Sin's Enticement: Ares Infidels MC #1 by Ciara St JamesMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
The Teacher And The Biker
I’d probably give this 3.5 ⭐️ if I could.
This is the first in this series by this author, however, it is interwoven with a series by Cee Bowerman, Tenillo Guardians TSMC. The first book in that series is Boss: Time Served MC book 1, and is set before this book in their joint timeline. You don’t need to have read Boss first, but it will help make sense of the larger picture in Tenillo if you have.
This is the first book I’ve read by this author and decided to read it because I’m a fan of Cee Bowerman’s and really enjoyed Boss and wanted to know what happened next. I would say that this is more of a traditional MC book. It’s about a group of ex-servicemen who come back home and decide to start an MC to carry on having the sense of brotherhood the armed forces gave them.
Sin is the president of Ares Infidels MC and was a Navy SEAL. At 35 years old he’s been out of the service for a couple of years and has built up his MC during that time. Tenillo is his home town and they decided to use his family's land to build a compound around an MC building and Sin’s mother’s house. The Infidels have been helping Boss, who is the new police chief, find all the dirty officers in his police force, of which there are many. A couple of his men have joined the police force to help out and because they enjoy the work.
Lyric is a teacher at the local high school. She’s been there since just after she graduated a few years ago. She’s 24 years old and her parents died just before she took this job in Texas and moved from Oregon. Her only relationship did not end well and she’s avoided any others since. When her suspicions about the activity of some of her students are fobbed off by everyone and she doesn’t trust the police as she’s heard some really bad stories, she doesn’t know what to do to help them. A friend suggests she ask the Ares Infidels MC for help. She’s so desperate she acts on the suggestion.
As soon as Sin sees Lyric he is smitten. In typical alpha style, he mentally claims her as his and uses his dominance and sexiness to get his girl in record time, for someone so shy of relationships. Of course to protect his woman and his community Sin sweeps into action along with Boss and the Time Served MC.
I quite enjoyed this book. There were some stilted parts but they were not overwhelming. The plot was engaging enough and there were a couple of twists I didn’t see coming. However, it did seem to take a long time to figure things out, especially for a bunch of special forces guys and a genius hacker with access to the police chief. Most of the bad guys I saw coming a mile off and so should Sin and the guys, and they didn’t, obviously for plot reasons.
There was plenty of very hot scenes between Lyric and Sin, which were pretty well written and definitely helped explain why Lyric was swept off her feet so quickly.
I probably wouldn’t continue with this series, however, as I really enjoyed the companion series, I probably will, to keep up with the plot more easily. There was nothing wrong with this book, it’s just I have a really long TBR list and there are loads of enticing books on it. If something doesn’t completely captivate me or really satisfy a piece of my heart somehow, it tends to get forgotten. I think with some tweaks that this could be a really good series, and I hope that those tweaks get made.
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