Review: Road Queens

Road Queens by MaryJanice Davidson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
3.5 stars

This is a book with a lot going on. One thing I especially liked was learning about motorcycles and the women who drove them, throughout history. I was a bit of a rider in my younger days!

As I'm sure you are aware, domestic violence is a large part of the theme of this novel. Actually, there are several themes: DV, motorcycles, murder, romance, and the reuniting of three long-time friends.
I didn't find this book to be as frothy, amusing, or sexy as some of this author's other series, but it was a novel that kept my interest, albeit with a lot of eye rolls.

I don't know how to explain why I wasn't TOTALLY thrilled with this book, but I did feel that it could have been just a touch better had it been shortened a bit. There was a lot of unnecessary and unfunny interplay between the friends. I can see why it might have been needed -perhaps to keep the book from being a bit too serious. It just made for a more difficult read for me.

I also am wondering if this is the start of a trilogy.

*ARC supplied by the publisher Montlake, the author MaryJanice Davidson, and NetGalley.


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SYNOPSIS:" From the bestselling author of the Undead series comes a ride through the lives of three estranged friends as they’re reunited by murder (possible frame job) and mayhem (just the way they like it). Operation Starfish has one to remove domestic violence survivors from danger. But when a mission backfires in tragedy, the band of bikers who founded OpStar dissolves the organization and their ride-or-die friendship. Five years later Amanda, Sidney, and Cassandra are brought back together by the same thing that tore them apart when the man who victimized his wife is murdered, and all signs point to Cassandra. Circumstances being what they are—in a dire —the trio reignites their bond, if only to shut and barricade the door to their past once and for all. Their tentative sisterhood is infiltrated by Investigator Sean Beane, whose intentions aren’t as clear as they should be, but even so he’s too tempting for his (or Amanda’s) own good. Despite all reservations, regrets, and blossoming romance, it’s time for these biker babes to strap on their helmets and hit the road—before the real murderer can run them off it."

329 pages, Kindle Edition

Expected publication November 28, 2023