I felt like flowers this week, so I went with this design by Lily and Fox. It’s called A Golden Spring. Summer is on the way out, so it’s time for me to use up all my pretty spring nail wraps. I like to do my nails while I am listening to an audiobook, although the nails take me less than ten minutes, including dry time. Today I’m listening to IRISH by Harley Wylde.
It’s an MC Romance in the Devil’s Boneyard MC series. The male main character is Irish, a biker who is a total Man Ho-Ho-Ho. The female main character is Janessa, Club Princess of the Dixie Reapers. They met when she was 14 and had an immediate connection. Romantic, but definitely not sexual because this is not that kind of a book (in other words, our hero is not a pervert). She heads down to the DBMC compound to claim her man, but complications because Man Ho-Ho-Ho, and she takes off in her truck and ends up being attacked (no S.A. though). The rest of the story sees them working things out and the clubs dealing with the perpetrators.
I enjoyed the audiobook. It’s narrated by Umi Markkanen, and I think she’d even make an audiobook version of Golf Wiki interesting. She’s clear and easy to understand and she does a great job of both the male and female voices. She has a relatively high voice, but she’s so good at being expressive that, when she performs the hero’s POV, I forget that she presents as female. I’d give the narration a 5/5.
The story is a solid 4/5 and is Safe, by which I mean there’s no S.A. and no cheating. Reformed Man Ho-Ho-Ho is a popular trope in MC Romance because of all of the Club Bunnies that populate their wilder parties. Other tropes include Overprotective Father and Longtime Crush. It could even be considered Instalove. I’d have liked a little more longing on both sides; it would have sold the Instalove better. I don’t think a woman as badass as her father claimed would have ever gotten distracted and dropped the knives. And we never did get a good physical description of Irish, other than he’s hawt. But the story is enjoyable and the romance believable, with an appropriate amount of ass-kicking for a badass MC.
I received an advance review copy for free and this is my honest, voluntary opinion. And these are my honest, fancied-up nails.
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