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The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Heavy
Dina is off limits. She’s my brother Wall’s little sister. She’s wired different, and despite the malice aforethought, she’s innocent.

She wants me to help her bury a body.

I want to unravel her beautiful brain.

I want to let her explore me—and watch the light in her eyes when she discovers what she needs and how badly she needs it.

I want her.

I’m the Steel Bones Motorcycle Club president and CEO of Steel Bones Construction. Around here, I’m the last word and the first in the line of fire.

I’m Heavy Ruth.

I don’t get to have what I want.

Dina
He’s ruthless, and he knows how to dispose of a body. That’s all I’m looking for in a man.

I’m not catching feelings. I don’t do emotion. My frequency is sensation.

So what if he’s too much in the most mind-blowing way? So what if I’m curious about him—and I’m not curious about anyone.

This is just a conspiracy to commit murder.

Not love.

I might have said “I do,” but those are only words.

Right?

Heavy, the seventh book in the Steel Bones Motorcycle Club series, features Dina Wall, a crossover character from Hitting the Wall. The novel can be read as a standalone, but for maximum enjoyment, consider reading Hitting the Wall and the other books in the Steel Bones series first. Intended only for adult readers.

HEA guaranteed.

333 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 15, 2021

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Cate C. Wells

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CATE C. WELLS writes gut-wrenching paranormal and contemporary romance. Whatever the world, readers can expect character-driven stories that are raw, real, and emotionally satisfying. Cate's into messy love, flaws, long roads to redemption, grace, and happy ever after, in fiction and in life.

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2,088 reviews36.1k followers
July 9, 2023
4 Smut Scale Stars

I really liked this one. I am a fan of some of Cate C. Wells' other books, but had yet to read anything from her MC series. After seeing in the Stonecut County series that Dina was featured in this book, I decided to just jump in here as opposed to reading the whole series. It seemed fine.

Dina is on the spectrum and I really enjoyed her as a character. I really liked her and Heavy's romance.

After a weird scene where the majority of the MC club female characters (some of which are the love interests in previous book) decide to rip off their shirt and go topless, I'm not sure how interested I am in reading all the books from this series. But I might try Charge's book and see how it goes.
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1,007 reviews2,175 followers
December 24, 2025
5 We Are How We Were Made Stars ⭐

Heavy was a fantastic change to what I'm used to by this author. Many boundaries were pushed and we got served up an unconventional romance at its best. A lead who is neurodivergent and a hero who is a little ugly, a whole lot genius and perfectly suited to his girl. Where I am used to this author writing slow burn romances, I was so pleased with the spicy turn of events. The entire time my heart felt light.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Propositioning the president of a MC Club isn't the smartest decision, but Dina's way of thinking isn't exactly traditional. And it's not sex she's after. No she just needs somebody to bury a body for her. All good in theory, until Dina's demand creates way more strings than anticipated.

Heavy is hardened and disillusioned. Carrying the burdens of the club on his shoulders, he does not want to deal with a pint sized woman who has information that could tear everything he's built to the ground. He has no idea what to do with Dina, especially because he's oddly attracted to her and all her idiosyncrasies. So he proposes something crazier.

Love’s not a feeling. It’s geography. It’s where people belong.
Heavy belongs with me.


In a million years you would never think this relationship could work. I mean there are so many differing contrasts between Heavy and Dina. Yet every time they're in each other's bubble, the world melts away and you believe. There were so many kooky and delightful moments, I was bursting at the seams. My romantic heart was having a meltdown. And the sex, it was awkwardly divine. Yep you read that correctly.

“Oh, yeah. When we get back to the hotel, I’m poppin’ that cherry. It’ll be all about you. Just like this. But once I break you in, baby, it’s gonna be about me. Understand?”

This girl does not belong in Heavy's world, but to be fair Dina struggles to belong anywhere. But somehow they both contribute something very vital to each other. This story is certainly gritty in parts, but their extraordinary connection eclipsed everything else for me, in the best way.

