⭐️: 3
🌶️: 3

Courage: She Will Not Let Her Fear Stop Her, is an open door, MMF, motorcycle club romance, written by Kahlani B. Steele. It’s the second book in series, each book following a different Thropple and the books are probably enjoyed better if read them in order. (Which I didn’t but was totally fine following the story).

This book follows a woman named Clark who is has a trouble upbringing, is mourning the loss her fiancé, struggling with her mental health, and uses cutting as a means to cope with panic attacks. Until one day when she meets 2 men who happen to be members of the Iconic Sons Motorcycle club, and who also own a tattoo parlor, where they offer her a job.

Their names are Gunnier and Vin and they like to share everything, so much so that they want to share her. This is where I believe the books gets a little convoluted, and not because of the sharing, I personally love a good thropple book. A lot is going on in this book and it feels like there are 5 story lines happening at once, it didn’t feel succinct, and I felt like a lot could have been left out. Here’s a list of all the different topics:

1.) Clark is in a deep depression suffering from the loss her if fiancé and self harming to cope.
2.) Clark isn’t ready for any relationship, much less a relationship with two men.
3) Vin and Gun are over protect of Clark, not wanting her to be involved with their MC, not wanting her to put herself at risk, and not wanting he to to harm her herself, which causes conflict in their relationship.
4.) Clark is strong, resilient, but needs therapy which leads to a whole redemption arc for herself
5.) Follow up stories from the previous book.
6.) Clark finds a new family with this MC
7.) Someone’s trying to harm Gunner.

These topics are jumped through in the book, in a way that doesn’t feel cohesive. many of these topics feel like they either need to be focused on more, or not included at all. Which is disappointing because there are some good topics and the book has some good characters, but it doesn’t hit right. I didn’t dislike the book exactly. There were parts where I was really drawn in, and parts where I wanted to out it down. I just feel like I would have liked the book more if it had been written in a different style (maybe duel POV), or with a better timeline of events.