Reading Write Now: Withstanding Me by Crystal Spears with Giveaway

If you haven't read Seize Me, which is Book 1 in the Breakneck MC Series,

you probably want to grab a copy of that first.

Click here for my review and all the purchase links you will need.

Blurb

While the chaos and bloodshed have slowed for a short period, life is never quiet in the world of Breakneck. The club is taking time to regroup from internal betrayal and the changing of the guard in a rival group.

Zig Zag became a father at the age of thirteen. While raising a child has never been easy, now his eighteen year old daughter Tatiana makes his life downright hard. She has caught the eye of Travis, the new President of the rival MC Gunners, but all she really wants is Shadow, the newest addition to the Breakneck family. When Shadow’s rejection sends Tatiana running from the only family, home, and safety she’s ever known, ZZ is crazy with worry. The distraction caused by Tatiana’s disappearance could prove to be Zig Zag’s downfall.

If that isn’t enough, ZZ finds himself rampantly attracted to the one and only Storm. She’s beautiful, quick and witty. Their friendship is the one thing that keeps him from growing crazy, and Storm stands by ZZ through all the turmoil. Zig Zag is not accustomed to hearing the word no, so Storm’s constant withstanding just draws him in deeper. Their friendship is one thing keeping him from going crazy, until one night…

The club is regrouping and rebuilding from the mayhem known as the Russian Mafia. A hit is ordered on Tatiana, Storm, Winter, and Piper.

Tatiana’s egg donor reveals secrets that a thirteen year old Zig Zag was too young to understand.

Braxxon is out of reach while he helps Greg Cage deal with some dirty business.

Bloodshed… Secrets… Betrayal… Trauma… Welcome back to the Breakneck world.

Review

Withstanding Me is primarily ZZ and Storms story. However, there are elements in this story that expose us to many other characters and their points of view.

This time round, life at Breakneck has settled down a little, but is still chaotic. The chaos always keeps the brothers and their women on their toes. This is not helped when Tatiana (ZZ’s daughter) never does what she is told!

Winter and Braxxon still feature strongly in this story, and that is probably essential to any Breakneck title.

If you read Seize Me, then Withstanding Me is definitely worth the read. This story flowed much smoother for me. While lots of things still happened in this book, they seemed to happen at a speed that was comfortable for the reader. The elements of Seize Me that didn’t work for me, seemed to have resolved this time round, so props to Crystal on her growth as an author with her tone.

This book is again, brutal in its telling of violence and sex, however, in Withstanding Me, these elements seemed less gratuitous, and therefore worked well within the story.

I enjoyed the personalities of Storm and ZZ, but felt that I learned little about them as a couple. To me it seems that the depth of the characters gets minimised in order to focus of the multiple plot elements. I guess that works for some, but I really enjoy it when I know deep in my bones what makes a character tick.

Withstanding Me planted the seed for many potential other stories, so it will be interesting to see how they all unfold.

I can’t say much more, as it will give elements away. I will continue to read the series. I am very keen to see what happens by the time Shadow’s story is told. I like that it is evident Crystal has grown as an author, so when its Shadow’s turn my hopes are high.