Do yourselves a favor. If you feel you don't want to invest your time in a full MC series, read Heavy in the way I have as it crosses over two of this author's series which are interconnected and it's been fucking awesome. In order to read them:

🔗 Wall (Steel Bones MC)
🔗 Hitting the Wall
🔗 Heavy (Steel Bones MC)
🔗 Against a Wall
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293 reviews27 followers
September 19, 2025
He’s a rider, a provider, and his only job is making sure you’re weak in the knees and have butterflies in your stomach all the time.
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1,331 reviews2,238 followers
September 16, 2021
3.5 stars

First of all, I really liked the female lead Dina.

She is on the spectrum and I’m not sure if the autism representation is accurate and well done because I have nothing to compare it to but it felt authentic and Dina was someone I could really empathise and genuinely like, maybe more so due to her seeing and feeling things differently.

It was a fresh perspective and I love those, the field of experience is not only relevant for neurodivergent characters.

I have to say tho, one of the things that makes me pick up this authors books is her writing. While the story and characters may not always be my cup of tea, the writing certainly is. It’s witty and at the same time it can be deep or practical as the plot requires.

Now as to Heavy (the male MC) on the one hand I liked him. He was a normal guy underneath it all which was relatable. On the other hand, he didn’t make much sense at the beginning when he almost killed Dina. For a guy who was over and over, declared to be a genius - he showed some really big signs of non- geniusness. How does it make sense that he would just kill her when presented with the situation in front of him. His first reaction is that of a thug with few brain cells. IMO. And then he further showed signs of hypocrisy in which his sister Harper joined him. Basically they are all about their club and how they (him and his sister) would do anything to protect anyone that is considered family. They have this huge amount of respect and care for all blah blah. BUT they were planing to KILL the sister of a member and lie about it. Harper is pretty vocal about it and would have done it on the spot then gone back to pretending they are one big happy family which she “protects” from the shadows. If you’re gonna sell yourself as Queen Bee, Mother Hen, then be consistent. They are both hypocrites about their reasons for protecting the club. It’s about them and how it makes them feel to have the club at their backs and to surround themselves with this makeshift family than it is about the others and their personal lives and experiences. That situation told me more about them than other interactions in the book in which they acted in accordance to what they preached. So that kinda coloured my opinion of Heavy. As well as the fact that later on, he treats Dina kind of like her family used to, when he keeps her in his house and delays going though with her “plan”.

<_______Harper rant_______>
Now, because I am on the subject of Harper I have to admit I absolutely hate her and maybe my enjoyment was affected by her presence. And if she didn’t exist in the universe of this book and the others in the series I would have loved it more. I know that most likely the author is setting her character up for her own book but I don’t think I’ve hated a character more and wanted to see them gone. Dead or otherwise.
Not everything can be excused with “oh yeah she’s an unapologetic bitch” BUT she cares for everyone in her own way blah blah.
Listen, I don’t wanna be sexist and so I tried to imagine what if she was a man, and you know what, I’d still hate him/her so so much. She meddles into absolutely everyone’s business. You can care for someone and NOT try to run their lives because you know better. I can’t stand the fact that she would always bulldoze her way and her opinions into every situation possible. With Charge, with Forty with her brother. Absolutely everyone. What makes you think you know better all the time. These are not kids. These are grown men and women. How high on that horse can you be. Also, I can’t empathise with her downward spiral and feel bad for her. It was her choice. There are consequences to it. Period.
I hate that we get these scenes with everyone still “liking” her. I think it’s unrealistic. You can be cordial and try to keep things impersonal but that’s about it. Dina, Kayla and some of the other girlfriends are still claiming Harper to be this mystical, do gooder with a shitty attitude. I guess if it’s being said over and over and if enough people agree then it should be a consensus that Harper is a bitch with a heart of gold who wants to protect everyone and would sacrifice herself for them. I just feel like it’s forced. All of it. Her bitchiness, her mother Theresa (but with an attitude) vibes, her likeability (where!?) in spite of Queen Bitch status. I could probably go on about my absolute hate for this character but I’m gonna make myself stop.
<_________________________>

When it comes to the relationship between Heavy and Dina - it had its sweet bits and some funny bits and some genuine bits. There were also parts that were unnecessary imo.
I also expected more suspense, and more determination from Dina, particularly because of her neurodivergent way of experiencing the world. She ended up being a house sitter for a long part of the book. She worked on her plan for a year, and then what, she found d*** and forgot about every effort up to that point and about her friend Rory.

