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Addison has had a hard life. Her mother is useless, and her father hasn't been in her life for years. When her mother dies, she's left with no money and an angry man after her. She goes to the only person she knows can take care of her right now - her father. She knows her father is the president of an MC club, but she doesn't quite realize just how much she will come to rely on that club.
I am the good girl, the one who does no wrong. Daughter of a ferocious and strong MC president, I know what protection feels like. Until one night changes everything - and not a single person in the world can protect me from it, not even my dad. Suffocating. Alone. Desperate. I let my problems live deep inside until there is no longer anywhere to run. I need an escape. Anything to make the pain go away. Trouble comes for me, and I don't fight it. I tried so hard to believe in what I was, but nobody understood.
Rock Chick Reawakening shares the tale of the devastating event that nearly broke Daisy, an event that set Marcus Sloan - one of Denver's most respected businessmen and one of the Denver underground's most feared crime bosses - into finally making his move to win the heart of the woman who stole his.
After ten years away, Marcie finally ventures back to where she grew up. She isn’t in town for twenty-four hours when she crosses paths with Hook and Striker, the two boys who kept her safe and happy as a young girl. Only they aren’t boys anymore. They are fully grown, muscular, alpha men. Members of the No Prisoners Motorcycle Club. All through her teenage years, Marcie’s heart belonged to Hook. Not that he ever seemed to notice. And it appears that as an adult, not much has changed with regard to her feelings toward the sexy biker. But a bossy, alpha man is not what independent Marcie is looking for. The moment Hook lays eyes on Marcie, it’s as though the last ten years apart never existed.
My name is Danielle DeChenne, and for 18 years I took every punch "destiny" threw at me. Now, I'm no longer a naive girl. Traumatic abuse will do that to you. I was forced to grow up too fast, and the one person I depended on - that gorgeous Marine, Zane - turned his back on me. So now I say screw the lemonade and just give me a bottle of Jack Daniel's, because I don't believe in destiny anymore.
Griffin Storm wasn't prone to violence, but when someone takes what Griffin holds dear, the world as he knows it is gone. Retaliation, revenge, and rage fuel him. His MC, the Uncertain Saints, do their best to offer support, but Griffin is beyond redemption. He'll do what he has to do. Kill who he has to kill. He doesn't care if that means he dies. If it gets him what he wants, then it's worth it.
Addison has had a hard life. Her mother is useless, and her father hasn't been in her life for years. When her mother dies, she's left with no money and an angry man after her. She goes to the only person she knows can take care of her right now - her father. She knows her father is the president of an MC club, but she doesn't quite realize just how much she will come to rely on that club.
I am the good girl, the one who does no wrong. Daughter of a ferocious and strong MC president, I know what protection feels like. Until one night changes everything - and not a single person in the world can protect me from it, not even my dad. Suffocating. Alone. Desperate. I let my problems live deep inside until there is no longer anywhere to run. I need an escape. Anything to make the pain go away. Trouble comes for me, and I don't fight it. I tried so hard to believe in what I was, but nobody understood.
Rock Chick Reawakening shares the tale of the devastating event that nearly broke Daisy, an event that set Marcus Sloan - one of Denver's most respected businessmen and one of the Denver underground's most feared crime bosses - into finally making his move to win the heart of the woman who stole his.
After ten years away, Marcie finally ventures back to where she grew up. She isn’t in town for twenty-four hours when she crosses paths with Hook and Striker, the two boys who kept her safe and happy as a young girl. Only they aren’t boys anymore. They are fully grown, muscular, alpha men. Members of the No Prisoners Motorcycle Club. All through her teenage years, Marcie’s heart belonged to Hook. Not that he ever seemed to notice. And it appears that as an adult, not much has changed with regard to her feelings toward the sexy biker. But a bossy, alpha man is not what independent Marcie is looking for. The moment Hook lays eyes on Marcie, it’s as though the last ten years apart never existed.
