5 Smooches!
Synopsis
There are rules to life that one just obeys in order in her attempt stay on the right path. For example:
1. You don’t wear dirty panties out of the house. You just never know who’s going to see them.
2. A lady must always have chocolate at the ready—just in case the world as she knows it comes to an end.
3. You don’t egg on a drunk woman who’s pissed off at life.
Why, you ask? Because they start bar fights, that’s why.
Casten Red, the unofficial enforcer of The Uncertain Saints MC, wasn’t necessarily trying to urge her into doing anything illegal, and he definitely wasn’t trying to get her into a fight with a group of men who were all twice her size.
No, he only intended to give her the confidence to stand up for herself, just a little nudge in the right direction. How the hell was he supposed to know she’d go all Chuck Norris on them and put three of them in the hospital with concussions?
He should’ve followed his gut instinct and turned around that first moment he saw her in the bar, but Casten has never liked following the rules. Why the hell would he start now?
REVIEW
Vodka on the Rocks is the third book in Lani Lynn Vale’s Uncertain Saints MC series. I really love what she’s doing in this series–it’s everything I love about her writing in an edgier and grittier package. She’s taken some risks in this series, and I’ve loved it. It’s exciting to watch her experiment and grow as an author.
The main characters in this book, Casten and Tasha, are perhaps the quirkiest that she has ever written, and that’s really saying something! Casten is a member of the Uncertain Saints, a gym owner, a private detective and a former police officer who was forced into an early retirement due to an injury. He believes his life is too dangerous for him to have a woman in it, and while he is fiercely attracted to Tasha, he’s trying to keep her in the friend zone. Casten is a very stoic guy, and Tasha works overtime to get a reaction out of him.
Tasha is the sister of Annie, the heroine from Jack & Coke. She is a tell-it-like-it-is, sarcastic woman with a bit of baggage. She really is very attracted to Casten, but she’s confused by the mixed messages he’s sending her. She lost her first love, and she’s never really recovered from that experience. She carries a lot of guilt, and while she really likes Casten and wants to pursue a relationship with him, she’s not sure she deserves it. But drama seems to find Tasha, and what she learns changes everything. When the dust settles, where will that leave her and Casten?
Lani has given her fans an interesting story in Vodka on the Rocks. The hero and heroine are both flawed and stubborn and so wildly different that it was almost impossible to see them together. But that’s something that Vale does well—she gives us these characters who appear not to fit, and then she shows us how spectacularly they actually do. No Lani Lynn Vale novel would be complete without a liberal does of humor, and given Tasha’s quirkiness, there was an abundance of it here.
When I think about the authors who I’m most impressed by, Lani is right there at the top of my list. She is an author who puts out eleven books (at least!) a year, the overwhelming majority of which land on the USA Today best sellers list. She consistently gives her fans funny, sexy stories about alpha heroes and the sassy, sarcastic women who love them. I can count on her every month to make me smile and make me swoon, and she did just that once again this month with this book. Lani Lynn Vale’s Vodka on the Rocks gets 5 smooches from me!
~ Danielle Palumbo