I also found the “every old lady dancing topless in the clubhouse” scene unnecessary. I guess it was supposed to be fun and liberating and female power or whatever, while also fitting it to the biker lifestyle, BUT why!? That’s a personal preference tho.

I was interested to read more of Charge and Kayla to be honest. The first book in this series was and is my favourite. I still haven’t read 2 of them because the blurb tells me it won’t be my thing. The scene where Heavy learned some stuff about Charge’s origins was one of the highlights - because as I said I want more of Charge and his story. I think I like rooting for the underdog and both him and Kayla have that quality in them.

This ended up being an unnecessarily long review. All in all, I can’t say I liked or disliked the story. I think it was alright, and my complaints were more about my personal likes and dislikes rather than objectively about this story and how it might be perceived by other readers.

I can’t wait for Cash’s book next because I absolutely loved Hitting the Wall and I’m curious how the author will write his character because he seemed extremely unlikeable and I love to dig into those kind of personalities.

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2,255 reviews516 followers
March 20, 2025
Reread
Shockingly enough I still love this just as much as the first time I read it lol.




Reread
Loved it just as much





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I love this book so much man gahhhhhh rating upped to 5* on this reread






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4.5*
Dina is Wall's little sister, she's on the spectrum and lives basically as a shut in. Her friend's been hurt by her rich powerful uncle so Dina carefully plots to kill him. She needs help though and turns to Heavy for assistance. She offers him the info he's been searching for for years to finally put the latest war that is a consequence of a bad job years ago behind him
The 2 decide on a marriage of convenience


*****
I enjoyed this one, I've never met anyone on the spectrum but Dina seems a realistic portrayal of someone who is
I love me a big guy so Heavy was my kinda H
We finally get closure to the MC business that's been running in the background of all these books


No cheating
Virgin h (totally fits given the situation,)
H had been with women including the sweet butts over the years but he hadn't been with anyone in a while
Scene in a strip club while the mcs watch a couple having sex


Original review
I read this a little bit ago but can't remember details now🤦🏾‍♀️ hopefully review soon

****Does Harper get her own book I wonder
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2,576 reviews21 followers
June 30, 2022
This wasn't a bad story, in fact the parts with the two MCs was quite good. However, I haven't read any of the previous steel bones series, so there were a ton of characters, and conversations that I was left in the dark about. I'm also on the fence about romances that feature people on the spectrum. I'm not against it, I'm just very cautious that it's written in the right way so that those characters are not put in situations they don't understand. (I have a family member on the spectrum, so I'm very sensitive about this subject.)

The one book that did this really well was Last Kiss by Jessica Clare, because both of those characters were struggling with their own mental issues, and it felt like they balanced each other out, rather than one having an advantage over the other.
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192 reviews
November 21, 2023
2.5 stars

At the start I fucking loved this book. Plus, I started reading with VERY high expectations because it's Cate Wells, y'all😍 She knows how to write a sweet sweet guy and a badass heroine.

Well, Heavy was HOT and sweet. Our heroine Dina is neurodivergent and Heavy was just so fucking SWEET I CANTTTT.

She has light sensivity issues and after she threatened him and broke into his house he was still the perfect guy✨

“Why are you smiling?” he grumbles.
Plastic carefully slides behind my ears. Sunglasses. I blink and open my eyes, my fingers flying to the frames. They’re comically huge.


AWWWWW

“Well, you’ll be all right then.” The flight attendants buckle themselves in for takeoff, and I stretch my legs into the aisle, almost groaning with relief. “No one can see past me. You’re in your own little hidey hole over there.”

