Reaper's Property by Joanna Wylde
Our 4.5 star review
Joanna Wylde's Reaper's Property is harsh and gritty and coarse. At the same
time it is exhilarating and mesmerizing and exhausting. Horse is part of the
Reapers Motorcycle club (Reapers MC). A band of bad ass, hard living, balls
to the wall group that deal just outside the law and will kill to protect
their turf. He is large, 6'6" tattooed and muscular (and it doesn't take much
to figure out where the road name
"horse" came from). Marie is an abused
woman, fresh from leaving her ass hole husband who finds herself working at
a friend's daycare and staying at her brother Jeff's trailer. He's a
"computer programmer" for the club. When Jeff helps himself to the Reaper's
money, Horse offers a solution to repay the club until Jeff repays the debt.
Marie will belong to him; cook, clean, and most important, service
his needs-wherever, however, whenever he wants.
The first time they
saw each other is the first time they both felt the same compelling force
that pulled them towards each other-like polarized magnets.
I
must look like a white-trash princess from hell, basking outside my trailer
in a bikini to outdated butt rock. I was pretty sure I wanted to get into the
house and put on some more clothing. Maybe a burkha.
He smelled like
motor oil and sex.
There were times that Horse infuriated me with
his "need to know basis" attitude. Marie would try to pry
information about the dealings of the Reapers (especially the
unsavory, vulgar, anything goes parties)and would be put in her place with
a few blunt words.
"But that's really none of your business. It's
wilder tonight because there's blood in the air, that's all. Nobody's
getting hurt and nobody's here against their will. That's all you need to
know."
As time passes their relationship changes and each
admits, if only to themselves, how obsessed they are with each other.
They come to rely on the other and morph their very different worlds into
something both can find acceptable-if that kind of life can ever be
acceptable. The secondary characters further invest the reader into the story
line, Picnic and Maggs and Em and Max all add their own technicolor
version of crazy to the mix.
There are times Wylde's graphic depictions
of the "sweet butts"-the MC's groupies; who will go with any of them,
do anything they want (and more than one of them at a time), that will
horrify and repulse you and make you take a step back and catch your breath.
What compels some women to willingly participate and even enjoy what most
women would perceive as their worst nightmare is almost too much
to comprehend. Some of the acts of the Reaper's are so violent, that the
reader may feel out of their "book comfort zone".
So you should, and that is
what separates a good book from a great one. This is one of the great ones!
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This sounds so good. I keep seeing great reviews on this. Definitely want to read it. Dsr002(at)gmail(dot)com
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