Kristen Ashley

A Chaos Novel

Own the Wind

Too hot to handle . . . Tabitha Allen grew up in the thick of Chaos-the Chaos Motorcycle Club, that is. Her father is Chaos' leader, and the club has always had her back. But one rider was different from the start. When Tabby was running wild, Shy Cage was there. When tragedy tore her life apart, he helped her piece it back together. And now, Tabby's thinking about much more than friendship . . . Tabby is everything Shy's ever wanted, but everything he thinks he can't have. She's beautiful, smart, and as his friend's daughter, untouchable. Shy never expected more than friendship, so when Tabby indicates she wants more-much more-he feels like the luckiest man alive. But even lucky men can crash and burn . . .

JoLee

Rating: 4 stars - Loved It

I was excited that Kristen Ashley was doing a spin off series of The Dream Man series with The characters from Chaos MC. Loved it but it did not wow me like the Dream Man series. The intensity, emotional pull, and action was not there for me but was still a good read. Own The Wind is a Good start to a new series.

Tabby and Shy have been friends since she was 16. When she turns 19 there is an incident with them that ruins their friendship. Three years later a tragic incident brings her back into Shy's life. I loved the growth of their friendship to good friends where they do almost everything together. Loved once they became a couple and Tack who is from Motorcycle Man (Dream Man Series #4), her father and the president of the Chaos club finds out and is not too happy. Loved seeing Tack and Tyra. Thank you to Kristen Ashley for keeping Tack's kick butt ways true to his character from Motorcycle Man especially when it came to his daughter dating Shy who is ladies man and not one for settling down.

Shy was bit on the light side in Kristen Ashley's in-you-face-alpha-male heroes. He is still a sexy alpha male hero that had a few moments where he was in-your-face-alpha male hero just not as intense as her heroes are known for. Loved the first sex scene as it was fan your self and was different than she has ever done.

For new readers you do not need to read the Dream Man series before to know what is going on with Tabby because Kristen Ashley does a good job with highlights that happened in Motor Cycle Man (Dream Man series #4). Highly recommend reading Dream Man series to get a good feel of Tack.

Enjoyed all the secondary characters. Loved meeting new characters like Landon who is Shy's brother hope we get to see more of him. Curious about Hop and Lanie, excited that their story is coming out in June, Fire Inside (Chaos #2).

Love the covers for the Chaos series, so far Fire Inside being my favorite. Loved the editing of her novel and how some senseless stuff has been taken away.

ARC provided by publisher, Hachette Book Group, GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING, FOREVER for an honest review.

Originally posted at Wickedly Delicious Book Blog

Samantha Emery

I do think I actually liked this one more on a re read. The first time I have re read it, and cannot say that I would re read it again as I in general prefer my H/h older, but I liked it more than I seem to remember having done so the first time.


UPDATE 4/7/17 - ok yeah, I re read it again! Upgraded to 4 stars

Lynn Braden

Another good book by Kristen Ashley, it is the beginning of a new series about The Chaos Motorcycle Club. In this story one of the Club members, Shy, and the Club president's daughter, Tabitha, fall in love and learn how to live as a couple in the world of a motorcycle club. Also, one of Tab's friends gets involved with a rival of the Chaos Club setting the stage for more conflict in future books in this series. This is also a bit of a crossover from the Mystery Man series.

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After finishing my first ever KA book, I decided to take a look at her backlist and see what else I might find interesting. Since I was in a bit of a motorcycle club mood, I looked up the Chaos series. As soon as I realized the first book was about Tack's daughter, Tab, and club manwhore extraordinaire, Shy, I knew I had to read it immediately. I adored Tab in Motorcycle Man and the part at the end where it was obvious she had a crush on Shy intrigued me. I wanted to see how it would work, if it could work, between them.