Miss Cate just KNOWS how to write a man. (plus, the dirty talk was🤤)

BUT, after they fly to Vegas and get married, they go to a strip club. I was like OKAY, They are in Vegas. I didn't dwell on it.

But I did mind it when he hired two strippers to fuck in front of them while they watched. And I did mind when she asked him what kind of girl he liked and without hesitation he was like, "Oh, that big tittied stripper over there, but I got my mind on you, ehe😜"

I do not like sex between other characters, let alone DETAILED and LONG sex while the main characters watch.

NOOO MA'AM. NO MA'AM.
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4,297 reviews363 followers
September 6, 2021
Read chapter 1 on the author's website.

https://catecwells.com/heavy/

I am mixed about this one.
I liked the heroine.
We met her in a different series, book entitled Hitting the Wall. She is the sister of the Hero of that book. She disappears at the end of that story and in this book we learn where she is.
She has issues.
“Pervasive developmental disorder—not otherwise specified. That’s what they called it when I was a kid, but then they got rid of that diagnosis, so now I have ASD. Autism spectrum disorder.”
I admit I don't know much about this but I felt it was handled in an interesting way.

The Hero is in the MC life but although he makes the occasional comment of where he could go to scratch an itch he hasn't been with anyone in 2 years so Def not presently the man-whore type.
The heroine is a virgin.

They form a marriage of convenience to solve one of their issues.
I did have a bit of an issue in how much sex was in the book, it happens quite quickly.
I think I would have liked to get more story.
There are no intimate scenes for the Hero other than with the heroine but there is a voyerism scene of another couple having sex etc etc.

HEA.
Breadcrumbs dropped for Harper, the Hero's sister.

ARC.

This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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2,246 reviews1,528 followers
September 16, 2021
All the feels!!

I SERIOUSLY love this book! UGH … just gives me all the feels! You have two seemingly opposites end up being perfect for each other while finding out they’re not so different where it counts the most. There's the hero, Heavy. Just as his name implies, he’s HUGE. He’s loud. Bombastic. Lives life afraid of nothing, rather, as the Prez of the Steel Bones MC, people are afraid of him. But not Dina Wall, our heroine and sister to Wall, one of Heavy’s MC brothers. The murder pixie is petite, has a hard time leaving her house, and has ASD (autism spectrum disorder), but her fascination with Heavy and his prodigiously large everything, keeps her (and us) hooked. Her plan is to blackmail Heavy into helping her get rid of a body, but she never bargains on Heavy’s counter-plan of a marriage of convenience for legal protection. It’s super fun to watch Heavy trying to stay one step ahead of Dina. They both are genius level smart and will do anything for the people they love. The story is just a fantastic journey for both of them, filled with super witty dialogue (both internal and external, lol), hot smexy times, and emotional and physical discovery. Cate C. Wells always manages to blow me away with the “realness” of her characters and she’s certainly accomplished that again!

Story: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Trope: opposites attract/marriage of convenience
Angst: 😰😰
Smexy: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Triggers: none
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1,187 reviews294 followers
February 27, 2022
I enjoyed the portrayal of ASD in this book. I’d be curious to hear from someone who knows firsthand, how accurate it was. I enjoyed Heavy and Dina’s romance. This book left quite a few loose ends untied, but I’m assuming they will be tidied up in future books. I’m really looking forward to Harper’s HEA. I’m slowly making my way through this series, albeit out of order.
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1,181 reviews426 followers
March 22, 2024
Well, 2 stars for the H not having had sex for 2 years. I do like a man who controls himself.

And 2 stars for the intelligence of some of the writing. But the sex was meh, quickie at best, and the plot was kinda stupid.

