Kaci Lane, $0.99, ISBN 979-8201848958
Contemporary Romance, 2021
In Lake Level, every Tuesday from 11 to 7, the people will know that the taco truck, lovingly christened Taco To-Go, can be found at the shopping center opposite the high school. The winning Christopher Cruz, former baseball hottie, serves some of the best tacos in town, and his stuff sells briskly.
The locals make up most of his regular customers, and basically, every Tuesday is all about tacos. His tacos. Yummy tacos.
Hadi Rodgers, the new principal of the high school, is not amused. You see, she hates him. He is evil.
Each time he tries to be nice to her, she knows: he is evil and she hates him.
What did he do to her, you ask? Did he run over her elderly mother? Did he sleep with her mother?
No, it’s worse: the staff of the high school buy tacos from him.
Still, when she asks him to help her raise some funds for the school, she decides that she likes him now, and then she gets jealous over the idea that he may be doing fun things in his life, like dating hot women. How dare he be happy when she’s clearly neck deep in her vat of rancid bitterness?
Oh god, why me? Perhaps a short break from reading romance is in order, after my having read this thing.
I actually physically recoil a few times while reading this thing, thanks to the heroine’s bizarre determination to be the most irritating gnat in town. I don’t get why she has to overreact to everything, and why she needs to dial everything up to 9,001 and beyond just so that she can shriek around like a berserk, bitter harpy.
Christopher is cute and nice, the sole saving grace of this thing, but I guess he must have a masochistic streak in him to fall for a loon like Hadi.
Anyway, I’m not sure whom the target audience of Kaci Lane’s Taco Truck Takedown is meant to be.
I’m pretty certain, though, judging from my reaction to it, that I’m not in the market for romances featuring one-dimensional whiny and neurotic women with hot bodies but the mental capacity of a spiteful and bitter ten-year old!
