Review of Own the Wind (Chaos #1) by Kristen Ashley
Own the Wind is the first book in the series Chaos.
Tabitha Allen grew up in the midst of the Chaos Motorcycle Club. Her father, Tack Allen, is the president of the club, so Chaos has always had her back. In her wild days, Shy was there to help her, and when her world fell apart, he helped pick up the pieces. But Tabby wants more from Shy. She's wanted more since she was sixteen.
Tabby is everything Shy has ever wanted, and he's wanted more from her for years. When it happens, he feels like the luckiest man alive. But Shy has a past, and that past eats at him.
This was a great book. The Chaos series is a continuation of Motorcycle Man, the fourth book in the Dream Man series, and focuses on members of the Chaos MC. I was excited to get more of the club after reading about it in Motorcycle Man.
Tabby was a fantastic character—strong, resilient, loyal, and understanding. She went from a partying teen to a successful woman over the course of the first couple of chapters of the novel from Shy's perspective, and watching her mature over the course of several years through Shy's eyes was telling of both characters. It showed Shy's burning desire for her but also wanting her to be happy, and it showed a lot about Tabby, her maturity, and her strength. After those first couple of chapters, I felt like I had a solid picture of both of them and after that was just getting details. Both characters were beautifully written, and I loved reading about them.
Having read Motorcycle Man, I understood what Shy and Tabby were worried about telling the club about their relationship more than just from this book. Shy was quite a player until a few months before he and Tabby got together, and they knew the reaction was likely to be explosive. It was, and it was gripping as I read how it played out. While I was sure it would work out fine, the question of what the outcome would be was killer through that part of the book.
The dialog was great. Kristen Ashley is still on her kick of almost every love interest having the same accent, though Shy's wasn't as thick. The dialog itself was well written, and I noticed little cheese. It built up the book well and drove the plot forward.
Description was partway between detailed and the kind of sparse that lets the reader populate the novel. I prefer detailed description, and while this wasn't detailed, it wasn't sparse either. I wish I had a better picture of the Chaos compound—it was extremely vague—though I had a good picture of Tabby's and Shy's apartments.
The plot of the book drew me in completely. It only took me three days to read the book, and I loved every page. It was at points tender, steamy, loving, explosive, and tense. A fantastic read.
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