Monday, August 5, 2019

NEW RELEASE: I'd Rather Not by Lani Lynn Vale



Oakley Spurlock is dying. 

She only has weeks to live thanks to a freak infection that totally and completely destroyed her kidneys.

Despite her family's desperation, not a single one of them is a match. 

In a last-ditch attempt, Oakley's father takes to social media to bed for help to save his daughter's life.

Pace Vineyard is lost. So lost, in fact, that he's not sure he wasnts to be found.

But then a beautiful woman's face is splashed across social media, and Pace finds a spark in his soul for the first time since a bomb went off beside him.

He's already missing two legs. What's one more kidney?

At least, that's what he tells himself.

What he doesn't expect is to give his heart to the woman, too. Or for the woman to run away with it and force him to follow.





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I have such a hard time with this author's books lately. I'm honestly now sure why, or what changed...but they're so hit or miss for me. 

I didn't hate this one, but I can't say I loved it either. 

I have to say that the beginning was good. I enjoyed getting to know Pace. I actually really liked him. I'm not sure I really felt the connection between him and Oakley though. And I'm not quite sure that I ever really got to know Oakley. When she was first told she needed a new kidney, she was lamenting about what she was going to lose (her job, the life she currently had), which was fine, normal even...I had no problems with that. But she commented twice about how she had worked so hard to get her degree and the job she'd wanted...but I never know what that was, what she was really losing. It was all just vague and it left me feeling like I didn't really know her. 

I found the middle of the story to be a little boring, it seemed to drag a little. Oakley really wanted to sleep with Pace, but he was trying to take it slow and I was just a little bored with it. That was Oakley's biggest concern. 

Once things started to pick up with Pace's family showing up again, things started moving quickly and they got really interesting. 

The other complaint I have, is that the author is now focusing on the second generation characters, and because she has so many books, I'm having a hard time connecting the parents with their own books. And when the parents, aunts, uncles, MC club members start showing up, I feel like I need a diagram/family tree to keep all of them straight. 

Overall, this wasn't a bad book, and I'm sure to be in the minority on my feelings about it, so give it a try, you'll probably love it. 




Lani Lynn Vale is a Wall Street Journal and 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 meaning over twenty) chickens. She hails from the Great State of Texas.

When she's not writing, you can find her curled up in her favorite chair reading. 

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