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Lessons from a One-Night Stand
by Piper Rayne
I gave this one 3 stars for Holly. Austin would get less.
I thought most of the storyline was good. The singing on the float, and the town worshipping the Bailey family? Cheesy as hell, but I grew up in a small town, and the part where everyone thinks they have a say in everyone else’s business rings true.
I liked Holly. She was smart, and I loved the fact that she wasn’t a virginal waif. My biggest issue with her was that she let Austin talk her into a physical relationship knowing that she would get hurt.
Austin, on the other hand was a whiner. His parents died, and he came home at 21 to raise his siblings. He didn’t get to live his dream of playing baseball. Realizing that he won’t ever play, he turned his dream to coaching a college team. He’s the coach at the high school where he teaches, but wants to move to California for a job. Over and over again we have to hear how he sacrificed his own life to take care of his siblings. Dude, get over it. Imagine being one of the Bailey kids and knowing that the brother who raised you, the one you looked up to, is out of there now that the two youngest are graduating hs. Sure, they are all adults, but I felt like Austin was constantly guilting them, and blaming them because his life wasn’t what he had planned.
And then there was Holly. He railroads her into a sexual relationship. She even tells him that she will be the one to get hurt and he still tells her he’s not taking no for an answer (coercion, btw). Then, when he gets the job, he breaks her heart by taking it. Holly spends the last month they have together doing everything to make him happy. Denying her own feelings, and he still wants to leave. Obviously, by this time he has an epiphany that he wants to be with Holly more than he wants to coach in California, but fuck if the dude isn’t again picking someone else rather than think of his siblings. Again, imagine that you’re brother is leaving, but oh, yeah he’ll stay for someone else, but your family just wasn’t enough. Austin came across as a selfish asshole.
The Bailey grandma, Dori is a huge part of the entire series. I enjoyed her and her shenanigans, even when I didn’t agree with them.
I’d still count this as a decent start to a series. I liked meeting the other Bailey siblings and was eager to read their stories.
I thought most of the storyline was good. The singing on the float, and the town worshipping the Bailey family? Cheesy as hell, but I grew up in a small town, and the part where everyone thinks they have a say in everyone else’s business rings true.
I liked Holly. She was smart, and I loved the fact that she wasn’t a virginal waif. My biggest issue with her was that she let Austin talk her into a physical relationship knowing that she would get hurt.
Austin, on the other hand was a whiner. His parents died, and he came home at 21 to raise his siblings. He didn’t get to live his dream of playing baseball. Realizing that he won’t ever play, he turned his dream to coaching a college team. He’s the coach at the high school where he teaches, but wants to move to California for a job. Over and over again we have to hear how he sacrificed his own life to take care of his siblings. Dude, get over it. Imagine being one of the Bailey kids and knowing that the brother who raised you, the one you looked up to, is out of there now that the two youngest are graduating hs. Sure, they are all adults, but I felt like Austin was constantly guilting them, and blaming them because his life wasn’t what he had planned.
And then there was Holly. He railroads her into a sexual relationship. She even tells him that she will be the one to get hurt and he still tells her he’s not taking no for an answer (coercion, btw). Then, when he gets the job, he breaks her heart by taking it. Holly spends the last month they have together doing everything to make him happy. Denying her own feelings, and he still wants to leave. Obviously, by this time he has an epiphany that he wants to be with Holly more than he wants to coach in California, but fuck if the dude isn’t again picking someone else rather than think of his siblings. Again, imagine that you’re brother is leaving, but oh, yeah he’ll stay for someone else, but your family just wasn’t enough. Austin came across as a selfish asshole.
The Bailey grandma, Dori is a huge part of the entire series. I enjoyed her and her shenanigans, even when I didn’t agree with them.
I’d still count this as a decent start to a series. I liked meeting the other Bailey siblings and was eager to read their stories.