Bones is the 2nd book in L. Wilder's Satan's Fury MC: Second Generation series and it was a great slow-burn read. Reading along on the character's journey to understand the person they were growing up to be since the trauma in their lives was exhilarating.
Bones is the stepson of Stitch who became his hero as a young boy traumatized by his father and trying to adapt to a life with Aspergers syndrome. This is the 1st MC book I've read with a character like this and it was heartwarming how he fit in with his MC brothers. And it was also heartbreaking to learn of the personal struggles he has faced to be normal and fit in like everyone else even though he knows he is different. Elsie doesn't see him that way though, she considers him a normal person and she never would have thought he suffered from a disability if he hadn't told her. Elsie had a hard teenage life losing all of her family tragically and finding herself homeless until the club took her in. Bones and Elise immediately fell for each other but it took them years before they took the next step after friendship. The club is fighting an enemy they don't know and are doing everything they can to find out who. They didn't realize until it was almost too late that Elsie had been lured into that trouble. Their relationship was a slow burn mostly because Bones was preoccupied with proving to the club he wasn't a failure and he could find the enemy but, it kept him from Elsie most of the time. Will the club find the enemy in time? Will Bones learn to make Elsie as big a priority as the club is to him?
I gave this book a 4-star rating and a 3-spicy rating. This book pulls at the heartstrings of anyone who's had to live with a disability or knows someone with one. The struggles of Bones can be felt by anyone. The way Elsie understands him and supports him the right way is all anyone can ask for. She is one strong brave loyal woman to Bones and the club, her new family. This book can be read as a standalone but I suggest reading Q before this one to know the backstory of the enemy they are facing now. In L. Wilder's fashion, the characters were raw like only she can write. Every time I read her books I know I'm going to find a strong woman who faced her trauma and kicked its ass to become the strong woman they are supposed to be with a strong man by her side to support her. ( )