My name is Danielle DeChenne, and for 18 years I took every punch "destiny" threw at me. Now, I'm no longer a naive girl. Traumatic abuse will do that to you. I was forced to grow up too fast, and the one person I depended on - that gorgeous Marine, Zane - turned his back on me. So now I say screw the lemonade and just give me a bottle of Jack Daniel's, because I don't believe in destiny anymore.
Griffin Storm wasn't prone to violence, but when someone takes what Griffin holds dear, the world as he knows it is gone. Retaliation, revenge, and rage fuel him. His MC, the Uncertain Saints, do their best to offer support, but Griffin is beyond redemption. He'll do what he has to do. Kill who he has to kill. He doesn't care if that means he dies. If it gets him what he wants, then it's worth it.
When I found my boyfriend cheating on me, I did something stupid. Or should I say, someone? Because of that mistake, I'm now stuck in a world I don't belong in. I'm a law student. They're criminals. He's the Vice President of a MC. I'm a good girl with a strict upbringing. He's my ex-boyfriend's brother. And I'm screwed.
An Irish mobster. A missing friend. Two loyalties, ripping me apart. I had a plan. Get in, get my information, and get out. Easy, right? Turns out, infiltrating the Irish mafia isn't exactly what I thought it would be. I just wanted a soldier. Someone I could flirt with to get me in the door. That's when Lachlan Crow noticed me. Problem was, he wasn't a soldier. No, he was next in line for the throne of the Irish underworld. And he was determined to hate me from the outset.
Ever since I was a little girl, I've taken care of everyone around me, including my self-centered older sister, Anna. When her poor choices make us targets of the Devil's Rejects Motorcycle Club, I grab her, and we run like hell. A new city, a new job, a new life. It's almost perfect - and then I meet Ryker. He's gorgeous, rugged, and too cocky for his own damned good. But he's a biker - exactly the type of man I've been running from. I have no business getting involved with a man like him. Too bad I can't get him out of my head.
Grace is a bounty hunter who wants to be taken seriously, but her boss refuses to believe that a woman can bring down a dangerous criminal. She finally gets a chance to prove herself when she's given the case of a lifetime: capture Raide Knox and bring him to justice. Raide is a dangerous fugitive on the run...and the sexiest man Grace has ever met. Catching Raide won't be easy. He's not the kind of man to go down without a fight.
There's an animal in me that I keep hidden. Beth calls to him. She tempts the monster and lures him to the surface. I'm obsessed with her. I can't stay away, even when doing so puts my entire club in danger. Her blood is on my hands. I formed her to fit only me. I was her first and if I have to kill everyone in our way. So be it. I will be her last. She is mine.
Elizabeth Williams, a single, small-town librarian, knows she doesn't belong in the notorious biker bar, Perdition. Especially not alone, in a frilly pink bridesmaid dress. But after watching her best friend marry her ex-boyfriend, she's ready to drink her cares away. And break out of the good girl mold she's been stuck in most of her life.
Not everything is roses, chocolates, and vibrators in Zara's life...until Talon, Hawks MC president, wants to claim her as his. Zara Edgingway is a 26-year-old secretary. She has a daughter who apparently knows it all and a best friend who could possibly have the mouth of Satan, but she's been with her through hell and back. Then there's the hunk-a-licious biker neighbor finally showing interest in her. If only she wasn't about to face her next obstacle in life, the one she ran from six years ago: her ex-husband.
I wasn't supposed to end up in an outlaw biker's bed. I wasn't supposed to love it. I definitely wasn't supposed to crave his fiery kisses, beg for his touch, or ache to know the man behind the evil-looking ink and scarred smirk. I was the good girl. He was the monster. Then everything changed. I became a prisoner. I prayed for Skin to save me. He did - and he kept me for himself.
I met him in college, and I fell in love. It was a beautiful love, pure and perfect. Max quickly became everything I could have ever wanted. He was the jock, the popular guy, and I was just Belle - but he made me so much more. He gave me everything I could have ever wanted in life. But one night, one accident changed everything.
