Lena H's Reviews > The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

** spoiler alert ** "Strong", ”independent" bisexual female main character hellbent on "vengeance" for her family spends most of the story whining internally about her crush on her straight female best friend, gets rescued by a hot loner boy who conveniently lives in a cave with a hot spring and slowly and predictably falls in love with him while still pining over her best friend crush who doesn't like her back because she's straight. This book is not a revenge story but a drawn out juvenile whiny "romance" that takes way too long to get to the actual promised point. The fact that this independent girl uses everyone around her to help get her unearned revenge and then somehow conveniently wins BOTH her love interests who don't even know each other to form a trouple made me literally gag.