Opposites attract.That’s how movies tell the tale. My lifestyle—not for the faint of heart.My oath—to protect the brothers I’ve come to call family.This life isn’t for everyone. Especially those in the spotlight. Meeting a Hollywood A-lister isn’t on my bucket list, and falling for one does not suit my plans. But a biker who hides in the shadows and an actress bathed in neon lights, calls for … actress bathed in neon lights, calls for disaster.
This story isn’t only about finding stability—it’s friendship, conflict, deception and slaughter.
Death—it’s coming.
Will we find the right balance?
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*I received a free copy of this book which I voluntarily chose to write an honest review for.
Poor Ace just wants to be happy. Life has a few other plans though even f the club keeps him busy. Starting with a shoot out draws you in quick highlighting how miserable Ace truly is. To cheer him up they send him to check on Cyndi as she is filming a movie. We get a true blown movie statement he does which just makes it harder to be together instead of easier. Hidden danger provides a whole different layer to the story. Great twists with a fascinating end. I really liked it so I give it 4/5 stars.
This is the story of Chains and Bex. In it, we look at his early life and the friend he left behind before Bex and her family took him in. He still suffers dreadful nightmares and frustration This is definitely a clash between his past and the present where the ghosts of the past have to be tackled in order for him to find the possibility of the future that he wants. Can these two souls find their connection, Chains move on from his past and find acceptance with the woman he loves?
treachery, misery, and brutality. some treachery on the way, more misery than you can imagine any handling well and love that can conquer all. It was well told and the more disturbing parts of his past were sensitively told. I loved the way we saw a more sensitive side of Bex and seeing the sensitive side of Chains made him feel so much more human and real as a character. A great addition to the Chicago Defiance MC Series.
Balance is book six of the Chicago Defiance MC Series and is Ace and Neve(Natalia)’s story. It can be read as a stand-alone, but I recommend you read them in order for more of the club’s story.
This book is an absolute page-tuner. Packed full of action, chaos, carnage, and balance. Ace is a patched member of Chicago Defiance MC and Neve is an A-List actress. Their chemistry is undeniable but finding the balance between two worlds have never been harder. Add in the wars brewing and that someone is after Neve and the chaos is only heating up for the couple and the club.
Highly recommend!
I absolutely love this series! I have read every book and I am still just as wrapped up into these books as I was in the beginning.
If you are looking for a series that will keep you on your toes and never has a dull moment, then this series is for you!
When they say opposites attract, this book takes it to the extreme. I have waited for Ace’s story for a while now and I have to say that Osborn did not disappoint. I have fallen in love with this author’s writing and I can not wait for more of her books.
5 Ace Filled Stars!!!
We’re finally getting Ace’s story and OMG it’s a doozy! I’ve been waiting for the Defiance MC’s tech guy to fall in love with something more than his computers, dark web and iron man.
Ace has been with Defiance ever since Torque found him at eighteen and Ace wouldn’t have it any other way. He’s found a family here. Lately his brothers have gone and fallen in love and gotten themselves an Old Lady.
Ace’s best friend Cindi has gotten a break in her first movie. The club looks out for their girls as they have with Cindi. When Torque and Sparx notice he’s been down lately they tell him to go visit Cindi since she’s filming right there in Chicago.
Ace is excited to see Cindi as much as she is to see him and Noah the prospect. But, he realizes quick Cindi and Noah just might be more than just friends. But, when Neve walks in everybody else seems to disappear.
The connection they have is instant and hot. Neve isn’t like anybody he’s ever met. Ace has never seen any of her movies but he plans on seeing her again.
Neve knew Cindi was part of a MC but she didn’t know they were real life Jax Teller’s. When she sees the guy with the vest, man bun and those eyes Neve was intrigued but when he had no idea who she was and looked at her for her she was a goner.
Neve loves being an actress. But, the bad boy biker is the only thing on her mind. On the way to set Neve overhears a conversation that sets the hairs on her arms up. Neve tells Cindi and she turns around and calls Ace.
When Ace gets a frantic call from Cindi he gets on his bike and goes. Listening to Neve tell him somebody is coming for her he’s instantly on edge. Add the fact that Cindi’s in the movie and its mafia based who knows who is lurking, who connected Cindi to Defiance. It’s all one big what ifs and questions and there’s not one answer. Ace decides him and Noah will stay and keep the girls safe with Torque’s approval.
