Release Blitz & REVIEW ***Ain't Doin' It by Lani Lynn Vale ***

Title: Ain't Doin' It

Series: The Simple Man Series

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release Date: July 6, 2018
Cover Designer: Cover Me Darling
 Photographer: FuriousFotog
Model: Ian Daviau

Coke Solomon has lived a full life.

He’s a retired army drill sergeant, so he is more than used to getting his way.

And if he can’t have it his way? Well, let’s just say that’s never happened before…

At least not until Cora Maldonado walks into his life, demanding he fall in line, or she’ll find a way to make his life hell.

He finds out fast that Cora marches to the beat of her own drum, and a lot of times that drum takes her farther away rather than closer to where he feels she needs to be.

He can’t stand it.

He wants her, and he has to have her.

It doesn’t matter that she’s twenty years younger than him, and has a father that would rather see him dead than have his baby girl anywhere near him. Nor does it matter that his ex-wife is highly offended that she’s been replaced with a much younger woman.

Despite the odds stacking against them, he’ll fight for what he wants.

His ex-wife, her father, and their age difference be damned.

Review by: Melanie

(5 Stars)

Cora (Gabe and Ember's daughter) has followed Janie and Kayla to Hostel, although she hasn't made it known to them, preferring her privacy. Working from home allows her to do this but her new job requires her to need her rest and her new neighbour revving his engines late into the night is not conducive to this. When she goes to request he stop, she is stunned with how he makes her feel and how her body reacts to him, this older, bearded, gravelly voiced hunk called Coke. Days later she overhears an altercation between Coke and his crazy ex-wife and after deciding to help him out the pair start a relationship that slowly grows from friendly supporter to feelings of desire. This was definitely more of a slow burn romance with quite a few things holding them both back at the start, from Coke's POV the main one being the age difference.

Review by: Jennifer

(5 Stars)

Little Cora grew up and fell in love! Well not right away, but eventually she did. Cora decided to move to Hostel, right where Janie and Kayla are, well sort of. She is more out in the country, but she does have a neighbor. Coke, June's boss is her neighbor, and their first meeting is where Cora is telling him to keep his noise level down. For Coke, the neighbor is too young and innocent, and doesn't need to be pulled into his drama, even though he wants her. Cora isn't going to let Coke push her away, but she will be the one pulling away. When Coke realizes what Cora is doing, he will do what he can to make her see that she can't pull away.... but will the drama that Coke gets pulled into pull Cora in as well?

Wow,  I can't believe that I am going to say this, but I am a bit unhappy with some aspects of this story. Not Coke and Cora, or their relationship, its more the little details; Coke didn't retire from the Army, he only served 12/13 years, and his DS stint only goes for three or four years at most, DS isn't an MOS its something that after you join you get to a certain rank and go to school for, but that wouldn't have been his WHOLE military career. The mix up with Cora's last name is just a bit sad, it was nice to see later in the book it was right. Janie and Kayla coming off as bullies? Calling Ember, Ember, in the end.... she only knew her as mom, not sure what that was about. This had some good entertainment, drama, and nice sexy times... I'm just a bit tired of getting a book that has plot issues.  I LOVE Lani Lynn Vale's writing, but at this stage in the game, these style of mistakes that were in the Freebird series shouldn't be happening. This gets 4 stars.

I’m a married mother of three. My kids are all under 5, so I can assure you that they are a handful. I’ve been with my paramedic husband now for ten years, and we’ve produced three offspring that are nothing like us. I live in the greatest state in the world, Texas.

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