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Title: MAYBE DON’T WANNA
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Series: Simple Man
Release Day: May 4th
Cover Designer: Cover Me Darling
Photographer: Wander Aguiar
Model: Peter Pisani
Peter Parker Penn.Unlike the superhero his mother named him after, Parker is no good guy.
In fact, if there’s a picture in the dictionary under anti-hero, it’s his.
Parker’s spent his life trying to get back on the right side of the tracks, but each step he takes forward, he takes two more steps back.
To save one, he hurts others. To make this good, he turns that bad.
For appearances’ sake, he plays the part. He does what people expect him to do-mostly.
And at the end of each day, he goes back to his lonely apartment and wishes he was a different person. One who could fix the things he’s broken.
Then Kayla Nash forces her way into his life, and the world as he knows it is irrevocably changed.
Everything he thinks he has right is wrong. And everything he thinks is wrong is oh, so right.
One thing leads to another, and suddenly he’s growing a conscience, and trying to prove to her that he’s as bad as everybody says he is.
Yet she won’t listen.
She’s convinced that she can save him.
Little does she know, Parker isn’t worth saving, and never will be.
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Oy. This book.
Ok, so I love Lani Lynn Vale's books. There is only a VERY small handful of books by her that I didn't love, or even really like. But this series isn't off to a great start for me. And I'm not quite sure why that is.
The beginning of this book really grated on me. I liked meeting Parker and Kayla. I liked seeing where they came from, where they currently were and what led them to each other. Those parts I liked....but unfortunately, there was way to much Janie in this book, especially the beginning, for me. I found her to be to much. She tried to take over the book and story and impose herself on this book and it irritated me. I have already read her book. I didn't want more of her. I barely got through her book because of her antics. I realize that Kayla and Janie are best friends and have been their whole lives. I realize that they've had plans for their lives that include each other...that's fine. But I didn't need Janie to be there so much. I wanted Kayla and Parker's story.
I don't usually have a problem with age differences in books, and for majority of this book, the age difference didn't bother me. However, there was one scene in particular that Kayla really acted her age with her overly exuberant reaction. But other than that, I loved Kayla and Parker together. I loved watching their friendship form, and watch how Kayla and [DOG] developed an understanding and friendship between them as well.
I have to say that I was a little disappointed in the suspense part of the story. There was a lot of talk about the serial killer and how scared Kayla was and how traumatized she was by what she saw...but nothing came of it. And honestly, that disappointed me. I kept expecting the killer to target Parker of Kayla and to show up and cause some havoc at some point, but it ended up being pure coincidence that they stumbled across him. And then the other bit of drama came literally out of nowhere. And to make it all worse, both events happened between 91-96% in the book.
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About Lani Lynn Vale
Lani Lynn Vale is a USA Today Bestselling Author of over thirty titles. She is married with three children, two dogs, two cats, a donkey, and a couple (a couple also meaning over twenty) chickens.
When she’s not writing, you can find her curled up in her favorite chair reading.
Lani is married with three children and lives in the Great State of Texas.
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