Won’t be reading more of this author.
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1,605 reviews570 followers
June 8, 2022
free 8 June 2022
😘I wanna be her friend. Love how her mind works:😘

😂“Bum, bum, bum.” I can’t help it. My lip twitches. “You stomp around like a cartoon giant.”
“You need me to nail you back in a little longer to learn some respect?” He swings the hammer at his side.
“Respect is earned, Popeye.”
“I look nothing like Popeye.”
“Whatever you say, Shrek.”
“You’ve got quite a mouth on you for someone who’s been cooling her heels in a closet. “I shrug. “I don’t have a filter.”
“You should get one.”
“You should get a thicker skin, Gaston.”

😅 “Yes, he touched me. We’re married. I’m twenty-four. We had sex.”
I tilt my head. John’s stance doesn’t change. He bristles even more. What does he want to hear?
“It was good. Mostly.” I consider. “Like—four out of five.”
Wash wheezes.
John closes his eyes. “Four out of five?”
I swear I can hear Heavy’s teeth grind.
“It kind of sucked at the beginning, but then it got good.” I think for a second. “Like Breaking Bad”

❣️“Which girl do you like the best?”
It’s a weird question. “They’re all pretty.” Every one of them is built like a Barbie. “Which one do you like the best?”
He kind of blinks at me. He does that a lot when I say things. Like he’s streaming video, and he’s buffering.
“You wanna know my type?”
“Sure.”

😂The best secondary characters:😂
“It’s a marriage of convenience.”
“Oh, son.” Grinder shakes his head. “Marriage ain’t convenient.”

💥 He’s a goner for her:💥
“I lean back a little, resting my back against Heavy’s chest.
Gio winks. “Now you’re getting’ comfortable,” he says.
“Don’t talk to my wife, friend,” Heavy says, even and calm, his voice vibrating against my shoulder blades.”
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May 16, 2022
Self note
Flat chested h with autism + H obsessed with big tits, belittles the heroines flat chest in his mind.🙄
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826 reviews14 followers
April 28, 2022
I'm loving this author but only read this one because it's Dina- Kellum and Cash's sister from Stonecut County series. And the fact that this book, in another series, sits between their books and it was really annoying but to know what went on!
Dina is on the spectrum. She approaches Heavy to help with killing her uncle. Well, to deal with the body. She's happy to do the killing. They get married to take advantage of spousal privelege but become friends and lovers.
Seeing Dina and Heavy's relationship was actually a delight. Heavy adored how Dina's mind worked and the presentation of autism was pretty realistic and never seen as a failing, just a series of challenges and a different and often funny perspective on life.
I couldn't love these two together more.
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827 reviews58 followers
March 20, 2025
Finally
An author that writes a neurodivergent character that is actually neurodivergent rather than quirky waiting for the healing powers of good sex.
I appreciate how extremely high intelligence is presented as perhaps its own form of neurodivergence,
The added bonus was spending time inside each characters head and point of view. In this instance it really made it all work

Note to authors: Pay attention. This is how it's done.

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January 5, 2023
DNF at 52%. I don't like anything about this book. I'm not going to rate it since I didn't finish it.
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1,657 reviews220 followers
June 7, 2024
4.5 stars

I started reading this to see if the villains from Hitting the Wall got their comeuppance, but stayed because Dina and Heavy were smoking.

She’s neurodivergent and he’s, well, heavy and ruthless (which is apt because his name is Heavy Ruth). Naturally, she seeks him out for help disposing of a body. Their first time had a lot of “you’re taking me so well” energy, which I was into. 😏 The story was very relationship-y and the motorcycle club stuff was there but in a supporting role — my favourite kind of MC romance.

Cate C Wells definitely leaves plot threads unfinished though, and I’ve come to realise I can’t expect a story where everything is wrapped up neatly with a bow. The main couple’s relationship gets a satisfying conclusion, but the side plots? I guess real life is messy.
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409 reviews27 followers
July 3, 2023
This was very enjoyable and I loved the neurodivergent heroine.

It might not have been the best idea to read this as a standalone because there were so many character and plot overlaps.

Once I accepted that I just wasn’t going to get the whole thing, the actual relationship development and the rest of the plot was actually quite nice.
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1,293 reviews168 followers
September 8, 2022
4 I like Dina stars.

