I was ready to stop reading in the early chapters. The misogyny was great. Mae is discovered by some biker gang, and they treat and talk about women...appallingly. All of them, including the "hero" Styx, refers to women as "bitches" and "pussies." Over and over again. The objectification and subjugation of women was appalling. Everything was screaming for me to put this book down. 
 ...But I didn't. 
 Oh no. Don't mistake that, for me not being able to tear myself away. Amongst the swearing, and the horrible way women are discussed in this book, I never felt like I was reading a literary great. But Styx, the main hero, had a stutter which I found...interesting. And then the author gave me second male lead syndrome by creating the most perfect beta male in existence EVER (called Rider), who is the medic of the biker gang, and he is the antithesis to Styx. He doesn't fuck around. He treats Mae with respect, and they have a LOT of things in common, like how they were raised with the bible shoved down the throat and they both hated it. I was SO happy when Mae told Styx to fuck off, and she was gonna stay at Rider's place, and if he forced her to come back to his, then she'd walk. 
 But...THE CURSE OF THE ALPHA MALE. 
 Seriously. Mae and Styx are "everything" to each other, which Rider rightly calls as BULLSHIT (he doesn't, I'm paraphrasing.) So, they met each other once as kids? So what? He saw her first? Is that how it works? His references to women are APPALLING. How he treats Lois (before she dies) is APPALLING. He sleeps around. Even after he discovers Mae, he's accepting blowjobs willy-nilly. 
 GRRR. 
 All they have between them is SEXUAL TENSION. 
 And somehow the author tells us this is okay. It's worth disregarding the GOOD GUY, because you've got some chemistry and not much else with the PILLOCK. As the story got more and more evident that Styx and Mae were happening, I bailed. I quit this shit at the 70% mark. I think Rider summed up my feelings perfectly. 
 "Everything," I said quietly and Rider stopped breathing altogether. "He is everything to me. I see everything in him. We share something no one else can understand." 
 Taking two steps back, scoffing in disbelief, Rider ran his hands down his face. I could have sworn I saw the shine of moisture fill his eyes. 
 "Then you know what, Mae? Go get your fuckin' everything. If you can't see with your own eyes what's the truth, then stay blind." 
 Yeah, stay blind girl and shack up with the misogynistic, possessive but hypocritical a-hole. 
 Gah. 
 So I'm giving it two stars, because of Rider. DNF at 70%.