Sunday, June 7, 2020

VENDETTA ROAD by Christine Feehan



A Torpedo Ink Novel, Book 3
Berkley
January 28th, 2020
978-1-9848-0356-6
Romantic Thriller Romance
Mass Market Paperback
Reviewed by Dawn (love2read28@gmail.com)
Obtained by Publisher
2 Hearts

 

Isaak ‘Ice’ Koval is part of the Torpedo Ink Motorcycle club and is on a mission for the club when he spies a woman who stops him in his tracks. Soleil is innocent, sweet and he wants her with every fiber of his being. Soleil Brodeur is a woman on the run, drifting from one thing to the next and when she tries to take charge of her life, she finds danger in a broken relationship that sends her fleeing into the night. Finding Ice at a Vegas biker bar, she finds a man worth loving and safety but she has no idea what she has gotten herself into for when Ice claims her as his, he will protect her with all that he can.

Okay first off I want to make a point of mentioning that I haven’t read this author’s books in years as it felt like she was just taking same type of characters and plots and just dumping them in another story with different names, etc. I got bored so I decided after several years of not reading her books to see if this one can keep my attention. All I can say is with me trying to give it a chance, VENDETTA ROAD, just made me cringe and I could not finish this at all. Too much sex, not enough plot and characters that had me cringing in horror as they moved along the pages of the story. With each page I turned, I really wanted to just toss the book aside and scrub myself off in the shower. I felt like the characters were just there to move along the sex scenes and not the storyline at all. Plus, the graphicness of the abuse and child sex trafficking portion of the plot left me cold and ready to scramble under the covers to hide. I wasn’t sure what the author was trying to convey with that, but it turned me off on more than one occasion as I stumbled my way through VENDETTA ROAD.

Christine Feehan is a talented author and I used to enjoy her books but lately it has felt like she is writing just for form and to see how much sex she can pack into a book plus she missed the boat in regards to fleshing out the con artist storyline that interested me far more than the sex scenes. This was not a comfortable read whatsoever and I felt like I had to stop reading midway just to find a light, happy book to enjoy after trying this one. I am sure others may disagree with me, but VENDETTA ROAD is dark, borders on porn and has no plot at all. I enjoy sex in books as much as the next one but with pages upon pages of it, in graphic detail, unfortunately turned me off and I won’t pick this one up again to finish it. It just did not keep my interest and with characters as flat as these, I am not bothering trying any other by this author unfortunately. It’s a shame because this book had promise but the author just wasted it.

This is an objective review and not an endorsement

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