The 15th book in the series and it is just as good if not better than book 1. MUST READ!
I will admit I am a Jessica Gadziala fan! Her heroes are yummy and even when they are bad boys they all have good hearts. Her heroines are multi-dimensional and many of the kick-a** variety. She writes great secondary characters that make the universe bigger, better and often leave me panting for those characters to get their HEA. Her worlds are rich and her stories often full of surprises. Plus every book has a guaranteed HEA and an epilogue that is so worth reading the book for. Roderick is all of this and more. It’s Jessica at her best giving us a phenomenal hero in Roderick, a kick–a** boss of a heroine in Livvy, a new array of secondary characters I cannot wait to learn more about and for them to each get their own books, and an epilogue that gives a glimpse to a HEA that continues on.
Though a part of the Henchmen MC series, the vast majority of this storyline happens in the city not in Navesink Bank. You will of course get little peeks and updates on the Henchmen and the girl’s club but you could easily read Roderick as a standalone and still fully enjoy it.
Roderick is a member of Henchmen 2.0, one of the recruits brought in after the MC was devastated. Sweet-talking with a big heart, Roderick is loyal, sweet, gentle and caring but no pushover; he is still a muscular, gunrunning biker after all. With 5 younger sisters, all dating age, and a mother that he takes care of (you’ll learn more why when you read the book), Roderick gets women, respects them and enjoys them, but has never really settled down or committed to one. Sent on his first solo assignment to make a delivery to a collector, Roderick is robbed of the guns and all he sees is a great tush as she leaves the scene.
The great behind belongs to Livvy who runs her own small gun running operation with the help of her family of the heart, Astrid and Camden. Once Roderick tracks Livvy and her partners in crime down the sparks start to fly and the temperature rises.
I really enjoyed the evolution of the relationship between Roderick and Livvy. He is the biker but is also the one open to the developing relationship, willing to talk through his and her feelings and the caretaker. Livvy is more closed, more thorn than rose, unwilling or unable to open herself up to what could be even as it is happening.
There is a lot to love in Roderick. Not only are Roderick and Livvy great, but also they are great together bringing out the best in one another. I loved that the evolution of their relationship drove the story and there was not yet another threat to the MC forcing them together. Roderick and Livvy are everything you want in a romance, great chemisty, rising heat, challenges external and self-imposed driving their relationship and the storyline and a guaranteed HEA. My personal favorite element, Roderick is a hero that made my belly flutter, because who would not get all a flutter when a hot, golden skinned, muscular Latino calls his love mamí.
I also loved all the new characters we met in this book. Astrid, all I can say is OMG and we have to learn more, and Camden brings now meaning to the strong, gorgeous, silent type. Lets not forget Roderick’s 5 sisters each more beautiful then the last. They all deserve their own happily ever afters. In addition, we get a to check in with many old favorites in the Henchmen MC, the girl gang and Hailstorm with a little extra something in the epilogue from L (was that a hint Jessica of what is to come?), Chris and so much more.
Every Henchmen and Jessica Gadziala fan needs to read this book, but even if you are new to Navesink Back or never read any of Jessica’s books before, you should pick up Roderick. It is a HEA every romance reader will love. 5 Stars
I was given an ARC in exchange for a fair and objective review of the book.