First and Forever
Lynn Painter is hilarious and has been a go-to author for me since I first read her book Mr. Wrong Number and its sequel The Love Wager . I have no question she’s as immensely talented and funny as she’s proven herself to be in the four books of hers I’ve now read. All that said, I feel like I don’t recognize her in the pages of her newest football-themed rom-com First and Forever . I know she writes for the YA market too, and the tone seems better suited for it, if it weren't for one thing: the profanity. I only read two chapters and to use a football term, I’m throwing a flag on the foul language! It may be an artistic choice due to the sports theme, but it was too much. I’m no stranger to hearing or using a colorful word here and there, but coming up on forty times in two chapters …is that really necessary? It put me immediately at odds with the main characters I’d barely met yet. Speaking of these two, FMC Duffy talks and acts more like a cocky teenage boy so far...
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