*****Small SPOILER on whose nephew it is******
Did I love this book? Well yes, at the beginning I did. Towards the middle I did. By the end? I was left debating. I will get to that in a few, but all in all I will say the major things were in this book. It made me chuckle, it made me teary eyed and it made me angry (but not in the way you may think – more on that later. Please read the sidenote.).
If I was to say what this book was really about I would have to say it was less a Allison/Dice book, but more a Dice/Miles book. Thinking back on this book, this sub plot touched me more than the main love story attached to the main plot and overshadowed the main story in a huge way. I cheered, I growled, I yelled, I cried and my heart broke more so with this story than that of Allison/Dice. If you read this story for any other reason, read it for that of Dice/Miles. They deserve their own book in my opinion. I’d love to read of their misadventures and brotherhood. I fell in love with these two pranksters.
With that said this book had all the makings of a favorite. Allison was shy, but a free spirit, but suddenly caught up in a whirlwind not of her making and ends up falling for Dice. She’s not a pushover per say, but can seem a bit soft and overly subservient. It’s not annoying to me, but can get a bit old after so many times of “wanting to please him or take his mind of things”.
While I don’t like to give away spoilers, I can’t say that I fully agree with the resolution of the relationship in this book. One of the main plots was the fact, as stated in the description, is that Allison is Kade’s sister. This part of the story is maybe given two pages at best. We don’t get to see them finding common ground, getting to know each other, asking questions or really anything. The secret is told and then, quite frankly, moved on from. The reactions from Dice, Sienna and Kade are all over the top and uncalled for in this reviewers opinion.
Dice is at a turning point in his life, a fork in the road. Does he go left or right? We learn his inner most thoughts on the major changes in his life, the lightning fast things that he has had to adjust to that are making him change his views on his life, club and the future. Allison and the threat from the both the rival MC as well as Gordita’s army plays a factor in his debate on his place in life. This is where things get tricky, leaving me questioning on if I am being contrary because of my need for a solid format of a HEA and don’t like change or if it’s a pleasant change because it’s different. This I will have to leave to you to decide.
Well written? Yes
Emotional? Yes
HEA? Yes
Hot love scenes? Yes
Read it again? Doubtful
Because of not sticking to the main premise of the story, being a bit wishy washy with the development of the H/h relationship, the ending abruptly ending with no followup, but at the same time making up for it with Dice/Miles, I give this book 3.5 stars.
**SIDENOTE** I have not read the second book “Bulletproof” and I will tell you why. After reading several reviews, as I was curious why the rating was so low, I decided not to. Nothing makes me not like a book more than a ungrateful, bitchy heroine. After reading Warrant I wondered if they were being a bit harsh about Sienna, after all in that book she seemed rather nice. After this book? NOPE, never going to happen. The way Sienna treated Allison in this book when she found out she was sleeping with Dice and when she found out she was Kade’s sister, was enough to convince me that if this was on going theme I would hate her book. Even the glimpses that we see of her attitude with Kade in the kitchen were enough for me not to like her, but after her outburst when she found out about Allison and Dice? Hell no! I wanted to jump in the book and deliver a stomp down. So disrespectful for something that was completely none of her business and what she said was completely out of line. Not only did she embarrass them, she never apologized and then the next day acted like she never even said it. Ummmm what? We will just say finding out about Kade’s sister? Worse . I won’t read her book, because women like her in real life? Well I would have already had issues with.