I'm not a fan of Christine Feehan, as I pretty much tend to avoid paranormal romance anymore, but when I saw that this was more a MC romance, I decided to give it a shot, and boy am I glad I did!

For fans of Feehan's paranormal works, I can say that I see some paranormal things hinted at, so you would feel at home reading this. For those like me that are avoiding paranormal, I would say that there's not enough of it present to turn you away from the story!

It definitely featured the tortured hero trope, and even a little of the Villain to Hero trope as well, but it is so much more than the tropes! I loved the sense of family that was evident in this Club, it was so much stronger than what I had seen in other MC books! I believe the shared bond really strengthened it.

I enjoyed reading about Reaper and Anya. I found it very believable, the way their romance grew, and the lengths they went for one another. I loved Anya's strength, and her ability to help the club achieve their missions. However, it felt like I was missing something while I was reading this, as if there was a prequel story that I needed to have read beforehand, possibly with Czar and Blythe's story. It could just be me and my innate curiosity!

This is a great book with a wonderful story and well developed characters. The story flowed very well and was very enjoyable. This book will keep you reading long into the night and you will not want to put this book down until you finish. This was such a great read and full of surprises. I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader’s copy of this book. The free book held no determination on my personal review.

This is a DNF at 7%. The pace of the book was very slow. I was not able to get into it. There were so many characters and I was getting the names confused with their biker names and it was hard to keep track of everyone. When this happens, I usually put down the book and check out Goodreads to see if other readers have the same problem. I found a few reviews that I opted to read the spoilers on and I'm VERY glad I didn't continue reading the book. I found out that there's a lot of physical, sexual and psychological abuse (and some seriously disturbing scenes) that stopped me dead in my tracks. I am a fan of Christine Feehan but I don't think I could have remained one if I had finished the book.

I saw the book trailer for JUDGEMENT ROAD and it sounded very interesting. Unfortunately, the book is a hardcore Motorcycle Club book that contains several hard limits for me. I think the book has an audience, but it definitely was not for me.

I was very excited to see a new series, Torpedo Ink, from one of my favorite authors, Christine Feehan. The cast of the Torpedo Ink series was first introduced in Bound Together, the last book in the Sea Haven/Sisters of the Heart series, and are Viktor's (not biologically related) brothers and sisters. In Judgement Road we get to see a lot more of the Torpedo Ink crew - and a lot more of their horrible upbringing.

I was engaged from the beginning, seeing the mysterious Reaper - overprotective, quiet, dangerous - taking care of his family, trying desperately to ignore the mysterious new bartender, Anya. Growing up in the school he did, with the abuse and deprivation, without seeing anything normal Reaper has no idea what to do with his feelings for Anya. He doesn't even know he likes her. He makes a lot of mistakes but Anya couldn't find a fiercer champion, or one more determined to love her and make her happy.

Anya hasn't had an easy upbringing either, she and her mother bounced from shelter to shelter, but she was determined to make a life for herself, to make a home and build a family. She was working on her great life plan but her life has taken a dramatic left turn, sending her fleeing, and she has found safety at Torpedo Ink's bar. Reaper isn't the guy she imagined herself falling for but she can't stop thinking about him, and when they get close, she can't resist him.

There are quite a few tense moments in the story, both with his relationship with Anya (he's thisclose to blowing it with her multiple times), and with Torpedo Ink's fight against another club that is targeting women.

I like that this book shows you that people are more than their upbringing, that you can come from the worst of circumstances and make your life what you want it to be. There are a lot of members of Torpedo Ink so I'm looking forward to many, many years of books featuring these strong, scarred, men and women.

Bad boys. Lost girls. Tortured pasts. Hopes and dreams. When the MC calls, how do you respond? Set in Sea Haven, this story has more intertwined tendrils than expected. Sexy, romantic and action packed.

I'm a huge MC book reader. When I saw Christine Feehan was writing a new series, I didn't hesitate to request it. I'm glad I did.

