Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Gunner
SERIES: The Smoky Vale Alliance (Book 2)
AUTHOR: Gianni Holmes
PUBLISHER: Coco Nutz Publishing
LENGTH: 533 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 9, 2024
BLURB:
I’ve lived a ruthless life full of resentment.
There’s nothing and no one I loathe more than Chief Ben Witter.
I’m the president of the Blood Hounds MC, and Witter has always been a thorn in my side.
He can’t be bought. And he’s on a mission to dismantle my club.
But my obsession with hurting him has nothing to do with club business.
It’s personal.
I want to annihilate him for making the man I‘ve always loved, fall for him instead. A dead man whose ghost lingers between us.
When Witter needs help to close a dangerous case involving my club, I volunteer. Being around him is the best way to ruin him. Except our mutual hatred makes for explosive heat. The more we fight, the more we wind up beneath the sheets. Chief Witter is an addictive man. How am I supposed to still carry a grudge when I’ve fallen for him like our ex did?
Gunner is best read after Biker Daddy and Bay. Content warnings include: graphic violence, baby farm, and the unaliving of pregnant women.
Please see the reading order of the books that appear in this world.
The Grimm Tales of Smoky Vale & Extras
- Boyfriend Booked (Prequel)
- Biker Daddy
- Dresses & Cuts (1.5)
- Fable’s Foes
- Boys’ Night Out (2.5)
- The Mortician
- Something Old, Something New (3.5)
- Miles High
- At Your Service (4.5)
- Crowe’s Creed
- Bookers’ Boys (5.5)
The Smoky Vale Alliance
- Bay
- Gunner
REVIEW:
I’ve been waiting for this one and let me tell you…it did not disappoint!
Gunner is trying his hardest to piece back up the pieces of his life and put back together his MC that he’s barely holding on to as President. His out of control drinking has to stop and he has to take back control and reinstate order. Especially when some of his own were involved in that nasty black market baby ring that wound up costing his long time lover and best friend since he was a teen Mason his life. And that pesky Acting Chief of Police Ben Witter is a major pain. Has been every since he set his sights on him to take down. But he has a plan to take down him first and rid his memory that kept Mason away cheating on him. But when fires ignite and loathing turns to lust do either man actually stand a chance at stepping away?
I wasn’t sure about the drunk and obnoxious homophobic leader of the Blood Hounds MC. And his distain for Grimm made me even more cautious. When he showed up at Mason’s funeral drunk on his ass and Grimm had to haul his sorry butt away I didn’t have high hopes. And then there was Ben, the high and mighty out to destroy the MC’s. But I should have known that Gianni would not only not let me down but darn it she made me fall in love with both of them.
When Author Gianni Holmes sets out to tell you the tale of her Motor Cycle Clubs and how their men find their “one” she does not scrimp on details. This is a wonderful and complete story of not only the relationship that formed between the unlikely pair of Gunner and Ben but the wrap up of the most horrific tale of the baby “harvesting” that was happening in Smoky Vale. It also give the whole back story, in tiny bits, of how Mason did both men wrong and how it lead to both men’s lack of trust and no desire for a committed relationship. His deception caused both the men he was with great mental anguish. And his darn diary was the Bain that almost got to me. I don’t have high feelings for Mason even if he has Jamie’s father and save his life at his own demise. But how he practically destroyed Gunner and Ben really chapped my butt. He was just so damn selfish.
This story contains some pretty graphic description of off-page situations.
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