Fighting to Stay - By Kasey Millstead *Review* #COYER

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“Never stay, Lacey. Promise me. Promise right now, that whenever things go bad in life, you will run. Never, ever stay.”

Lacey Monroe was used to running. When things got bad, when things got dangerous, when there was a chance that she would get hurt – physically or emotionally – she did what her momma said. She ran. She kept running, until she landed in Salt Rock, Alabama. She meets Roam Cooper, the Vice President of the Mayhem Motorcycle Club and for the first time in her life, Lacey considers staying…and then, right before her eyes, her world falls apart. And she runs again.

 This is one of the sweeter biker romances. Lacey meets Roam through her best friend. It's lust at first sight - names not necessary. They stumble into a relationship or at least some semblance of a relationship before weird events targeted at Lacey throw them even closer together. Roam is a bad boy gentleman from the moment he meets Lacey - a weird mix of polite manners and wall banging sexy times.

Lacey's backstory is laid out at the start which gives us a better understanding of why she is the way she is. After the horrible trauma she's suffered at the hands of her parents it's no wonder when Lacey is faced with a difficult situation she over reacts. I wanted to bang my head in exasperation - why do so many female characters get written such ridiculous responses? - but with Lacey it makes sense that she runs because all she does is run. In fact I was waiting for the moment when she got too freaked out and ran, so it was slightly predictable.

Roam is such a Prince Charming. Prince Charming was a biker and had a pierced, ahem - well, let's just say Cinderella probably wouldn't have left at midnight. Overall, "Fighting to Stay" could have used a bit more development, I felt like the story went much too quickly and it was the bare minimum information. There could be so much more between the start and finish which could have bumped it from short, light and fluffy to wicked fabulous. Regardless, this is a wonderful story and Roam sounds like one gorgeous man - sparkling blue eyes, dimples and built - be still my heart. Grab a copy and give Roam a ride yourself, it's sexy time well worth a read.

Kasey Millstead is Mum to four children and lives in NSW, Australia. She is the #1 Bestselling author of the Down Under Cowboy Series.Fighting to Stay, Steele Investigations series and the soon to be released Illicit Desire. She likes reading and writing (obviously), drinking with my girls, baking, scrapbooking and dancing (again with her girls). 

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Undeniable - By Madeline Sheehan

Undeniable Series - Book 1

Warning: This is not a "typical love story". This is an all-consuming, soul-crushing, tear-your-heart-into-pieces story. It’s intense, gritty and raw, dark and disturbing, and it doesn’t happen overnight. This is an epic love story that knows no boundaries and has no time limits. It grows and develops—with hurt, sacrifice, and heartache—over the span of a lifetime.

Eva Fox is the princess of the Silver Demons Motorcycle Club. Growing up with bikers in the club lifestyle is all that she knows. When she’s a young girl, Eva meets the reason for her existence. Deuce West is the sexy, biker bad-ass of the Hell’s Horsemen Motorcycle Club. Like Eva, he was born and raised in the club—but that’s where the similarities end. Their first meeting is innocent, but as Eva matures into a woman, their chance reunions evolve into a fit of lust and love. Fate continues to bring them together time and time again, but their twisted journey is filled with pain, betrayal, and bloodshed that could tear them apart. Eva sees in Deuce what he cannot see in himself—a man worthy of love—and Eva spends her lifetime proving to him that her undeniable love is the one thing he can’t live without.

This is Eva and Deuce’s story.

It wasn’t easy.

Nothing worth doing ever is.

And love is worth everything.

I believe the phrase "book hangover" was invented with writers like Madeline Sheehan in mind. If you don't need to take a moment after reading these books I'll eat my hat. Sheehan writes with grit - clench your jaw, grind your teeth, grit. She pushes romance beyond it's pretty, cozy, safe boundaries and hurls it into a world of hard truths and tough lives. Yet it doesn't make this love story any less romantic. You will fall in love with Eva "fucking" Fox (as Deuce likes to call her) who lives to love despite having an unlikely environment to grow up in. You'll fan yourself at Deuce's tough talk and rugged charm. He's hyper masculine and that's not always in his favor. Their crazy love story doesn't focus on whether or not they belong together -because it's obvious they do - it's all about the how of it. Deuce screws up A LOT and yet Eva loves him enough to give him a second chance and a third chance and well you get the picture. There were so many things that could and do throw them apart. Yet the dogged determination of them both is what makes this story magnetic. The way they fight to get their happy ever after and they bloody deserve it too.

Reading Undeniable is like watching an volcano erupt, horrifying in it's terrible, mesmerizing beauty. It's hard to tear your gaze from something equal parts dangerous as it is stunning and much like Deuce and Eva, it's not about when it ends but how it happens. Sheehan's writing broadens the scope of a genre that was waiting for something edgier without needing the BDSM and Dom/sub hooplah that's been bandied around since a wider audience found 50 Shades of Grey. Not that I'm not a fan of BDSM and Dom/sub, it just gives readers a different kind of romance to sink their claws into. Undeniable is fresh, new and necessary. It's no wonder Sheehan already has an avid following.

5/5
xxx Literary George
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