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Everette has made a name for himself as a school leader who can come into the toughest situation and still turn things around, combining creative problem solving with skills he learned as a Navy SEAL. So when a school in Irvine has a sudden drug problem, they bring him in.
As luck would have it, he moves in across the street from Vivienne; the attraction is mutual and instant. But life throws many curveballs at them in the form of the drug issues at his school, his daughter’s illness, and Vivienne’s stalker ex. They turn to each other for comfort, and her to him for protection, but things are messy. Will they work past their problems and come together?
*Daddy Next Door has no cheating and a HEA. Includes 4 bonus books.*
As luck would have it, he moves in across the street from Vivienne; the attraction is mutual and instant. But life throws many curveballs at them in the form of the drug issues at his school, his daughter’s illness, and Vivienne’s stalker ex. They turn to each other for comfort, and her to him for protection, but things are messy. Will they work past their problems and come together?
*Daddy Next Door has no cheating and a HEA. Includes 4 bonus books.*
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First published January 1, 2017
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January 31, 2018
Boring… Not credible… This story could had been so much better…
(Just to let you know, Daddy Next Door was bonus material following Expelled by the same author.)
This story is an interesting combo of stalking psychopathic ex’s, cheating past lovers suddenly popping back into the picture, and a designer drug taking over the schools of Southern California, more importantly, Irvine.
Irvine.
What a dump…
Sorry, it’s not a dump, and I really wonder if this author has ever been there. After the iT crash back in the 1980s (remember the Fluor Tower and impossible, stand-still traffic along the I-5 Freeway as there wasn’t another artery in miles?), Irvine almost became a ghost town of empty industrial plazas and skyscrapers. Now, it’s thriving very well with nary a barrio as it’s a big, sprawling college town with UC-Irvine taking up a ton of real estate. It’s loaded with upscale shopping malls of mammoth proportions that I got so lost trying to find a restaurant for a meet-up. The lack of descriptive narrative of the local didn’t make me feel like I was even there. Not even close.
Excuse me… Back to the story.
Okay. We know have a new, hulking alpha male of a principal brought in to clean up a local high school where an illicit drug named Rocket is being sold. And this new principal lives across the street of a daycare owner hottie. You’d think it was a match made in heaven, especially since he has a cute, little girl who’s mother abandoned her for alcohol and clubbing. This principal is an ex-Navy SEAL with friends, and with suspicions of local police corruption, he feels he has no other option but to try and catch the drug kingpin.
Length: Short novel… barely.
Character development: I find it now very interesting how technology is now affecting contemporary writing and how smart phones are the bane of our existence. But I am seeing how these cell phones are now dictating how our characters are being developed based on who’s calling, who’s phone-stalking, who’s posting on Facebook. (Does everyone document each and every minute on the internet?? *shudder*). As for these two, with or without phones, they are so screwed. In a way, Claire Adams actually considers if the future of books might be all about cell phone conversations, text messages, sexting, missed calls, and direct access to the internet. (You’ll have to read to figure out which side of the fence she’s on, though.) Does she make me like these characters? Well, yeah, but I think I am a little more sympathetic about an ex-Navy SEAL veterinarian and a cabbie who is a Vietnam War veteran. (Now there was a character she drops into the scene, but she could have used him a lot more!)
Emotional factor: Uh… I suppose it’s there. I just never was all that hooked. In all the confusion of exposition and issues of credibility (or lack thereof), I guess I was distracted. And I wasn’t at all falling for the very sick child ruse. That’s a cheap shot. Claire, talk to a physician before you do something like this.
Speed of action: This story definitely had a decent pace… until the very end. Way too rushed with the sudden appearance of the cavalry, and the epilogue just felt like a sudden slam-on-the-brakes, totally throwing me off. Vivienne and Everett might have had a happy ending, but I certainly didn’t. I felt strangely robbed of my time.
Predictability: I guessed half of the plots almost immediately. This book makes my sixth crazy ex in the past four months. Will it always be this predictable?
Credibility issues: (1) Despite its recent renewal, there IS crime in Irvine. I recently lived just north of Irvine, California for a few years. I’d check the police blotter in the Orange County Register when I’m bored. But it’s all pretty boring stuff. Nothing like the South Vietnamese “Mafia” of the 1980s-1990s in Westminster and Garden Grove and their connection with the assassination of one of my physics professors.
(2) NO undercover officer currently working on an active case would EVER show up on a radio show. A liaison from the police department drug enforcement team would do that as a public service as they did with Crack, PCP, Ecstasy, Spice, Bath Salts, Ruffies, and Krokodil. (But it’s usually the National Enquirer that beats them to the punch.)
