The Dare by Rachel Van Dyken
This review is from 2014 and is kept here for reference. Check the link for updates.
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- Stars
- ★★★★½
- Heat
- Fire
- Genre
- ContemporaryHumor
- Series
- Standalone
Recommendation
This could, quite possibly, be the funniest book I’ve ever read. The love story itself is a hilarious fairy tale driven by the best Fairy Godmother ever, Grandma Nadine. This feisty 86-year-old will do anything for her grandsons and their friends, and she stoops to new sneaky lows to get the gorgeous Senator and his nerdy soul mate together. There’s drugging, kidnapping, sex therapy, cookies and a crazy donkey. What else do you need in a love story? [July 2014]
Publisher synopsis
Boring Beth Lynn has always lived up to her nickname… until she wakes up in a hotel bed next to a sexy as sin state senator she re-connected with at a wedding the previous night.
The biggest problem? She can't seem to remember anything about the night before except for crying into a box of cookies, and she's pretty sure Grandma Nadine slipped something in her drink. And what should have been a one night stand turns into a six day adventure when Grandma whisks them off to Hawaii to save them from the ensuing media firestorm.
Jace isn't looking for commitment — he believes he made that clear when he left the wedding with Beth. Then again, he can't remember much of anything other than the way her skin felt beneath his hands. Now he's stuck with her at some lame couple's retreat and trying his hardest to fight the attraction only a woman like Beth could invoke.
He doesn't think it can get any worse.
But one spider attack… A donkey ride from hell… And an unfortunate episode with Viagra tea — and there's one thing Jace knows for sure: He should never have agreed to Grandma Nadine's suggestion in the first place.
Because if this isn't paradise, and it isn't a vacation — that only leaves one option.
Survival.
But to make it through alive… they might lose their hearts in the process.
Review published July 8, 2014