Judgment Road revolves around the Torpedo Ink Motorcycle Club. This club has males and females. Both females are full-fledged participants. All of them are Russian. They met while being captive in a place where despicable things were done to them. Now, they have made Sea Haven their home. They are a lethal club but they try to remain away from any trouble unless trouble comes looking for them.

Reaper is the MC's enforcer. He's great at his job. He can kill without remorse and he's ready to die protecting his club. They are his only family. He does care for the President's wife, Blythe. She and her adopted kids are all under the club's protection.

Reaper has a hard time relating to anyone who's not part of the club. This is why he can't understand at first why he's at the club's bar night watching from the new bartender from afar, Anya. She's sexy, he'll give her that but no woman has stirred any emotions from him because he has not let himself lose control.

Anya is happy bartending at the club's bar. She's living in her car and is trying to make enough money to get a new place for herself. She had to run away from her last job after she overheard something she shouldn't. She admits to being intrigued by Reaper but he also scares her. However, when she learns he's threatening her job, she loses her temper and lets him have it. This begins an explosive relationship between these two.

I'm going to comment on the things that bothered me first. I thought Reaper was a tad too possessive. He wanted to make all the decisions in their relationship and that could get boring. I understood why things needed to be his way but still after a while, it would've been nice to see that Anya was able to put her foot down on things. I also didn't like what the club agreed to do to her and hated that Reaper didn't protect her from it. I understood why he didn't go against his club but still, I didn't have to like it.

Now to the things I liked. I love how close this group of Russians were. They pretty much could read each other's thoughts. They worked so well together. Seeing them in action was impressive. I also liked that two females were part of the MC and they were both lethal just like the guys. Last, I like that they had a purpose as a club and I was on board with it.

I can't wait to read the next one. Bring it on!

Cliffhanger: No

4/5 Fangs

A complimentary copy was provided by Berkley via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Reaper looked out for all the members of Torpedo Ink. He didn't think he deserved anything or especially anyone of his own but he couldn't resist the new bartender. Anya just needed to keep her new job but she was very attracted to Reaper. Neither of them were looking of a long term relationship, but they decided to give in to the attraction. That was just the beginning.

While Reaper and Anya work on their relationship, they also have to deal with club business and Anya's past. There is lots of action, suspense, and learning how to work together.

I'm looking forward to more of the members of Torpedo Ink.

This is book 1 of the Torpedo Ink series. Reaper is the Sergeant at Arms of the club. His job is to stand in front of Czar. That’s his self-appointed task since he was a little boy. He wouldn’t be here today if Czar hadn’t appeared in his life. The members of the club are his family and he will take care of them. They have left Russia and come to live in the town of Caspar. They have a bar on the compound and he has a problem with the new female bartender. He wants her gone but she’s still there. Anya is causing him problems. This is such a good book. If you are looking for adventure, you need to read this book. It will keep you on your toes all the way through the book. It’s fast paced and keeps your attention. I can’t wait to read more about the exciting members of Torpedo Ink. I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Christine Feehan has been a favorite of mine for many, many years and her new series, Torpedo Ink, just further proves why! This action packed start to her brand new series sucked me in and kept me wanting more. This book is sinfully good in all the right ways, but delightfully sweet too.

“THESE BROKEN, DAMAGED INDIVIDUALS WEREN’T QUITE SO BROKEN OR DAMAGED WHEN THEY WERE TOGETHER.”

Feehan did an amazing job of pulling us into the lives of the Torpedo club members. Their backstory was heartbreaking and she gives you just enough of it to emotionally connect with them. Their past truama has shaped them into who they are, but believe me when I tell you it’s not all that they are. These big, bad bikers have a soft spot and it gets you all up in your emotions every single time their way of life is brought up.

Reaper is a hard man who believe himself emotionless and untouchable. He’s moody, untochable, and painfully aware of how broken he is. Being the enforce for this club, he’s all danger and everyone around him knows what a loose cannon he could be. When he first meets the new bartender for the club, Anya, he’s intrigued by her, but also alarmed at how this woman could make him feel so much after all that he’s been put through.

