MINI Review: Under Locke

My Rating

Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5, Spice: 🌶🌶

My Review / Thoughts

“You’ve gotta be the best thing I never knew I wanted.” -Under Locke

I’ve come to figure that slow burn is something Mariana Zapata does in all of her books. If this storyline was in any other book they would have gotten together in the first half. Mariana Zapata did do a good job of not making the story move fast, although their connection was not at all subtle.

This book also emphasizes found family in the relationship the Iris, the fmc, has with the Dex, the mmc. This gives value to Iris’s work life besides the mmc.

I also had assumptions about the president of their club, but I was entirely wrong. This, at least, surprised me in the book.

I think Dex had good intentions, but he was overly protective/controlling at times. He’s fine, but not on my list of top book boyfrineds. Dex should have “let” Iris leave the shop to signify that they have a strong relationship outside of work. It would have given more meaning to their relationship, had it not been that they are forced together. This is ne of the reasons why I really liked Terms and Conditions and The Wall of Winnipeg and Me (also by Mariana Zapata).

Overall, I recommend this book if you like found family with the added aspect of slowburn.

– TheReyaView

Summary of the Book

After moving to Austin following six months of unemployment back home, Iris Taylor knows she should be glad to have landed a job so quickly… even if the business is owned by a member of the same motorcycle club her estranged father used to belong to. Except Dex Locke might just be the biggest jerk she’s ever met. He’s rude, impatient and doesn’t know how to tell time.

And the last thing they ever expected was each other.

But it was either the strip club or the tattoo shop.

… she should have chosen the strip club.