TOO BAD SO SAD
Series: The Simple Man Series #5
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Cover Designer: Cover Me Darling
Photographer: Furiousfotog
Model: Franggy Yanez
Release Date: August 8th, 2018
Tyler Cree has never been good at the whole look and don’t touch thing.
From the moment he was old enough to walk on his own two feet, he’s been looking for trouble.
Trouble comes in many forms…quite a few of those forms being the female persuasion.
Tyler knows what girls want—a bad boy. And he has the bad boy image down pat.
Ex-military—check.
Hot cop—double check.
A bike between his legs and a devil may care attitude—oh, yeah.
All the girls want him, yet none of them will have him—at least not all of him, anyway. A certain appendage they can have all they want. His heart, however, is not up for grabs. The useless organ inside his chest was broken and battered, mutilated by the one woman he thought would keep it safe.
Spoiler alert: she ripped it to shreds and set fire to the pieces.
To protect himself, Tyler keeps everyone at arm’s length, and never lets anyone get too close.
Then Reagan Rose Alvarez barrels into his life, and trespasses on not only his property, but straight into his abused heart. One glance is all it takes, and he’s suddenly thinking about things he hasn’t thought for quite some time—thoughts that a man like him should never have about a woman like her.
One moment of weakness is all it takes, and suddenly he has no other choice but to go on the offensive.
Keeping her is the only other option now.
Turns out, his heart isn’t as broken as he thought it was.
The only problem is, now the little she-devil holds it in the palm of her hands, and she has no clue just how much power she holds.
4.5 ‘Sexiest Banter’ Stars
O…M..G… Lani Lynn Vale sure turned up the heat to a WHOLE new level in the perfect ‘enemies to lovers’ that is this Too Bad So Sad!
Tyler Cree – again I say, isn’t this name just the best?! How badass is it on its own?! – and Reagan Alvarez, Bennet’s not-so-little-girl-anymore daughter, had an sparkling, to say the least, first meeting. Both ‘complicated’ people, they couldn’t be more different from one another, but one thing it can never be denied, their attraction!
I studied the woman that was still standing there, looking at me like she was trying to figure me out.
Good luck.
Even I couldn’t figure me out.
I wanted him so bad I could practically taste it.
It was a bittersweet feeling this way because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to yell at him or fuck him.
Ladies and gentlemen, it was SCORCHING!!! Their non stop and deliciously enticing banter was a thing of beauty, and just made for a more slow paced and perfectly realistic relationship development. I fell hard for these two, I love a good enemies to lovers romance, when executed well it’s my catnip, and Tyler and Reagan with their anti-sociality, sarcasm and innuendos seemed tailor made for yours truly! It was TOP!
“Is there any part of you that is normal-sized?” I hissed, making sure to angle my face up over my shoulder so that he would hear everything that I had to say.
He laughed. “No, honey. Sorry. I’m from Texas where they make everything supersized.”
We have in Too Bad So Sad every single and diverse moment of the spectrum that makes Ms. Vale’s writing – along with a witty and fast paced plot – so addicting. Tyler and Reagan are the epitome of ‘enemies to lovers’, and as such the beautifully portrayed anger and frustration with each other and their own bodies betrayal in craving the other, lead to some of the most insane HOT angry sexy times LLV has given us. Consider yourselves warned! 😉
Once the initial antagonism – ok, who am I kidding, lol? The banter is constant feature even after together, and I loved that even more! – develops into a somewhat friendship with benefits, the more Tyler and Reagan get close the more their true feelings come forth, and become undeniable. Even to the most stubborn of people, lol.
I wanted her to feel safe with me.
I wanted her to love me.
I wanted her to…be mine. I was so going to hell.
My feelings had changed in what felt like a heartbeat.Hell no, I’d never be able to let her go.
Nothing but everything with her would do.
And I swooned! Hard! Yep, I never expected the rough, broody and prickly Tyler had such a sweet and tender side. True that neither of them guessed they would have this love right on their doorstep, and that it would blossom the way it did, but don’t they say the most beautiful things are the unexpected. I know their love story was!
Don’t know if Too Bad So Sad will be the last book of this amazing and impactful Simple Man series, but if it is, it sure was a beautifully crafted wrap up, with how we got to see the rest of the gang, all the previous couples, and how well they were integrated in this story that was no doubt all about the awesomeness that is Tyler and Reagan and their outstanding HEA, but also gave us – BIG – hint on Rome and Ms. Vale’s upcoming The Bear Bottom MC. I am seriously salivating, and anxiously awaiting to get my hands on this tortured Hero, ex football player! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
“You did something to my heart,” he said. “I can’t fuckin’ think because you’re all in my head, making me do and say things that I never would’ve done before you.”
ARC kindly provided by the author via InkSlinger PR for an honest review
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.