“HE NEEDED HER BRIGHTNESS. HE NEEDED TO SEE HIMSELF THE WAY SHE DID. HE COULD BE THAT MAN BECAUSE SHE BELIEVED HE WAS THAT MAN.”

Anya Rafferty was on the run from some very bad people. She was broke and living in her car when she took the bartending job with the Torpedo Ink club. Her goal was to keep her head down and earn enough cash to figure out what to do next. Her plans never involved the dangerously sexy beast of man named Reaper. He was everything she wasn’t looking for, but deep down she knew he was everything she needed. Being from the streets and never having a family before, it takes Anya awhile to learn that families stick together even during the bad times. Torpedo Ink is just what Anya was looking for even if their world frightened and confused her.

Reaper and Anya together are mindblowing! The connection, passion, and bickering back and forth kept me enamored the whole time I was reading this book. The characterization of each member along with the two main characters are brilliantly thought out by Feehan; she gave us this history and continuity that will have you wanting to devour every single word. The plot was fast paced and perfectly executed as well. I was on the edge of my seat at times and then down right shocked at others. I cannot wait to get my hands on the next installment of the Torpedo Ink series!!

Review & Giveaway: JUDGMENT ROAD (Torpedo Ink) by Christine Feehan https://wp.me/p3d0RZ-azI
Publication Date: January 23, 2018
Genre: Contemporary/ Paranormal Romance
Reviewed by: Reading in Pajamas/ Cori
Rated 5 Stars

When Christine Feehan announced this new series I was so excited and she didn’t disappoint me. I loved JUDGMENT ROAD! Hot bikers with paranormal abilities, danger and smoking hot romance make this series addicting. The Torpedo Ink MC is made up of survivors from a brutal Russian training facility. JUDGMENT INK is emotional, raw, gritty and has darker elements. There were times the story made cringe and want to cover my eyes rather than read the emotional scenes. Christine Feehan is a master storyteller and always delivers a story in a way that makes the reader feel like the story is coming alive and I felt a full range of emotions while reading this one. I’m hooked and can’t wait to read each club member’s story. I recommend this series for romance lovers who enjoy a dark storyline and biker romance lovers will definitely love this one.

*Review copy provided by Penguin in exchange for an honest review.

Christine Feehan has done it again, she has created a world full of strong, compelling characters that really grab readers by the heart strings as well as being full of suspense that holds them hostage throughout the story. I loved the Drake Sisters and then I fell in love with the Sisters of the Heart characters and now I get to visit Sea Haven some more with more wonderful characters.

The romance between Anya and Reaper is anything but easy as it has lots of emotional turbulence, turmoil that keeps readers wondering as to whether or not this couple can get the past issues that keep rearing their ugly heads and the present issues that threaten to tear them apart. Readers can’t help but become emotional caught up in the story as well the character’s lives.

The suspense builds throughout the story keeping readers glued to the pages as there is danger coming from several different directions but that danger is kind of all tied together which makes for a medium to fast paced and complex plot that.

I must say that while I was looking forward to the release of Judgment Road, I also had some doubts about it too because I wasn’t sure that I would like the mc angle of the story, but I am glad to say that I was completely captivated by the members of the Torpedo Ink MC and that Christine Feehan did such a great job of world building that they slid right into Sea Haven with no problems whatsoever and I can’t wait to read the next book in the series.

Just WOW! I just wish I could write a book as half as good as Christine Feehan. But I’ll have to settle with reading them instead… like that’s a hardship! I’ve always loved author Christine Feehan’s writing; this book did not disappoint. I can honestly say this will be added to my collection when it comes out on paperback. She has a way of writing hot men with complicated histories like nobody’s business. This is a spinoff of a spinoff, so it was nice for me to hear some familiar characters from those stories as well. If you haven’t read from this author yet, no worries you don’t need to read the other books to follow along with this story. I love MC stories and felt this story had solid characters and I really liked the heroine Anya, she was a great fit to our hero Reaper. Even though she isn’t your normal biker gal, she seemed to understand Reaper very quickly; I think it was because of her own experience in her life growing up. In fact, she tired her best to help Reaper throughout the book. But you will have to read to know what happens I don’t want to put any spoilers out there. I do have to disclose that there is abuse mental and physical, torture, pedophilia, and violence for those who have issues with those types of triggers though I felt the author did a great job not to over whelm her readers with too much description of the encounters. The story was full of action and as with all Ms. Feehan’s books, hot dirty sexy scenes you should check it out if you like dirty dirty kinky dirty. I cannot wait to see what the next story in the Torpedo Ink series will bring us; I bet they will be just as amazing!

***I voluntarily reviewed this ARC for an honest review via NetGalley, this is my honest opinion and has not been influenced by the author, Publishers or NetGalley in anyway.*** Thank you!

Very, very good! This book has a depth and emotional tug that u seldom see in Romance books, the author felt with harsh subject matters but never left the book feeling overwhelmed with darkness or angst but instead hope and healing!! A most definite Keeper!!!!

I really like these books that are linked, the Drake Sisters, the Sea Haven Sisters of the Heart and now we have the Torpedo Ink guys and girls. The Torpedo folks seem a little harder than the others, part of that is how they were raised, quite frankly I'm stunned any of them are sane and have the ties that they do. I really love how close they are to each other, how they are all protective and how awed they are of Blythe. With Blythe they all get a glance at normal, or how they think normal should be and she is great about accepting them as they are.

For quite a bit of this book I didn't care for Reaper. He was always so hot and cold, you never knew which way he would go, which caused issues for Anya. Anya was so great, it was hard to not like her and to be a bit pissed off at the whole club at one point. I was glad that they all realized how wrong they had been and did what they could to help her out.

The drama with the other clubs was interesting only in seeing how the Torpedo Ink crew worked when doing the right thing. They were flawless and left those they were after sort of scratching their heads in the aftermath. They knew something was wrong, but didn't have a clue what happened.

I look forward to reading more in this series, to seeing where the club goes from here.

Reaper is an enforcer for an MC. Anya is a bartender for the club. They have a love/hate relationship. A interesting, exciting read! I will be looking for the next book in the series.

I received an arc from netgalley and am voluntarily leaving my review.

Judgement Road by Christine Feehan was a hot read with many complicated characters.

Anya is the new bartender at a bar owned by the Torpedo Ink MC and has caught the eye of one of its deadly enforcers, Reaper.

Anya has had to survive on her own for most of her life and is running from a past that she prays won’t catch up to her.

Reaper, along with his Torpedo Ink members, came from a very dark and violent place that made them a family with deadly skills, and he doesn’t like that Anya is an unsolved riddle that has bewitched him.

When Anya’s past becomes a part of the present, things get interesting.

This novel was well written, character development on point and the author’s descriptive writing made it easy for me to see and feel everything. Reaper and his crew have been through a lot and this book just touched on the tip of it. The sex scenes were sexy and not exaggerated.

I personally have never been around an MC, so all I have is my passion for MC Romance and SOA to go off of and in my opinion, Ms. Feehan did a great job of depicting what being in “the life” is like. Each one had their role and stuck to it. Reaper was Reaper throughout the entire novel. His real name was never used and the author hinted to me, the reader, that she purposely didn’t mention it. Hopefully, future readers will catch it too. I took it as a sign of respect from the author to her character and the type of man that he was. He was a reaper. A killer. Not a normal man. None of them were normal. A refreshing take on an MC read, not cheesy or overdone. Hopefully, the other members get their stories told as well.