If I'm honest, this wasn't the easiest book for me. I have a tough time with manwhores sometimes. It was a little bumpy in the beginning with Shy. I mean, I already liked his character, I just disapproved of his choices. Ha! I loved Tab and hoped they could work towards something, but I soon realized my gratification would be delayed with this book. Neither of them was really in a place where they were ready to be together. They each had to grow some first. So, as much as I didn't like the thought of EITHER of them with someone else, I set those feelings aside and kept going. And man, am I glad I did. 

The payoff for my frustration at the beginning was huge. Tab and Shy were wonderful together, once they finally got there. Of course, their pairing isn't without some serious obstacles. His domineering nature, her need to retreat when things were too much and the motorcycle club all posed a threat to this couple. There were definite feels and tears. There were also some seriously steamy times. All in all, this was a beautiful story of redemption and second chances. I loved it hard.

Sans

Wow. Where do I even start?


I gave this two stars instead of one purely for the buckets of laughter this provided me with.


The rest of the book....well.


Ok. So. Bikers. LOTS of bikers. EVERYTHING biker-ish. Or, should I say, what one woman assumes a "good" biker gang would be like? 

Yeah. Anyways.

Our characters. Chick. Whatshername. Uh...TAB! Yes. Tabby....something. Tabby. Born into "the life", became a nurse, engaged to a regular Joe from the 'burbs, who

dies in the prologue. Naturally. But hey!


Dude's name is Shy (don't ask, I can't even with these names). He's been lusting after Tab since she was 19 and he "straightened her out" of her party girl lifestyle by threatening to sexually assault her or force her into a foursome or shit like that.

Sure, honey. Because that's totally the way to straighten someone's life out. 

YEARS pass. Seriously. YEARS. Every single chapter starts with "x amounts of month later", blahblahblah. So Tab gets in trouble, calls Shy, who she hasn't so much as looked at, much less spoken to, since the pretend-threatened sexual assault. He helps her, they're suddenly BFFs, and she's falling in love with him again.

Uh....yeah. Moving on.

So they get together and spend most of the book happy. And having sex. And arguing about laundry and if their new fridge should have an ice crusher or not. Or some shit like that.


Seriously. The bulk of the book is listening to Tab telling us how much she loves Shy, how much sex they have, how he always kisses her chest and the underside of her chin before he rolls out of bed after sex, about his loose-limbed-lanky-biker-walk, how their biker family will flip out when the find out how Shy is banging the daughter of the club president, random other shit about their lives together...


Then finally. FINALLY. Conflict other than fridge fights and Tab loving how bossy her "badass biker" boyfriend is. Unfortunately, the form it comes in is...laughable is the kindest word I have for it.


Pull it together, Sans. You can do this. 


The baddie. Who appears will be the baddie or much of this series. Is a drug mafia king. Okay, I can deal with that. What I couldn't deal with, was how he apparently gets pretty young things (like Tab's former BFF) hooked on drugs, gets them to run up a huge debt, and, when they can't pay it....

....makes the girls work their debt off in the porn films he directs on the side.


I'd like to take a moment for a PSA. Please, don't post hate replies. I'm fully aware that there are people out there who are forced into sexual slavery and prostitution by human traffickers. I know this. I know it's a serious issue. BUT. If you read it in this context, you'd be choking on your laughter too.
Thank you.

Back to the comedy story. 

The mafia dude directs porn and hands out cocaine like it's candy, and the bikers decide to go rescue Tab's former BFF and, in doing so, start a war with the mafia drug dude.


But! Instead of actually getting INTO any of the fallout? That plot thread is completely abandoned so that Shy and Tab can have a fancy wedding instead.


I just...

Ugh.

In conclusion! If you want a long-ass book where not much of anything happens, where the lead characters are flat and boring and predictable, where being a bossy douchewaffle is apparently a good thing? Read this and you'll be golden.


If you want a book with a tangible plot, characters you can relate to, dialogue that won't make you snort your chardonnay out of your nose (which is fucking PAINFUL, tyvm), and conflict that won't make you put your kindle down so that you can laugh for ten minutes....go read something else and never pick up a book by this author.

Own the Wind A Chaos Novel

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