Fear the Beard

by Lani Lynn Vale

[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.