The book sets it up that she has no idea what a motorcycle is. One glaring instance of being unrealistic about bikes is when Salome first rides on one. Motorcycles, though, are treated in the book as basically cars with two wheels, and anyone who’s ridden one can tell you that’s not so, and a motorcycle gang definitely would know better than to treat them that way.

While everything else surrounding the motorcycles can be pure fantasy, the motorcycles themselves should function like the real world (unless it’s scifi). Second, you have to imagine that the reader who might pick up a romance featuring motorcycles might know a thing or two about them. Better editing would have really helped this book. There are many clear mistakes such as saying things like “gotta to.” It reads like a first copy, not a final draft. There are some jarring elements that take the reader out of the read, thus leading it to be less enjoyable.įirst, it’s poorly edited. That said, this book is not executed as well as it could have been for its genre. Additionally, I do realize that these types of romances are basically fantasy so I try to cut them some leeway. I’m being a bit charitable with my rating of this read because the juxtaposition of commune and motorcycle club (gang) is one I haven’t seen before, and I do think it’s interesting. When her sister dies, she finds the strength to run and somehow ends up in the arms of the man who was once a boy she met at the fence of the commune.

Salome grew up under Prophet David’s rule in the commune that’s the only home she’s ever known. When a young woman shows up at their doorstep, bleeding and unconscious, he’s reminded of a girl he met at a fence in the woods when he was a boy….a girl who has haunted him ever since. He always knew he was set to inherit running it, in spite of his speech impediment, but he never expected to be running it at the young age of twenty-six.

River “Styx” Nash was born into the Hades Hangmen motorcycle club.

I Do, Babe by Tillie Cole