, and two people forced to confront what they truly want. The tension between Piston and Natalie is electric, fueled by misunderstandings, buried fears, and undeniable chemistry. As they navigate the complexities of their world, they must decide whether love is worth breaking the rules for.
Fast-paced, emotionally charged, and packed with gripping storytelling, Piston delivers everything an MC romance fan could hope for. If you love tough bikers, fierce heroines, and a love story that challenges expectations, this book is a must-read.
Piston has never been one for attachments—his club is his family, and he's never wanted an Old Lady. But when Natalie enters his life, everything changes. Their arrangement was supposed to be simple, but tangled emotions and strict club rules make it anything but. Hardened by a past that taught her not to trust, Natalie isn’t searching for love either. Yet sometimes, the most unexpected connections are the ones that matter most.
McGinlay masterfully crafts a tale of resistance, passion, and two people forced to confront what they truly want. The tension between Piston and Natalie is electric, fueled by misunderstandings, buried fears, and undeniable chemistry. As they navigate the complexities of their world, they must decide whether love is worth breaking the rules for.
Fast-paced, emotionally charged, and packed with gripping storytelling, Piston delivers everything an MC romance fan could hope for. If you love tough bikers, fierce heroines, and a love story that challenges expectations, this book is a must-read.
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