Motorcycle club focused stories seem to be one of the new hot topics for romance, and I’ll admit that I have encountered a mix of good and not so. Make You Burn brought compelling characters who felt plausible, and the club influence was not prevalent enough to become a character in its own right, one that often runs contrary to or overruns the core romance. Sophie has just lost her father, Priest, the founder and president of the Deacons of Bourbon Street. Although she loved her father dearly, she wasn’t a huge fan of the club, the time it took from her, the behavior of her father and the others. Now that he is gone, she’s expecting the boys to pay their respects and move on. But she wasn’t expecting Ajax to return. Ajax is a dyed in the wool bad boy – he’d left New Orleans to “save the club” and is now back. He’s finding the woman he spotted walking into the Priory is actually Sophie – all grown up. Of course, there is attraction, and there is some serious steam, but the rest of the book just missed for me. There wasn’t enough interaction after pages and passages of interior monologue that really didn’t feel like it went anywhere. The moments between Sophie and Ajax are seriously steamy, but most of that comes from descriptions and interior monologue – little from dialogue and actual interaction. I expected the misogyny, and it was used to good effect without overreach here – and kudos to the author for alluding to drug deals, violence and other unsavory one-percenter activities that gave a feel, but never really graphically delivered. What was missing was the interest in Priest’s death – if it is questionable there wasn’t a ton of “we must know’, and the other two former members: why they left, what was the purpose, didn’t get answered well enough for me. It wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t a complete and compelling story that encourages me to keep on with the series. Good writing that just didn’t suit the grit and texture that I want from a MC story, with a limited emotional draw to either character that left me thinking it was an okay story, not a good or great one. I received an eArc copy of the title from the publisher via NetGalley for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.