Reread 9-7-2022… 4 I like Dina and Heavy stars.

Wondering when Harper gets her turn.
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May 15, 2022
I am not a MC club books fan but I read this book while following the Wall siblings' stories.
In fact, this may be my first MC club book ever. So, got used to the terms and lifestyle although here the MC world takes a somewhat of a backseat for most parts as we follow Heavy and Dina in their (or her) escapades.

Dina, our ASD/'neurodivergent' h is a very smart and self-sufficient person but needs Heavy's help for a 'thing' that she needs to get done. Heavy is the president of the MC club of which her eldest brother, John is also a member. She has hacked and found some info that she knows Heavy's looking for regarding a decade old plot that tore apart their old club and caused deaths of many. So many deaths (and nonchalant murders) but vengeance is still not served.
She thinks she can get him to do her bidding but Heavy is a hold-no-prisoner guy and she barely escapes with her neck intact.
Heavy, despite himself is enthralled by this 'cute little murder pixie'.

Heavy the 'neurotypical' but not that typical!
He is described as this huge hulking 'endomorph' with a scraggly beard and hair ('Hagrid Hair') but a very smart guy who could have made billions in the Silicon valley but decided to give it all up to take over the MC club after the feud began and now is only making millions with his construction business etc. *eyeroll*
Since, I haven't read the previous book so the presence of some characters who must be important through the series weighs heavily - like his hard-shelled sister and the older generation.
There are a lot of stories here.

Another USP - Dina and her bff Rory. Their relationship is beyond sweet. They epitomize 'two lost souls' who helped each other find themselves, make themselves whole, together - as a 6 and a 11 yo kids.
“And then there was Rory. She was hungry, so she asked to share my lunch. And then she smiled. Or she was cold, so she wriggled under my jacket and fell asleep. So I brought her an old coat, and she wore it every day, even when the weather turned warm. If I wanted to do times tables for an hour, she was down with it. If I felt like rehashing the plot of my favorite Buffy episode for the one hundredth time, she listened. Rapt. Happy.”
And so no surprises, that adult Rory gets Dina. And also Heavy without having met him.
And no wonder that Dina leaves her home in Stonecut county for the first time ever, for Rory. To seek vengeance for her. Or rather to make sure that nothing bad happens to her again.
“People like me?”
“Fairy godsisters.”
That’s what she used to call me when she was little.
“And I’ll marry a prince?”
She laughs. “Oh, no. Not you. You’d be so bored with a prince.”
“The evil villain then?”
“You wouldn’t tolerate the evil.”
“So who would I marry then?”
There’s a second’s pause. “The dragon. ”


I want/need to read Rory's book if it ever comes. With Jesse? But he's too sweet and innocent just like Rory. So, maybe another guy. Also this way, we'll surely get two more books at the least. I'm so loving the Wall siblings and their journey (not John!)
Being camp Cash myself, I am disappointed that the usually canny Dina has such a low opinion of her twin.

Cute-ish how Dina and Rory, and then Heavy and others, seriously engage while playing the online game 'Elfin Odyssey'.
And did anyone notice that the one time Dina goes topless and dances along with other women doing the same, her brother John is conveniently absent.

Like I've mentioned before in the series, this author has put so much new-to-me stuff in her books - things, ideas, terms, phrases, events, books - that I had to google, like for no other book.
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March 31, 2022
2.5✨

this one actually has a plot yes but it wouldve been more wonderful had harper’s existence not present

actual thoughts : dina was one of the few things who intrigued me in kellems book, and when i heard she was paired up w heavy??? grumpy giant hunk of a man heavy?? hel yes

