Melancholy

Jokers' Wrath, Book 2

By: Bella Jewel

Narrated by: Stella Bloom, Charles Lawrence

Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

"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.

©2014 Bella Jewel (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

Then and Now!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Romance: 💚🖤💙💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😤😥😊🤩😘

The heroine: Santana - she and her sister Pippi lost their parents at a young age and her life turned into hell. They lived in a foster home with a man obsessed with control and he used his fists to assert that control. They lived lives in fear and pain until they ran away.

The Hero: Maddox - President of the Jokers Wrath MC. They are in a war with the Tinman MC. Maddox is huge, muscular and handsome. He also uses the club whores pretty often. He has secrets from Santana but those secrets may destroy things between them so he is holding off from telling her.

The Story: The timeline in this one skipped around quite a bit at the beginning. It starts in 2007 when the two girls run away and then jumps forward to present day when Santana wakes up in the hospital after being shot. She ran out after finding Maddox was intimate with one of her friends, Ash from Precarious. Then it goes back to 2007 again, two months after the girls ran away when the girls are living on the street and starving and go house to house begging for food.

The story continues to go to the present day and then then flashes back to the time between 2007 and 2014 to fill in the gaps of what happened to Santana. She was definitely not living her best life and when she says Maddox saved her when he found her, she wasn’t kidding. Though since she has been with Maddox, she has lived good, though without her sister.

It was obvious in Precarious that Santana is in love with Maddox, but since she sees him with the club girls all the time, she doesn’t believe there is any way he is interested in her. Though when she tells him she is now seeing some guy named Alec, she is prepared for him going a bit crazy, just because he is so controlling with regards to her. He doesn’t disappoint.

The book was told in multiple points of view via dual narration, though the majority of the book was told in Santana’s point of view. I will admit I wanted more of Maddox’s POV. The narrators were Stella Bloom and Charles Lawrence. Both did a great job. I like Stella Bloom’s soft clear voice and she does a great rough voice for when she does male characters. Though I do like it better when actual males do the male voices and females do all the female voices (duet narration).

I liked the story but I really dislike so many flashbacks. A few are fine, but I don’t like this type of story when it shows a little from now, a little from then, and back and forth. So you only get a tiny bit of the back story before you get a tiny bit of the new one. It is worse on audio, because if you are doing something aside from just sitting and listening, you might miss when they say what year they are talking about and all the sudden things aren’t making sense.

Absolutely enjoyed

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.

Maddox and Santana

An intense, gritty, dark, and wild ride to go on with Maddox and Santana. The Jokers' Wrath MC prove in this book that no matter what they are family, they're loyal, and highly protective. Maddox and Santana fight their feelings but they have a friendship and connection that is pure and beautiful. Their chemistry is undeniable, and their love is unconditional. I absolutely loved this exhilarating story.
Stella Bloom and Charles Lawrence did an outstanding job narrating this book. I loved listening to them.

you do anything for Love

To being orphaned on the street to become a drug addict. To walk past and find the love of your life but too afraid to admit it to them

Emotionally charged story

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

Terrible heroine, so selfish

I didn’t want to finish this book due to the heroine being such a selfish, whiny, bitch. But I wanted to hear the next book and didn’t want to miss information that may be given. I have no idea what the hero saw in her, would have cut her lose a long time ago. She’s bratty and not worth the effort if you ask me. When you’ve been shot at multiple occasions and know a biker is looking for you, why in the world would you sneak out and away from the people helping you??? Too stupid to live in my opinion!

IN LOVE

Omg I love this series. I definitely recommend to anyone. Ioved the narrator so much. She brought the story to life

Love this series!

One of my fave series! Great narrators! Narrators are able to express the emotions so well!! Loved it!!

Maddox best of them all!!!

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.

Oh my, too much drama for me

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.