A review by mood_reading_maya
Pharaoh: Wolf Warriors MC by K.C. Mills

dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

1.75

The misogyny was strong in this one. I get a sense that this is often par for the course in motorcycle club romances. I’ll start with the romantic relationship. Pharaoh and Yahri knew each other as teens, when Yahri’s father (as former President of the Wolves MC) took Pharaoh under his wing and into his inner circle as a young MC prospect. So of course that means, “hands off my daughter, don’t matter how much I like you.” After the death of Yahri’s mother (collateral damage from a MC skirmish), Yahri is sent to live with relatives away from her father and the MC lifestyle. Fast forward 10 years later and she’s in a serious pickle after overhearing conversations she shouldn’t have by her beau who had been hiding his MC affiliation. She turns to her father’s former MC for help, and lo and behold Pharaoh is there as a protector. There was a not insignificant amount of insecurity and jealousy on the FMC’s side, with little explicit reassurance or affirmative confirmation from the MMC. I could understand Yahri’s position of distrust given her experience with a former lover, which is the source of her ongoing peril. Bruh, this is the woman you claim to have loved on the down low since y’all were teens and you can’t be up front about things? You have to let your lady play through negative scenarios in their head (and you know they’re spiraling) before speaking up? The mind games were kind of gross. The motorcycle club world is one of subverted vulnerability in favor of quick tempers, short fuses, unfiltered violence, and toxic displays of masculinity. These heroes demand respect but lack on page actions to back that up. Furthermore, the concept of women as club property while being depicted as needy and disposable sexual figures does little to ascribe them agency or dignity. This leads to the sex scenes in this book. There was absolutely no foreplay; they just get straight to penetrative intercourse. No care to prep your partner for physical intimacy. My lady bits cringed.
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