Good Trouble by Lani Lynn Vale Pages: 240
Series: Gator Bait MC #2
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Setting: Accident, FL
Source: ARC
Also in this series: Nobody Cares Unless You're Pretty, Cute But Psycho, Annoyed At First Sight, The Voices Are Back, Special Kind of Twisted, I'll Just Date Myself
Also by this author: Execution Style, Charlie Foxtrot, Coup de Grace, Right to my Wrong, Shock Advised, Hail No, Beard Mode, Lights To My Siren, Fear the Beard, I Like Big Dragons and I Cannot Lie , I'm Only Here for the Beard, Dragons Need Love, Too , Oh, My Dragon, Kevlar To My Vest , Keys To My Cuffs, Life To My Flight , Hissy Fit, Talkin' Trash, Lord Have Mercy, Hide Your Crazy, How About No, I'd Rather Not, Make Me, Sinners are Winners, If You Say So, Just Kidding, Herd That, Fries Before Guys, Crazy Heifer, Maybe Swearing Will Help, Keep it Classy, Chute Yeah, Get Bucked, May Contain Wine, Jokes on You, Somethin' About That Boy, Join the Club, Any Day Now, Say It Ain't So, Officially Over It, Nobody Knows, Depends on Who's Asking, Repeat Offender, Conjugal Visits, Jailbait, Quit Bein' Ugly, Doin' a Dime, Kitty Kitty, No Rep, Gen Pop, Jerk It, Inmate of the Month , Chalk Dirty to Me, Shakedown , Always Someone's Monster, Make Me Your Villain , Rattle Some Cages , Get Tragic , Strange and Unusual, Suck This, Never Trust the Living, Nobody Cares Unless You're Pretty, Cute But Psycho, Annoyed At First Sight, The Voices Are Back, Special Kind of Twisted, I'll Just Date Myself, Fun House, Freak Show, Show Off, Clown Motel, Big Nick Energy, Sold to the Circus, Killing Booth, The Fool
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Bain met Diana, a.k.a. Luce, the night before he was set to deploy to Afghanistan.
It’s not every day that you take your brother’s girlfriend to prom because he refuses to put out the effort.
That night was one of the best nights of his life and the next day, he leaves and doesn’t see her again.
But there are letters. Not many, but enough for them to form a connection.
Over the two-year deployment, they became great friends.
The best of friends—at least, as good of friends as you can be when it’s your brother’s wife.
Fast-forward six years and she still counts him as one of her greatest friends. Even going as far as to stick by him when he’s sent to prison because his own brother turned on him.
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Luce had a crush on her then-boyfriend’s brother since way before she and Bain’s brother were married. From the moment he volunteered to take her to prom, she’d fallen.
Over the years, she’d tried to hide it. Tried to go on with her life and act like she loved her husband and only her husband. But as time went on and Braxton started to treat her more and more like crap, she realized the truth. Her husband wasn’t Bain. Her husband would never be him.
Hell, that’d been proven time and time again.
The smoking gun, though? The thing that made her realize it was time to leave?
When her husband stood by while she was assaulted, while the man she tried to act like was just a friend protected her. Then was sentenced to eight years in jail for it.
It was time to admit the truth.
Bain McDempsey was it for her. She just had to help him see it. Oh, and get him out of prison first.
The Gator Bait MC series continues with Good Trouble and I am really falling in love with it! Bain and “Luce” have a forever kind of love, except for the fact she was really his brother’s girl.
I can say that I think I hated Braxton (Bain’s brother) more than any other character I’ve read in a long time. He is the worst kind of person-a true narcissist. I want him to suffer at some point. Suffer BAD! It’s difficult to understand how he is blood related to Bain and his parents because they are wonderful. Luce is wonderful as well. Her depression is relatable and I think a lot of people will understand why she married Braxton.
Bain has always loved Luce, but he really has to convince her to give them a shot. Bain is newly out of jail and trying to reestablish his life. Thankfully Accident, Florida has a new sheriff because Bain and Luce are going to spend a lot of time with him. Good Trouble was a quick, steamy, fun read that I binged in a day. I cannot wait for more from this series. I’m glad LLV writes fast!
- POV: dual 1st
- Tears: a few
- Trope: second chance, brother’s girlfriend, crazy ex
- Triggers: View Spoiler »
- Series/Standalone: standalone
- Cliffhanger: View Spoiler »
- HEA: View Spoiler »
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authors like Kennedy Fox, Piper Rayne, Layla Hagen…then you will probably like Good Trouble!
Good Trouble
This is an author I have been wanting to read so badly, I definitely need to pick up book one (which I have on the romanceopoly challenge if I don’t get to it before the end of the year).
Lovely review!