Title: Reaper
Series: Avenging Angels MC #4
Author: Nia Farrell
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date: January 18, 2019
The dark, gripping Season One finale is loaded with triggers. Consider yourself warned.
Maureen “Mama Mare” McLanahan is the mother of five grown children and married to Patrick “Papa Bear” McLanahan, President of the Avenging Angels MC. For twenty-eight years, she has kept secrets that could shatter her marriage and ruin their lives. No one knows that her oldest son might belong to Reaper Rhodes, President of the rival Blackwater Demons MC.
Reaper has been obsessed with Mare since high school. When his collection crew brings back her daughter Rose as a party favor, he decides to save her for his son. The next girl kidnapped has a mob boss uncle. The Visconti crime family joins forces with the Angels to rescue both girls.
Reaper’s son is killed in a retaliatory strike by the Viscontis. Wrongfully blaming the Angels, Reaper kidnaps Mama Mare to use as bait, with plans to kill her daughter. Mare is rescued before that happens but Reaper escapes. She spends the next three years fearing for her daughter and struggling with PTSD from her ordeal.
Reaper eventually resurfaces with a vengeance, taking and using two more women before he’s through. His heinous acts demand justice, but whose hand will wield the sword?
This book had adult situations and triggers. Written for Ages 18+.
Beware Spoilers ahead in my review so if you plan to read the series prior to Reaper my review contains my struggles I had within this series itself and reviewed as a series on the whole.
Lets start by saying this a new author for us and we are always looking for new authors for us to enjoy who writes within our favorite gene.I was given this entire series to review and I am going to review this series as a whole as I really struggled reading this entire series.Finding Her -was Rose's story and her story was somewhat believe-able as she grew up in a household that practiced bdsm 24 seven you could see her getting sucked into the life but,everything she went through the previous days before and a virgin at that then within a day is now a sub to her dom to a childhood friend ? practicing hard core bdsm ? Really? Yet, days before starved ,humiliated ,semi -raped and tortured by a handful of men but, within days a sub to a dom who is a 24 hr a day dom ? Really?
I will say that Loser -The Avenging Angels the best of the bunch of the stories .Flynn was the only character that I felt was even somewhat like-able if I had to pick a character in this series that even interested me it would be Flynn.Reaper's book I forced myself to read as it was not a thing I liked about the story and absolutely hated the ending.
This series seems to have a lot of mixed reviews some rave about these series and others do not but, for me I found the stories to be just okay reads.In actually the writing was okay it was the plots and the themes of the plots that were not for me and it had nothing to do that the books members were into the bdsm life.
I am not sure if it was the authors style of writing or I did just not like its characters.The only character that I even found interesting was Flynn although I somewhat liked him I didn't love him and their within lies my problem is that I didn't really like any of the characters in any of these stories.Not a one !
I realize these books are a work of fiction but, for me they just need to be somewhat believable and I found that each and every love interest to unbelievable and almost every book had one of the main characters that was a rape victim used by multiple men then they meet a man from the mc and the next minute living the bdsm life style being their sub and living in a clubhouse (full of dominate men) where the MC itself and its members are entirely all into the bsdm lifestyle ( all Doms with Subs) and that's how its run.Really? Not only that 2 women victims were mob related nieces it seemed to me that for this being MC books the mob took better care of their women and better care of the threats and payback then the mc members themselves who vowed that they will be their to protect their women but, did everything but in each and every story.
The bottom line is this.I found the stories plots themselves not to my liking at all but, the romance/love interest in each and every book was just a turn off for me. I guess for me that I just had a problem with these rape victims even entertaining the likes of a bdsm lifestyle so quickly or even being drawn to it in the first place especially when none of these women had any prior sex with kink in it not only that they were also so young and then all being rape victims suffering PTSD and all have triggers.But, honestly when the sons and daughter of the club president was leading his old lady around by a collar and screwing her in public with his kids in the same room because she was being punished/disciplined that was it for me.The rest of the stories I forced myself to read.
Where was the romance to begin with?.Zero- Ziltch.
They meet someone ( MC member character) they are interested in or happened to have met by chance next are having sex and after one screw now in a committed relationship now being their sub and living the bsdm lifestyle now.Really? All their women raped by a rival clubs president and its members now are subs to a clubhouse full of members who are all Doms? This was and ongoing plot theme the only thing that changed was the characters.Then the rapist turns out to be a biological father of a mc member who raped all these women including his? What the h.....
Flynn was the only one I have to say that he turned out to be the best of the bunch as he surprised us the most throughout his story as he actually had some feelings and was a caring sort in general and he actually grew on us a bit. LOL Flynn's take on the bdsm lifestyle was different from the others at least concerning his women and her needs .Needle play ?I learned something new thanks Flynn.
Overall this series was not for us.Although we did not like or even love the series we have just decided that this is probably not an author to our liking.On a positive note I think the author has the bones and potential to be a really good author.We can't love them all and thats okay.In my opinion pick better plot themes.These stories read more like erotica novels with just a few MC elements thrown in.For being a MC romance their was very little action or interaction with its club members or as a club as a whole meaning club life other than the lounge of the club being the front and center place where they practiced or played out their bdsm lifestyle scenes for for all to see.
