Silver Bastard by Joanna Wylde Series: Silver Valley #1
Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance
Published by Berkley Publishing Group Publication Date: April 7th 2015
Pages: 320
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First in the new Silver Valley series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reapers Motorcycle Club Novels Fourteen months. For fourteen months, Puck Redhouse sat in a cell and kept his mouth shut, protecting the Silver Bastards MC from their enemies. Then he was free and it was time for his reward—full membership in the club, along with a party to celebrate. That’s when he saw Becca Jones for the first time and set everything in motion. Before the night ended he’d violated his parole and stolen her away from everything she knew. Five years. It was five years ago that Puck destroyed Becca and saved her all in one night. She’s been terrified of him ever since, but she’s even more terrified of the monsters he still protects her from... But Becca refuses to let fear control her. She’s living her life and moving forward, until she gets a phone call from the past she can't ignore. She has to go back, and there’s only one man she can trust to go with her—the ex-con biker who rescued her once before. Puck will help her again, but this time it’ll be on his terms. No more lies, no more tears, and no more holding back what he really wants... This edition only: A new Silver Valley story
Candace’s Thoughts
After reading Ms. Wylde’s Reaper MC series, I was a bit skeptical to read Silver Bastard. I was fearful that it would be the same storylines just with a different cast of characters. I was wrong. Silver Bastard has the same classic Joanna Wylde: rough and tumble alpha males, sex and always a bit of humor.
This is the first book in her SILVER VALLEY Series. Puck, a member of the Silver Bastard MC, is just getting out of prison and his first night of freedom sets the stage for the rest of the book. The prologue grabs you immediately. I couldn’t figure out how Puck and Becca were going to get past this scene. Where they going to be a couple? It seemed unlikely because there first interlude was disastrous.
Puck is such an intimidating person. He almost overwhelms you. I was worried that I wouldn’t connect with him but Joanna Wylde does what she does best and makes Puck seem like someone you might want to have in your pocket. Puck was nothing if not in your face throughout this book and I liked the way he handled himself. You always know where you stand with Puck yet he had a big soft spot for Becca.
Becca was easy to like. There was never a moment in this book that I wasn’t rooitng for her. She had a horrific childhood and it continues to haunt her. Puck scares her and reminds her of that past but they have an intense connection that both of them want to ignore at first. I loved that she could hold her own against Puck as well.
This is a must read if you are a Joanna Wylde fan and if you aren’t yet, you should be. Silver Bastard and the Silver Valley series shows big promise. It has a fresh vibe with an interesting assortment of characters. This is more than just another MC series.
Meet Puck & Becca on April 7th!
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“What the fuck happened out here?” Danielle asked, her arm suddenly around my shoulders. I immediately felt better. Danielle and I balanced each other out perfectly—she was batshit crazy and insanely optimistic. Make that dangerously, recklessly optimistic. As for me, I spent nearly all my time focused on staying sane and getting ahead. That didn’t leave much time for things like actually living my life.
We’d met each other our senior year of high school, when she’d offered to drive me back and forth to town in her shiny new Jeep Wrangler. This spared me from the horror of sharing a battered school bus with every hormonal teen living in the greater Callup metropolitan area. After a particularly harrowing ride home in her car one night (long story short, it took us six hours to travel thirty miles and by the time we pulled into town, we had matching tattoos of chipmunks wearing scarves) I decided it was my job to keep her from accidentally killing herself.
In return, she pushed me to do fun things, reminding me at least once a week that I was only twenty-one and perhaps the fate of the universe didn’t literally rest on whether or not I balanced my checkbook to the penny. Along the way, she taught me how to do smoky eye makeup, how not to freak out when a guy asked me to dance, and how to “borrow” music off the Internet. (When I pointed out that “borrowing” music was stealing, she agreed and started using iTunes for her downloads. To finance this, she “borrowed” her dad’s credit card.)
“Well, apparently me and Blake no longer work here,” I said, leaning my head against her. “I don’t know if you’re fired or not.”
“Fuck that,” Danielle declared. “Eva can kiss my ass. If you’re out, I’m out.”
“You weren’t even part of it,” I protested.
“I don’t care. You’re a much better waitress than I am. If she fired you, no way I’d last there anyway. Let’s go get drunk!”
About Joanna Wylde
Joanna Wylde is a New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Reapers Motorcycle Club series. She currently lives in Idaho.
