Title: Bo
Series: Bad Boys of Retribution MC
Author: Rie Warren
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date: July 14, 2015
From the world of Carolina Bad Boys . . . Bo Maverick is ex-Force Recon and a force to be reckoned with.
Bo:
I’m a lover, not a fighter. Yeah, right. Talk about bullshit. I’ve been fighting all my life, and I know zip about love. Frankly, I don’t want to. More than bullets whizzing past my head or the very real possibility of ending up dead, love scares the shit out of me. I’m used to guns and killing, blood and dust.
Lust.
That’s what I feel for this woman, my goddamn shrink, Veronica. Doctor Hartley digs inside my head. She asks me questions, which I never answer. I’d much rather take the smart, sexy Doc to bed, but I can’t because of our clinical relationship.
My last Force Recon mission destroyed any semblance of humanity I had left. Those little triggers go off all the time now. When I’m asleep. When I’m awake. When the memories are raw. I bolt up, at knife point again, but there’s no enemy now.
Just Veronica and me.
Veronica:
Veronica. Doctor Hartley. I told Bo to call me Ronnie like everyone else, but he refuses. He shows up like he has a cattle prod shoved up his ass and sits through the allotted hour for his counseling session impervious to every approach. He’s powerful, forceful, explosive. He doesn’t scare me.
My marine doesn’t speak, but his sharp gaze pierces me all the same. He watches me with all the greed of a hunger never sated, a need never fulfilled. A desire never explored. He stows his secrets safely away, but I’m patient. I’ll get to him if he doesn’t get to me first.
And when I have him? I’ll want him forever. I know this. But I can’t. His past might be complicated, but mine is a minefield, one that will blow up in our faces before all is said and done.
Too bad. We could be so good together.
Warning: Graphic sex, graphic action, graphic language. Triple X caution.
Rie is the badass, sassafras author of Sugar Daddy and the Don’t Tell series–a breakthrough trilogy that crosses traditional publishing boundaries beginning with In His Command. Her latest endeavors include the Carolina Bad Boys, a fun, hot, and southern-sexy series.
A Yankee transplant who has traveled the world, Rie started out a writer—causing her college professor to blush over her erotic poetry without one ounce of shame. Not much has changed. She swapped pen for paintbrushes and followed her other love during her twenties. From art school to marriage to children and many a wild and wonderful journey in between, Rie has come home to her calling. Her work has been called edgy, daring, and some of the sexiest smut around.
You can connect with Rie via the social media hangouts listed on her website https://www.riewarren.com. She is represented by Saritza Hernandez, Corvisiero Literary Agency. http://www.corvisieroagency.com/Saritza_Hernandez.html
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4 Stars
I started reading this series and this author roughly about two months ago. The novellas are fairly short and to the point reads, with lots of steamy sexual encounters. Rie Warren can seriously write some bad boy, alpha-male characters, with hearts of gold. Her heroines are up to par with these alpha-males, giving as good as they get. Strong women and equally determined men, with loads of combustible sexual tension, always gets my heart palpitating.
Bo was no different, except! it was... doesn't make sense right. Well, Bo is one of those books that sticks with you, even after you've devoured it. And devour I did, like twice!
We're given a broken marine suffering from PTSD and the effects of opting out of the Marines after a mission goes wrong. Where good men died. Men with families, that deserved to live, while Bo, questions his own survival. Why not him? Why them? Men, who became his family, during times of isolation, on missions, a unit together, a family split apart.
Fighting to assimilate himself back into society, Bo finds the first brotherhood, Retribution MC. A brotherhood that protects it's own, fights alongside each other, and kicks their own asses when necessary. This is when Bo, gets help from a fellow military man and MC brother, Hunter.
Hunter arranges some therapy sessions with Dr. Hartley. A psychiatrist who helped Hunter, and who Hunter knows will do everything she can to aid Bo's recovery. After missing two sessions with Doc Hartley, Bo gets one hell of a wake up call, when the vivacious Veronica Hartley waltzes into Retribution MC and rips Bo a new one.
Doctor Veronica Hartley is a bombshell in a suit. A smart woman, with a knack for sorting through all the bullsh*t and getting right to the heart of the problem. Always willing to get down and dirty. What she didn't plan out, was Bo. The tougher than nails, vulnerable ex-marine that sasses her at every turn, and gives his whiplash with his flirtatious smile and sexier than sin body.
I loved that at Bo's first session with Doc Hartely, that he attempts to throw a curve ball, by relaying his sexual dream about Veronica, and she sits their, affected, and just as quickly, she cuts Bo down to size. Talk about hot!!!!
Soon enough, Veronica realizes she has feelings for Bo, but she would not compromise her practice by becoming involved with a patient. Recommending a new shrink for Bo, it gives Veronica the right advantage in getting more intimate with this enigmatic marine.
They way their relationship evolved from doctor, patient, to sassy lovers, was a thrill to read about. All the sass they both gave to each other, their little quips and the never ending lust sessions, was freaking mind-blowing. Bo's protective and conditioned nature, always took over, and his OCD tendencies even though it bothered him, I quite welcomed the extra detail and the routine.
While, Veronica is trying to help Bo and get him to open up, both professionally and on a more personal level, she is also hiding some secrets that could be fatal if not handled properly. A secret than brings another and extremely dangerous MC into the mix.
My most favourite aspect of this book, was the vulnerability of Veronica. As much as she was a strong and independent woman. Fighting and finding her own way back into society, her emotions towards Bo, gave away her true feelings. She preferred to withhold information and sacrifice her own self in order to protect Bo. This softer more intimate aspect of Veronica was a wonderful added touch by the author. It changed the dynamics of this instalment versus the previous two. Both characters became more intense and real to me.
A through and fabulous read.
*ARC provided by Enticing Journey Book Promotions on behalf of the author for an honest review* Thanks!
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