(3) There are police tasks forces specially equipped and trained for drug-dealing in school campuses. Principals have no legal business sticking their noses into it. Everett already violated way too many legal procedures which would have led to a lot of evidence and testimonies being thrown out because of corruption of chain of evidence and accusations of witness tampering. These task forces are difficult to bribe (usually) because of how they are picked, per a friend of mine who was part of one in Michigan.
(4) The whole point of a Long Island Iced Tea is to taste JUST like iced tea without tasting of any alcohol. That is why a well-made one is so lethal because you don’t see it coming. If it tastes strongly of alcohol, the bartender botched it. This comes straight from my friend who is a barkeep that made a mean one that even I couldn’t tell if it was high-test, and I usually get the ol’ throat burn with ANYTHING alcoholic, even weak communion wine. So the drink Vivienne had was a poorly made one.
(5) Gastroenteritis (stomach flu) can be bad, but the statement by the physician that the type Jane had would really trash out her immune system… only if it was the Spanish Influenza of 1918. If so, then schools would be closed with the entire state under a pandemic alert. (This actually happened in 1983 in Southern California.) The way this ER doc was talking, he could have said AIDS transmitted via air. Claire – give me an email when you want to talk about contagions. And was Dr. Liza Alvarado, a specialist (whose specialty is never disclosed) really justified? Who calls in a specialist when you have UC-Irvine Medical Center in your backyard with hospital privileges? And shots? For what other than immunizations which would be contraindicated here? Injections via an IV line is the more appropriate route of administration. And since this is something that’s going around town, then the pediatricians in the hospital could have easily handled this. If I had wanted to bring in Dr. Alvarado, I would have had her be a pediatric hospitalist rotating in while her partner was rotating out. I also would not have discharged Jane on the same day of the drug administration. You have to wait and see how Jane improves before discharge. What if she had a delayed allergic reaction? Also, you can’t discharge until you know the patient is stable and can eat and drink without vomiting. So far, this hasn’t happened yet at the time Dr. Alvarado’s notification.
(6) As a physician, I would not be sedating Jane for the stomach flu. I’d be dealing with pain issues, rehydrating her, and making her comfortable. Sedatives can make pediatric patients hyperactive rather than sedate. An unconscious child who can’t tell me what’s going on right now isn’t how I like doing things. (I’ve hospitalized many a case like this.) The other thing that bothers me is that the stomach flu count is now three amongst our small cast of characters. If this thing is so contagious (and it is), then why isn’t Jane in isolation? She could give this bug to the rest of the hospital! I’ve seen this happen and it’s not pretty – especially when explosive, foul diarrhea is involved. Ugh! I’ve even seen hospitals close down for visitors because of contagion issues.
(7) Even though Everett isn’t the patient, he is the legal guardian of Jane, and therefore, Dr. Alvarado has NO BUSINESS in flirting or suggesting a resumption of a past relationship. This is against medical ethics and can result in loss of license. She would have to take herself off Jane’s case and not communicate with Everett for at least six months (in most states) before any attempt to get back together.
Grammar and technical errors: I didn’t see as many broken paragraphs, however, there was a ton of paragraph indention inconsistencies which made my eyes buggy, trying to figure out who’s talking and who’s not.
Was this book worth reading? Nah. Having lived in this area, I didn’t feel the author really knew what she was talking about. And this is such a hoot because I had just finished reading Cowboy Roomie by Claire Adams about an author who has to immerse herself in her book’s surroundings in order to write it! Go figure.
(Just to let you know, Daddy Next Door was bonus material following Expelled by the same author.)
This story is an interesting combo of stalking psychopathic ex’s, cheating past lovers suddenly popping back into the picture, and a designer drug taking over the schools of Southern California, more importantly, Irvine.
Irvine.
What a dump…
Sorry, it’s not a dump, and I really wonder if this author has ever been there. After the iT crash back in the 1980s (remember the Fluor Tower and impossible, stand-still traffic along the I-5 Freeway as there wasn’t another artery in miles?), Irvine almost became a ghost town of empty industrial plazas and skyscrapers. Now, it’s thriving very well with nary a barrio as it’s a big, sprawling college town with UC-Irvine taking up a ton of real estate. It’s loaded with upscale shopping malls of mammoth proportions that I got so lost trying to find a restaurant for a meet-up. The lack of descriptive narrative of the local didn’t make me feel like I was even there. Not even close.
Excuse me… Back to the story.
