Still Standing by Kristen Ashley
When Clara Delany walks into the Aces High Motorcycle Club’s hangout, she’s hit rock bottom. She’s hiding her car from the repo man, she has less than two dollars in her bank account and the only employment she can get is delivering messages for a criminal.
All because of a man. Therefore, she’s sworn off them.
And then she meets West “Buck” Hardy, president of the Aces High MC.
Buck also meets her, and the minute he does, he makes it clear (to everyone but Clara) that they’re starting something. Since Clara doesn’t get that message, she decides to leave Buck and sort out her life in order to come back to him clean.
She’s not gone but hours before life hits Clara with another blow. Which means Buck and his boys have to ride in and save the day. After that, Buck makes no bones about where they stand.
But does he?
Welcome to the first novel in the Wild West MC series which will tell the stories of the brothers of the Aces High MC, the Resurrection MC and the Chaos MC…and the women who love them.
- File Name:still-standing-by-kristen-ashley.epub
- Original Title:Still Standing: Wild West MC Series
- Creator:Ashley, Kristen
- Language:en
- Identifier:2715019811
- Publisher:Rock Chick Press
- Date:2021-02-02
- File Size:556.115 KB
Table of Content
- 1. Title Page
- 2. Copyright
- 3. Contents
- 4. Still Standing
- 5. 1. Earthquake
- 6. 2. Clean
- 7. 3. Redhot
- 8. 4. Venom
- 9. 5. Crackers
- 10. 6. I Got Your Back
- 11. 7. Is That Enough for You?
- 12. 8. I Took You On
- 13. 9. Professor Higgins
- 14. 10. As Good as I Could Get
- 15. 11. What Would a Biker Babe Do?
- 16. 12. Gear
- 17. 13. Tatiana
- 18. 14. Moody
- 19. 15. Do You Need CPR?
- 20. 16. Happiness Is Pop-Tarts
- 21. 17. There’s No Way Out
- 22. 18. That’s How Families Are
- 23. 19. You Were Standing in My Way
- 24. 20. Waffles
- 25. 21. It’s the World as I Want It to Be
- 26. 22. The Biker Babe Initiation
- 27. 23. Pretty-Pretty
- 28. 24. You Live in the Sunshine
- 29. 25. A Man with Vision
- 30. 26. I Like It Like That
- 31. 27. He Has No Problem Branching Out
- 32. 28. Is This Really Happening?
- 33. 29. Never Easy
- 34. 30. Still Standing
- 35. 31. All Good
- 36. 32. The Life and Times of West Hardy
- 37. 33. Family
- 38. 34. Voodoo
- 39. 35. Problems
- 40. Epilogue
- 41. Discussion & Reflection Questions
- 42. About the Author
- 43. Also by Kristen Ashley
I like the author and I appreciate the realism here. Having said that, extremely uncomfortable with the grey area of abuse. Yes, her life was at rock bottom and he helped her but it was extremely coercive. That's one thing, in the context of a bigger plot, that wouldn't upset me too much. Unfortunately, the verbal abuse and then the incident of physical abuse. To me, it felt like the author kept trying to make it ok that the female lead was being mistreated. "Oh, well, she was broke so it's ok that he got her drunk and coerced her into sex because she needed him." "Oh, well, it's ok that he hurt her because it was the heat of the moment and he was just reacting." Like, the way the writer just kept trying to make these red flags acceptable or permissable -It just wasn't for me. Read and decide for yourself.
@Jodi Arbaugh, you might like this book. Not for the abuse, but I feel like some of the characters would appeal to you.
The same trope as usual, feels like a repeat of previous stories only not as good. Also, have serious issues with a hero that lays hands on/is violent with the heroine and then tells her its her fault. Lastly, the stories are just becoming kind of boring, dial-in.
It's an enjoyable read but also very morally questionable
This entire book was a man emotionally and physically abusing a woman and manipulating her into believing it was her fault. I'm sad that women authors write these kinds of things and think it's "attractive."