Release Blast Review: Lord Have Mercy (The Southern Gentleman #2) by Lani Lynn Vale

Book info:

Title:  Lord Have Mercy
Author:  Lani Lynn Vale
Series:  The Southern Gentleman #2
Genre:  Adult contemporary romance
Release Date:  April 23rd, 2019
Source:  E-galley from Wildfire Marketing Solutions which did not influence my opinion
My rating: 5 stars

Synopsis:

Poor judgment: knowing better yet doing it anyway.

Flint Stone is a professional in every way.

He’s a police officer with the K-9 unit and works at Gun Barrel High as the school resource officer. In his spare time, he’s working his heart out to create a successful gym from the ground up.

He’s loved by every single person he ever encounters—student, faculty, and employees—Everyone but Camryn Elvis Presley.

The only thing they have in common is their mothers’ poor excuses for names.
Period. The end.

So why is it every time she crosses his path that he has the urge to mess up her perfectly curled hair? Or unbutton a few of her prim and proper buttons?

He knows he should stay away, yet like the high schoolers he’s around every day, he has no choice but to react first and think about the consequences later.

Side note—bad decisions are made, leading to lapses in judgment that threaten both of their jobs. Yet when the time comes, neither one can seem to find the wherewithal to care. Why? Because being bad feels so good.

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My Review:
I'm pretty sure that Lani Lynn Vale is one of my new favorite authors.  I mean, this book started off with a reference to the  Final Destination movie series, something that I think about all the time from that movie!  It's funny to read my updates on Goodreads as I was reading this, I keep going on and on about how much I love this author!  So much that she does in her stories makes me laugh, and keeps me turning pages, staying up way later than I should.  One fun thing is that each chapter has a little text or note from one of the characters, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the actual story in that chapter, but is so funny and gives you such a fun snippet of the characters on the first chapters, and by the end you're just chuckling at the little tidbit and thinking how that is sooooo whatever character it is.  The characters are real, but fun.  All the characters play a role in the story, even ones that you might think are just there as extras end up having bigger parts to play a lot of times.  I loved the total hate/lust that was between Flint and Camryn.  And their names, so perfect!  Flint Stone.  And Camryn Elvis Presley.  But it's not all fun and games and just gossipy issues at school for the drama.  There's real drama at the end.  Major drama.  Some tears drama for me.  But lots of loyalty and love and steam to make it the kind of story I have come to love and expect from this author.

About the Author:

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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Review Blast: Hissy Fit (Southern Gentlemen Series #1) by Lani Lynn Vale

        

Book info:
Title:  Hissy Fit
Author:  Lani Lynn  Vale
Series:  Southern Gentlemen Series #1
Genre:  Adult contemporary sports romance
Release Date:  March 19th, 2019
Source:  E-galley from Inkslinger PR which did not influence my opinion
My rating:  5 stars

Synopsis:

He is the one that never looks her way. 

He is handsome and strong. 

He is rough around the edges and mean. 

He is everything she’s ever wanted. 

He doesn’t even know she exists. 

Her life is a joke. 

*** 

She doesn’t step on cracks in the sidewalk. 

She laughs at inappropriate times. 

She talks when she shouldn’t. 

She is clumsy and trips on air. 

She is finally on his radar. 

God help her now.    

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My Review:

I've enjoyed the books by this author that I've read before, so looked forward to this one. And I was blown away by how much I loved this book!  I wish I'd been able to get started before my spring break was over, because this is one that I would have stayed up all night just to finish in one sitting.  Raleigh was a klutz, I mean the BIGGEST klutz.  Think Bella Swan on steroids, no exposed to radioactive klutz rays.  Raleigh managed to get nose bleeds, break arms, all of the things she did to herself!  She was so bad the students were afraid her bad luck would carry over at sporting events so they'd ask her not to come unless she had to.  

And then there was Ezra.  That popular guy you all remember from school.  He wasn't a mean guy, but he was definitely oblivious to anything that wasn't directly in his line of sight until the beginning of our story when Raleigh tripped in Target and caused him to trip and drop what he was carrying, in this case, a monster size box of condoms.  Only they fell and hit her right in the face.  Raleigh had been in love with him since she first saw him when they were younger. But he'd really never noticed her before, even when she'd been right under his nose as a teenager, and now worked with him for five years at the high school.  

But this wasn't just a romantic comedy, although I laughed out loud all the way through, there were a lot of deep emotional aspects to the story as well.  One of Raleigh's first experiences as a teacher, wow, it was scary.  And then the student that she was there for, one that really needed just one person to be there, whether they knew it or not.  There were also some great points, like when she was warned about public displays of affection at school when Ezra kissed her in the hallway, yet he didn't get warned!  The bad guys in this were really bad people. Although with one of them being a high school student, the way Raleigh and even others handled it made great sense to me, with my experience as an educator myself.  

I loved everything about this book. Except one teensy, tiny thing.  A joke, that I still don't get.  One that was told at the beginning, and the brought up again in a speech by one of the students.  Maybe you can help me?  The joke was:  What is a soldier's least favorite month?  The answer the story gave was 'Allich.  I don't know what that is!!  The answer I would have thought or can find anywhere is that the month is March.  Help me! 

    

      

About the Author:

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. Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | BookBub