Okay. We know have a new, hulking alpha male of a principal brought in to clean up a local high school where an illicit drug named Rocket is being sold. And this new principal lives across the street of a daycare owner hottie. You’d think it was a match made in heaven, especially since he has a cute, little girl who’s mother abandoned her for alcohol and clubbing. This principal is an ex-Navy SEAL with friends, and with suspicions of local police corruption, he feels he has no other option but to try and catch the drug kingpin.
Length: Short novel… barely.
Character development: I find it now very interesting how technology is now affecting contemporary writing and how smart phones are the bane of our existence. But I am seeing how these cell phones are now dictating how our characters are being developed based on who’s calling, who’s phone-stalking, who’s posting on Facebook. (Does everyone document each and every minute on the internet?? *shudder*). As for these two, with or without phones, they are so screwed. In a way, Claire Adams actually considers if the future of books might be all about cell phone conversations, text messages, sexting, missed calls, and direct access to the internet. (You’ll have to read to figure out which side of the fence she’s on, though.) Does she make me like these characters? Well, yeah, but I think I am a little more sympathetic about an ex-Navy SEAL veterinarian and a cabbie who is a Vietnam War veteran. (Now there was a character she drops into the scene, but she could have used him a lot more!)
Emotional factor: Uh… I suppose it’s there. I just never was all that hooked. In all the confusion of exposition and issues of credibility (or lack thereof), I guess I was distracted. And I wasn’t at all falling for the very sick child ruse. That’s a cheap shot. Claire, talk to a physician before you do something like this.
Speed of action: This story definitely had a decent pace… until the very end. Way too rushed with the sudden appearance of the cavalry, and the epilogue just felt like a sudden slam-on-the-brakes, totally throwing me off. Vivienne and Everett might have had a happy ending, but I certainly didn’t. I felt strangely robbed of my time.
Predictability: I guessed half of the plots almost immediately. This book makes my sixth crazy ex in the past four months. Will it always be this predictable?
Credibility issues: (1) Despite its recent renewal, there IS crime in Irvine. I recently lived just north of Irvine, California for a few years. I’d check the police blotter in the Orange County Register when I’m bored. But it’s all pretty boring stuff. Nothing like the South Vietnamese “Mafia” of the 1980s-1990s in Westminster and Garden Grove and their connection with the assassination of one of my physics professors.
(2) NO undercover officer currently working on an active case would EVER show up on a radio show. A liaison from the police department drug enforcement team would do that as a public service as they did with Crack, PCP, Ecstasy, Spice, Bath Salts, Ruffies, and Krokodil. (But it’s usually the National Enquirer that beats them to the punch.)
(3) There are police tasks forces specially equipped and trained for drug-dealing in school campuses. Principals have no legal business sticking their noses into it. Everett already violated way too many legal procedures which would have led to a lot of evidence and testimonies being thrown out because of corruption of chain of evidence and accusations of witness tampering. These task forces are difficult to bribe (usually) because of how they are picked, per a friend of mine who was part of one in Michigan.
(4) The whole point of a Long Island Iced Tea is to taste JUST like iced tea without tasting of any alcohol. That is why a well-made one is so lethal because you don’t see it coming. If it tastes strongly of alcohol, the bartender botched it. This comes straight from my friend who is a barkeep that made a mean one that even I couldn’t tell if it was high-test, and I usually get the ol’ throat burn with ANYTHING alcoholic, even weak communion wine. So the drink Vivienne had was a poorly made one.
(5) Gastroenteritis (stomach flu) can be bad, but the statement by the physician that the type Jane had would really trash out her immune system… only if it was the Spanish Influenza of 1918. If so, then schools would be closed with the entire state under a pandemic alert. (This actually happened in 1983 in Southern California.) The way this ER doc was talking, he could have said AIDS transmitted via air. Claire – give me an email when you want to talk about contagions. And was Dr. Liza Alvarado, a specialist (whose specialty is never disclosed) really justified? Who calls in a specialist when you have UC-Irvine Medical Center in your backyard with hospital privileges? And shots? For what other than immunizations which would be contraindicated here? Injections via an IV line is the more appropriate route of administration. And since this is something that’s going around town, then the pediatricians in the hospital could have easily handled this. If I had wanted to bring in Dr. Alvarado, I would have had her be a pediatric hospitalist rotating in while her partner was rotating out. I also would not have discharged Jane on the same day of the drug administration. You have to wait and see how Jane improves before discharge. What if she had a delayed allergic reaction? Also, you can’t discharge until you know the patient is stable and can eat and drink without vomiting. So far, this hasn’t happened yet at the time Dr. Alvarado’s notification.
