BULLET (Lotus MC 5) by Cala Riley-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 4, 2025

Bullet
The Lotus MC saved me when I was looking for something more. It was the most important thing in my life.
Util I met her.
Harlee Swift.
She’s the girl I’m not supposed to want, but the one I can’t help but yearn for. When tragedy strikes the family, I watch her life fall apart.
I need to save her. I only hope I’m not too late.

Harlee
One night. That’s all it took to change my life irrevocably. Now I’m drowning, unsure if I even want to live.
That is until he jumps in to save me.
Bullet.
The once prospect turned member who should stay far away from me. I should let him go, but he makes me feel alive in ways I thought were lost to me.
When my father finds out, Bullet will be a dead man.
Will our love survive the fallout?

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REVIEW: BULLET is the fifth instalment in Cala Riley’s contemporary adult LOTUS MC erotic, romance series. This is nineteen year old club princess Harlee Swift, and Bullet aka Jacob’s story line. BULLET can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Bullet and Harlee) following two time lines, BULLET focuses on the forbidden relationship between Harlee and Bullett. Approximately two years earlier, Harlee lost her mother in a motor vehicle accident, and her father Honk, who spiralled after the death of his wife. Fast forward to present day, Harlee is about to graduate high school, and is determined to leave as soon as possible but Bullet has been Harlee’s guardian and protector in the wake of her father’s spiral, and our heroine is struggling with unrequited love. The Lotus MC is about to be pulled into a war not of their making, a man running for mayor is taking aim at everyone involved.

The world building follows several intersecting pathways including Honks downfall and recovery; the mayoral candidate targeting of the Lotus MC, as well as Harlee and Bullet dancing around one another, a dance with the potential for both to get burned.

The relationship between Bullet and Harlee is one of the forbidden. Harlee is a club princess, off limits as per her father’s decrees but Harlee has been in loved with our story line heroine for close to three years, and Bullet is struggling to keep their relationship platonic in the face of the sexual attraction and magnetic pull. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

Once again, there is a large ensemble cast of colorful and dynamic secondary and supporting characters including many of whom we met in the previous instalments: Reaper and Natalie, Wrath, Colt, Midnight, Trigger, Tonk, as well as William Dansworth, and his daughter Adalyn.

BULLET is a story of secrets and lies, power and control, betrayal and vengeance, family and relationships, acceptance and love. The characters driven premise is edgy and dramatic; the romance is seductive and fated; the characters are determined, energetic and desperate.

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Cala Riley, better known as Cala and Riley, are a pair of friends with a deep seated love of books and writing. Both Cala and Riley are happily married and each have children, Cala with the four-legged kind while Riley has a mixture of both two-legged and four. While they live apart, that does not affect their connection. They are the true definition of family. What started as an idea that quickly turned into a full-length book and a bond that will never end.