Review: 4.5 hilarious stars!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2014
How to describe The Dare in one word? Hilarious. Plain and simple. Continuing with characters that were introduced in The Wager, Beth and Jace are left with little suspicion that they are being set up. What they don’t know is just how far Grandma Nadine will go to get what she wants. And this time, the hilarity is transported to Hawaii, in a series of events that leave Jace and Beth wondering just how they come to be in Grandma Nadine’s crosshairs.Jace, the youngest state Senator in Oregon history, was brought into The Wager to push Jake to man up and change his playboy ways. Beth, Char’s sister, is plagued with similar self-doubt that Char herself felt in The Wager. She has nearly resigned herself to becoming a crazy cat lady, as a single, 30 year old. Waking up in a hotel room sends the pair on a whirlwind trip to Hawaii to escape the media frenzy that has somehow gathered outside the building.While neither Jace nor Beth are actually related to Grandma, they are not immune to her influence. As Char’s sister, Beth could be considered family, but by the time the couple reaches Hawaii, Jace is reconsidering the favor he thought he was paying a friend when he stepped in to play his part in The Wager.Grandma Nadine was back to her match-making antics, but the best part about her antics in The Dare were the chapter openers as she is being interrogated by the FBI for Jace and Beth’s disappearance. As readers, we don’t know where they have gone either, until the very end, and that added bit of suspense only heightened the humor of the story as it was told. Each of Nadine’s scenes lead nicely into the rest of the chapter, which was told from Jace or Beth’s perspectives.Reading all three Bet books back to back meant I spent three full days laughing. They are pretty quick reads, but so full of over-the-top hilarity and situations. Each book has a little bit different feel, based on the needs of the characters, but Grandma Nadine’s attempts at matching her grandkids (and those she considered part of the family) remain at the center of all the fun.I was gifted a copy in exchange for an honest review.