BOOK REVIEW- Road to Forever (Dogs of Fire Book 7) by [Piper Davenport]

    

18+ for language and sexual situations.
*Previously titled, the Promise*

A promise is a promise is a promise…

Lily James has two loves outside of her family…Maverick Quinn and ballet. She’s a Dogs of Fire Motorcycle Club princess who has found her prince. But when faced with an agonizing truth, she must decide whether to pursue her dreams or protect the one she loves.

Maverick Quinn knows what he wants in life, and it all starts and ends with Lily James. They’re a team. He’s loved her since he was a boy and his love has only grown with age, but when she walks out of his life without warning, his world is turned upside down.

When a threat from inside her family comes to light, he fulfills his promise and makes the ultimate sacrifice.   AMAZON LINK

3.5 STARS

This is a sweet story about Lily and Maverick that begins from a really young age.  They went from friendship to love and stayed there, planning their future.  That is until Lily makes a bonehead decision, in my opinion.  I understood the why of it but it had me shaking my head.

It made me smile that Lily had a couple of nicknames fro Maverick.  The best one was probably Moosh.  She came up with that because Maverick was mushy with her and she was less so.   She noticed that also tended to be the same with some of the other family members.  The men were softies with their women and the women were not exactly like that.  The love was there for all, the expressions were just a bit different.

The book had a somewhat slower pace than I normally like but it does take the time to establish what both of the M.C.'s families were like.  And also the Club "family" because that's what they were, included into the part of the family.  All these people made for good secondary characters but without being confusing. The Club family was a bit different in their dealings than I expected.  But in some ways they still didn't give information about Club business unless you were patched in.

The dangers that were facing Lily were real.  Because most of it was aiming at her, it soon also included others that she loved becoming targets.  The main person behind it was a surprise and so was the twisted reasoning too. 

Everything works out with plenty of drama getting there.  It had a good ending but I'm giving it a slightly lower review only because it didn't draw me in quite as much as I would have liked.