From USA TODAY bestselling author Chantal Fernando comes a brand new Wind Dragons Motorcycle Club e-novella, full of sexy bad-boy bikers, strong heroines, and steamy romance Even by Wind Dragon Motorcycle Club standards, Irish was always a bit of a dark horse. Not one to confide his secrets, such as where he got that mysterious scar across his neck, he’s quick with his fists and even quicker to … and even quicker to jump to the defense of his MC. But is he nimble enough to handle the woman he never saw coming? Or will she leave him with a matching scar across his heart?
Featuring scorching hot chemistry and plenty of sass, Dirty Ride is sure to rev your engine and get you immediately hookedmore
Intense, suspenseful, beautiful ride to go on with Irish and Valentina. I enjoyed this story.
The thing with novellas is everything is at super speed. We have to learn the characters and the world in such a short amount of pages. We also have to have the characters meet and fall in love plus we usually have some sort of drama involved. With all that being said, yes this was very fast paced and felt like instalove. I know this series and the guys so I just felt we fast forwarded through the book and got to the good stuff. I didn’t mind everything happening faster than it would in a full length story.
Valentina aka Tina was on the run from an abusive ex when she meets Ardan aka Irish at a bar. The two have instant chemistry and sparks fly even though Tina is in no mood for another man at this point in her life. She really tries to fight the pull she feels towards Irish but different situations push the two together. I could tell Tina really didn’t want to be involved with someone at this time. Going through what she did would turn anyone away from dating. There’s a quote that I really loved….Tina said that she felt Ardan was “a bad boy with a good heart”. I would find that very hard to turn away from too lol!!
Overall I wish this was a full length story. I would’ve love to seen more from these two but I’m hoping they’ll be featured in future books. This is a great series and I’m quite enjoying seeing each biker find their special someone.
Read: 8/19/16
The perfect story for Irish!
For a quick read, this story had everything. Irish has been a smaller character so far, but his story suited him perfectly.
Valentina is a heroine that wants to stand in her own to feet. Change the situation of her past life and settling into Wind Dragon territory was the best choice she made. Running into Irish put her on a path to great love and a protective family.
Love came fast but the timing for these characters was just perfect. With a bit of a suspenseful storyline, it had all the feels you’d expect from an MC novel and was a great addition to the series.
Dirty Ride was an okay MC read. For me I wish it had been longer, the story felt rushed. I did like the characters Irish and Valentina. Hoping to see them more in future stories.
I received this book from Netgalley
Valentina leaves everyone and everything she loves behind in search of a place that will provide her with the safety and new start she so desperately needs, and has high hopes that her abusive ex doesn’t follow. He has taken her spirit, robbed her of her happiness, and left with a her battered and bruised heart in need of healing. She has no interest in finding his replacement anytime soon, and to say that her trust in men is lacking, is an understatement, the very idea of letting another man into her heart is unsettling. But after a chance encounter with a smooth talking handsome stranger at the bar, she starts feels her resistance to falter, and her heart immediately starts to protest, but somehow he has a way of sneaking right past all of it…
Irish has never met a woman that he wanted to spend more than one night with, let alone fall in love with, but after meeting a alluring red haired beauty at the bar he starts to feel his resistance to the idea of it shift. She intrigues him like no other woman has, and he wants to know everything there is to know about her, but he is met with some resistance, so he decides he is going to have to find a way to sneak in under her radar. He senses that she wasn’t treated right in the past, and he wants to prove to her that he is different, that she can trust him with her heart, and that he will stop at nothing to help her find happiness again…she just has to let him in!
This was my introduction to the Wind Dragons MC series, and author Chantal Fernando, and I have to say that it left a VERY good first impression, so much so, that I immediately picked up the other books in the series, and plan to have a Wind Dragons reading marathon very soon!! Irish swooped in and stole my heart and attention right from the start, and had me flying right through the pages in search of a his well deserved happy ending!! I have to say that this is definitely one of the best books that I have had the pleasure of previewing this year, and I cannot wait to get better acquainted with the other men of the Wind Dragons MC series!!
Highly recommend this one, Irish is destined to steal your heart and leave you satisfied and smiling like a fool long after the last page is turned!!