Reviewed by Kat

TITLE: Burning Luck

AUTHOR: Layla Dorine

PUBLISHER: Encompass Ink

LENGTH: 324 pages

RELEASE DATE: July 5, 2017

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Lucky Strike McAllister isn’t very lucky. In fact, he isn’t much of anything most days, to hear his MC tell it. Since the death of his father from cancer and the suicide of his pops, he’s done nothing but find ways to get into trouble. He’s talented with an airbrush gun and an amazing artist when he sets his mind to it, but more often than not, the things Lucky sets his mind to are pretty self-destructive.

When Thorn and his partner Cain, are forced to fish Lucky out of the ocean on a chilly fall night, both men decide he needs a keeper and who better than them to keep Lucky from destroying himself. Too bad Lucky can’t see that they’re trying to help. Bitter and lashing out, he does everything he can to sabotage the only chance he’s ever been giving at truly belonging to someone.

Will Lucky be able to put aside his anger long enough to get to know the two men who have taken such an intense interest in him, or will he run from them, his club and everything he’s ever known, and burn the last of his luck in the process?

REVIEW:

When I met this author at GRL and she was telling me that she had a ménage story that wasn’t paranormal or fantasy my curiosity was peaked and I knew I had to have this.

Lucky has grown up in the Rolling Jokers Motorcycle Club. His “Old Man” dad been one of the founding five and his “Pops” had been a childhood friend of the president Mark. But with his old man succumbing to the ravish of cancer and his pops not holding it together he sought out relief in the only way he could…at the dungeon of his MC club. With Mark looking out for the boy and knowing what he needed he was blindfolded with ear plugs before he was put with two men who could safely give him what he needed. Thorn and Cain enjoyed their time with the boy and wanted to move it further but Mark held them off. Lucky wasn’t ready for a more permanent change in his life after his old man’s death. When his pops did the unspeakable Lucky was left spinning out of control. Now Thorn and Cain are left to pick up the pieces but how is that even possible when he doesn’t even know he knows them?

There were several points in this story when I just wanted to throttle all the older men in Lucky’s life. They were suppose to be looking out for his best interest but both Thorn and Mark really pissed me off! First Mark…I know he was fluster with how Lucky was off the rails and self destructing but that was expected. He’s young and his whole life is shattered. He has a connection to two guys he has never seen but they are only around once and awhile and then seemed to disappear completely. Now, if Lucky had stopped trying to look like he had everything together and didn’t need the help of his MC family thing could have gone much better also. But being twenty one also doesn’t give you much time to know how to act. And Thorn, don’t get me started with that bullheaded Dom! He should have known better and when things kept going from bad to worse he damn well should have listened to Cain and Mark about coming clean with Lucky on who they really were!

Although this book does have sex, duh it starts out in a dungeon, that is not the true basis of this story although it is hot as hell. This is the story of how Thorn, Cain and Lucky learn together to trust one another and learn from the mistakes that have been made. I will say that the author about gave me a coronary the day after Christmas. You make these poor guys go through hell to finally really get together and trust each other and then that was the cherry on top of the sundae??? Grrrr! What I did love was that Cain knew, right from the start, what was best for the young man and stood strong for him. I know that Lucky frustrated them with his actions but Cain also knew that you had to give to expect the trust and submission that they all desired. I think that Cain was my most favorite of these three. Yes, of course, I loved Lucky and I even grew to love Thorn when he finally figured out what he almost lost. All I wanted was for Lucky to finally get what he was searching for and needed…total and complete love and acceptance.

I would have never guessed that I would have fallen for a MC book but this one was so much more than that. I was thankful that it wasn’t all brutal and gory. This was a book about needs and how to help a young man with all he has had to live through. It was the story of an established couple that realized that they needed the love of a third to make themselves complete. It was the story of growth, love and relationship, of a young man not knowing what he needed and a more experienced couple learning what they also needed. I highly recommend this this wonderful book. I gave this  4.5 Hearts because Thorn took way too long to get his head out of his butt and be the Dom he was supposed to already be…all at Lucky and Cain’s expense. Yeah, this is all on you Thorn!

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