3 stars for “A is for Alpha Male – 01 – A is for Alpha Male by Laurel Ulen Curtis”

A is for alpha maleThis is a difficult book to rate… until about 75% I have had several times where I just wanted to DNF but something made me keep going.

This is the story of 27 year old Haley and her 49 year old mother Allison. They go on a road trip together to find their own Alpha Males using an alphabetical list of traits based on Kristen Ashley’s Alpha Males. Will she find her own Alpha Male using the list or does she just have to open her eyes?

If you don’t know Kristen Ashley yet… Give her books a chance! She’s an amazing author and I love her books. Therefor I liked the references to her books and Alpha Males.

I initially picked this book as my next read because it was categorized as Funny and I was looking forward to LMAO but, for me personally, there was nothing funny about it!

Also right from the start I was extremely annoyed with Haley calling her mother Allison! To me that is very disrespectful. I really liked the strong bond they have and they really are alike but calling her Allison is just wrong to me!

I’m glad I continued reading because the last quarter was worth it!

At 84% I was doing a little happy dance because one single word made me aware where this book was going and I’m glad I was right. It was a welcome twist in this book.

At the end there was finally a part that made me laugh but it’s a little spoiler so skip if you don’t want to know … Spoiler : You probably already know there will be a HEA but just in case I marked this as spoiler. At the end of this book I really really loved the vows Dan speaks at their wedding. They are so original and at that moment I finally had to laugh!

I would have loved to have read Dan’s POV here and there to get to know more about his thoughts but it seems book 2 will give those. I’m not sure yet if I will read that book. Book 3 will be Allison’s story.