(6) As a physician, I would not be sedating Jane for the stomach flu. I’d be dealing with pain issues, rehydrating her, and making her comfortable. Sedatives can make pediatric patients hyperactive rather than sedate. An unconscious child who can’t tell me what’s going on right now isn’t how I like doing things. (I’ve hospitalized many a case like this.) The other thing that bothers me is that the stomach flu count is now three amongst our small cast of characters. If this thing is so contagious (and it is), then why isn’t Jane in isolation? She could give this bug to the rest of the hospital! I’ve seen this happen and it’s not pretty – especially when explosive, foul diarrhea is involved. Ugh! I’ve even seen hospitals close down for visitors because of contagion issues.
(7) Even though Everett isn’t the patient, he is the legal guardian of Jane, and therefore, Dr. Alvarado has NO BUSINESS in flirting or suggesting a resumption of a past relationship. This is against medical ethics and can result in loss of license. She would have to take herself off Jane’s case and not communicate with Everett for at least six months (in most states) before any attempt to get back together.
Grammar and technical errors: I didn’t see as many broken paragraphs, however, there was a ton of paragraph indention inconsistencies which made my eyes buggy, trying to figure out who’s talking and who’s not.
Was this book worth reading? Nah. Having lived in this area, I didn’t feel the author really knew what she was talking about. And this is such a hoot because I had just finished reading Cowboy Roomie by Claire Adams about an author who has to immerse herself in her book’s surroundings in order to write it! Go figure.
July 6, 2017
Daddy next door
One hot neighbor by the name of Everette and his daughter Jane, moved in to the neighborhood across the street from Vivienne. Both are very attracted to each other and hit it off great. Sadly both are holding back secrets. Can these two be open about their pasts? Great read. This book includes four additional books. First extra book is called The Fight with Fenton and Kya. Second extra book is called Gamed with Quinn and Owen. Third extra book is called The Single Dad with Blake and Emily. The last extra book is called Breathless box set with Johnny and Becky.
One hot neighbor by the name of Everette and his daughter Jane, moved in to the neighborhood across the street from Vivienne. Both are very attracted to each other and hit it off great. Sadly both are holding back secrets. Can these two be open about their pasts? Great read. This book includes four additional books. First extra book is called The Fight with Fenton and Kya. Second extra book is called Gamed with Quinn and Owen. Third extra book is called The Single Dad with Blake and Emily. The last extra book is called Breathless box set with Johnny and Becky.
June 25, 2017
A very good book from beginning to end. Everette was a sexy knight in shining armor. Vivienne was a woman who had to change her life because of a crazy ex. There's an instant chemistry between the two of them when they meet. They have to go through some difficult situations. I received this arc for an honest review.
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June 26, 2017
Claire Adams is an amazing author who knows how to hook readers from the very first page. Daddy Next Door is a phenomenal read that will captivate you from the beginning. I highly recommend this book. I voluntarily read an ARC on the first book!
August 1, 2017
Daddy next door the complete series
A good read for people who are in to the series recommend highly can't wait for the next one of the series a really enjoyable read but quick shaping up to be a enjoyable series must read the next one of the series
A good read for people who are in to the series recommend highly can't wait for the next one of the series a really enjoyable read but quick shaping up to be a enjoyable series must read the next one of the series
September 7, 2017
Boy Next Door
I really liked that you didn't use a lot of swearing or vulgarities. The books are very entertaining in their own right. I like to use my imagination when I'm reading. I get a lot more pleasure that way. I have a very good imagination. All in all a good read.
I really liked that you didn't use a lot of swearing or vulgarities. The books are very entertaining in their own right. I like to use my imagination when I'm reading. I get a lot more pleasure that way. I have a very good imagination. All in all a good read.
February 14, 2021
DADDY was the best!
The first book "DADDY NEXT DOOR" was very well written, exciting and held my interest. The others were a 3 rating. All of them had so many errors with grammar and poor editing that it was disappointing. You need a new editor.😢
The first book "DADDY NEXT DOOR" was very well written, exciting and held my interest. The others were a 3 rating. All of them had so many errors with grammar and poor editing that it was disappointing. You need a new editor.😢
June 22, 2017
Couldn't put it down!
I was hooked from the beginning to the end. I received this book for an ARC review and it is totally worth your time to check it out.
I was hooked from the beginning to the end. I received this book for an ARC review and it is totally worth your time to check it out.
August 2, 2017
just read frist 2 novels n i m done
daddy next door was cool read 3.5 stars
daddy next door was cool read 3.5 stars
February 17, 2021
Another great read
Enjoyed reading this book and reading about the characters and their story. Looking forward to reading more from this author.
Enjoyed reading this book and reading about the characters and their story. Looking forward to reading more from this author.
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