When the new girl in town, Eliza "Izzy" Forrester, decides to hit the local drinking hole, she's not ready to meet the town's good, solid guy. She's definitely not prepared to engage in her very first hookup with him. Then Izzy wakes up the next morning in Johnny Gamble's bed, and good girl Izzy finds she likes being bad for Johnny. Even so, Izzy feels Johnny holding her at arm's length. He's in love with someone else. Someone who left him and did it leaving him broken.
Salome knows only one way to live - under Prophet David’s rule. In the commune she calls home, Salome knows nothing of life beyond her strict faith, nor of life beyond the Fence - the fence that cages her, keeps her trapped in an endless cycle of misery. A life she believes she is destined to always lead, until a horrific event sets her free. Fleeing the absolute safety of all she has ever known, Salome is thrust into the world outside, a frightening world full of uncertainty and sin; into the protective arms of a person she believed she would never see again.
Morgan Powell was raised to be perfect, to set an example for her sisters to follow. Her life has been dedicated to making something of her career, so she wouldn't know what to do with a man even if you gave her an instruction manual. Brett "Ice" Grady spends his days trying to keep up with his teenage daughter, his nights consumed in the Regulators' MC business. He has no time for anything more than a casual hookup. Two worlds collide when the dangers of his life crash into the calm of hers.
"There's never been a time I've cared about anything more than my club. Today that all changed. Today I got you."
Maddox is the president of the Jokers' Wrath MC. He's hard, he's determined, and he's never had to give his heart over...until the day he found and saved Santana. Sassy and headstrong, she's given him a run for his money for a solid five years. Their tension has built, and both of them have danced around a passion that's burning so deep in their souls, it's all consuming. They want each other - they're just too stubborn to admit it. Heat, lust, and sassy natures will have them fighting against what's real. She's feisty, he's stubborn. But everything will change the moment she gets her first taste of the rugged, broody biker.
There's one problem with this story...Maddox has a secret. A secret he knows will crush Santana. It will take her life and spiral it out of control, sending them into a world of danger that will risk not only their lives but everyone in the club's, too. Will their love withstand the battle? Or will Maddox lose forever the only girl he's loved? This story is the second book in a series.
What disappointed you about Melancholy?
Santana, the main character was such an immature, selfish and whiny brat. It was hard to see what exactly anyone would like about her. I really did not understand what the connection between Santana and Maddox was. The petty fighting and pathetic jealousy between them got old quick. It was hard to believe that Maddox was a 30 year old man and a supposed Bikie President yet he acted like a sullen 16 year old.
What could Bella Jewel have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Made the characters a bit more mature and realistic.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
She really emphasised the whiny tone of Santana which made me want to punch something.
What character would you cut from Melancholy?
Santana!
Any additional comments?
Don't bother listening to this book. It was hours of self indulgent, self pitying tripe.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
This second book of the jokers warth was sadder and more dramatic than the first. I got bored sometimes and coild not stand the beatings and fights often happening.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
Where does Melancholy rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
After reading listening to Precarious, I HAD to know Maddox and Santana’s story. I mean OMG you can’t leave it like it did at the end of Precarious; it’s like OMG what happens next!
I am so glad it was on audiobook! I normally take a few days to listen to an audiobook but this time I just couldn’t, I finished it way into the night, I had to know!
Let me give a quick shout out to Stella Bloom and Charles Lawarence right now; even though Melancholy wasn’t in my preferred format, of Stella voicing all the females and Charles voicing all the males, I still LOVED their performances.
Melancholy is such an emotionally charged story with such raw gritty intensity, I just couldn’t stop listing! I loved every minute, every heart pounding, tear jerking, thrilling minute! Melancholy gets 5 HUGE Boundless stars from me. I love, loved, loved it! I am moving on directly to then next book in the series Anguish....Sara
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I am very much impressed with this author and her ability to have an "edge of your seat" story along with some pretty hot moments, along while portraying and convincingly the stong emotions the alpha male feels for the woman.
