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May Contain Wine
by Lani Lynn Vale
I’ve come to be a big fan of Lani Lynn Vale. I haven’t read all of her books, haven’t even read any of the original SWAT series I don’t think. But at some point, if I ever have any extra time, I’ll want to go back and try them. For now I’m going to continue enjoying this second generation of the characters that are the kids of that original series.
Something I’ve noticed is a bit of a formula for these stories, and I like that I have a pretty good idea. Basically about the first half is spent with the two falling in love and finding their happiness together. There are little hints placed in the story, as well as small events that lead up to the big happenings in the second half of the story. There’s always one more smaller scare in the relationship towards the end, but I like how, at least in the ones I’ve read, we’re spending the last half seeing how they will make it together when the big bad things come around. In a way it’s like getting the “after” the HEA that I’ve often wondered about with other favorite stories.
The heroine, Calloway, was one that I definitely felt many similarities with. Especially the way she felt about herself. It was also fun to read about the school day to day for the school nurse job she had. However, as someone who has been a teacher and now a librarian for the past 24 years, I had to stop and point out on my Goodreads status update about a comment the characters made about how having visitors wear a name badge seemed a waste of time. Yeah, but it also is part of the security itself. It may not seem that helpful, but to get one, they’ve already gone through the office, and this way staff in the school know when they see someone wandering the building that isn’t supposed to be there if they should escort them to the office, or if they’ve already been checked in. So that is the reasoning. Okay, off my soap box about that.
Another great story from this author, and I will have to make sure I get signed up on as many of her books as I can in the future.
Review first appeared on Lisa Loves Literature.
Something I’ve noticed is a bit of a formula for these stories, and I like that I have a pretty good idea. Basically about the first half is spent with the two falling in love and finding their happiness together. There are little hints placed in the story, as well as small events that lead up to the big happenings in the second half of the story. There’s always one more smaller scare in the relationship towards the end, but I like how, at least in the ones I’ve read, we’re spending the last half seeing how they will make it together when the big bad things come around. In a way it’s like getting the “after” the HEA that I’ve often wondered about with other favorite stories.
The heroine, Calloway, was one that I definitely felt many similarities with. Especially the way she felt about herself. It was also fun to read about the school day to day for the school nurse job she had. However, as someone who has been a teacher and now a librarian for the past 24 years, I had to stop and point out on my Goodreads status update about a comment the characters made about how having visitors wear a name badge seemed a waste of time. Yeah, but it also is part of the security itself. It may not seem that helpful, but to get one, they’ve already gone through the office, and this way staff in the school know when they see someone wandering the building that isn’t supposed to be there if they should escort them to the office, or if they’ve already been checked in. So that is the reasoning. Okay, off my soap box about that.
Another great story from this author, and I will have to make sure I get signed up on as many of her books as I can in the future.
Review first appeared on Lisa Loves Literature.