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Where to begin? The set up was a little convoluted and confusing to me. We meet Raine, and her junkie sister Claire and Claire’s junkie boyfriend. A group of motorcycle thugs burst into the apartment, demanding thirty thousand dollars, payment for something that Claire and Jamie (yeah, that’s seriously their names) have stolen from them, or not paid them for, or something. Raine just happens to have a little over thirty two thousand dollars saved up and steps in to protect her sister, offering her money to the bikers. The money is hidden in her abusive ex-boyfriend’s garage, and getting it is a huge hassle – I won’t spoil by telling you how that goes down, but she is ultimately successful.

One of the bikers is Diego. He seems like a bad guy, but he’s also the hero so he must really be a good guy. But it takes a bit to get there with the way the plot is laid out.

And here I’ll say that I have not read any MC (or Motorcycle Club in case you’re wondering) books before. Unless Sleazy Rider counts, which I read in September 2013. From what I gather, violence and abuse towards women is pretty standard in them. There’s plenty of both in the beginning of this book, and it didn’t necessarily bother me, but with Diego being one of the big bad bikers it was hard to imagine that I could like him.

Then Raine and Diego go their separate ways, only to inadvertently end up in the same place. And at the point, the real story began, and I became more interested. For awhile. But the constant stream of curse words coming from Diego and the other bikers just got annoying. It seemed like when the bikers talked every other word was the F word, or referring to a woman as one of a multitude of derogatory words. And at one point a couple of racist words for two other biker gangs. Though thankfully none of the men “silently cursed” so kudos to the author for avoiding that cliché.

In some chapters Raine narrates her story in first person point of view, while other chapters give us Diego’s or another character’s perspective in third person POV. Normally alternating POV doesn't’ bother me, but at times it was a little jarring.

If I hadn’t already gotten the next book for free from NetGalley, I doubt that I would even bother to read it.

And one last thing - this might be considered a spoiler, so stop reading if you care about that…..

When the heroine becomes pregnant, she refers to Diego as the “baby daddy”, a term that is just so preciously irritating that I hate it and I cannot take anyone who uses it seriously.


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Raine Falling Hells Saints Motorcycle Club Paula Marinaro 9781477825686 Books Reviews

Raine Falling was the first book I've read by Paula Marinaro and unfortunately probably the last. It's not that I didn't enjoy this book because oddly enough it kept my interest for the whole story. Prosper was my favorite character and I so wanted to read more just to get glimpses of him. Although I thought about it, I doubt I would because my biggest problem with this book which actually ruined the story for me was all the telling. Most of the events from intimate moments with Diego to talking to him was all Raine recalling them. It honestly ruined the book for me. It was very hard to feel a connection when you weren't going through the motions with them. So after reading some more reviews of the next books in the series this seems to be the authors style and it doesn't work for me.
Okay there were 2 MAJOR things that kept this book, from achieving what you see through the promise of potential here.

1. The hero Diego

2. Way too much long drawn out inner monologues. Not only with the main characters, but secondary ones as well.

I say this time & time again when I read books executed in this way. This doesn't make it any less true for me though. I NEED BALANCE when it comes to inner monologue & dialogue. Show & tell. When I get way too much tell & not enough show, it ruins it for me more often than not. I need to not only see what goes on, I need to feel it. I need to go through the motions with these characters. I need to experience the hurt, the joy, the sadness, the love, lust, hurt. Whatever. It needs to be tangible. And If I am just being told all the time what's going on, then that takes that experience away from me. I feel cheated if I don't get this or enough of it in a story. And more often than not, if I'm stuck in someone's head for too long they become repetitive with their thoughts & I get bored.

Now this story has tons of back story in it. Which really does a good job of setting up the premise & some of the why's behind everything. It's a lot to go over, at times a lot to take in, but it's interesting, beautiful & heartbreaking at times. This aspect of the book was fine for me. I had no issues with it. But when you couple all that back story in with present tense 80% inner monologues and only 20% dialogue, it becomes a bit too much. This aspect (monologue vs dialogue) caused the story to drag in a lot of areas for me. Which unfortunately caused me to feel a major disconnect with a lot of the characters, mainly the Hero & heroine.

