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    The Romance Vote

    By Ali Vali

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    Christian “Chili” Alexander is the most sought after campaign consultant at the Pellegrin Morris Firm in New Orleans. Chili’s success has given her the freedom to choose her clients carefully, but she hasn’t had the same good fortune in love.

    Recent Tulane graduate Samantha Pellegrin wants the opportunity to work with the star of her father’s firm in the off-year election. As his only child, she’ll eventually inherit the firm, but she wants to continue their great track record in the world of politics. Her first day with Chili ends so disastrously, Sam wonders if she’ll take up the hobby of throwing darts at Chili’s picture.

    As the campaign progresses, Sam will make Chili work for what both of them want in the most important campaign of both their lives. Only this time their polls have to do more with the romance vote than any politician’s future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBold Strokes Books
    Release dateJan 19, 2015
    ISBN9781626392793
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    Ali Vali

    Originally from Cuba, Ali Vali has retained much of her family’s traditions and language and uses them frequently in her stories. Having her father read her stories and poetry before bed every night as a child infused her with a love of reading, which carries till today. In 2000, Ali decided to embark on a new path and started writing.She has discovered that living in Louisiana and running a non-profit provides plenty of material to draw from in creating her novels and short stories. Mixing imagination with different life experiences, she creates characters that are engaging to the reader on many levels. Ali states that "The feedback from readers encourages me to continue to hone my skills as a writer."

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    • 3/5
      While I generally don't love politics in the real world, in fiction, more often than not I definitely like them, and I definitely liked this one.It's about Chili, a big time campaign manager who wins more races than she loses. And Sam, the daughter of the owner of the firm Chili works for, who is a new graduate from college.Sam has been waiting for quite awhile (at least high school) to work for her Dad, and more importantly work alongside Chili. It definitely doesn't start out smooth sailing for either character though. But, slowly, their relationships changes and it was fun to read just how that happened.One of my problems with the novel was in the first half or so of it. A lot of the Sam/Chili stuff seemed very uneven at the beginning. and then throughout the book almost any scene that had Huey in it also seemed very, very uneven. I also found myself slow to warm up to both the characters of Sam and Chili.On the other hand I thought that the secondary characters in the book were really, really well written. I especially liked Dale, Chili's brother, and Maria, Sam's BFF. I do wish that we'd been able to actually meet Maria's girlfriend in person, and I sorta wanted to see more of Paula, mostly because that was such an intriguing subplot to me, and I thought that it was left just a bit hanging.Still. Overall I liked the novel. It was a fun and short read.I got this advanced galley through Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books.
    • 4/5
      Good read!!
    • 2/5
      I was pretty disappointed with this book. I think it started out pretty well, I liked the characters, the chemistry was heating up a bit, the central couple were working toward coming together in a fairly believable way, and I was thinking this would be a good, light romance. Exactly what I was hoping for.

      But about halfway through, everything fell apart for me. The "avoid the romance with this woman at all costs" thing was forgotten in literally a second and from then on out it was a trail of deception that, to me made absolutely no sense and seemed to go against character for both of the leads. That went on until nearly the very end when, without really explaining how things were resolved, everyone lives happily ever after.

      I think this will be my last attempt at a new Vali book.