HER WILD RIDE (Red Dragons MC Series Book #1) by HEATHER VAN FLEET

‘This woman…every goody-two-shoes, sweet, innocent inch of her, did not want to know who I was. And it was my job to make sure she felt the same way.’

Her Wild Ride by Heather Van Fleet is our first book by this Author and we fell in love with her writing and her characters. This story really is a story of two halves. The first half is a slow burn romance between two people from very different walks of life. They are placed in a situation of close proximity, over a lengthy road trip, where the author does a stellar job of establishing a growing connection by fleshing out her characters. Their past, present and their need for new beginnings.

‘The moment I sat across him in that booth last night, I had him pegged. Tormented and broody, secrets running amok in his head, angry at the world, but willing to give it a shot regardless. In a way, Niyol and I were kind of alike. I, too, wanted a new shot at life. A shot where I could just be me, forgoing my past and my pains for a chance at reinventing myself. Who I was as a woman, most of all. No longer would I be someone’s second in life.’

Beginning the trip as two strangers, Niyol and Summer have a very standoffish relationship, their only common ground being a mutual friend. Embarking on a road trip with a complete stranger in search of a holy grail of personal escape, change, and self-analysis, Niyol, and Summer make a wealth of discoveries both personal and of each other. There was an abundance of push-pull, great banter, angst, and sexual tension. We fell in love with both of them, championing their love and survival once back in the path of the Red Dragon MC.

“Two lost people, coming together to find a little light at the end of our dark tunnels.”

This wasn’t a typical MC romance, well, not like one we’ve read before. Rather than jumping straight into the MC life, Her Wild Ride is all about the characters, with the MC world set as a background until the latter part of the story. We loved this story-telling and truly connected with both Niyol and Summer, individually and as a couple. We wholeheartedly believed in their ‘opposites attract’ romance, so when the MC world caught up with them we felt all the angst and emotion.

“Club life is different, Sum. It’s a brotherhood. A family. We don’t fuck around and we don’t walk away. Not like I did.”

Whilst we loved the slow burn, we did think the latter part of the story felt a bit rushed in comparison. It was so good we wanted more of the gritty and dark MC. In a way, perhaps at the end, Her Wild Ride suffered the ‘first book in a series’ syndrome? Worldbuilding and character development are not always given equal attention so one or the other is likely to suffer. However, despite this, we fell in book love and cannot wait for the next book in this series. Fans of Kristen Ashley will definitely get that ‘special’ feel when reading Her Wild Ride which can be read as standalone.

“I was falling in love with her. But was it too late?”