Review: Going Rogue (The Cursed Ravens MC #3)

Going Rogue (The Cursed Ravens MC #3)

by Chantal Fernando

Blurb:

Love blossoms in the most unexpected of places in this sweet and steamy Cursed Ravens Motorcyle Club title featuring a hunky bad boy and a charming nurse.

The men might tease Rogue and call him pretty behind his back, but no one is going to say that to his face. As the vice president of the Cursed Ravens—and with an unpredictable and unruly temper—respect is given to him at any cost.

But Rogue reins himself in when he visits his mother in a local nursing home. Overwhelmed with guilt that he can’t take care of her himself, he can barely handle watching her fade away with dementia. And he knows the staff is exceptional—especially the sweet and beautiful caregiver who pays extra attention to his mom.

It isn’t easy working at a nursing home, but Zoe enjoys spending time with her favorite patient Anne. She knows Anne has a son who dutifully visits her, but when Zoe sees the tall, muscled, handsome stranger, she can tell he’s trouble—beautiful trouble. She knows he’s a Cursed Raven and she knows better than to admit she’s attracted to him. There’s no way she'll date an MC member. Been there done that. But as Zoe and Rogue start to get closer, they realize one way or another, they’ll have to fight to stay in each other’s lives.

Themes: Contemporary, MC

Rating:  4 stars

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Review:

 So the plot thickens as we get in deeper with the crazy and sexy men of the Cursed Ravens MC.  We have slowly gotten to know Rogue a bit through the previous two stories, but finally getting to see him find a woman to stand up to him and steal his heart was wonderful.  The depth of emotional turmoil in this story was a bit surprising, even given some of the topics in the previous stories, but I enjoyed seeing the author approach hard topics and not shirk the problems that make us individuals and bring us together just as often as they tear us apart.  I was more than a little surprised by the way Zoe stood up to Rogue and resisted him again and again, but seeing that she was more than a match for him warmed be inside as I knew that he would need that strength in the end when he lost his mother.  Dealing with losing a parent, slowly to a terminal illness is something that you never really understand until you go through it yourself and I can tell you that I thrilled to not be part of the club yet, though I see it coming sadly.  There were enough laughs and sexy times to keep the story from veering too far into the morbid or dark side of life and of course the true love that developed between Zoe and Rogue reminds readers that even in the most unfortunate of circumstances love and light can keep us living and bring us back from the loses in life.  Rogue was the kind of guy that I would love to have in my life, despite some of his short-comings and of course the whole second-in-command to a criminal enterprise thing; his inner light and strength and innate goodness not masked by the dark patches that we see sometimes and of course the sweet crooners soul of a singer that he only shares with those closest to him, make him an ideal match for a woman that has dealt with death on a daily basis for most of her adult life.  Zoe is definitely a much stronger woman than I could ever claim to be and I loved getting to know her, seeing her working her way into Rogue’s heart without even trying –and sometimes actively resisting—and of course being the support and strength that so many of her patients needed at the end.  The passion between these two was sometimes buried deep under the sweetness or even the darkness that they dealt with, but when it flared or they embraced that passion you could feel the burn right through the words of their story.  I am looking forward to whoever finds love next and getting to know more of these interesting men and of course the women that seem to draw them like moths to flame.  I have added another wonderful author to my shelves for sure.

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