Ever After Drake by Keary Taylor

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Title: Ever After Drake
Author: Keary Taylor
Series: The McCain Saga #1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Stephanie Bentley
Length: 5 hours and 56 minutes
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
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My rating:

Blurb:

It was my first day as a brand new high school teacher. But I got dumped that morning. Via text. And then one of my students hit on me. And the rest of the day was a complete mess. The beautifully single Mr. Drake McCain found me in my classroom, feeling sorry for myself. And not sixty seconds later he had me laughing and electricity racing through my blood.

My family is broken and complicated. I literally don't know my biological father's name. My mother is absent and my half-brother barely knows who she is. But Drake? He's not complicated. He's sweet and kind and insanely adorable, and comes from a wonderful family. He is everything I want.

The chemistry between us? It's there in spades. I keep telling myself that I should be feeling really awful and depressed since I just got dumped a few days ago. But I keep getting this ridiculous smile on my face every time Drake is around and it's kind of hard to keep telling myself that.

I'm Kaylee Ray. I believe in fairy tales and happily ever afters, and maybe the search for Prince Charming is over.

Cue reality check.

All books in The McCain Saga may be read independently. This is a family saga and each book is about a different sibling. The following are listed from oldest to youngest sibling.

Ever After Drake, Moments Of Julian, Depths Of Lake, Playing It Kale (January 20, 2015)

DNF @ chapter 10 (2 hours in): This one just wasn’t for me, for a few different reasons.  It was seriously overly sweet in my opinion, or at least up until this point…like toothache sweet.  There wasn’t a lot of conflict, which apparently I need something to keep me tuning in.  And it wasn’t just the plot, Kaylee was over the top sweet as well.  But not always in a good way…  I actually listened (and DNFd) this one before rereading What I Didn’t Say, and I already noticed subtle shaming in this one too.  At one point Kaylee is going to meet Drake’s parents for the first time and she worries about what to wear, because she doesn’t want to look like a prude, but she doesn’t want to look like a slut either.  Because, you know, what you wear has any bearing on your sexual proclivities.  *sigh*  Like I said, I don’t have much tolerance for that stuff…this wasn’t like in your face, but I can’t help but notice even tiny bits, you know?

As for Kaylee and Drake?  Insta-love to the nines.  Which, can be fun…I’m not totally against it.  But I just didn’t know where the story was going.  There seemed to be finally setting up some conflict with Kaylee’s Mom, but in those moments Kaylee started sounding like a teenager, and I realized this story just wasn’t for me.

Compounding all this is that the narrator had a high super sweet voice…which actually fits Kaylee very well, but for some reason wasn’t working for me.  Which is ironic, since I have a higher voice myself.  *rolls eyes*

So yeah.  This was just not a Lenore book, and I figured I should cut my losses if it wasn’t going to be a match.