Tikka Chance on Me is a novella by Suleikha Snyder.
Finished on: 22.12.2025

Plot:
Pinky has been a good girl, for the most part anyway, and when her mom became sick, she left college behind and returned to her hometown to help out in the family restaurant. A restaurant that is frequented by Trucker. Gorgeous and charming, he is not just a bad boy, he is an enforcer for the local biker gang. Getting involved with him would be a very bad idea indeed. But their attraction is stronger than the doubts, especially when they discover that they have more in common than they thought at first.

Tikka Chance on Me is a sweet, pretty hot novella that I really enjoyed reading, even though it doesn’t play into my favored romance tropes all that much. But with good banter and nice characters, that doesn’t matter all that much.

Bad boys are not really my poison, I have to say, especially not when bad doesn’t mean a loner with a bad reputation but a kind heart, but being actually involved in violent crime. One of the reasons, I usually don’t go for biker romances. It appears that Snyder shares some of these qualms and so she tries to solve them in a plot twist that I called rather early on (and that, I think, creates new issues). But mostly she tries to make up for it by making Trucker pretty much a complete cinnamon roll, and that I can definitely get behind.

But even more than that, I can get behind Pinky, and I would like to. As a bi woman, I notice that when I read het romances, or generally m/f romances, my focus of attraction is usually on the dudes. The women are always great and beautiful, but I think more about whether I’d like to date/fuck/whatever the guy. In this case, though, Pinky was much more my focus, and I loved that.

I also loved that Pinky being the good girl doesn’t mean that she is sexually inexperienced or hasn’t partied in her life, a nice subversion of a trope that I am not overly fond of. It puts the two on more equal footing, and normalizes casual sex, both excellent things. The sex in the novella, by the way, is steamy but not overly explicit, so – medium spicy maybe?

In any case, Pinky and Trucker have good chemistry with each other and very nice banter. At times I felt that the novella relies a little too much on pop culture references to create a sense of kinship and familiarity, but I also know that I have somewhat grown out of love with the abundance of references in general, so that is more my problem than that of the novella.

In short, it is a quick read that is well-written and likes to play around with tropes that features a FMC of Color and is written by a WoC. Those are all selling points in my book, so you should definitely give it a go.

Summarizing: fun!