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Regina Hobbs is nerdy by nature, businesswoman by nurture. She's finally taking her pop culture-centered media enterprise, Girls with Glasses, to the next level, but the stress is forcing her to face a familiar supervillain: insomnia. The only thing that helps her sleep when things get this bad is the deep, soothing voice of puzzle-obsessed live streamer Gustave Nguyen. The problem? His archive has been deleted.</div>
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Gus has been tasked with creating an escape room themed around a romance anime…except he knows nothing about romance or anime. Then mega-nerd and anime expert Reggie comes calling, and they make a trade: his voice for her knowledge. But when their online friendship has IRL chemistry, will they be able to escape love?</div>
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<strong>Can't Escape Love</strong>by Alyssa Cole<br />
<strong>Series</strong>Reluctant Royals<br />
<strong>Genre</strong>Adult<br />Contemporary Romance<br />
<strong>Publisher</strong>Avon Impulse<br />
<strong>Publication Date</strong>March 19, 2019<br />
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<em>Dear Mr. Kendoku,</em></div>
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<em>I hope this email finds you well. You may not remember me, but three years ago I used to tune in to your Streamlive.com channel, The Puzzle Zone. We chatted quite a bit over the course of three months, or rather I sent messages in the live stream chat function and you responded.</em></div>
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<em>I’m writing with what I’ll admit is an unconventional proposition. I’d like to request approximately ten hours of audio recordings of you speaking. I’m willing to pay a more than reasonable amount for this product, and will have a contract drawn up specifying that it is for my personal (noncreepy) use, protecting you from any unlawful dissemination of said product. I look forward to hearing back from you.</em></div>
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There. Nice and formal and businesslike, so there was no reason for him to think she really needed his voice, even if she did. But maybe it wasn’t the right tone? They’d spent every night together for three months after all—that was longer than any of her relationships had lasted. They’d kind of been friends.</div>
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Not enough for him to want to keep in contact, though.</div>
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Kakuro Kendoku’s email address had been unearthed by Reggie’s twin sister, Portia, Jill-of-all-trades and amateur internet detective. Portia, who was off on some kind of Eat, Pray, Swords journey of self-discovery in Scotland, had accidentally found out her boss was the secret love child of a duke using those same skills. Reggie was not in royal watchers fandom, but even she was intrigued, and the hits to Portia’s blog posts on GirlsWithGlasses were a bonus.</div>
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Reggie was certain she’d weirded her sister out by asking for anything from her, let alone information on a guy, since they usually didn’t talk about dating and personal stuff like some twins did. She’d let Portia think whatever she wanted because the reason she needed Kakuro was embarrassing.</div>
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His voice was the only thing that could help her sleep when her insomnia got this bad. She’d discovered that over the course of their short online friendship, a friendship in which neither knew the other’s real name, age, or location—their knowledge of each other was limited to what they’d revealed in the privacy of a totally public online live stream. The thing was, it had been private, since no one else had ever tuned in.</div>
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Whenever she couldn’t sleep, she’d revisit the stream’s archives; it’d still been up six months ago when she’d had her last battle with a recalcitrant Sandman. But it was gone now, deleted, and though she’d hoped that she wouldn’t need his soothing voice for a good long while, she needed her auditory Ambien <em>now</em>.</div>
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It pissed her off—she shouldn’t have to rely on a stranger like this, though he wasn’t exactly a stranger at this point. She didn’t know what he looked like, had never seen higher than his chin and mouth because his camera had been set up to focus on his hands, creating a kind of reverse Kakashi-sensei situation, but they’d “talked” almost every night after a couple of weeks of her lurking on his stream. She’d stumbled across it while looking for stuff to post on her fledgling website; his voice helped her focus as she worked late at night, searching for content and writing articles, figuring out how to turn her hobby into a hustle.</div>
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She had a great memory, but she hadn’t really known him then. It was her repeated bedtime listening sessions of his archived videos had led to her inadvertently absorbing things about him and his life. His relationship with his younger brother, who would sometimes walk around in the background of the videos and try to distract him. How often he mentioned his grandmother. His love of crunching on shrimp chips like his mic wasn’t picking up the sound, how he’d gone to school for architecture and been in between jobs. He’d also had a really nice mouth, not that it mattered. So he wasn’t a stranger, but she’d let herself turn his voice into a necessity, and now she was paying for it.</div>
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<strong>ALYSSA COLE</strong> is a science editor, pop culture nerd, and romance junkie who lives in the Caribbean and occasionally returns to her fast-paced NYC life. In addition to writing, she founded and hosted the Jefferson Market Library Romance Book Club and taught Romance Writing for Beginners. She speaks on topics such as writing erotic romance, writing multicultural romance, and self-editing. She has contributed romance-related articles to publications including RT Book Reviews, Heroes and Heartbreakers, Romance at Random, and The Toast. She has also started a bi-monthly column in the Romance Writer’s Report, Romancing the Globe, in which she chats with romance writers from around the world. When she’s not busy writing, traveling, and learning French, she can be found watching anime with her husband or tending to her herd of animals.</div>
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Elley Otterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05441675454627995780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779912966265879051.post-69415269371873913442019-03-21T21:00:00.000-05:002019-03-22T07:31:40.179-05:00Book Blitz: Immerse by Tobie Easton (Excerpt, Giveaway)<div style="margin: 0 auto 15px; text-align: center;">
