Reviews

Jack & Coke by Lani Lynn Vale

yellowgal05's review against another edition

lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

3.0

dana_yamaguchi's review

2.0

2.5 stars

laceyfrance's review against another edition

5.0

I love love love this book! Lani Lynn Vale is one of my favorite authors, but Whiskey Neat, the book prior to this one in this series, is my least favorite LLV book so I was apprehensive about this one. I'm happy to say that this is one may be my favorite LLV book! I love Mig's integrity. I love that Annie isn't a wishy washy idiot. It didn't seem to drag. Just an all around great read.

loriley's review against another edition

4.0

Ok I like Lani’s books, but this book was just terrible, as in the subject matter. Rape is rape, no ifs no buts no qualifiers.

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If this whole story was flipped nobody would have sympathy for the rapist. There are comments here where people have sympathy for Jennifer when Annie taunts her in jail. But thinks about it if the story was flipped. A woman is drugged and raped, the male rapist then holds his right to his kid over his victim’s head and makes her marry him, he ends up going to jail but keeps writing manipulative letters to his victim re-victimizing her (which is a real thing rapists do) and tries to hold on to his “parental rights” to the product of his assault. No I have no sympathy and neither should anyone. The H never actually discusses the emotional repercussions of his rape. This just shows how men who are raped try to respond and how little sympathy or care they get after a rape.

I just can not handle the subject of this story.

sabschipper's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

cmorris109's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

moonmamma0630's review against another edition

4.0

I wish i could give half stars, Jack and Coke would get 3 and a half. I liked it, but not as much as Whisky Neat which is the first one. A few other reviews mention my primary issue with the book, and this is that the male lead married the woman that drugged him and raped him because she was pregnant with his baby. I understand why he did it but it still bothered me. Not enough to make me stop reading but enough that if I ever reread the series I would probably skip this one.
Another part of reading a romance series that I love that was hard about this book is the time line of other characters we have already met. I was having a hard time figuring out where the first book and the second book overlap. Which is not a deal breaker, I mean this book was about Mig and Annie not Griff and Lanor but it makes me wounder if the rest of the books will be like this.

vikcs's review

emotional funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-paced

5.0

leabookjoy's review against another edition

3.0

3,5 stars more or less

French & English reviews

J'ai beaucoup moins accroché sur ce livre que le précédent ... Les personnages avaient beaucoup de potentiel (j'ai bien aimé l’héroïne et l'intrigue avec son ex-mari) mais il y a pas mal de trucs qui m'ont dérangé :
- le héros qui se fait

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violer MAIS qui épouse celle qui l'a violé parce qu'elle est enceinte

... GENRE SÉRIEUSEMENT ???
- le héros qui force l’héroïne à

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s'occuper de son ex-femme enceinte et genre ils vivent tous ensemble

... UUHHHHHHH ???
- ça m'avait un peu dérangée dans le premier tome mais sans plus. Or là j'ai eu l'impression que c'était pire : les scènes de sex sont un peu bizarres anatomiquement (genre y a des positions, même en relisant, je ne vois pas trop comment c'était possible ><)
Bref, je vais lire le prochain livre par curiosité quand même mais je suis dubitative ...

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I have much less like this book than the previous one ... The characters had a lot of potential (I liked the heroine and the plot with her ex-husband) but there are a lot of stuff that disturbed me :
- the hero who is

Spoiler

raped BUT who married the woman who raped him because she is pregnant

... REALLY ???
- the hero who forces the heroine to take care of

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his evil pregnant ex-wife and they all live together

... UUHHHHHHH ???
- it had disturbed me a bit in the first book but nothing more. Now I had the impression that it was worse : the sex scenes are a little odd anatomically (some positions, even when rereading, I don't see how it was possible ><)
In short, I will read the next book out of curiosity anyway but I am dubious ...

avid_read's review against another edition

funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0