There are a few bangs and a muffled curse, and then the door swings open, bright daylight flooding inside. Pain shoots into my brain. I squeeze my eyes shut.
There’s a grunt.
“What did you do to my shirts?” Heavy growls.
“Sat on them,” I say in the direction of his voice.
“Why are your eyes closed?”
“It’s too bright.”
“You were in there an hour and a half, tops.” He sounds grumpy.
“I have a light sensitivity.”
“You’re really fucking delicate, aren’t you?”
In some ways, yes. In some ways, no. I shrug a shoulder, and his huge shirt slips down. He sighs and stomps into the room, his footsteps echoing. All that’s missing is the bum, bum, bum.
Then he tromps back, coming straight for me.
“Why are you smiling?” he grumbles.
Plastic carefully slides behind my ears. Sunglasses. I blink and open my eyes, my fingers flying to the frames. They’re comically huge.
“Bum, bum, bum.” I can’t help it. My lip twitches. “You stomp around like a cartoon giant.”
“You need me to nail you back in a little longer to learn some respect?” He swings the hammer at his side.
“Respect is earned, Popeye.”
“I look nothing like Popeye.”
“Whatever you say, Shrek.”
“You’ve got quite a mouth on you for someone who’s been cooling her heels in a closet.”
I shrug. “I don’t have a filter.”
“You should get one.”
“You should get a thicker skin, Gaston.”


buttttt. the execution of said real promising premise was not it. i liked the opposite attract stuff, some moments were cute but i also sure as hell expected more from heavy’s character. cant rlly explain whats wrong i was just exhausted throughout and ended up dnfing heheh so wont rate it. i think i liked this less than charge/kellum’s books and i didnt even like the guys there

i finished my last cate c wells book so heres the ranking

dizzy
roosevelt
nickel/plum/twitch/rejected alpha/run posy run
hitting the wall/charge/against a wall
heavy
scrap
forty
wall
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1,652 reviews378 followers
November 24, 2022
I’ve been looking forward to this one for ages and it lived up to my expectations. Our main character is autistic and the sister of the heroes in the stonecut county series. It’s a marriage of convenience, “help me bury the body” set up and I loved it.
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740 reviews294 followers
January 13, 2023
With that, the biker life for me is over 🫠

I am a Cate C Wells fan but this biker series really didn’t work for me the last…four books. And this one really really really let me know that I need to quit it with these bikers.

Heavy and Dina have a meet horror in a gripping beginning and super props to the author for always sucking me into her books. But then things just get…weird.

Dina is on the spectrum and seriously has nothing Heavy is into. I know this because he mentions it a million times. But when a marriage of convenience is struck Heavy catches feelings pretty dang fast and pretty dang unbelievably. I was a little more than baffled when he tells Dina they’re not gonna be getting an annulment when the dust settles cause they’re gonna be having sex. ??? Is this just cause you’re a horny dude?? Oh, wait it’s because you like her?? Already??? Now?? Why???? What?? How?!?! Heavy WTF are you talking about?? Idk what he’s talking about because he NEVER EVER explains or shows his connection to the woman he calls little girl, he just lusts over her for no reason.

Also there are a lot of boobs in this book. Too many boobs. Mom boobs, sweetbutt boobs, stripper boobs, random women in bar boobs. Boobs everywhere! Why is everyone getting naked at all times in biker romance?!

Ending was not it for me and this romance fell super flat.

Sad that this is the last in this author’s back catalogue that I will read but relieved to be done with this biker insanity.
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409 reviews37 followers
February 4, 2022
Hiya, Heavy. You were a great hero, but Dina really outshone you in this one. Something tells me that you wouldn't mind though.

Truly, Dina was a joy to read about. Again, Cate Wells creates simple characters with such complex and realistic attributes. I shouldn't be able to relate to Dina at all-- we're nothing alike. But somehow, when I was reading, I felt like I was her.

The only reason I gave this 4 stars was because the story seemed a bit disjointed and the conflict between the two of them seemed contrived. I got a bit confused with the mystery element, but in defense of the book, I did skip books 2-5 in the MC series and the 1st book in the Wall series. I'm sure that I would have been more clued in to what was going on had I read those first.
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1,560 reviews275 followers
November 19, 2024
Not really a standalone, there is a lot of characters, history, conversations from previous books. If you want to enjoy this, you gotta read the other books first.
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