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<strong>Immerse</strong><br /><strong>Tobie Easton </strong><br />(Mer Chronicles, #3)<br />Published by: Month9Books<br />Publication date: March 19th 2019<br />Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult<br />
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Immerse is the spellbinding and breathless final installment of the Mer Chronicles series where descendants of the Little Mermaid must face deadly magic, shifting alliances, and the dangers of forbidden love.<br />
Lia can’t wait for her parents’ coronation. Now living in the sparkling palace beneath the waves, she sneaks off to Malibu whenever possible to see Clay. Tucked away in an abandoned seaside mansion, Lia and Clay devise a plan to ensure they can stay together forever.<br />
But when an old enemy resurfaces and Lia is restricted to the palace for the safety of all Merkind, she and Clay are ripped apart once more.<br />
She fears not only for Clay, but for her best friend Caspian, who seems to be swimming down a dangerous path. He has invited the conniving Melusine to the coronation ball, convinced she’s capable of change. And no matter how hard Lia fights it, showing up on Caspian’s arm is just the start of Melusine’s insidious return to her life.<br />
With threats Below growing more ominous by the day and a powerful ancient ritual looming, soon the two girls can’t escape each other. As their fates grow increasingly intertwined, Melusine might be the only one who can help Lia find the answers she desperately needs to save everyone she loves and to achieve her happily ever after. But can Lia trust her?</blockquote>
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The library doors are my favorite in the castle. Unlike all the other doors, made of sculpted sea glass in colors ranging from pastels to deep jewel tones, the doors to the <em>varellska</em> (Mermese for library) are made of the coated wood of a sunken Victorian ship. Mounted to the frame between the double doors is a handcrafted mermaid from the ship’s prow, her wooden hair blowing around her in carved curls, her face proud. She puts a smile on my own face as I open one of the doors and swim into the room that may hold the answer I need among its secrets.<br />
Shelves stretch up the walls high above my head, each lined with shells of every conceivable size and pattern, from short volumes of poetry in tiny sundial shells to hours-long research tomes in giant diadema shells. Between the shells stand various treasures for decoration: an antique spyglass, a bronze-rimmed compass, an old brass lantern. I inhale the scent of shell polish and whalebone styluses.<br />
I’ve come on the librarian’s day off and have the whole place to myself. I swim up to the highest shelves, where there rests a large, gilded starfish, the symbol of balanced justice. What’s happened to Clay at the hands and fins of Merkind has been anything but just. I’m hoping that means justice is on our side throughout our quest to make him a Merman. I rub the starfish for luck. “<em>Help me find a way</em>,” I murmur into the <em>varellska’s</em> quiet stillness.<br />
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Award-winning author Tobie Easton was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where she's grown from a little girl who dreamed about magic to a twenty-something who writes about it. Her debut novel, Emerge, is a Gold Medal Winner (Young Adult - Sci-Fi/Fantasy) of the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards and is Book 1 in the acclaimed Mer Chronicles series. The trilogy follows the descendants of the Little Mermaid and offers fans a peek into a world where Mermaids aren't just real, but live secretly among us on land.<br />
She and her very kissable husband enjoy traveling the globe and fostering packs of rescue puppies. Tobie loves chocolate chip cookies and Oxford commas. A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California, Tobie splits her time between Los Angeles and Boston. Learn more about Tobie and her upcoming books on www.TobieEaston.com.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: center;">Their meet cute and her chucking a book and it conking him on the head as he walks by in the hall. How could I possibly not like this book? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: center;">Brooklyn is sweet but has an iron spine (even if she doesn't quite know it yet) and is the sort of Hufflepuff that every family needs. Her siblings are hilarious, and I'm looking forward to reading more of this series so I can read their stories as well. I love how supportive their entire family is, and the way they treat Wyatt is great. OH! And Brooklyn's Grandma is such a treat! I do love a meddling, slightly eccentric older lady in a romance. ;)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: center;">I had a little harder time getting a bead on Wyatt. They kept referring to his "dark" past, but didn't really elaborate much except to say he was a major player. Um, ok? That's not really that awful... It sounds like he participated in a lot of totally consensual hook-ups where both parties knew the score, so... Kind of some unnecessary drama with him worrying about his "dark past" and what a "horrible person" he was. And then there's the Big Drama where they're back in New York and he's all "you're not going to like New York Wyatt," and "whatever happens in there, don't leave without me." OK dude, way to be SUPER overdramatic. </span><br />
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Desperate to escape her vile fiancé, Lady Clara devises a bold lie—that she’s pregnant with another man’s child. With her reputation in tatters, Clara flees to Scotland to live out her days in disgrace, resigned to her fate as a spinster…until she claps eyes on the powerful and wickedly handsome Laird Hunt MacLarin.</div>
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Laird of an ancient clan, Hunt needs an heir, but he comes from a long line of men cursed to die before the birth of their firstborn. When the Duke of Autenberry approaches him with a proposition—marry my ruined sister—it seems the perfect solution. Even better, the defiant lass stirs him to his very soul.</div>
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Except marriage cannot set them free. No matter how much Hunt desires her. No matter how much Clara burns for him. Soon she is falling for her husband, but is love enough to end the curse? Or is the tragic history of the MacLarin Clan doomed to repeat itself?</div>
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<strong>This Scot of Mine </strong>by Sophie Jordan<br />
<strong>Series </strong>The Rogue Files<br />
<strong>Genre </strong>Adult <br />Historical Romance<br />
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<strong>Publication Date </strong>March 12, 2019<br />
