From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Ashley comes a new story in her Chaos series…
About ROUGH RIDE:
Rosalie Holloway put it all on the line for the Chaos Motorcycle Club.
Informing to Chaos on their rival club—her man’s club, Bounty—Rosalie knows the stakes. And she pays them when her man, who she was hoping to scare straight, finds out she’s betrayed him and he delivers her to his brothers to mete out their form of justice.
But really, Rosie has long been denying that, as she drifted away from her Bounty, she’s been falling in love with Everett “Snapper” Kavanagh, a Chaos brother. Snap is the biker-boy-next door with the snowy blue eyes, quiet confidence and sweet disposition who was supposed to keep her safe…and fell down on that job.
For Snapper, it’s always been Rosalie, from the first time he saw her at the Chaos Compound. He’s just been waiting for a clear shot. But he didn’t want to get it after his Rosie was left bleeding, beat down and broken by Bounty on a cement warehouse floor.
With Rosalie a casualty of an ongoing war, Snapper has to guide her to trust him, take a shot with him, build a them…
And fold his woman firmly in the family that is Chaos.
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My Review:
3.5 stars
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This was a pretty good novella addition to the Chaos series. This is Rosalie and Snapper's story. Rosalie is Shy's ex-girlfriend. In previous Chaos books, we find out she has been dating a biker from another MC, Bounty, that is involved with crime. She begins informing on Bounty to Chaos and Snapper is the Chaos brother that is assigned to her. As they spend time communicating, sometimes in person but mostly by phone, they develop feelings for each other. But Bounty finds out she has double crossed them and they beat her up badly. This is where the book begins. The story focuses on Rosalie and Snapper beginning a relationship from that point.
I liked Rosalie and Snapper. I actually thought that Snapper had more personality and was funnier in other books. I kind of felt like Rosalie had daddy issues because her father was a biker who died. She seemed desperate to be with a biker, and when Snapper showed interest in her, she jumped at him. They didn't have strong personalities, but they were okay. They have a very quiet, slowish romance without a lot of fireworks or drama. I was worried that Shy would be a big part of the story, but luckily he was not in the book much at all. I wasn't bothered by his former relationship with Rosie at all, or even the fact that he and Tabby are still friends with and hang out with her.
This was not a bad novella, but it is pretty far down my list of KA book faves. It was sweet, but there was not much to it. I liked Rosalie and Snapper, but there wasn't much to this story. I got the feeling that this wasn't a book that Ms. Ashley was compelled to write, but it was more of a filler book to push ahead with the overarching series story line. It wasn't a bad book. There just wasn't much to it. It is exactly what the blurb says. Snapper and Rosalie's feelings for each other are well-developed before the book starts and they had already fallen for each other. So while I liked them and believed their love for each other, it was hard to feel it. There just wasn't much of a story otherwise. Also, it was short for a novella by this author. Even her novellas are usually long.
I was shocked by the cliffhanger ending in the epilogue (this was not related to Rosalie and Snapper's romance) and I had no clue what was happening. So I'm really interested in how the overall series arc develops in the upcoming Chaos books. Also, we get a prologue of Hound and Keely's book, which is the next book in the series, and it sounds really good. Overall, I did enjoy this novella for the sweet, simple story it was and I am definitely looking forward to more from this series!
I liked Rosalie and Snapper. I actually thought that Snapper had more personality and was funnier in other books. I kind of felt like Rosalie had daddy issues because her father was a biker who died. She seemed desperate to be with a biker, and when Snapper showed interest in her, she jumped at him. They didn't have strong personalities, but they were okay. They have a very quiet, slowish romance without a lot of fireworks or drama. I was worried that Shy would be a big part of the story, but luckily he was not in the book much at all. I wasn't bothered by his former relationship with Rosie at all, or even the fact that he and Tabby are still friends with and hang out with her.
This was not a bad novella, but it is pretty far down my list of KA book faves. It was sweet, but there was not much to it. I liked Rosalie and Snapper, but there wasn't much to this story. I got the feeling that this wasn't a book that Ms. Ashley was compelled to write, but it was more of a filler book to push ahead with the overarching series story line. It wasn't a bad book. There just wasn't much to it. It is exactly what the blurb says. Snapper and Rosalie's feelings for each other are well-developed before the book starts and they had already fallen for each other. So while I liked them and believed their love for each other, it was hard to feel it. There just wasn't much of a story otherwise. Also, it was short for a novella by this author. Even her novellas are usually long.
I was shocked by the cliffhanger ending in the epilogue (this was not related to Rosalie and Snapper's romance) and I had no clue what was happening. So I'm really interested in how the overall series arc develops in the upcoming Chaos books. Also, we get a prologue of Hound and Keely's book, which is the next book in the series, and it sounds really good. Overall, I did enjoy this novella for the sweet, simple story it was and I am definitely looking forward to more from this series!
Excerpt:
A burner.
We’d joked about it, Snap and me. He’d called me Scully. He had a burner too, so there’d be no caller ID when he phoned me. So I’d called him Mulder.
I was going to call him.
Not because I was working for Chaos anymore. I wasn’t. That officially ended on that cement. Definitely not because I was protecting Bounty. I’d tell the police. Absolutely, I’d tell the police my boyfriend’s motorcycle club beat the snot out of me. It didn’t matter that I broke the code, and knew it. It didn’t matter that I’d betrayed my man, and done it deliberately.
I was trying to save him. Save his brothers. Save his club. Save everyone.
I closed my eyes tight, my thumb moving over the phone from memory, knowing the way on its own, I called him so often. That was why I was calling him now rather than 911. I knew how to get to him. To Snapper. And the effort would be less. I could dial the digits to get him up on speed dial in my sleep, so I could do it lying on a cement floor, beat to hell and practically unable to move.
I couldn’t lift the phone to my ear so I just shoved it across the floor closer to my face, listening to it ring.
“Rosie?” Snap answered.
I closed my eyes tighter as understanding hit me with a blow almost as brutal as every strike I’d just taken.
God.
I hadn’t done it to save Beck. To save his brothers, his club…everybody.
At first, I’d done it to make Beck into Shy.
And then I’d done it to make him be Snapper.
And last, I’d done it to make his club Chaos.
“Rosie?” Snap’s Eddie Vedder baritone got sharper.
Oh no.
No.
The black was creeping in again.
“Sss…” was all I could get out.
“Rosalie,” he bit out, curt, alert, alarmed.
“Hurt,” I whispered.
And then, again, I blacked out.
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About Kristen Ashley:
Kristen Ashley was born in Gary, Indiana, USA and nearly killed her mother and herself making it into the world, seeing as she had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck (already attempting to accessorize and she hadn't taken her first breath!). Her mother said they took Kristen away, put her Mom back in her room, her mother looked out the window, and Gary was on fire (Dr. King had been assassinated four days before). Kristen's Mom remembered thinking it was the end of the world. Quite the dramatic beginning.
Nothing's changed.
Kristen grew up in Brownsburg, Indiana and has lived in Denver, Colorado and the West Country of England. Thus, she's blessed to have friends and family around the globe. Her family was (is) loopy (to say the least) but loopy is good when you want to write. They all lived together on a very small farm in a small farm town in the heartland. She grew up with Glenn Miller, The Everly Brothers, REO Speedwagon and Whitesnake (and the wardrobes that matched).
Needless to say, growing up in a house full of music, clothes and love was a good way to grow up.
And as she keeps growing, it keeps getting better.
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