Fear the Beard

by Lani Lynn Vale

• ISBN10: 1544642431
• ISBN13: 9781544642437
• Publish Date: 13 March 2017
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 306
• Language: English

Reviews

[thebookdisciple]

I enjoyed Fear the Beard more than I expected. LLV books have been hit or miss for me lately. I thought book 1 in the series was good, but not great or anything. With this being a bit of a taboo/student-teacher thing, I wasn't sure I would like it. However, it is well done!

Dr. Tommy is charming and endearing and Tally is sweet and likable. The tension comes mostly from wondering if their relationship will be discovered. There are a few bumps in the road from these two just not talking things out sometimes, but nothing that bothered me a great deal (miscommunication tropes are some of my least favorites!).

What made this book absolutely wonderful in my opinion was the epilogue! So freaking perfect! I just loved it!

The narrators are great! Good accents and engaging voice acting keep me entertained and focused. I am really liking these two narrators and I hope they will continue the series!

 

• POV: dual 1st


• Tears: no


• Trope: student/teacher, MC club


• Triggers: none


• Series/Standalone: stand alone within an interconnected series


• Cliffhanger: No


• HEA: yes, with beautiful, perfect epilogue!

Drumline by Stacy Kestwick, Rebel by Rebecca Yarros...then you will probably like Fear the Beard!

 

Fear the Beard

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[Eve1972]

This author always has hot covers and this one is no different. Good composition. Eye-catching typography (because I KNOW that's what you all are looking at.) Yummy cover indeed.

I haven't read a book by this author in a while. Her recent ones all seem to have these OTT melodramatic situations, but I heard good things about this one so I thought I would give it a go.

Well, this was like the anti-melodrama book. Heavy on the ANTI. Unfortunately, this one left me bored for the most part. There were a TON of opportunities to inject some angst into the story, but every time something popped up it was just resolved easy peasy like. Teacher/student relationship...no problem. Dad hates the boyfriend...no problem. Ex boyfriend wants your kid...again...NO PROBLEM.



The only real action came from a crazy person who apparently tried to kill the heroine 13 times in one year. The heroine had NO idea. How spectacularly bad do you have to be at trying to kill someone if you tried for at least once a month for the entire year and NO ONE has noticed??!!

Now I will say the hero was totes adorbs with the baby, but the couple ain't going to be winning any excitement awards.