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Clara could not have made the invitation any clearer.</div>
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She didn’t know where such boldness came from within her. She had never forayed into intimacy like this. She didn’t know she had it in her. She supposed it had something to do with the way he made her feel . . . something to do with the fire in her blood.</div>
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He said her name again. “Clara.” In that husky brogue of his she felt herself melting, sliding deeper into a puddle of desire.</div>
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They hadn’t even kissed. Not a true romantic kiss. She did not count the chaste peck the morning of her wedding.</div>
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And heavens, she wanted him to kiss her.</div>
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She wanted his mouth on hers. She wanted to taste him with an ache that went bone-deep. Despite his gruffness, his mouth looked beautiful. There was a tenderness in the well-carved shape that she wanted to explore.</div>
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<strong>SOPHIE JORDAN</strong> grew up in the Texas hill country where she wove fantasies of dragons, warriors, and princesses. A former high school English teacher, she’s the New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author of more than twenty novels. She now lives in Houston with her family. When she’s not writing, she spends her time overloading on caffeine (lattes preferred), talking plotlines with anyone who will listen (including her kids), and cramming her DVR with anything that has a happily ever after.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">First of all, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">Murphy</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">. *swoon* He totally made this book for me, but I'm a sucker for chefs and for men who are big teddy bears. The way he and Eliza meet (or keep meeting!) and their chemistry is awesome, and his insight into being a guy on a dating app was great.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">Eliza was a little more back-and-forth for me, and I really didn't like how the love triangle was done. She is just super into whichever guy she's with, and then when she's with the other guy it's like she switches into alternate-universe Eliza. I'm not a big fan of love triangles in the first place, especially when they actually involve one person liking two people, because I feel like they can make the person in the middle look indecisive and kind of wishy-washy... Which Eliza does. :/ Her </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">Dear Liza</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"> advice column is great, though, and she definitely has her moments that made me like her (mostly while hanging out with Murphy, or with her sister). </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">Shout out to Eliza's dog Dudley and Murphy's (sort-of) dog Dozer for being AWESOME supporting characters, haha!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">This is the third book in the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">425 Madison</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"> series, but each book is written by a different author and stands on its own.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“When you signing up? Women love a chef.” My best friend Derek is the back manager of Amore and got me the interview as head chef. Tonight, he gets to be both managers since the front manager called in sick. Sick is code for his new girlfriend is visiting from upstate. Mike gets sick every third Saturday, almost religiously.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Match Me. It’s where I met Callie. I also met Claire on there,” Derek tips his head at our staff, “Clint is talking to some woman on there too. You need to get out there. Enjoy the finer things the big apple has to offer.” I only roll my eyes. I didn’t come to New York to date. I came to work in a new environment and get some better kitchen experience. One of the female servers watches Derek and I talk, trying to be discreet, but it’s no secret that she’s hot for Derek. Even my player best friend knows better than to mix business and pleasure. Although that may be his only rule when it comes to women. Sharing a bedroom wall with him proves that point.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Welcome to 425 Madison Ave the perfect place to fall in love. Nine delicious romances set in fast-paced & sexy NYC just waiting for you to read.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The series features stories from some of your favorite romance authors: Leigh Lennon, MK Moore, Allie York, Aubree Valentine, Kay Gordon, Lauren Helms, Sylvia Kane, Katy Ames, and C. Lesbirel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Join these authors as they come together, each with a standalone romance for you to enjoy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Featuring some of readers' favorite tropes: second-chance romance, best friends sibling romance to a good ol' enemies to lovers romance. We've got you covered with a sports romance, a fake relationship and even an ugly duckling or two. Don't forget a brother's best friend and falling for your soul mate. Maybe a little love triangle as well. Each tale offers you something new, something different. After all, 425</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Author: </b>Alyssa Cole</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Series: </b>Reluctant Royals, book 3.5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Publisher: </b>Avon Impulse (March 19, 2019)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Regina Hobbs is nerdy by nature, businesswoman by nurture. She's finally taking her pop culture-centered media enterprise, Girls with Glasses, to the next level, but the stress is forcing her to face a familiar supervillain: insomnia. The only thing that helps her sleep when things get this bad is the deep, soothing voice of puzzle-obsessed live streamer Gustave Nguyen. The problem? His archive has been deleted.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Gus has been tasked with creating an escape room themed around a romance anime…except he knows nothing about romance or anime. Then mega-nerd and anime expert Reggie comes calling, and they make a trade: his voice for her knowledge. But when their online friendship has IRL chemistry, will they be able to escape love?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">I. Love. This. Book. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Seriously, every book in this series is somehow better than the last, and my prediction was that this one would make my brain explode with awesomeness, and it basically did. