Reviewed by Anabela
TITLE: Straight as a Wheel: Smoke Valley MC
SERIES: Sex & Mayhem #11
AUTHOR: K.A. Merikan
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 334 pages
RELEASE DATE: November 30, 2019
BLURB:
“Your secret’s safe with me, Leo Heller. Whatever happens here, nobody will know. Ever. Do you understand?”
Zolt. Gay. Player. Predator. Fetish: Straight guys
Leo. Straight. Biker. Prey. Fetish: True love
Zolt knows what he wants from life–cold hard cash so that he can enjoy an early retirement in the Carribean as rent boys serve him drinks on the beach. Meanwhile, he’s got his pawn shop as a front for illegal operations, and a baseball bat to deal with troublemakers.
When it comes to men, Zolt loves the chase, and his favorite, most elusive prey is curious straight guys. He goes out of his way to seduce and devour them. If he can be their first, all the better.
His next mark? A biker. And not just any. An outlaw, Leo Heller.
Leo’s got his future all figured out. A wife, two to four kids, maybe a dog. If love was as easy as others make it seem, Leo would have been married already.
A string of failed relationships leads him to the one person he shouldn’t be crushing on, shouldn’t be admiring, and most definitely shouldn’t be touching. Because a man like Zolt Andorai won’t give Leo the family he wants. Hell, Zolt doesn’t even do boyfriends. But what Zolt does offer is no-strings-attached experimentation, and Leo is only human.
After all, if no one ever finds out Leo’s secret, it’s as if it doesn’t exist.
One kiss leads to another, lines blur, and before Leo knows it, he’s in over his head.
In love.
Helpless.
REVIEW:
Leo has had me charmed from the get go. Starting with his childish tantrum, at the beginning, over not getting the wife and kids he’s always dreamed of, and continuing with his confusion over how Zolt’s flirtations made him feel. Zolt, on the other hand, was a different kind of animal altogether. Unapologetically selfish and mercurial, not thinking twice before double crossing two MCs and getting his thrills from chasing only straight men, who he never kept or even wanted a repeat with.
Both used to have clear plans for their futures that didn’t include each other. Leo only wanted to experiment with a man, and Zolt had the opportunity to finally check the biker off his list of conquests. But visceral attraction in closed proximity was their downfall, because they never took into account that their insane chemistry would slowly go hand in hand with tenderness, complicity and a surprising level of domestic bliss.
What took me by surprise was that Leo, the one with the picket fence dreams, was actually the one ok with the change of direction in his life. He was just happy to have found love, despite knowing he could have been rejected by his MC and family. Zolt, though, made mistakes, some of them pretty shitty and hurtful, that didn’t particularly endear him to me. He explained himself later on, and I understood where his gut reactions have come from, but I still wished he’d have been forced to work harder for Leo’s forgiveness in more than one occasion.
This was a particularly twisted romance, but I’ve learned to expect nothing less from these two amazing authors. Leo, Zolt and their actions were romanticized, BUT they weren’t by any means what you’d call good people. They were part of a brutal, ruthless environment, and they had no qualms about using violence when needed. As a matter of fact, there’ve been enough moments throughout the plotline that proved it, but they didn’t stop me from completely loving every page of this story and wholeheartedly recommend it.
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