HARD RIDER (Bad Boy Bikers #1) by Lydia Pax-a review
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date March 17, 2016
RAM:
Nobody screws me. I take who I want, when I want, and I always leave them wanting more. I want more too. Hurt this deep doesn’t heal. After meeting June, I know she’s the fix I need for the pain.
Her family’s full of cops? So what? All I want is her. Those luscious curves, the lips that won’t quit, hips that make my heart pound like a drum. My outlaw brothers say me and her together will tear this whole town apart. I don’t give a damn.
JUNE:
I never wanted to come home. There’s nothing here but old wounds too bitter to heal. The day I returned, I met Ram. He’s an outlaw biker built like a god, but there’s nothing divine about his desires. When he tells me he needs an old lady to stay in his club, we start a dangerous charade.
He gets a woman and time. I get my sheriff dad off my back. Breathing room. But every breath around Ram is lightning hot and undeniable. I can’t be with him for real. He’s every kind of wrong there’s ever been. Unless we’re careful, we’ll rip our lives apart. But what’s happening between us feels too right to ignore, no matter the cost.
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REVIEW: HARD RIDER is the first installment in Lydia Pax’s contemporary, adult BAD BOY BIKERS MC erotic, romance series. This is twenty six year old Wrecking Crew MC member Reid ‘Ram’ Maddox, and June Colt’s story line. HARD RIDER is the story of fated lovers-warring families-‘Romeo and Juliet’ for the MC lifestyle.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Ram and June) HARD RIDER focuses on the ‘fake engagement’ between the Sheriff’s daughter June Colt, and the former Sargent at Arms for the Wrecking Crew MC Ram Maddox, and Sheriff Colt’s overwhelming need to destroy the Wrecking Crew MC. What ensues is the quick building relationship between Ram and June, and Sheriff Colt’s escalating attempts to ruin the Wrecking Crew MC and his daughter’s life.
The relationship between June and Ram begins when Ram tries to divert his father’s attention from the latest problems plaguing the MC, and finds himself making a deal with a woman he knows nothing about. Ram is a bad a$$, tattooed biker whose in trouble with his own MC; June is the Sheriff’s daughter whose problems with her own family find our heroine on the receiving end of her father’s hurtful and spiteful words. June’s return to Marlowe, Texas find her reluctantly visiting the family she hasn’t seen or heard from in a number of years, only to discover that her father’s need to crush the Wrecking Crew goes far deeper than duty or his job. The $ex scenes are provocative and intense-there is a definite insta lust/love vibe to the story line premise.
HARD RIDER has a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters. We are introduced to Ram’s fellow Wrecking Crew bikers (Ace, Mikhail, Rowdy, Cattleprod, Nate, and Ram’s father and Club president Howitzer Maddox) -not all will survive to tell their own story; June’s dysfunctional family of law enforcement members (Sheriff John Colt, brother Kyle, and cousin Theo) who hold too much power over the small town of Marlowe, Texas; and Black Flags MC members Beretta and Acero.
The world building focuses on the impending war between two rival MCs-Wrecking Crew and Black Flags. As per many MC story lines, the language is graphic; there are a number of fight scenes; and the requisite death(s) at the hands of both MCs. Ram and his father ‘hate’ all police, with understandable reasons.
HARD RIDER is an interesting and intriguing MC story line: a secret relationship that isn’t so secret and a forbidden love that quickly escalates into something more. June’s father, for all intents and purposes, has too many issues with the MC, and his daughter, that have not been explained to fruition; and I was hoping for some more information regarding the death of Ram’s mother-years before. At some point, if the series is to continue, I hope that more will be revealed. The premise is fateful; the characters are colorful and animated; the romance passionate and energetic. I am looking forward to many more stories from Lydia Pax’s Bad Boy Bikers Series.
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Reviewed by Sandy