This has been an amazing series and I'm very much looking forward to book three.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
One of my fave series! Great narrators! Narrators are able to express the emotions so well!! Loved it!!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I have to say Maddox made me tinkle (LOL). He was the definition of bad-boy. I love Santana but I have to say she did something that made me give this book score one star less than the first book. You will know what I'm talking about when you read it.
I do have to say being with Maddox you will have to be able to live that life. This book had more violent than the first. So get ready to enjoy the Joker's Wrath book two series.
4 of 6 people found this review helpful
ok I'm totally on the fence with this. Santana made me wanna drop kick her ass off a fucking 10 story building.
How many bullets does a chick in danger need to dodge before she gets smart and stops running away from safety in the middle of the freaking night ALONE? She was selfish and childish and was only worried about her own wants and needs. Maddox saved her ass and did everything he could for her own good. He was wrong for not telling her the truth but for fucks sake she was an asshole for not seeing how things were.
story 2.25
narrator 2.5
should have been a dual narration. there was one chapter from Maddox's pov and the chick narrated it. Totally left me thinking WTF!
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
Maddox is the President of the Joker's Wrath MC which he loves and that comes with responsibilities and hard decisions but what's pushing him over the edge isn't Club business it's the other love in his life..... Santana, the young junkie he saved all those years ago. And now the feisty woman is making his blood boil, his pulse pound and his libido go into overdrive because he's living under the same roof as her and desperately wants to let her know how he feels and claim her but he daren't have her.... because he's keeping secrets - secrets that he's sure will destroy her, him and their relationship.
Santana had a terrible and tragic past but Maddox was her saviour but now she's an adult she's confused and sees him in a whole new light.... he's handsome, sexy, has a body to die for and his mere presence makes her tingle and become aware. But aware of what because all they do is verbally bicker, bitch and fight and just when she thinks there's more between them Maddox, once again, turns to the Club's Whores. However, just when she rebels and rejects, her life is suddenly plunged into danger, bullets fly, the deadly threats increase and tempers rise but so too does the unquenched passion between them until it ignites and finally explodes.... but then she unlocks Pandora's Box and the awful heartbreaking secrets come tumbling out.
You can feel the tension and fired-up sexual chemistry build between Maddox and Santana as they verbally spar, throw hurtful looks and taunt each other which isn't really meant to wound the other and yet it does as their relationship spirals downwards. Then comes the final straw that breaks Maddox's tightly held back raw gut-wrenching feelings that he has for Santana which leads to an all too brief time of guilt-ridden euphoria when finally they share their thoughts, their feelings and their bodies. But all too soon he's suddenly plunged into a deadly gang nightmare which leads to a daring rescue that'll lead to betrayal, torture, death, destruction and a fight, on foreign soil, not only to win but to stay alive too.
Thankfully, I had very few pauses at the times when my own life would briefly interfere and stop all the emotional, sexual and deadly action playing out in my head which totally consumed me and so it was almost a non-stop, exciting, emotionally-packed, addictive and entertaining listen. There's the typical biker lifestyle filled with hot leather-clad Alphas with high sex drives, tempers and a tight brotherhood mentality, plenty of angst and drama and it was a very touching push/pull love story that had its funny parts too. Santana is young but she's no pushover and when she finally knows what she wants she lets nothing stand in her way to get it..... not even stubborn Maddox but she'll eventually have to try even harder to keep it. Dual POV's, good narrators and a full cast of loveable secondary characters.
Worth a credit? I felt involved, invested, wowed and thoroughly entertained.... so, of course it has to be a YES. And Bella Jewel thank you - you did it again... now can I have the next one pretty please.
6 of 11 people found this review helpful
I have listened to the others in this series and rated them well, but they really should switch up there narrators for any book series (not just this one), because it all began to sound very samey, hence the lower star.
This is certainly not as good a story as the first book but i really wanted to hear how the two of them evolved. Apparently Santana never learns anything!
Yes i read the reviews for this book but after reading the first book i had this purchased and downloaded in about 30seconds...but it just never quite gets as good. The three books all run together quite strongly and you need to read them basically as one book that is in three parts. The narration however is excellent and holds the story and characters really well.