Jessie G and her Devils Pride MC are the perfect example on how to mix the bdsm life style with a MC series.
I find that as a reader and reviewer I am pretty easy to please and I really don't nit pick at things but, if a story makes you cry,laugh,fall in love with those characters or at least lust,keeps your interest has some drama and a good plot that is all that I really need but, when you read a entire series and not find a character to fall in love with or even like I knew from the onset this series was not going to be for me.
Personal note:For me the MC Gene has become one of my favorite genes to read and while reading them I think that we all expect certain things from reading them like the chaos, the drama, the alpha men, men to be dark dangerous and deadly and sexy as all get out yet do bad things but ,are good for the most part and their stories to extremely hot and maybe be dark and a little gritty and sometimes the darker the better and who doesn't want to fall in love with a bad boy and secretly want one for your own?
Bottom line this is what I was missing from this series.
(ARC-ED SERIES)
“Remember that Fourth of July at the lake?” he rumbled. “You couldn’t keep your hands off me, even when I warned you what would happen.”
“You were g-going away,” she stuttered, gasping at the feel of his hand. “I wanted to give you a reason to come back.”
“You shouldn’t have. You were too goddamn young and my best friend’s little sister. I knew Jack would kill me if he learned that we were fooling around.”
“I was fifteen,” she reminded him. “Old enough to know what I wanted.”
What she’d wanted was Patrick McLanahan, the boy she’d loved since she was twelve. Let skeptics laugh, but it was God’s truth.
“You were a goddamn tease,” he rumbled. “You’d worn your swimsuit under your clothes. You peeled them off right in front of me. Fuck if every guy there didn’t want you.”
“Except you,” she said, remembering his resistance.
“Oh, I wanted you, too, babygirl, but I had enough sense to wait until you were older. You didn’t let me, though, did you?”
“No, Sir.” She supposed that she should be sorry, but she wasn’t the least bit contrite. She had wanted Patrick to be her first. If she’d waited—
He added a third finger, stretching her out, preparing her for his possession. “I remember you standing by yourself chest-deep in the water. The sky was clear enough, you could see the Milky Way stretched out like a stairway to heaven. There was only half a moon but it was enough to see your breasts when I came over and you took off your top for me.”
Despite her blatant invitation, he hadn’t reached for her. Her whole body had ached for his touch. Desperate, she had taken matters into her own hands.
“You came over to me,” Papa Bear rumbled, pumping his arm and hitting her hot spot. “You wrapped your fingers around my cock and jacked me until I came in my briefs.”
She hadn’t known what else to do. She’d been trying to get him to notice her, but he was so goddamn stubborn. He’d kept his distance all night, talking to her brother and their friends and drinking beer that they’d snuck in. When the first of them followed the girls into the water, Patrick had kicked off his shoes, peeled off his clothes, and waded out to her, wearing nothing but his white cotton underwear.
She had tried to get him out of his drawers, too.
“I wanted you to screw me. You told me you wouldn’t.”
He had tried to shut her down with a tersely murmured string of swear words and a list of mumbled reasons why they couldn’t sleep together. She’d given him a handjob, hoping that he’d change his mind and take what she was offering.
“And how long did that last?” he asked wryly. “A month?”
“A month and three days.” An eternity for a teenager teetering on the edge of spontaneous combustion. “You were headed for boot camp in the morning.”
He was leaving, and she was desperate. Dub Rhodes had been watching her… stalking her ever since his release. She feared what would happen if he managed to catch her alone. He was dangerous. She knew that. For whatever reason, he’d become fixated on her. She had no doubt that he was capable of rape. Given the chance, he’d steal her innocence and rob her of choice.
He would take what she had been saving for Patrick.
Patrick Seamus McLanahan was the boy of her dreams. In her naughtiest fantasies, she had imagined him seducing her, deflowering her. Despite her youth, despite her brother, despite his plans for a career in the military, she’d wanted Patrick to be her first. On his last night home, she managed to make that happen. There were things in the past that she wished she could change, but giving herself to Patrick wasn’t one of them.
“You were tight. So fucking tight,” he rumbled, thrusting his hand and biting her neck in a claiming that betrayed his own tumult of emotions. Outwardly today, he had stayed strong for her, for their family, for the club. He needed to release his stress, to decompress, to reaffirm life and hope with sex, most basic of human needs. “I thought I’d never work my way inside, even when I finally made it past your hymen. Five kids and twenty-eight years later, and you still fit me like a glove.”
Nia Farrell is the award-winning author of one of The 50 Best Indie Books of 2016, a four-times Golden Flogger Finalist, and a founding member of the Wicked Pens. She writes hot sex and happy endings in multiple genres and subgenres, including BDSM, mรฉnage (MFM and MMF), paranormal, MC (motorcycle club), and Mafia. Regardless of genre, ultimately, her books are about the healing power of love.
Nia writes erotic romance as Nia Farrell, historical romance as Erinn Ellender Quinn (the Ellender is a family name), and erotica/romantic comedy as Ree L. Diehl. Her three pen names share a webpage at http://niafarrell.wordpress.com, where you can view slideshows of tantalizing teasers and read steamy excerpts. As one reviewer put it, “If you love sensual, emotional and powerful romance with a definite D/s dynamic, you should be reading Author Nia Farrell.”
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