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">I have to start by just bowing down before Alyssa Cole at the amazing rep in this book. I stan a book about with a leading lady who is black and disabled, a leading man who is Vietnamese-American, and both are neurodivergent. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Reggie describes herself as a pineapple, and she's had to be - she's a woman operating in a male-dominated space that has some of the nastiest, neck-beardiest gatekeepers on the World Wide Web, and as a disabled black woman she's got seem keen insight into intersectionality and strives to make that space she's carved out at her website, GirlsWithGlasses.com, as safe and awesome a space as possible. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">I love that both Reggie and Gus are so quirky, and they fit together like - well, like two pieces of a puzzle. :) Gus is so sweet, and I really love how direct he is. His honesty and directness reminded me a lot of Stella from Helen Hoang's </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">The Kiss Quotient</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> (but a lot more in touch with social norms!)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">This is book 3.5 in the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Reluctant Royals</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> series, but timeline-wise it runs in tandem with book 2, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">A Duke by Default</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">, and there are spoilers for </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">A Duke by Default</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> in this book. It can still be read as a stand alone if you haven't read any of the rest of the series (including </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">A Duke by Default</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">), and has no spoilers for the rest of the series.</span></span>Elley Otterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05441675454627995780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779912966265879051.post-78083306643868885132019-03-18T07:00:00.000-05:002019-03-18T07:00:08.950-05:00Book Review: The Princess of Baker Street by Mia Kerick<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Princess of Baker Street</h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Author: Mia Kerick</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Publisher: Harmony Ink Press (January 22, 2019)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">eBook, 180 pages</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">When she was a child, Joey Kinkaid, assigned as a boy at birth—wearing Mom’s purple sundress and an imaginary crown—ruled the Baker Street neighborhood with a flair and imagination that kept the other kids captivated. Day after day, she led them on fantastic after-school adventures, but those innocent childhood days are over, and the magic is gone. The princess is alone.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Even Eric Sinclair, the Prince Eric to Joey’s Princess Ariel, has turned his back on his former friend, watching in silence as Joey is tormented at school. Eric isn’t proud of it, but their enchanted youth is over, and they’ve been thrust into a dog-eat-dog world where those who conform survive and those who don’t… well, they don’t. Eric has enough to deal with at home, where his mother has abandoned him to live in isolation and poverty.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">But Eric can’t stay on the sidelines forever. When Joey finally accepts her female gender and comes to school wearing lip gloss, leggings, and a silky pink scarf, the bullies readily take the opportunity she hands them, driving Joey to attempt suicide and leaving Eric at a crossroads—one that will influence both their lives in not just the present, but the future.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Is there a chance the two teens can be friends again, and maybe even more?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">This book was really difficult to get into because it's told from the POV of Eric, an 8th grader who isn't the "sharpest tool in the shed," as his mom tells him. As such, it reads the way an 8th grader might speak, so the grammar is not great which at times made this book paaaaaainfullllll. Maybe if I was still in 8th grade (and not 33 years old...) I'd have found it less painful. I'm really glad I stuck with it though, because this book has several great messages and a really great story, and I found myself rooting for both Eric and Joey so hard. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">The Princess of Baker Street</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> should be required reading for middle schoolers. I want to sit every middle school kid down and have them read this and Jerry Spinelli's </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Stargirl</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">, and then cry and hope that </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">someday</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> kids will be able to go through their preteens and early teens and not tear each other apart for being different. (Hey, I bet you can guess whether I was bullied really badly in middle school...) I love the message of hope in the second half of this book, and that everything isn't magically fixed but that it </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">does</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> get better for everyone, and that as these kids grow up they're able to become stronger and more sure in themselves and their identities, and to band together and stick up for each other and be their real and true selves.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">An ARC of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley for review.</i></span>Elley Otterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05441675454627995780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779912966265879051.post-21239527241954347272019-03-15T07:49:00.005-05:002019-03-15T07:49:50.812-05:00Project Re-shelf Yourself - Kissing Books<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So I'm still plugging away on Project Re-Shelf Yourself, where I'm trying to organize the utter chaos that is my bookcases. I've got Annie and Ari coming to help me on Sunday, March 24th to help, and I really need to figure out how I want everything organized by then!<br />
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You can see what I'm working with in this post: <a href="https://elleyotter.blogspot.com/2019/01/project-re-shelf-yourself-show-me-your.html?_sm_au_=iNMn4ZtjQQJZtRts" target="_blank">Project Re-Shelf Yourself - Show Me Your #Shelfie</a><br />
