~ Straight as a Wheel ~

Author: K.A. Merikan
Title: Straight as a Wheel
Series: Smoke Valley MC (Sex and Mayhem 11)
Release date: 2019 November 30
Pages: 335
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Rating: ★★★★☆ (4,5)


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.


POSSIBLE SPOILERS:
Themes: Outlaw motorcycle club, organized crime, homophobia, hurt/comfort, forced proximity, coming out, seduction, forbidden attraction, first love, greed, player, family ties
Genre: M/M romance, suspense
Length: ~110,000 words (Standalone novel)
Steam level: Scorching hot, emotional, explicit scenes

WARNING: This story contains scenes of violence, offensive language and morally ambiguous characters.

My review: 

I thought I never read this kind of book because it's not my cup of tea, but at the same time I'm not that person who says no to a book if asked to read it, so here we are!

I loved reading this book but I was struggling sometimes. The MC world is still not my genre, but it was really good and ejoyable. 

Leo and Zolt were really good characters and I loved how they changed. I loved Zolt from the beginning (because of his hungarian DNA lol), but his name was a bit strange for me. I mean I never ever heard this short version of this name, and while reading I always read Zoe LOL. 

Leo's life was more interesting and his family business was darker too, I mean all those MC things with this big family. I loved his sister and her wife and the whole baby thingy. I knew this would be the best and this will happen, the only question was when. 

Leo and Zolt were hot together, and it was really good to see Leo's first time with a man. And how gentle Zolt was with him! But not so gentle because hello, they are not the cute kind of men, they're living in the darker side with guns and drugs and who knows what else. But he was gentle in his kind of way and it was good to see them together. Loved to see them build a life together and it was sad to see it destroyed. 

I think this book was a good choice for me into this genre and I recommend it to everyone who thinks the same as me and want to give a try for this world. I liked reading it, but I think this still isn't my world. Once in a while aka 1 book/year LOL is enough for me.