Ace is on a mission to find out exactly what’s going on. Neve is finishing her movie. But, the more time they spend together she’s realizing bikers aren’t what you think they are. Defiance has a good relationship with the cops as they’re both looking out for her. Ace is falling harder for her everyday he just hopes she could like him for everything he’s done in past as well as in future and his MC family.
There’s so much against these two. They shouldn’t fit together yet they really do. For once everything going down Defiance just might be involved not by anything they’ve done but by who they know. Can Ace figure it out before multiple people get hurt.
This was amazing!!! The storyline was nothing I could’ve ever predicted. It was better and sad all at the same time. After that epilogue I’m honestly nervous for the first time in the whole series for the Defiance MC. I’m also hoping we get the Defiance Dublin MC as a spin off.
An exciting and really romantic episode in the life of the Defiance crew! Balance brings us Ace’s story, one I have been looking forward to as a favourite character of mine. Together with the rest of the Defiance family, Ace, Neve and Cindi, to a lesser extent, take centre stage.
This book moves the fates of this extended family further forward, drawing on past events to inform the present and hint at the future.
With some tense moments, to say the least, and with a beautifully intense love story at its heart, Balance is a good read. I did find some of the events a bit OTT, but, frankly, I don’t, ultimately, care, when I am being told a good story. Can’t wait for the next book!
Great intriguing story!! Ace is all Alpha and all in when he finds Neve. Neve is used to attention, being a Hollywood star, but Ace stirs something in her she hasn’t felt in a long while. But when Neve draws the unwanted attention of a dangerous stranger, can Ace save her before it is too late? Can they both stand firm and not give up on what seems impossible? This book is full of twists and turns and will keep you guessing!! Loved it!!
I received an ARC in return for an honest review. I’m always down for an MC romance. Ace and Neve definitely didn’t pull me in. I don’t know about anyone else but my fantasy guy is not a nerd. Even if they have nerd-like qualities, I don’t want too much details about that part. I liked ACE until all the details about his Marvels obsession turned me off. Whether it was the descriptive details about his love for Iron Man, how he hadn’t seen any movies but Marvel (yea right) or that his entire room is covered in Marvel stuff. Total turnoff! I will say the best part to me was the sex because Neve surprised me with taking control. I expected her to just let him do it all. The story was ok but because of my personal preference I probably wouldn’t read it again.
Didn’t see that one coming!
So this is Ace’s story and it has a different feel to it as he goes way outside the club for his “old lady”, so to speak. Ace and Neve appear to be from entirely different worlds which they really are. Can they find a way to fit into each other’s lives?
I have to admit that I kinda hoped for Cindi to be Ace’s woman, but this way took the book in directions I was not expecting. “I’m just an actress, standing in front of a biker, finally not giving…”
This story can stand by itself, but you’ll feel more for Ace if you’ve read the other books, especially “Deviance”, Book 3. The epilogue will have your jaw dropping for Book 7 though.
I voluntarily requested and read an uncorrected advance reader copy.
It seems with each character we are given a more in depth story on we are more and more immersed into this world. They are given to you heart and soul with you knowing their desires that you get torn when they are torn and put together when they are. In this it is Ace whom grabs us for his story then when checking on Cindy he meets Neve with not knowing whom she pretended to be on screens. You soon become his biggest fans cheering what grows on. Drama will also have its day at times with frustration and sadness coming out of it. This one explodes and takes us with it that when you come out of it you now for sure feel as if part of the family too.
HOLY MOLY is this ever a wild ride. The Defiance MC series never disappoints me. Once again the author has written a storyline that held me close from start to finish. This is a Hot Sexy MC Biker book, as one would expect, but trust me when I say this one is soooooo much more. It had my emotions all over the place. I mean at times I just wanted to reach in my kindle and bop a few heads and other times I wanted them to hand me a tissue.
This story is about a Geeky biker that lives for his club and MC brothers, who will do whatever “needs doing”, yet has a soft heart for the ladies and a movie starlet who is every man’s fantasy girl and is living her dream under the bright lights. When their worlds collide, sparks go flying. But a starlet who’s career and every move is printed or recorded by social media and a biker who’s world needs totally away from the paparazzi accidently come together it has heartbreak and troubled written all over it. The characters and their actions so defined by the author, that you can’t help but get emotionally involved as if you were standing right there with them. The suspense, the tragedy, the deception kept me guessing. The loyalty, the brotherhood, the romance held my heart in their hands.
