Between 1 and 2 stars, so I'm being generous and rounding up. It's an interesting premise, but there was quite a lot lost in the execution. So here goes, let's touch on some highlights:
-Insta-love. Not just insta-love, but insta-"I'm throwing away my entire life because of some vague attraction and connection with this person I just met." Within sentences (at least how it feels), Jace is telling her club business (which any reader of biker romances knows is a no-go) and Piper is pretty much throwing away her career to shelter him. The insta-love I can deal with. Not my favorite, but I can deal. But this one? Not so much.
- Piper, seriously. No nurse would be asking those questions. And to steal prescription meds for him? And serious painkiller meds at that??? Yeah, that's not just risking her job. That's risking her whole career.
- The characters overall, though. The leads just felt flat. Never really connected to them, and the short length didn't help. And the side characters too. So many of them, and with so many conflicting motives. In a shorter work like this, it just felt like a whirlwind. And to add that some of them were just annoying? Yeah, not fun. Like Sterling, Piper's sister - just wanted to smack her. First of all, bringing all the cops in after her sister explained everything. And second, charging in after them, unarmed, into the exact situation that had her so worried about her sister in the first place. I mean, what's the logic? "My sister's in there and I'm so worried about her getting hurt that I've brought down all these trained, armed professionals, whom I'm now going to follow directly into the danger." But I guess if her sister's hiding a material witness/potential suspect and stealing meds for him... maybe stupid decisions are a family trait.
- Speaking of those numerous characters... it wasn't just that there were so many characters. We got to hear all of them too! Seriously, we had alternating perspectives of about a half-dozen characters. And they'd switch perspectives from sentence to sentence. Some scenes were honestly hard to track whose thoughts we were actually reading!
- Some of the writing was just awkward. Like the lusty/steamy scenes had some really weird turns of phrase.
- On the positive side, it did keep my attention and it was a quick read. Plus, a free find on Kindle.
3rd person omniscient (enough different POVs, I'm not even calling it alternating - it's omniscient and we'll leave it at that). No cheating or OW/OM/love triangle drama. Fast paced, but could be confusing with all the different POVs. Never really connected with the leads (or any of the other characters). HEA and no cliffhangers.
Would I read more by this author? Probably not. Too many other authors I want to read first.