Starting the Riot by Karen Renee with review

Title: Starting the Riot

Series: Riot MC #0.5

Author: Karen Renee

Genre: MC Romance

Release Date: April 28, 2020

Jackie Eastmon’s life changes after a brutal attack on her best friend. While getting Simone the help she needs, Jackie meets a rough, burly biker.

Henry “Volt” Adler, President of the Riot MC Jacksonville chapter, admires Jackie’s rarely found spunk and dedication to Simone. The timing is all wrong for him to pursue Jackie. He runs into her nearly two years later, and he will stop at nothing to make her his.

Jackie struggles with this bossy, alpha-male in her life. When she learns he knows who attacked Simone but hasn’t made them pay, she questions if he’s the man for her.

Upon the two-year anniversary of the attack, Simone attempts suicide, and Volt hates seeing Jacqueline hurting for her friend. He orders his brothers to make the attackers pay for what they did to Simone.

His lips quirked. “I want to stay, but I really gotta go. Though, not until you kiss me goodbye.”

He was insatiable. 

Before we even got out the door of the clubhouse, he backed me up against a wall and we had a make out session in the middle of the common room. There were three other bikers present, but had they not been there, I think Volt would’ve commenced wall-sex with me. As it was, he worked me up with his hand outside my jeans and only when I was squirming against him did he stop and drag me out to his bike. Then at Panera, he insisted we sit outside at a secluded table and he made out with me in between bites of bagel and sips of coffee.

With a sideways grin, I asked, “I haven’t kissed you enough this morning?”

“Are you lookin’ for a spanking?”

He pulled me close and planted his lips on mine. I slanted my head, and he took the invitation to deepen the kiss. My hands slid around the back of his neck. His arms tightened forcing my breasts tight to his chest.

“Oh, my,” I heard Andrea say in a low voice. 

Volt tried to pull away from me, but I chased after his lips with mine. I could sense he wanted to cut this short, but I became more aggressive and he growled into my mouth. For a moment I debated dragging him to my room, but he wrenched free of my lips and my hold.

“Jacqueline. You’re going to pay for that.”

“You asked for it,” I chided in a husky voice.

His hands, still on my ass, squeezed. “Call you later, baby.”

I closed the door behind him, locked it, and turned to find Andrea at the table chewing her omelet. 

She swallowed and pointed her fork at me. “I might have to get a job at Carmine’s so I can find a man to kiss me like that.”

HOW COULD YOU!? You made me cry and I DO NOT like to cry!!! That aside, I LOVED this book. It ended much too soon!! What it didn’t have that I would have liked? How did he get his road name? (If this was in another book, I can’t recall and would have liked it repeated.) This is a MUST READ if you are following this series and this series is a MUST READ if you are looking for a good motorcycle club series.  Can’t wait to see what’s up next for Ms. Renee!! 5 Stars

Jackie and Volt/HenryAdler

Jackie's best friend is brutally assaulted. After getting her to the hospital she goes to tell her BFF's father. There she meets Volt, not an auspicious meeting. Two years later they meet again at the restaurant where she works. He makes it clear he is interested. While he is a 12 on the 1 to 10 hot meter she resists—or tries to. His persistence doesn't make it easy.

It turns out Volt is the president of the 1% MC. The timing was off two years earlier but now “it starts” or so he tells her. She fights back but not too hard. The MC life is not something she understands and the learning process is filled with an alpha she wants to fight and does but both end up winning in the bedroom.

Her friend has never come out of her trauma and has spent the two years in an institute in their home town. When she goes even further downhill, Volt does what he vowed he wouldn't and steps in to find and punish the guilty ones. Will he make them pay or will Jackie get caught in the crossfire.?

Filled with emotions from tears to laughter, plenty of steam, and growth of a love neither expected but want forever.

Karen Renee is the author of the Riot MC Series. She has wanted to be a writer from a very early age, and she’s finally bringing that dream to life. She has worked in advertising, banking, and local television media research. She is a proud wife and mother, and a Jacksonville native. When she’s not at the soccer field or cooking, you can find her at her local library, the grocery store, in her car jamming out to some tunes, or hibernating while she writes and/or reads books.

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