TITLE: ⟫ Echo
AUTHOR: ⟫ Willow Thomas
SERIES: ⟫ The Fallen Gargoyles Book #2
RATING: ⟫ 2.5/5
BLURB: ⟫ Falling in love with a rival MC member wasn’t on my to-do list.
Echo
The Fallen Gargoyles are everything to me. Kenny took me in when I was at my lowest. It’s thanks to him I’m alive, making something of myself by going to community college. These people are my family.
When I’m not in class, losing myself in a book, or working construction, I’m doing my club duties as an enforcer.
I have zero time for a relationship. Even one with the gorgeous chatty guy who sits next to me in class.
I vow to not get close to him and drag him into my world.
But when I see him being kidnapped, it looks like the choice is taken out of my hands.
Joey
Growing up in a motorcycle club is all I’ve ever known and I hate it. My dad is the president of a one percent club which tells you everything about the kind of life he leads.
I don’t want it.
I want to get my degree and leave Oregon behind me. Until that happens I will look for bright spots wherever I can. Like the super hot guy in my Lit class.
Lessons are spent with me talking at him and with every grunt he graces me, I fall for him a little bit more.
When he saves me from a few of my dad’s enemies, I worry I’ve scared him off.
And then I find out who he really is.
Echo is book two in the contemporary motorcycle club series, Fallen Gargoyles. This is a low angst, steamy, humor filled book, with mentions of illegal activities and parental neglect.
REVIEW: ⟫ I loved the premise – the idea that these two guys are falling for each other, both with completely erroneous ideas about the other whilst actually inhabiting similar worlds really appealed to me.
I enjoyed the interactions between them with Joey chattering away and Echo simply basking in being in his presence – it was all a bit dreamy, especially with Echo escorting Joey to his car after class, very swoon-worthy! The background characters were interesting – the difference between Joey’s Dad and the Club’s leader was a sharp distinction but nicely made; and Molly made me smile a lot.
The Fallen Gargoyles were also very interesting – the name alone was enough to make me think they were kinda fascinating! I haven’t read the previous book in the series so perhaps I am missing out on something – I get the feeling Nicky and Booker had quite the story and I will be looking for it at some point.
However, there was a significant time jump in the story which meant that we missed out on a lot of the relationship building – the plot in the background was never resolved as I imagined it will be handled in a future book? – but it meant that after the discovery, things sort of jolted and suddenly we were in an established relationship without the little details and interactions based around who Joey and Echo honestly were. I think that was a big shame because I wanted those details – I wanted to know about their first time, how Echo came to be in the club, how the decisions were made about who moved from which club. Their chemistry was intense and Joey’s internal (and occasionally external monologue) were both entertaining and filthy and I would have loved to see Echo’s reaction to that!
I very much enjoyed what I read but would have liked to read the missing details. I received an ARC from the author.
