Reviewed by Deb
A Sizzling New MC Romance
If Whiskey Neat is any indication, Lani Lynn Vale’s new MC series, Uncertain Saints, will be on my auto-buy list. Let me re-phrase that; Uncertain Saints will be on my I-want-the-next-book-right-now! list. Ms. Vale’s compelling voice sucked me into Whiskey Neat hard and fast. She’s an awesome storyteller who pulls out all the stops as she throws action, suspense, emotion, funny dialogue, and hot sex at you like a ninja tossing Shuriken (aka throwing stars). This is a compact story that, at times, will have your head spinning with too much going on. Just go with it and enjoy. I certainly did!
Griffin Storm is bleeding out. His job as a Texas Ranger, working out of hole-in-the-wall Uncertain, Texas is the only thing holding him together. Griffin’s heart will never heal from the devastating loss he suffered six months ago. The only thing compelling him to get up every morning is revenge. The quicker the better, but no matter how long it takes, he’ll see it through to the end. His brothers in the Uncertain Saints MC have his back. Despite the fact, they were all in law enforcement,
We solved and tried the cases that the f***ing system wouldn’t take care of.
Lack of evidence didn’t matter to us.
What mattered was guilt and innocence.
Griffin is on autopilot until he walks into Lenore’s sex shop late one night for batteries. Which, btw, is a pretty fun scene. Suddenly life isn’t so black and white anymore. Which baffles the hell out of him because this woman is far from his “type”.
Lenore has lived her entire life in this tiny, busy body blip of a town. It’s home, and she likes it well enough. Never one to be a lemming, she opened a sex shop shortly after graduating from college and hasn’t regretted it one bit. The late shift is boring and full of pervs she could do without but if she can handle the crap life has been dealing her, what’s a few pervy individuals? And then, in walks a gorgeous man and proceeds to turn her life upside down.
Initially, I had a hard time believing Griffin’s attraction to quirky, plain Jane, Lenore. This guy is a jaded hard ass who seems to have given up on anything but revenge. He’s gorgeous and all tough cop, motorcycle man, who probably goes through women like Kleenex. But the more I got to know Lenore, the more I believed she was the perfect match for him. She’s quirky, hilarious, says exactly what she thinks, and doesn’t give a crap what people think of her. She’s no doormat. On the other hand, she’s such a caring and lovely person she’d do anything to help out whoever needed her. Griffin certainly needs Lenore in his life. Once he gets a taste he’s done for. He tries to convince himself he’s no good for her but in this case, he’s not strong enough to walk away.
Are there some flaws in Whiskey Neat? Sure. There’s so much going on that at times it was too much and a tad over the top. Did the good stuff outweigh the flaws? For me, a resounding YES. Lenore is refreshing! I loved that she dove head first into the relationship and spoke her mind. None of that girly holding back baloney that drives me batty. Griffin, despite feeling a lack of worth, manned up and didn’t hide from his feelings. I felt his despair, his anger, his need for revenge. I also felt his love and devotion to Lenore. Again, no big long drawn out games. All in all, I loved this book and I loved the characters, including the secondary ones as well. I’m kind of giddy that there are five more MC brothers and hope we get a story about each one.
♥♥♥♥
O Factor: Scorcher
I’m a married mother of three. My kids are all under 5, so I can assure you that they are a handful. I’ve been with my paramedic husband now for ten years, and we’ve produced three offspring that are nothing like us. I live in the greatest state in the world, Texas.
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