“There’s never been a time I’ve cared about anything more than my club. Today that all changed. Today I got you.”To truly understand a story; you need to start from the beginning, but to start from the beginning; you have to go back, further than just you. After all, our stories don’t start with us, do they? Our stories start with the person before us, and the person before them. We are created … created from the stories of those people – from their mistakes, from their achievements, from their love and their hate.
No one’s story is ever truly their own.
I tried to create my own story, my own path, and my own actions. I’ve seen things people only see in their worst nightmares, but I never let it beat me down. I never let it become who I was. I picked myself up, and I kept going. Everything was what it was.
There was no point analyzing what it could be.
Could be’s didn’t matter.
Until Maddox came into the picture. He saved my life. He changed my world; giving me the second chance some of us only dream about. There was only one thing missing in my second chance, and she was the reason I fought so hard to survive.
My sister.
My sister who is supposed to be dead, well, at least, that’s what I thought.
That’s what he told me.
Now is where my story changes, but to understand this story, you have to start at the beginning…where it all began…and before.
This story is the second book in a series. You can get the first book on all major retailers. (Precarious – Jokers’ Wrath MC Book 1)
This contains no cliffhanger and has a HEA. 18+
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Melancholy is the second book in Bella Jewel’s Jokers’ Wrath MC series and it was one book that I really wanted to get my hands on when I finished the first book of the series. I was curious about Santana and Maddox’ story and holy moly, did Bella live up to my expectations.
The reason for me deciding to write reviews for the series was simple … do you remember the last time when you had this awful feeling in your stomach … I am not talking about those lovely butterflies but this feeling of dread and the coming horror … the feeling of the train wreck to happen and you not being able to look away … this is what I felt when reading Melancholy, when reading the chapters that were about Santana’s past … I had to put the book (well, my phone with the Kindle app) down and take a breather but not for long, it was like an addiction, I had to go back, over and over again, until I came to the end with my heart broken and me crying my eyes out and … yea yea, I know that the hard core MC lovers probably think that Santana is not really an exceptional MC heroine and Maddox is this and that but I say, just breathe in and breathe out and … feel … and I cannot wait to read Santana’s little sister’s story … I am dreading it but I know that it will be something that will stay with me for a very long time!
An intense, gritty, dark, and wild ride to go on with Maddox and Santana. The Jokers’ Wrath MC prove in this book that no matter what they are family, they’re loyal, and highly protective. Maddox and Santana fight their feelings but they have a friendship and connection that is pure and beautiful. Their chemistry is undeniable, and their love is unconditional. I absolutely loved this exhilarating story.
I feel like I have been hit with a Mack truck!! Holy cow! These two are so freaking stubborn!! At times I didn’t know which one I wanted to shake more (if I dare, because let’s be honest, they could both kick my arse!).
This book had my heart and my head in a total spin, so much going on, so much heartache and misunderstanding. But Maddox?! Holy crap that man in all his alpha, growly, expressiveness!!! And Santana is the perfect fit for him, I willed for them to get their HEA, you need to read it to find out if they did!!
Melancholy, Maddox & Santana’s book
I like the story line and the action scenes, it was very intense and Maddox oh my, who wouldn’t love him. As for Santana, she annoyed me so much. I struggled with the first half of the book but was interested with the new characters to continue reading. Overall this is an okay book.
Love this series. Great read
Okay so I have read 7 books by Bella Jewel now and I loved them all. Loved her writing style loved her broody heroes, loved her sassy heroines, and loved all the angsty drama of her plots. Then I read this hot mess. God I don’t even know where to begin on all that is wrong with this book. See I read The MC Sinners series first. I loved them so much that I then read MC Sinners Next Generation series to see how their children turned out. In the Next Generation book 2 the hero is Diesel the son of Jokers Wrath MC member, Mack and Jaylah. In that book I got curious about the Jokers couples so I wandered over to Amazon to get this series. After reading this book I am wondering if I made a huge mistake.
Lets just start with the unrealistic, all over the place, outlandish plot. This plot had more holes than Swiss cheese. When EVER does a person believed to be guilty of a crime get sent straight to prison. Last time I check we had a thing called a justice system and there are rules and laws that have to be followed. I’m pretty sure there is this thing called investigations and a trial, that the person would have to have. Then if found guilty and sentenced they go to prison. And not in less than a week. This isn’t monopoly. You don’t go straight to jail no passing go no collecting 200 dollars. Then you got dirty prison guards, and cops working with another MC to set up the Jokers. But that plot was thin with not a lot of details or reasons. All the surveillance videos go down like every five minutes magically so no one can see these crimes happening, and no one finds this weird?
I tried to overlook all that and just enjoy the romance. Problem with that was I didn’t feel any romance and I disliked both Ash and Krypt. Let me just say that when I read Biker books I give a lot of leeway in the way the bikers act. Because the fact of the matter is Bikers are suppose to be rough, edgy, raw and bad. So as I have said many time before there is a fine line authors that write MC romances have to walk to pull off a hard, sexy bad biker without making him an unredeemable jerkface. I can appreciate the struggle author must feel making sure their bikers don’t come out like wimps. But this book didn’t pull off that fine line. I didn’t like Krypt at all. He slept with Ash once and instantly wanted to make her his old lady. When she says she doesn’t even know him or him, her, he has a another woman in his room a few hours later stripping for him getting ready to do other things. It wasn’t like he couldn’t wait a few minutes to let her fall in love with him or anything. Then Later his ex girlfriend Penny shows up and he kept telling Ash that Penny means something to him and that he didn’t want her to see him with Ash. He pushed Ash away for Penny. And then he disrespected Ash who he is suppose to want as an old lady by telling her that Penny matters to him and that Ash doesn’t. When Penny first shows up, he lets her kiss his lips, jump into his arms and wrap her legs around him and he is always touching on Penny. It just ticked me off. I didn’t feel like Krypt cared for Ash at all and I didn’t buy that he wanted her for his old lady.
Ash was suppose to be this strong female prison guard that can kick men’s butts and doesn’t take crap from no one, but she was wishy washy and annoying . She came off fake and like she was trying too hard to be a bad. She let Krypt disrespect her with Penny and a club chick. And what was up with the threesome with Maddox’s at the end. It made no sense. None. I am totally okay with ménage in books but this one just didn’t fit. It was like the author was just throwing random things into the plot and it didn’t work. Not to mention what a stab in the back it was to Santana. Santana who was suppose to be a close friend of Ash. How could Ash touch Maddox knowing Santana had something for Maddox. And I didn’t buy that crap that she didn’t know how Santana felt.
I didn’t even enjoy the sex in this book. It was awkward and violent. I mean I am all for kinky rough sex, but who headbutts a man they are having sex??? For most of this book I was bored. For how all over the place this plot was there really wasn’t much happening in this book besides being in a cabin in the woods and having violent sex. It kinda dragged for me but maybe that was because I wasn’t feeling this book at all. I didn’t feel a connection to the couple, didn’t feel any chemistry between them, and just all around didn’t care. I didn’t like Maddox either. He is suppose to have feelings for Santana but he is sleeping everything he can right in front of her. I get that they are not together and I’m going to try and have a open mind in their book but unnecessary angst drives me nuts. I understand that even when you love an author you don’t always love everything they write and that is the case with this book. I really love Bella Jewel and I have loved every book of her but this one so I hope the next one is better because I already paid 3.99 a book for this series.