Iron Heart & Dirty Santa

Lords of Carnage: Ironwood MC, Book 2

By: Daphne Loveling

Narrated by: Troy Duran, Anastasia Watley

Tori: I've been living on borrowed time since I was born. My dreams were big. But my reality cut them down to size. The life I've settled for is small. Safe. Stifling. Until I meet him.

He's my forbidden fruit. My guilty pleasure. My greatest danger. He has me dreaming of a life I never thought I could have. He teaches me to hope. To want. To crave. If I'm not careful, Dante D'Agostino will have me dreaming of happily ever afters. And that's the most dangerous dream of all.

Dante: I don't believe in miracles. Fairy tales are for chumps. In my world, only the strong survive, and love is a weakness. Then I meet her. She's no princess in a tower. She's a fighter. A warrior. She's the strongest woman I know.

Before I knew it, she set my life ablaze. Then, before I could stop her, she melted my iron heart.

This sure as f*ck ain't no fairy tale. I don't know what the f*ck it is. This Lois Lane doesn't need a superman. She doesn't want a protector. But protect her I will. With my life if I have to. Tori Lowe has changed my life forever. And I'm never going back.

Note: This audiobook includes Dirty Santa, a bonus Christmas novella.

Contains mature themes.

©2019 Daphne Loveling (Iron Heart); copyright 2018 by Daphne Loveling (Dirty Santa) (P)2020 Tantor

Love the Narrators

As usual, Troy Duran & Anastasia Whatley do an excellent narrative of the book. Book was good and kept my attention. Dirty Santa is great.

💥 Lois Lane vs Coward Kent!💥

I really enjoyed this up until chapter 33! UHHH! (Sell out!)
FYI MC Amigas - my review involved spoilers.....please note.

Another fun and sexy listen by my fav author D.L and her dream team narrators ...Troy & Ana! EKKK J'adore!
The story was interesting and it had a couple of sexy scenes! Score!

In the beginning, I felt the love between our lead characters Dante & Tori
This book had a lots of hair raising action and thrilling moments! ...bonus!

FACT: I dont care for weak female characters in general.
Tori starts out Uber smart... college educated, journalist, independent woman - AHHH ...we were on a roll ladies!

Not sure why D.L turned her into a weak female....?
Things spiraled for me when Tori couldn't find a work address and ended up driving into the "hood". I can't believe anybody would be dense enough to get out of the car when dealing with gangs n guns. (really?) I mean, all she had to do was turn her car around and go the other direction... getting the heck outta Dodge!! Instead, she drives directly into trouble which causes the Domino effect. (sigh)

Tori turns stalker - she's fakes having her car fixed at the MC auto shop (sigh), noses around their ultra "locked down" ground as if nobody would notice her and is spyin on Dante (even though he told her off saying he didn't want anything to do with her!!) TOTAL JERK!

Tori is supposed to be "on top of things" but doesnt notice a car following her (in a super small town) and ends up.... abducted. (all because of Dante and his dopy brother) After all of the intense angst and drama (and horrible things Dante said to her)....Tori still wants Dante back! (HUHHH?) Dante is a crass, rude, awkward dude (no gentleman) Sorry but Tori comes off 100% desperate!

In chapter 33 when Dante comes to her door, assuming he can easily sweep her off her feet again... I wish she would have stood up for herself and slammed the door in his face! After the way, Dante treated her and all the horrible things he said to her I don't think she should have given him a second chance. Hence my alternate ending: (lol)
I would have preferred Tori move out of town, taking a new and exciting journalist position out of state. Leaving ol' Dante in the dust! He can have all the club girls he wants. Tori was way too good for him. (preach!)

Epilogue: Tori gets promoted after one year at her new job. Dante goes looking for her, but when he catches up with her, she's already dating a new hot man (equally if not hotter than he was) Tori is engaged and ends up, telling Dante off the same way he treated her... Sending him packing! AHHH!!! A little retribution never hurt anybody lol.

Overall a fun book - Namaste MC lovers!!

D'agostino brothers and a heart condition 💔

It's a good story overall .. but with Tori .. she is a damsel in distress (not really wanting to be, but as a news reporter you think she would be more alert on things). grab a tissue ... we lose a semi-old lady...
keeps you thinking and guessing

The Fear of an all consuming 🔥 heat.

These stories are examples of those who dared to get too close to the Flames of passion and being Consumed in delicious Heat 🔥 that you'd never have the chance of exercising. Great acting and Greater writing. 💯💖🌹🎊💥🔥🥰

Cute and fun

Love this. Cute, smart and witty, sexy and good sense of reality. Very believable story line. Needed this in my life. Great read. I’ll be checking out more of her writings.

Dante and Tori

An amazingly captivating, and entertaining journey to go on with Tori and Dante. This book had a little bit of everything; intrigue, suspense, angst, betrayal, and of course romance. I loved every single second of this book. This audiobook included the Novella Dirty Santa which is deliciously sinful and sweet.

Now she's an expert.

Did you hear the part at 19:48? The speech about the heart? Lady give me a break!!

Iron Heart

This book is so boring which made it hard to listen to. It was weak and unrealistic for an MC story. I did snooze before it was finished.

Narration: Troy was great! I felt something from him was missing playing his character. At times he seemed to struggle as if he just wanted it to end.
Female narrator was awful.

Weak MFC

For a MFC who is a “journalist” who wanted to travel overseas, she is a really weak clueless person. This story would have been better if she had a stronger backbone.

Predictable

Story is okay till Chapter 33 which is cringe! Male lead great female gets annoying as time goes on.