Outside the Lines (Sons of Templar MC)

Anne Malcom — 2017

Outside the Lines is a standalone novella in the Sons of Templar series. My life’s not easy. I’ll tell you that now. It’s not neat. I don’t fit into society the way most people expect me to and I don’t color studiously between the lines, outside the lines is where I reside. The fringes of society is where I found my place, with the Sons of Templar MC. The life they lived gave me everything I wanted, and everything I needed. Most importantly, it gave me something I’d been lacking for over a decade—family. A place to belong.Club girl—that was my title. There were other words for what I was, but I preferred the less derogatory version. Sure, I’d love to be an Old Lady. It’s the dream. But, as someone who escaped into fantasy worlds when life got too much, I knew the difference between dreams and reality. I had resigned myself to the fact, I’d always belong to the club. It didn’t mean I didn’t crave one man in particular to claim me. To put me on the back of his bike and ride off into the sunset with the man who’d captured my heart the first day I saw him—Hansen. The dream where he’d finally see me and make me his, existed strictly in Macy’s world of wonder. Until now. Until somehow my fantasy world and reality world collided and he looks at me in the way I’d dreamt of for a year.Fairy tales usually had neat and happy endings once the hero and heroine got together. This wasn’t a fairy tale. Hansen wasn’t your traditional hero and I was the furthest you could get from a heroine. I feared my past might dictate my future. That my world outside the lines would go from messy to complete disaster.

Reviews

Samantha Emery@samj

Oct 17, 2021

Check out this and my other reviews at My Blog, Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Pinterest Copy received in exchange for an honest review ★Book Basics★ Genre : - Cont. Romance Series : - 2.5 in the series Love triangle? - (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)] Cheating? - (view spoiler)[No but (view spoiler)[ the heroine is a "club girl" and while it is not described she does sleep with one of the other MC guys in the beginning (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)] HEA? - (view spoiler)[Yes (hide spoiler)] Would I read more by this author/or in this series? - Yes Rating - 4 ★Review★ this is not set in the main MC chapter that the rest of the series is set but in New Mexico, and is about 2 characters we met in book 2, just after Amy was saved. Have to be honest, I have never read an MC book where the heroine has been a club girl before, and wondered how I would enjoy it. And I actually really liked the heroine and how strong she was, and you admired her, for getting to where she was and feeling like she had found her own family and forged her own past. And Hansen was great, once he decided that he could no longer stay away from her he was ALL in/ And he did not stay away for reasons that you might think, to him, she was too good for the life of an Old Lady or any life connected to the MC. He never throws her past in her face at all. You found yourself really rooting for these two and happy that they found each other.

Cat Imb@thereadingcat

Sep 13, 2021

I received an ebook of this novel from the author and I voluntarily reviewed it. Thank you Anne Malcom! Who knew you could pack so much into a short novella. Who knew a novella could make me cry, make my heart race, and give me all the damn feels? Not me. I shouldn’t be surprised though, you know why? Because this was an Anne Malcom book. That’s why. Macy is such a complex character. She has a dark past, present insecurities, yet still tries to see the goodness in every situation. She’s also a cute geek, and a witty girl with no filter. She had me captivated from the first page. Hanson is biker man to a T. She is rough, manly, and rugged, yet we also see his pain, his sweetness, and his gentleness. It was so much fun reading about his two sides. Again, another complex character. Anne Malcom has a way with words. She is able to transmit information effortlessly and concisely. She doesn’t need many words to say what she wants to say. She developed her characters and the story over a few pages, and made it seem like a novel. Another great one by Malcom!