We also talked about <a href="https://elleyotter.blogspot.com/2019/01/project-re-shelf-yourself-lets-get.html?_sm_au_=iNMn4ZtjQQJZtRts" target="_blank">methods of organization</a> and <a href="https://elleyotter.blogspot.com/2019/01/project-re-shelf-yourself-another-one.html?_sm_au_=iNMn4ZtjQQJZtRts" target="_blank">unhauling books</a> back in January.<br />
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Today I want to talk about organizing romance - specifically, do you organize your romance into subgenres? I think romance is by far and away what I've got the most of on my TBR shelves. I tend to hang on to less of these when I'm finished reading them than I do for sci-fi/fantasy though - maybe because I don't do rereads of romance as often because there are SO MANY NEW ONES, ALL THE TIME? In unhauling I am trying to keep just the romances I really loved and know I will want to reread or rec to people (by physically flinging the book at their heads...)<br />
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Still, I have a LOT of romances in my TBR. Like, we're talking hundreds. x.X (It's not hoarding if it's books!) Right now I'm kind of thinking of separating them into subgenres and then shelving by author, but which subgenres?! Historical vs Contemporary is an easy one, but what about paranormal romances? Or fantasy romance? I have a lot fewer of these two subgenres, and since they both have an element of the fantastic do I just lump them together? Or put the paranormal romances with the other contemporaries, because they're sort of contemporary romance with a twist?<br />
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I can't be the only one that organizes my books by genre... How else might I sort these? I want to make it easy to find something to read when I go browse my shelves. (Well, as easy as possible when there are hundreds of books...) </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Do you organize your books by genre? What about subgenres? Or is there a better way? Teach me your ways! (Bonus points if it's romance!)</i></span></div>
<br />Elley Otterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05441675454627995780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779912966265879051.post-59248974703213012322019-03-14T07:00:00.000-05:002019-03-15T07:35:56.419-05:00Blog Tour: Scales by Nicole Conway (Excerpt, Giveaway)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">SCALES (Spirits of Chaos, #1)</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Author: Nicole Conway</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When New York City faces the threat of an ancient evil, a teenage boy must use a magical bracelet to transform into a monster-slaying dragon superhero.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Koji Owens is the new kid … again. As the only son of an Air Force F-16 pilot, he’s learned to adapt and survive every time they move. It’s not easy starting over with new friends and schools every two years, but when the Owens family makes their final move to New York, Koji finally has hope for a normal high school life—that is, until he finds a strange bracelet in his locker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Transformed into a storm-summoning dragon warrior, Koji finds himself caught up in a world of ancient powers, secret identities, and colossal monsters threatening to destroy his new home. But these awesome powers come with strings attached, and revealing his true identity could mean losing everything he loves. With his family and friends now in mortal danger and New York City in flames, Koji must find the courage to become the hero they need and face down an enemy hiding in plain sight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A comic-obsessed teenage misfit embraces his inner hero in this action-packed adventure that will leave you ready to get your scales on!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Morning, Koji,” my dad called across the lobby as he strolled through the revolving glass door. His outfit drew a strange look from the receptionist as he made his way over to join me at the table. He wore his standard, olive-green flight suit with matching green combat boots—the same uniform I’d seen him in since…well, as long as I could remember. Tucking his navy blue flight cap into the big pocket on the leg of his suit, he flashed me a quick grin as he sat down. “Got everything packed up?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Excellent.” Dad sat back and yawned, rubbing the bridge of his nose. “The traffic is murder out there. It’s going to take some getting used to. Good thing we’re close enough to your new school you can walk. It’ll take me an hour just to get to the university. And that’s on a good day.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was six o’clock when our cab pulled up to the front of a narrow, red brick house with a big cement staircase out front. It stood on a quieter street traffic-wise, but there were still people strolling the sidewalks in both directions. Our new house was tall, narrow, and had three levels. A big, circular window looked out from the top floor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">MY NAME IS NICOLE CONWAY and I love to write stories! I've been writing books since I was very young, and am blessed beyond measure to be able to do it now as a full time career. Although I sometimes step out into other genres, I primarily write Fantasy for teens and middle graders.</span></div>
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Elley Otterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05441675454627995780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779912966265879051.post-73904471733142125232019-03-12T09:06:00.005-05:002019-03-12T09:09:02.105-05:00Book Blitz: Right Girl, Wrong Timing by Natalie Decker (Excerpt, Giveaway)<br />
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<strong>Right Girl, Wrong Timing </strong><br />
<strong>Natalie Decker </strong><br />
(Offsides, #3)<br />
Published by: Swoon Romance<br />
Publication date: March 12th 2019<br />
Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult<br />
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Adaline Frost’s life officially sucks. Now that her BFF has found her true love, Addy is constantly stuck being the third wheel. On top of that, she hasn’t started her junior project yet, so her advisor pairs her up with what could only be described as the “Reject Breakfast Club.” Instead of the weirdo and the troublemaker, Addy is forced to work with two stoners, a popular girl, and her crush, Austin Reed, the jock who broke her heart.<br />
Austin Reed is sick of being labeled “dumb jock.” If he doesn’t get an A on this project, he can kiss his future goodbye. Austin thought he’d gotten lucky being partners with the very nerdy Adaline Frost, but boy was he wrong. Addy jumps down his throat about his being late and calls him names like “manwhore” on the daily. She has no idea Austin works before and after school in order to help his mom with the bills. Yeah, he’s made mistakes and has had lots of girlfriends, but he doesn’t need Adaline Frost to remind him of it every time he sees her.<br />
