March's Book

The Lincoln Lawyer

By Michael Connelly

Oh Matthew Mcconaughey....**sigh** even when you were found playing the bongo drums stoned out of your mind, I still had love for you in my heart. And while I enjoyed your forays into the world of Rom-Coms, your recent return to the courtroom world have ignited my love for you and your tough guy do right in the end ways.

This is why we picked this book for VBC this month.

The Lincoln Lawyer follows Mickey Haller, a criminal defense attorney who consistently is living in the shadow of his deceased criminal defense hot shot father, who he didn't really even know. He works out of one of four Lincoln Town Cars and runs all over Los Angeles looking for his next case. He's smooth, he's smart and he has two really fascinating ex wives and one adorable daughter. Mickey's greatest fear is that he will not be able to recognize an innocent client.

I really don't want to ruin this one for you. This is a pretty good book. I know I've been running behind so we've already had the meeting and all. The writing is good but the overall feeling was that the dialog with the characters is where the writing really shines. The book is a wonderful examination of one man's internal struggle to change who he is and confront what he believes.

We are going to go see the film once everything settles down in life. A bunch of us are all in transition.

PS..... here is a little something for your eye pleasure.

February's Book

Express Male

By Elizabeth Beverly

Yep!! In February the VBC read their first romance novel. I'm not going to try and fool you all...we were actually looking forward to some steamy pages. I have say .... we were pretty disappointed.

The premise of the book is that this shy piano teacher named Marnie gets confused for a super spy of this secret organization called OPUS. This organization reads more like a cross between Harry Potter and Dungeons and Dragons. Our sweet innocent heroine gets caught up in between good guy Noah and bad guy Adrian. We were hoping for some hot scenes filled with adjectives for neither regions and some sexy moments that would make us blush. We were sadly mistaken.

In one hopeful section, there was a moment when Noah was hiding in Marnie's spare bedroom while they set a trap for bad Adrian, we truly thought that there would be at least some passionate kissing that would leave a little breathless. Marnie has put on her best clothes and after several glasses of wine to fortify her nerves (because she's never ever been in such a dangerous situation...**sigh**) she traipses into the spare bedroom intent in FINALLY making a move on our 007 hero. As she wonders in and we wait with baited breath for some action, we are rewarded with the handsome tough rough agent Noah ....playing Pokemon. Instead of getting it on, Marnie tells him how to play better. Awesome.

Overall I think next February when we read a romance novel, we will choose one where a bodice is actually being ripped on the cover. Maybe we'll actually get some action.

PS... bad guy Aidan was the sexist thing in this book.