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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Absolutely loved this book and this world! One of the best MC series I’ve ever read. After book one you were dying for Killian and Laura’s story. It did not disappoint! The way this author sets up the next book is so good, that epilogue has me dyingggg for book 3!
I think I’m gonna have a major book hangover after this one.
I think I’m gonna have a major book hangover after this one.
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Where We Belong
Ashley Munoz
(Stone Riders Motorcycle Club Book 2)
I loved the first book in Muñoz’s Stone Riders series and enjoyed the chance to revisit the world of this motorcycle club in Book 2.
I’ve come to realize that motorcycle club books are essentially books about organized crime with a lot of posession k*nk (see video), and motorcycle. Turns out this works for me :)
I continue to really like this motorcycle club (even though their treatment of women both casually and intimately is totally toxic, and it’s totally bizarre women walk around wearing vests that literally say “property of … so and so”)
But, let’s suspend our commitment to reality for a moment, and just live in the world Munoz has built. It’s a world in which you can give yourself over entirely to another person, and, rather than this being disempowering, it’s actually quite restorative because (in these books) you are safe enough to trust this person with your physical, emotional, and psychological wellbeing. And this relationship. It’s bananas in real life, but perhaps in this fantasy world, it works.
A couple things did NOT work for me in this book: Why did the couple from the first book suck so much this time around? Obviously, you love them by the end of the first book and now, you’re like, oh actually they weren’t great, I guess? I also just wasn’t as big of a fan of Killian, the MMC, as I was of Wes in the first book.
Also- there were aspects of the plot that just didn’t add up for me. I won’t spoil it, but i didn’t really see how aspects of the FMC’s identity were a secret when it’s actually quite out in the open. And I’m a little bit lost about which rival gangs are allied now, and which ones aren’t, and which ones are split.
I definitely preferred the first book in this series, but I still enjoyed this one and will consider reading more books in muñoz’s motorcycle club universe.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gun violence, Abandonment, Alcohol
I did not enjoy this one quite as much as the first one. The back and forth from “past” (literally 3 months prior) to present got annoying and was honestly stupid given the “time gap”.
And while I liked Laura/Daisy, Killian was not my fave. He was kind of a dick for most of the story for not great reasons (and basically kept trying to white fang her for most of the book), and I just didn’t understand how they went from “we hate each other (but not really)” to “I love you”.
And the bit with the bad guy at the end? Saw it coming a mile away (so how they didn’t, I don’t know) and that whole confrontation ended as quickly and all most randomly as it began.
3.5⭐️
And while I liked Laura/Daisy, Killian was not my fave. He was kind of a dick for most of the story for not great reasons (and basically kept trying to white fang her for most of the book), and I just didn’t understand how they went from “we hate each other (but not really)” to “I love you”.
And the bit with the bad guy at the end? Saw it coming a mile away (so how they didn’t, I don’t know) and that whole confrontation ended as quickly and all most randomly as it began.
3.5⭐️
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes