REVIEW: Mess Me Up by Lani Lynn Vale

Title: Mess Me Up

Series: Bear Bottom Guardians MC #1

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: MC Romance

Release Date: September 6, 2018

When Rome Pierce moved to Bear Bottom, Texas, it was his intention to lay low. To not be seen. To find a way to heal his body and soul—as well as his son’s.

Nobody would know by looking at him that he used to play professional football. Not with the Bare Bottom MC cut covering his back, and definitely not with his friendly smile completely obliterated.

No longer is there charm in each smooth word that comes out of his mouth. What’s left is an angry, bitter, scared man that’s terrified one day he’s going to wake up and his entire world is going to be gone.

Nobody knows what drove him to leave the game he loved—nobody but her.

She’s the one person that has helped him make it through the dark days and even darker nights. She’s the bright and shining star in his pitch-black sky.

And he doesn’t even know her name.

He should be afraid that she knows things that not anyone—not even his best friend—knows.

Yet, with each encounter, he gives what little bit of his soul remains, and before he knows it only two people on this earth—one dying, and one too afraid to live—make his life worth living.

Until one day he has to choose—the love of his life, or the life he brought into this world.

Two impossible situations. One decision that would change him forever.

Oh boy, this book really did Mess Me Up. (hehe see what I did there? 😜)

Seriously though, the beginning of this book lived up to the title. It was brutal. I was a mess. We’re talking full on ugly crying. I was regretting wanting to read this book. But I powered through, I kept going (with a 90 minute break to get control of myself) and the rest of the book was really good.

I really liked Rome. He was a good guy. It annoyed me that everyone got upset with him after Izzy got pregnant. After what he’d been through, he understandably panicked. He said he didn’t want kids and there he was facing having a kid. THAT’S OK. He was still mourning, and there’s no time limit or timeline on mourning. Let the man grieve!

In all actuality, I liked the all the characters in this book. And I was glad for that since that hasn’t been the case of some of the previous books. Rome and Izzy were able to carry their own story without secondary characters trying to make everything about them.

One thing I didn’t like was that Izzy moved away after telling Rome she was pregnant. Like, really!? She felt the need to run? It annoyed me because she literally dropped the bomb and fled. She didn’t even give him a chance to get his head around the news.

Even with my minor annoyances, this was a good book. 

I’m a married mother of three. My kids are all under 9, so I can assure you that they are a handful. I’ve been with my paramedic husband now for ten years, and we’ve produced three offspring that are nothing like us. I live in the greatest state in the world, Texas.

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