Realistic and believable characters with all their inherent flaws in addition to their strengths.Īnd with Dex, we find beneath the rough exterior he actually has a soft heart. There are some rough edges – sure – but it helps with his bad boy personal and is fitting for his character.īesides, one of Mariana’s real strengths as an author is in developing realistic characters. At least it gives a certain explanation or degree of understanding to him and the way he acts. Yup – he ticks all of the boxes when it comes to an alpha jerk.īut that only lasts for a while until Mariana begins to really unwrap who he is and what he’s been through. True to the stereotype motorcycle gang guy.Ī motorcycle gang member, a widower, a womanizer and a guy with a big temper who owns a tattoo shop.
So it isn’t some super crazy Sons of Anarchy type MC gang book.ĭex comes across as being a typical douchey bad boy. The members have motorcycles, are in a club and wear the appropriate MC gang clothing, but it kinda stops there. Sure, Zapata paints a vivid picture of Dex as a bad boy, but thankfully it’s devoid of so many of the motorcycle gang atrocities that are often featured in a motorcycle club themed book. Given the title, you may think that this book may descend into a fair amount of motorcycle club style raunchyness. She needs a new start, a new place to stay and a new job.Īnd her half-brother Sonny seems to have the perfect solution: a job at a tattoo shop & she can stay with him.īut she meets Dex and sees exactly why he’s run through a string of assistants & why nobody wants to work for him.
She’s had to deal with sickness and death in her family for what seems like her whole life.
Like having been abandoned by her father, being raised by her mother and then eventually her grandmother. The heroine of this story – Iris – is looking for a new start in a new town after having gone through a seriously rough patch. I’m sure there will be more to come soon… Some of the reviews I’ve done on her other work are on: Some of the links here are affiliate links and if you purchase anything through them, we may earn a small commission from it.Īnd yes, as you’ve come to know through a few of my other reviews of her work, Mariana’s the queen of the slow burn romance. In this particular book, Zapata gives us an interesting story featuring a motorcycle gang and she really develops the bad boy feature of the story. Or, you could just jump ahead and get it here. If not, you’ll soon see in this Under Locke by Mariana Zapata Review. Under Locke by Mariana Zapata Review – UPDATED 2019 Posted by VAuthor on in Book Reviewsīy now, I’m sure you know how much we love Mariana Zapata.
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