Where We Belong 

Ashley Munoz 

(Stone Riders Motorcycle Club Book 2) 

 

I loved the first book in Muñoz’s Stone Riders series and enjoyed the chance to revisit the world of this motorcycle club in Book 2. 

 

I’ve come to realize that motorcycle club books are essentially books about organized crime with a lot of posession k*nk (see video), and motorcycle. Turns out this works for me :) 

 

I continue to really like this motorcycle club (even though their treatment of women both casually and intimately is totally toxic, and it’s totally bizarre women walk around wearing vests that literally say “property of … so and so”) 

 

But, let’s suspend our commitment to reality for a moment, and just live in the world Munoz has built. It’s a world in which you can give yourself over entirely to another person, and, rather than this being disempowering, it’s actually quite restorative  because (in these books) you are safe enough to trust this person with your physical, emotional, and psychological wellbeing. And this relationship. It’s bananas in real life, but perhaps in this fantasy world, it works. 

 

A couple things did NOT work for me in this book:  Why did the couple from the first book suck so much this time around? Obviously, you love them by the end of the first book and now, you’re like, oh actually they weren’t great, I guess? I also just wasn’t as big of a fan of Killian, the MMC, as I was of Wes in the first book. 

 

Also- there were aspects of the plot that just didn’t add up for me. I won’t spoil it, but i didn’t really see how aspects of the FMC’s identity were a secret when it’s actually quite out in the open. And I’m a little bit lost about which rival gangs are allied now, and which ones aren’t, and which ones are split. 

 

I definitely preferred the first book in this series, but I still enjoyed this one and will consider reading more books in muñoz’s motorcycle club universe.