Review: Lock & Key by Cat Porter (Lock & Key #1)
Lock & Key is the first novel in the series by the same name from author Cat Porter, and it gives readers the original story of a woman who loved and lost her husband after he was killed out of revenge and then leaves the life she once had only to return a decade and a half later to be with her dying sister and back in close vicinity to the One-Eyed Jacks MC--the same motorcycle club her husband--her old man--belonged to and the one she considered family before she walked away. I loved how different this series starter was from any other MC romance novel I've read in the post. Grace Quillen nee Hastings is a survivor and there are very real reasons behind her decision to leave the Jacks and her sister. Her story is about a woman who loved and lost the first man to unlock her heart and then meets another man who holds the key to a future she believed lost forever. It's the story of Grace and Jake Quillen, as well as that of Grace and Miller LeBeau. Grace will always love Dig, but will she ever open her heart to yet another Jack--one named Lock?
This was my first ever Cat Porter read and I was easily taken in by her gift for weaving a heartbreaking tale but still showing that hope never ceases to spring forth in the once shattered lives of her characters. With Grace Quillen and Miller LeBeau, she's given us two people who have the kind of connection that's easy enough for them to find, but what happens is they encounter difficulties in actually creating something more substantial with it. The battle-weary forty-two-year-old Grace who meets forty-year-old Lock is very different from the far more innocent sixteen-year-old who first met Dig--who was six or seven years older than her--at a keg party. Falling in love with Dig was easy, but being that young often left her being overly naive; on the other hand, falling in love with Lock proved to be challenging, not only because Dig's memory forever lingered around them, but also because of his ties and unwavering loyalty to the Jacks and the secrets that she was keeping, not only from Lock, but from her own sister and the One-Eyed Jacks.
We get some idea of just how deeply Dig and Grace loved one another, and I liked that the author didn't go with the overly used and abused story line of having an abusive husband who didn't care about anyone else but himself. Dig may have been part of the Jacks and his loyalty to the brotherhood was unquestionable. However, he loved Grace and his own loyalty to her made him such an endearing supporting character. Then, of course, there's Lock, who made no secret that the idea of Little Sister, Dig's old lady and the road name used by Grace and other members of the Jacks, was a dream that he held on to for so long, never believing it could actually come true. His feelings for Grace were undeniably strong and while, like Dig, he makes his own share of mistakes, Grace, more often than not, came first. There's a twist in the story--one connected to the secrets Grace has kept for fifteen years--and it's a twist that I didn't see coming at all. I love it when that happens because then I'm on my toes. Nicely done, Cat Porter. Five stars for Lock & Key. ♥
Date Read: 31 January 2016
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