Gunner by Lola WrightMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Baker and the MC Prez
Someone in the Cee Bowerman Facebook Group recommended this series and I can definitely see the similarities between the two authors’ works. I will say I’m not usually a fan of cutesy anthropomorphised pets, but these aren’t too bad, even if the mini pig has a skateboard and insists on wearing pyjamas. To be honest that’s pretty much it for the cutesy part of this book.
Ava is a 28-year-old woman, who has her own bakery. She was abandoned at birth and spent her early years in the foster system. She’s been through some pretty awful stuff but she’s still upbeat, friendly and strong. She has problems letting people into her heart and she always maintains a certain distance from people but she is still a good person. She also has a bit of a pet menagerie, with a large dog, huge cat, macaw (who is ridiculously chatty in a way that is quite unbelievable) and a mini pig.
She has a neighbour, Petey, who is part of an MC, but she hadn’t spoken to him until another neighbour gets a bit crazy and she ends up chatting with Petey's friend. His friend is a very gorgeous Gunner who is the president of Petey’s MC and he asks her to keep an eye out for Petey because he's broken his leg and she kindly agrees to look in on him and feed him.
Ava’s introduction to the MC lifestyle is sort of sideways, with meeting Petey and becoming friends with him and his son Axel, the VP of the MC, and other members of the MC at the same time as slowly starting something with Gunner.
Gunner is in his early 30s and never wanted to settle down. He loves the freedom that being single gives, especially when he’s a gorgeous specimen of manhood who can get a woman without any hassle. Then he meets the strong and beautiful Ava who looks after his friend Petey and slips into his MC family so easily.
I like how Gunner is trying to get the MC into legitimate businesses at around the same time he meets Ava and starts reevaluating his life choices. He wasn’t magically turned into boyfriend material by meeting Ava, she just nudged him over a line he was already standing on, even if he didn’t know it.
I also like how Ava makes friends with the other members of the MC, so her only role isn’t as Gunner’s woman. She stands up for herself but doesn’t automatically hate all the club girls. She’s basically someone I’d like to have as a friend. She’s not great at everything, just the things she’s passionate about and has invested time and energy into.
The plot was interesting, but basically, it was the same old rival MC, kidnapping, shootings etc. you see in most MC books. Though the plot was predictable it was pretty well done.
The stand out for me in this book was the character creation and their relationships with each other. Not just the main characters, but all the supporting characters seemed to have distinct and interesting personalities. You can see the next books in the series hovering over their names by the way the author writes them. I’ll look forward to reading about future adventures, as this was a pretty easy-going MC without too much violence, or at least it wasn’t explicit and gory!
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