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Nia – :
A sensitive story about slowly accepting who you really are and find your true self and happiness.
It’s always a long road, at least for most of us, to admit to ourselves that we might feel different from our friends and family. Whether that’s lesbian, gay, nonbinary or queer in any way, just because the world talks about it more openly today doesn’t mean the path is any easier.
Maren McEvoy is in the public eye; as a newsreader, she is famous enough to be recognized and judged everywhere.
That’s why 18 years ago, she and her best friend chose the safe route and they married.
Although they were both sure that they weren’t straight, a clean slate was simply the best thing for their careers. Whether as a rugby player or newsreader.
Now, divorced and with a teenage daughter who seems a little lost and would rather break the law to impress her friends than listen to her mum and concentrate on school, Maren chooses to take a break and moves to Sydney to concentrate on Orli.
But Orli and their Neighbor in leather and on her motorcycles make everything so damn difficult.
It’s hard to get through to Orli, and hard to ignore Jac and her desire for her.
Once again a really wonderfully thought-out book with sensitive and wonderful characters. As is typical for Cheyenne Blue and her romances, it also takes us to wonderful places that you would love to drive to on your motorbike straight away to get the feeling that you can fly.
Highly recommended, with very hot main characters who playfully let their great chemistry develop into something much more!
Henriette – :
The joy of riding a motorcycle: Throwing of the shackles of convention
This novel by reknowned romance author Cheyenne Blue is an enticing mix with a good plot: There is Maren McEnvoy, a mature woman who at 46 is still shackled to the closet by convention and guilt. She helped a good friend and his career in rugby by marrying him at college and obfuscate the fact that he is queer (and knows she is too). But can she – finally – come out when their teenage daughter is in a difficult and vulnerable stage in her life? Is it her fault that her daughter is acting up? And on top: As a popular news anchor in a conservative environment a coming out might tank her career.
Cheyenne Blue really brought those conflicts to life: it gives this romance a decidedly realistic and feminist spin because women still bear the brunt of higher stakes in their families and their careers.
Jac, her leathers and her motorcycles come into this mix like a breath of fresh air. She is free to do what she likes (no shackles here!) and those rides she offers to Maren (and her daughter) are like catalysts for Maren to finally claim her freedom.
The attraction between butch Jac and elegant Maren is hot and flares even hotter once they give in to their attraction: sizzling.
I received an ARC. The review is left voluntarily.
Alison – :
Great book covering many aspects of coming out! Orli, a rebellious teen fighting to understand her own sexuality as well as her mother’s. Maren, Orli’s mother, dealing with said teen and, her own coming out experience. Then we have Jac, out and proud biker lesbian, helping Orli and having the best sex ever with a closeted TV presenter (Maren). It’s a great story with plenty content and plenty sex. What’s not to like!