I was generously given an ARC for a honest review. This is my first Christine Feehan book but it is not my first MC book. At times I felt there was too much explanation regarding the terms surrounding the MC world. I've read all of Joanna Wylde's MC book so I feel I'm pretty well versed in that particular field of books. But if you are a MC novice, this is a good start. The book is a good beginning to the series but there's a lot going on.,,,,,,,such as the romance between Reaper and Anya, the backstory of Torpedo Ink, the current story of Torpedo Ink with the other MCs and the introduction of all the other members to set up the storyline in future books. Although this a first book in the series, I felt like if I had read the previous book/series where the Torpedo Ink is an offshoot. I would have had a better exxperience with the book. I believe it's the Sea Haven series?....the story of Blythe and Czar. There definitely were times where the story dragged......esp when Reaper and Anya were constantly flip flopping with their decisions with each other. I got tired of Anya always wanting to be first and treating Reaper like a child at some points. Also Reaper and his constant back and forth with Anya was tiring too. There were 2 Reapers: the strong enigmatic assassin/brother and the weak, bad decision making lover of Anya. I wished there was a better middle ground between these 2. And for all of Anya's declaration of love, she was pretty quick to call it quits esp at the latter half of the book. All she needed was to talk to Reaper and she came around pretty quickly but was so stubborn after the "therapy incident". I actually felt bad for Tawny.....she was just thrown in and took all the blame. There are plenty of sex scenes and while they are definitely hot, sometimes my annoyance with both characters took a bit away from the scene. The best parts of the book were when they went on their "missions". It really showcases their individual talents within the group. The hardest part of the book was reading about the torture school in Russia. It really does make the reader wonder how any one of them survived and are able to live the lives they are living currently.
Finally, I would recommmend this book and the upcoming book (hopefully about Pierce and Alena). Regardless of my sometimes annoyance of Reaper and Anya, it is still a solid MC romance with a twist. And I will be picking up more of Ms Feehan's other books!

This is first in a new series but with characters from a couple of previous series. Reaper is the enforcer for Torpedo Ink motorcycle club. He's been protecting his brothers and sisters for years, it's second nature. Anya Rafferty is new to the town of Caspar. She's hiding out working as a bartender in a biker bar owned by Torpedo Ink until Reaper tries to get rid of her. It backfires on him when Czar, the club president won't follow along. This is a intense story in many ways. The men and women of Torpedo Ink were born and raised in Russia in a school where they learned despicable things and had to do terrible stuff to survive until they could escape. Anya Rafferty had her own terrible upbringing living with her mother in shelters until she slowly pulled herself out of that life training to be a bartender. Only she loses it all and goes on the run when the she sees and hears something she should not have. This is a no holds barred series with intense sex scenes and violence and killing with some romance mixed in. If this is something you can't handle this series isn't for you. Torpedo Ink members have made a family for themselves. They may be a bit dysfunctional after all that has happened to them but they still know wrong from right and are willing to work on fixing their issues and there are many. I liked the characters even if some where pretty intense at times. What i didn't care for was the author repeating things she's already said over and over. It wasn't crazy but more than necessary where i glossed over some of it. Over all i enjoyed the book and am curious to see what comes next.


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Loved it! 4.5 stars. A great start to another exciting series from this author. A different type of MC. Hot former Russian assassins with issues. But who doesn’t love a badass with ice blue eyes! This story had some of the usually MC behaviors but without most of the criminal activities like gun runner or drugs. Fantastic MC characters which appears to have some mystical abilities. The brothers were hardass, scary, lethal and delicious. Reaper was the baddest of all. Liked the girls too. Anya vacillated a little too much between staying or going and was very forgiving. Worth the read! Can’t wait for the next story. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC. Thanks to NetGalley.

I have enjoyed Christine Feehan’s books in the past so while I am not a huge fan on MC characters I was interested to see what she would do with this type of story. Judgment Road is a bit of a paranormal story which is Feehan’s signature as well as an MC story. It is loosely tied to the Sea Haven Series. Ms. Feehan does a marvelous job of showing the why and not just the how of the men of Torpedo Ink banded together. While each is a wounded troubled soul this is the enforcer, Reaper’s story.

While Reaper and Anya are survivors which is clearly shown in their story, they did not grow as a result of the events. I like to see growth within the characters instead of “love will solve all my issues.” Also, Reaper showed negative characteristics that I couldn’t get past, which Anya seemed not to mind.

The storytelling was wonderful, pulling me into the story. However, it is a dark, gritty romance in the middle of a harsh world that Ms. Feehan has created.