There were some intense & suspenseful moments here, yes. Loving ones as well. But I felt more of a connection to the secondary characters than I did the main characters Diego & Raine I just feel like their coupling could have been just... More. Of everything. They were lacking to me. They were luke warm at best.

I had a hard time hopping on board with Diego it was something that was just always missing for me with him. Then he pulled a move on me around the 74% mark, and all hope for him was lost. Sadly at that point, for me, it was definitely over concerning him.

I felt much more intense pulls at my heart strings for Prosper, Crow, & Reno than I did for our Hero of this book. And that's just sad. 3 secondary characters stealing the spotlight and putting my panties in a twist more than the main hero of the story. Smh.

And this book is the most tame book I've read in an MC genre when it comes to all things erotic & physical. (Left me wanting big time)

When it comes to the premise & plot of this story, it has potential. But when it comes to the meat of the story, what it indicates you should be feeling? Because of the way it's executed, it leaves a lot of those feelings just on the surface or not to be found/felt at all. But oddly enough it still remained intriguing.

But remember, this is the opinion of someone who needs balance between the show & tell, in most cases, to truly enjoy a story like this. Those of you who are big on inner monologues, will love this one no doubt. Those who are big on dialogue may still like this one, but struggle through it.

This one has some good aspects & some bad. Unfortunately the bad is what made this just an alright read for me.

I am interested in Claire & Reno's story though. So if their book comes out next or in the near future. I would give it a try. Hopefully, I will enjoy theirs' better. And I wouldn't mind a story about Crow either ;)

But as far as being truly invested in reading this series? I don't see that happening for me.
*shrugs*
I wish that the Author would have read through this book and corrected all the errors. It begins with Raine walking in to her sister Claire's apartment that she shares with her boyfriend. And they are both drug addicts. To find 3 Hells Saint's one of which is the H of the story, threatening her sister and boyfriend about money the boyfriend borrowed from the MC. She's always taken care of sister, so she tells the MC she will get the money. But she had to get it from her abusive ex's house. And so it began. The next is finding out the backstory of her parents and prosper relationship. Which had a lot of holes. The story was choppy and you had to guess the pov sometimes of who was talking. Diego was the H of the story but he wasn't as active and present as he should have been to make the relationship believable. It was ok for a free read.
Where to begin? The set up was a little convoluted and confusing to me. We meet Raine, and her junkie sister Claire and Claire’s junkie boyfriend. A group of motorcycle thugs burst into the apartment, demanding thirty thousand dollars, payment for something that Claire and Jamie (yeah, that’s seriously their names) have stolen from them, or not paid them for, or something. Raine just happens to have a little over thirty two thousand dollars saved up and steps in to protect her sister, offering her money to the bikers. The money is hidden in her abusive ex-boyfriend’s garage, and getting it is a huge hassle – I won’t spoil by telling you how that goes down, but she is ultimately successful.

One of the bikers is Diego. He seems like a bad guy, but he’s also the hero so he must really be a good guy. But it takes a bit to get there with the way the plot is laid out.

And here I’ll say that I have not read any MC (or Motorcycle Club in case you’re wondering) books before. Unless Sleazy Rider counts, which I read in September 2013. From what I gather, violence and abuse towards women is pretty standard in them. There’s plenty of both in the beginning of this book, and it didn’t necessarily bother me, but with Diego being one of the big bad bikers it was hard to imagine that I could like him.

Then Raine and Diego go their separate ways, only to inadvertently end up in the same place. And at the point, the real story began, and I became more interested. For awhile. But the constant stream of curse words coming from Diego and the other bikers just got annoying. It seemed like when the bikers talked every other word was the F word, or referring to a woman as one of a multitude of derogatory words. And at one point a couple of racist words for two other biker gangs. Though thankfully none of the men “silently cursed” so kudos to the author for avoiding that cliché.

In some chapters Raine narrates her story in first person point of view, while other chapters give us Diego’s or another character’s perspective in third person POV. Normally alternating POV doesn't’ bother me, but at times it was a little jarring.

If I hadn’t already gotten the next book for free from NetGalley, I doubt that I would even bother to read it.

And one last thing - this might be considered a spoiler, so stop reading if you care about that…..

When the heroine becomes pregnant, she refers to Diego as the “baby daddy”, a term that is just so preciously irritating that I hate it and I cannot take anyone who uses it seriously.