NOT A ROLE MODEL
Series: Battle Crows MC #4
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: May 31st, 2022
You better watch out for people that bounce back from everything that’s meant to destroy them.
Those were the words that Coreline King learned to live by when it came to dealing with Tide ‘Rook’ Crow, member of the Battle Crows MC, general surgeon, and all-around jerk who lived to make her life a living hell.
It all started in high school when he stopped seeing her as a random girl and started to see her as his rival.
Together, they became ‘frenemies.’ I.e.—a person with whom one is friendly, despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry.
At least, it started out like that.
Everyone always says there’s a fine line between love and hate. And at first, Tide and Coreline don’t realize how very true that is.
Not until Tide gets hurt defending Coreline’s honor, and Coreline has to fix him because she feels like she owes him.
But one night of bad choices leads to a very big ‘oops’ that will either haunt them for the next eighteen years or bring them together as tight as they ever could be.
3.75 ‘You’re Finally Mine’ Stars
Oh boy, Not a Role Model INDEED! Talk about cat and mouse, these two can’t be in the same space without going at each other, but we all know what happens to two opposites… LOL
I love a good enemies to lovers, so Coraline and Tide’s story had me from the get go, but these two, specially Tide as the instigator, they went at it all the freaking time! It was like a permanent itch when it came to one another, that myself, as a sucker for banter soaked up every moment!
I’d been feeling.
And we all knew what feeling did—it made you stupid.
Enemies for more than twenty years, to say that ‘attack’ is their default moment, is an understatement, and I was there for it, really, I just wish that all the ‘going at each other’s throats had an equally amount of vulnerable moments – particularly when it came to Tide’s @ssholery, lol – to counterbalance more the shift in their relationship. Yep, I got Coraline’s jabs because Tide sure pissed me off more than one 😉 Another instance that I wished different was Coraline’s sexu@l experience – or lack there of – that considering her age, independence and strength, didn’t match at all with her ‘persona’, so it felt like somehow she’s been ‘pining’ for her bully all along. It’s just my personal preference and take on it, and it doesn’t matter much to the overall story, so just a blip in the absolutely kick@ss romance of these two.
Ms. Vale did it yet again, and she had me enraptured from the first page, in such a way that I couldn’t stop until I finished the whole thing. That’s right, one seat reading, more than justified by this new Crow’s ‘fall’, with plenty of humour, steam and overall bad@assery! And, omg, LLV is killing me with all this Bram and Dorca’s teasing! Already counting down the day for the next Battle Crow’s story!!! <3 <3 <3 <3
“I will love you until I can’t fuckin’ breathe anymore.
I’ll love you when you hate me. I’ll love you when you don’t. I’ll love you until the goddamn stars fall from the sky. And I won’t ever stop.
ARC kindly provided by the author for an honest review
Lani Lynn Vale is a Wall Street Journal & 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.