I can’t recommend this series and this book enough. The Defiance MC stand for everything that is good and right in the world, with an occasional humb in the road. These men are truly something and will have you wanting the next book in the series as soon as you read the end. Kudo’s to the author for a phenomenal addition to the series. 2 Thumbs Up and 5 Stars.
Ace is part of the Defiance MC and misses his best friend Cindi Wray who has gone off to shoot her very first movie as a supporting actress. He and Noah decide to head up to see how Cindi is doing and he notices the chemistry between Cindi and Noah. Yet nothing compares to the instant chemistry he feels when he meets Neve.
Neve De Villa is the lead actress in the movie that Cindi is in which is based on bikers/mafia. As soon as she meets Ace there are butterflies but she knows as much as she wants him, his biker status is likely to hurt her career.
When Neve gets suspicious of one of the men on set will Ace be able to protect her? When it’s clear
Neve is in danger is it because of Ace or is there another reason that no one knows about?
Can Neve and Ace find a way to be together in spite of all the odds against them?
I really liked this book and found it is another great one in the series.
I thought Ace was a great character and I thought it was interesting at the beginning with he and Cindi and then how different it was when he met Neve. I thought it was great that he was a biker but in this book you really see the stigmatism he faces with people not really knowing him or what his club stood for.
Neve was awesome and I liked the close bond she had with Cindi right from the beginning. I also liked that she was aware of something being off and how she spoke up about it instead of keeping it to herself. I really didn’t like her manager Julian and how he treated her and Ace. She constantly made excuses for Julian but I think she should have done more.
I loved the stuff with Defiance and all the club business that happened and how everything tied
together. I was angry with what happened to one character in particular as I really liked how that
storyline had progressed.
I liked when the truth with Neve and her dad came out and I was so mad at Julian after for still forcing Neve to do certain things and how she went along with it. So frustrating!!
The end was intense and I was shocked when Neve lashed out at Torque and what he said in return!!
I was so happy at the end but I am really curious to see what happens next as there are definitely some loose ends now!! By Rebecca
Ace is the geeky biker and Neve is an actress. Ace is on the set visiting a friend when he meets Neve. The two have an instant attraction but don’t want to pursue it due to being from totally different worlds. A situation on the movie set leaves Neve needing protection and Ace steps up to do it. The tow end up giving in and things take off. A good mc and suspense read that will leave you shocked at the end.
Now that was freaking awesome. The movie star and the nerd biker, it’ll never happen you say??? Well this author makes it work. Both with a past and a present that can stand in their way but somehow in spite of it all it works. It’s a bang bang shoot em up kinda read but it fits. There are dangers out there and this crew is caught up in the middle of it along with the women they protect. They are family and holding to this is who they are. While alliances have been made and held strong and true they may not be enough for what’s on the line. The tension and action are outstanding and don’t think the passion is forgotten. I love this author’s style and the strength of her characters and the actions they take. The streets of Chicago get a work out and lines will be drawn and crossed. I have to go back and read the rest of the series so I can get to know the rest of the brothers in this crew who is now on my radar.
oh, we get Ace’s story this go around! Who are Ace, Noah & Lift at war with? What happens? What is the deal with the chains? I love Chills! So bad@$$!! Where is Cindi? When Noah and Ace go to see here at work, we meet Neve. Who is she and what does she do? What happens once day at Neve’s job that gets the MC, Brody, and Grier hanging around? Who is Danny? What about Roman? What do they do? Neve at New Years had me trying not to cry while sitting in a restaurant waiting on my dinner to arrive. What happens witht he press at the end of the book is so funny!!! OH SNAP!! The cliff hanger at the end of this book was/is a complete shocker!
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Let’s start off by saying that we are really loving this series and we throughly enjoyed Ace’s and Neve’s story.We really love the character’s in this series and the club itself as they never have a dull moment and the old ladies are totally awesome.
Ace & Cindi are besties/sometimes friends with benefits and Ace is having anxiety with Cindi gone to pursue her dream of acting but, is given an opportunity to check up on her and meets the amazing beauty Neve who is destined to be his if he has anything to say about it.