Can Austin and Addy ever be a thing?<br />
Right Girl Wrong Timing is book 3 in the Offsides series by Natalie Decker.</blockquote>
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I’m about to go forward and talk to her, but I divert from that plan as soon as I see Greg stepping up next to her. He’s blocking her from my view with his douchiness.<br />
She said they weren’t dating at the dance. That was weeks ago, so why the hell is he still hanging around her? Why are his fingers clasping wisps of her hair? He shouldn’t be touching her.<br />
This feeling is not sitting right with me at all. Fact is, I’ve never been jealous. Have I been a little envious of the people who go here recently? Maybe. I mean, a few months ago I used to be just like them. New clothes, shoes, going to parties, not having a care in the world. Then my mom lost her awesome job at the hospital due to cuts, Dad left, and shit just went downhill. Now, I have to make sure my mom and I don’t get kicked out of the dump we live in or have anything shut off because of the lack of funds. I’ve never been jealous of a guy dating a girl I was interested in, though. Until Adaline, and I swear this is going to be a problem. It’s already cost me my childhood home. I can’t afford to lose any more.<br />
My fingernails dig into my palm as my hands ball into fists at my sides while I watch Adaline tip back her head and laugh. I need to get a grip. I’m losing it. This shouldn’t bother me. In fact, I shouldn’t even give a shit that they’re hanging out. Adaline and I can’t be anything.<br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The bastard son of a nobleman, Finn Trewlove was a shameful secret raised by a stranger. As Finn came of age he had secrets, too--the clandestine nights spent with an earl’s daughter. But her promise of forever ended in betrayal.</span><br />
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Driven by a past that haunts her, Lady Lavinia Kent seeks redemption in London’s underworld, engaged in a daring cause inspired by the young man to whom she gave her innocence, and who then proved himself a scoundrel by abandoning her.<br />
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When their paths cross again, they can’t deny the yearning and desire that still burns. As they discover the truth behind the deceptions that tore them apart, Finn and Lavinia must fight to reclaim what they’ve lost, no matter how dangerous—because love is worth the risk….<br />
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<strong>The Scoundrel in Her Bed</strong><br />
by Lorraine Heath<br />
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Sins For All Seasons<br />
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Adult<br />
Historical Romance<br />
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Avon Books<br />
<strong>Publication Date</strong><br />
February 26, 2019<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;">First of all, I feel the need to start with a disclaimer that I typically go for romances that are pretty low-angsty, and am more of a rom-com kind of gal than a lover of a good angsty romantic drama. Give me </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">The Proposal</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;"> over </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">The Notebook</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;"> any day of the week. That being said, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">The Scoundrel in Her Bed</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;"> was a bit higher on the angst scale than I normally care for, which had some effect on my star rating. I still rated it really highly overall (mostly because I totally melt for Finn...) and if angsty romances are your thing you very well might like this more than I did. A large part of my not liking it as much is just a personal preference for a lighter tone to my romances. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;">The first half of the book starts out with alternating chapters of now and flashbacks to when Finn and Lavinia met, which was a really interesting way to reveal their story and the development of their relationship across BOTH timelines. Every time I started to think Lavinia was behaving rather unreasonably, or that Finn was kind of a jerk, there'd be a flashback chapter that would give deeper insight into their history and suddenly their motivations made more sense and it just made both of them so much more real and fully-formed people rather than just characters to me. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;">The prologue opens with a women having a baby and that baby being taken from her, and I spent most of the book D-Y-I-N-G to find out if the woman was Lavinia or Finn's mother. Like, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">dying</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;">. It is eventually revealed, but there are some bits of leads thrown out here and there to try to sway the reader to either assumption, so I was kept guessing through most of the book until it was </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">finally</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;"> revealed. I wanted to shake the book and yell "JUST TELL ME ALREADY, I GOTS TA KNOW!" several times. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;">Also, I am in love with Finn. And basically his whole family, who are a family of unicorns somehow and turn everything they touch into gold and they all have nobles falling in love with them, so prepare yourself for some mighty suspension of disbelief when it comes to the Trewlove family. (But with a last name like Trewlove you were already preparing for this, yes?) That being said, I'm really looking forward to reading about the rest of Finn's lovely family. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;">I saw a lot of reviewers that didn't love Lavinia, especially Lavinia in the second half where she is fiercely guarding her heart. Without putting any spoilers in this review, the woman has been through some extremely awful stuff and has managed to pull herself up by the bootstraps and soldier on, saving not only herself but also taking up a cause and saving dozens of children from very likely death... And you don't like her because she won't instantly trust Finn when her own parents are the ones who made her go through the aforementioned suffering? Um.... Okay. My girl has some trust issues. She has some anxiety issues. She is also in pain and grieving and has been very much not only alone but having to live wearing a mask of normalcy for YEARS. Lavinia is a strong-ass bitch and has erected walls around her heart that she built with her own blood and tears as the mortar. Yeah, they're going to take some time and pain to break down. If you can't deal, you don't deserve her. Finn knows this, which is why Finn is my man. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;">This is the third book in the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">Sins for all Seasons</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;"> series, and while it can be read as a stand alone there are definitely spoilers for at least one earlier book in the series.</span></div>
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Delilah Swanpoole, Countess of Derring, learns the hard way that her husband, “Dear Dull Derring,” is a lot more interesting—and perfidious—dead than alive. It’s a devil of an inheritance, but in the grand ruins of the one building Derring left her, are the seeds of her liberation. And she vows <em>never</em> again to place herself at the mercy of a man.</div>
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But battle-hardened Captain Tristan Hardy is nothing if not merciless. When the charismatic naval hero tracks a notorious smuggler to a London boarding house known as the Rogue’s Palace, seducing the beautiful, blue-blooded proprietress to get his man seems like a small sacrifice.</div>
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They both believe love is a myth. But a desire beyond reason threatens to destroy the armor around their hearts. Now a shattering decision looms: Will Tristan betray his own code of honor…or choose a love that might be the truest thing he’s ever known?</div>
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<strong>Lady Derring Takes a Lover</strong><br />
by Julie Anne Long<br />
<strong>Series</strong><br />
The Palace of Rogues<br />
<strong>Genre</strong><br />
Adult<br />
Historical Romance<br />
<strong>Publisher</strong><br />
Avon Books<br />
<strong>Publication Date</strong><br />
February 26, 2019<br />
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She’d taken two steps when he said, his voice raised only a little, “Lady Derring . . . something puzzles me.”</div>
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She halted. Closed her eyes.</div>
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Took a shuddering breath for courage.</div>
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Turned back to him. From the relatively safe distance of three feet, she said, “Surely not. We’ve established you know everything.”</div>
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His smile was small and patient. “You seem to excel at so very much here at The Grand Palace on the Thames. Yet you can’t seem to disguise how much you want me.”<br />
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USA Today bestselling author <strong>JULIE ANNE LONG</strong> originally set out to be a rock star when she grew up (and she has the guitars and fringed clothing stuffed in the back of her closet to prove it), but writing was always her first love. Since hanging up her guitar for the computer keyboard, her books frequently top reader and critic polls and have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Rita, Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice, and The Quills, and reviewers have been known to use words like “dazzling,” “brilliant,” and “impossible to put down” when describing them. Julie lives in Northern California.</div>
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<strong>Balanced Scales by Laura Greenwood: </strong><br />
“What happens at the end of your version of the story?”<br />
I shrugged. “Much the same as in your version, I guess. She falls in love with the Prince, he with her, they get married and live happily ever after.”<br />
Erickson’s face fell. “That’s not the same as our version,” he responded. “Ours is a lot more sinister. She loses her chance to marry the Prince. When her sisters find out, they barter for a dagger. The mermaid could return to the sea if she stabbed the Prince through the heart with it.”<br />
I shuddered. “That’s horrible. Did she do it?” If she had, then maybe it would explain why humans seemed to be so against the mer.<br />
“No. She turned into sea foam and disappeared into the air. Some versions say she’s taken pity on by some sylphs and became one of them.”<br />
“Sylphs?” I’d never heard of them and had no idea what he meant. They certainly weren’t part of the stories I’d been told as a child.<br />
“I don’t know how to explain them. They’re made of air and hang around in the atmosphere.”<br />
“And what do they do to her?”<br />
“I’m not sure. In our version of the story, mermaids don’t have souls. When they die they turn to sea foam and just cease to exist.”<br />
I laughed lightly as we turned down another street. “I can assure you, that’s not what it’s like.”<br />
“I guessed. You can’t have a soul stolen if you didn’t have one to begin with.”<br />
“Which do you think is the true version of the story?” My words came out barely above a whisper. Part of me didn’t want to ask at all. Especially if it would mean he said he thought his version was the right one. If that was true, then how had my people gotten souls to begin with…<br />
“Neither. I think it’s nothing more than a story. Each side will tell it the way that puts their own people in the best light. Just like with every other legend like that.”<br />
“I suppose…” Though I didn’t like to think of the mermaid I’d heard so much about as nothing more than fiction. She’d been an inspiration to so many young mer who wanted adventure. Not so much on land, but out in the open sea.<br />
“You never know, maybe one day they’ll be telling our story like they do hers,” he said jovially.<br />
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<strong>From The Little Monster by Jennifer Ellision: </strong><br />
“Wait!” The little human lurched forward, a single hand outstretched, the other anchored firmly to the ship’s railing. It swallowed as the little monster raised a brow to her. The hand fell lamely back to her side.<br />
“I… don’t even know your name.”<br />
“Name?”<br />
“What are you called?”<br />
“I don’t understand.” What was she called? She was a predator, a hunter, a Mordgris, a…<br />
“I am a monster,” she said simply.<br />
“You’re all monsters,” the human breathed. “But you’re not quite like the rest. How am I to call you and you alone?”<br />
Her. Alone.<br />
A thrill spiked through the little monster. Why hadn’t she thought of this before? She deserved her own name. She was the best of her kind. There was nothing in the sea that could best her except, perhaps, the sea itself. And that made choosing a name simple.<br />
“You may call me Mara,” she said.<br />
“Mara,” the human repeated slowly. “Mara… for the sea?”<br />
Another thrill surged within her as she nodded, knowing the word belonged only to her. The little human had understood the meaning instantly. In a way that prey was not meant to understand its hunter.<br />