I loved the story from beginning to end as it was full of love and laughter,romance and suspense,twists and turns and more then a few surprises.
Ace and Neve are total opposites in every way but, they just clicked and had this amazing chemistry together but, with the forces to be it seems that their attraction to one another was domed from the onset of the story and things were looking bleak.
I loved Ace from the onset of the story and I love how he has all the old ladies wrapped around his little finger.We love how he was when he was with Neve always calm and happy and smiling and we loved seeing him that way.
Neve is a movie superstar and is at the top of her game but, when she meets Ace and he has no idea who she is she gets to be the real Neve who is easy going and all the glam and glitz falls to the way side and we get to see the real her who is just a down to earth girl who loves her family and craves a simple life even though she loves what she does for a living.
Overall we loved the story it was fun and intense and had a lot going on within the plot itself that puts both Cindi and Neve in danger creating tons of suspense and had a bit of a mystery to solve.Then you had mafia rivalry and the club mixed up in all of it which leads to death, destruction and mayhem making it a totally awesome read.The story took a few twists and turns but, we absolutely loved the ending.Yet again the story had amazing character’s that you could not help but love and also had you rooting for a couple that deserved a happily after if they could just find a way to make that happen.
The ending was epic and looks like things are heating up even more in the next book in this going going series and we can’t wait to see what happens next.
Recommended read to all!
Another great story from this series! The boys are back and this is Ace’s story. Ace and Neve shouldn’t really go together but that’s the thing about love, you can’t control who it chooses for you. The MC has a new situation that they have to deal with and it was great to see them deal with it while Ace and Neve take their journey together.
So this was a first for me by K E Osborn. She fits a lot of story into her books. This book was good, had a lot of heat even when no sex was taking place. Which is a really good thing in a book sometimes. The characters are deep and you are immersed pretty quickly into the story and their lives. I feel like even though this is a series you can fall into it and still understand what’s happening. I do still wish that I had read the others in the series just because I would have been all the more invested in it and the brothers! The action is big and well thought out. I loved that it just didn’t happen for no valid reason. I was brought to tears a few times and was rooting for the lead couple in this particular story!
Overall I enjoyed it very much!
Note to other readers, definitely read the first books in the series! While you can read this as a stand-alone like I did, I feel that I would’ve understood the characters and the situations in this book much better had I read them previously. Nonetheless, this was a good romantic suspense book that really kept me guessing until the end! Ace and Neve meet and it’s instant sparks flying between the two, but are unsure if it’s best to act on those sparks and feelings because of who they are. Ace is the resident geek for the MC and Neve is a famous actress. When things go south during the production of her latest movie, Ace jumps into it and plays protector for Neve while they both act on their feelings, consequences thrown out and disregarded. When everything comes to light and the reasons behind it, I was really thrown because I didn’t expect it! Overall, I was happy with how the book ended though!
I voluntarily read and reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
5 stars
I’ve waited for Ace’s love story for ages now but now that it’s in my hot little hands, KE Osborn did not disappoint! Holy hot stuff Batman. Balance is fantastic!
Lately Ace has been feeling restless; as if he doesn’t have anyone of his own. He’s finally moved on from his unrequited love of Sparx but now his best friend Cindi is off chasing her big break in a Hollywood movie. Thankfully, she’s just up the road in Chicago and he can check up on her but little did he know a simple hello to his best friend would change his life in so many ways. He finds himself instantly attracted to the Hollywood A-list actress front lining the movie. They have explosive chemistry and genuine affection for each other and Ace finally knows what all his Defiance boys felt as they fell for their women. But an A-list actress with a bad boy biker spells disaster for them both. He can’t afford to have his life or the MC splashed around as tabloid fodder. Neve has much to lose in being associated with a biker club as well.
Neve loves her work in movies and lives for it, even if the papparazzi are a constant presence. She lives her life in the spotlight so she works hard to keep her nose clean; until a bad boy biker with a man bun shows up and she starts to wonder if there’s more to life than fame. She’s never had this instant connection to a man before and while his bad boy persona might be bad for his image, he just might be the best thing for her heart.
I loved this book so much! Ace has been my favorite from the first book and I’m so glad he got his HEA. Neve is perfect for him with her sassy mouth, fierce independence but gentle heart. The drama in this book kept me turning the page until WAY too late into the night! Fantastic installment in the Defiance MC series!
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