“I am Amista,” she said, lifting her full lower scales to cross the bottoms of her fins and bob on deck. “And it has been a pleasure to meet you, Mara.”<br />
Mara dove back into the cool embrace of the sea, feeling Amista’s eyes on her back as she swam away.<br />
The little monster had become Mara.<br />
The little human had become Amista.<br />
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Today I'm going to tell you about some of the books I'm waiting for an I am SO SUPER EXCITED FOR. There are a LOT of them, so I've narrowed it down to the ones about nerds, LOL. That's right, you heard me - these are the books with the nerdy MCs. </div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Can't Escape Love by Alyssa Cole</span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">Regina Hobbs is nerdy by nature, businesswoman by nurture. She's finally taking her pop culture-centered media enterprise, Girls with Glasses, to the next level, but the stress is forcing her to face a familiar supervillain: insomnia. The only thing that helps her sleep when things get this bad is the deep, soothing voice of puzzle-obsessed live streamer Gustave Nguyen. The problem? His archive has been deleted.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">Gus has been tasked with creating an escape room themed around a romance anime…except he knows nothing about romance or anime. Then mega-nerd and anime expert Reggie comes calling, and they make a trade: his voice for her knowledge. But when their online friendship has IRL chemistry, will they be able to escape love?</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nerdy girls, nerdy girls! *leads cheerleading team* I love seeing some nerd-girl rep in romance! Also, I love that this cover has actual POC cover models. I've noticed a definite trend toward illustrated covers, and it seems like it's especially in books about POC characters, and while many of them are REALLY amazing, I think representation matters. This cover is <i>gorgeous, </i>and I'm so happy Avon and Alyssa and everyone involved decided to use real and fabulous cover models and not go the illustrated route on this one. ALSO; every book in this series has somehow managed to be even better than the last, which should be impossible because I'm pretty sure I'm been rating them 5 stars since book 2. As this is the 5th book (including novellas, officially book 3.5), if it continues on-trend I'm pretty sure the awesomeness is going to make my head explode. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">The videos are fun.<br /><br />But it’s the host who has him coming back for more…</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">When Seattle-based blind YouTuber Dovid Rosenstein finds Sam Doyle’s Let’s Play channel, playitagainsam, he’s instantly captivated by the Irish gamer. Everything about Sam is adorable, from his accent to his personality, and Dovid can’t get enough of his content.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">Dovid’s glowing shout-out on Don’t Look Now, his own successful channel, sends Sam’s subscriber numbers skyrocketing overnight. He has more comments than he can read. And while the sudden surge in popularity is anxiety inducing, Sam decides it’s only right to dedicate his next episode to Dovid…which soon leads to a heart-pounding exchange of DMs.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">They may have never met in person, but Dovid’s never felt this close to anyone before. What they have feels worth exploring—no matter the distance. But is it possible to already be in love with someone who’s half a world away?</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ahh! Even the blurb has me clutching my cheeks like an anime character and emitting a high-pitched squee noise. I'm pretty sure there are even little cartoon hearts popping out above my head. I love an online romance, and this sounds so cuuuute. And hooray for having a blind MC, because the world needs more diverse main characters! Can't wait to read this one. *so many little puffy hearts popping*</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">Alisha Rai returns with the first book in her sizzling new Modern Love series, in which two rival dating app creators find themselves at odds in the boardroom but in sync in the bedroom.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">Rhiannon Hunter may have revolutionized romance in the digital world, but in real life she only swipes right on her career—and the occasional hookup. The cynical dating app creator controls her love life with a few key rules: </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">- Nude pics are by invitation only </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">- If someone stands you up, block them with extreme prejudice </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">- Protect your heart </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">Only there aren't any rules to govern her attraction to her newest match, former pro-football player Samson Lima. The sexy and seemingly sweet hunk woos her one magical night... and disappears. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">Rhi thought she'd buried her hurt over Samson ghosting her, until he suddenly surfaces months later, still big, still beautiful—and in league with a business rival. He says he won't fumble their second chance, but she's wary. A temporary physical partnership is one thing, but a merger of hearts? Surely that’s too high a risk…</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ooh boy! This book has it all! A lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers vibe, high-powered nerds - actually I can't tell from the blurb if he's actually a nerd or not.... It says "two rival dating app creators" and later says he's a former pro-football player and is "in league with a business rival." I sure hope he's a sports nerd, because the world needs more multi-faceted hot guys. Anyway, it's got a nerd-girl heroine at least, and that's a definite plus. I've read other books by Alisha Rai and loved them, and I'm interested to see if this change in cover style reflects any change in writing style. </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Series: Brooksville #1</span></span></b></div>
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Brooksville, California. <br />
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It's the same place where Charlie has taken refuge, trying to build a life for
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misses a chance to swoon over characters. Originally from Germany, she now
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<b>Contemporary romances read in February:</b> 6</div>
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<b>Total contemporary romances read:</b> 18</div>
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<b>Goal:</b> 21+</div>
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<b>Retellings read in February:</b> 1</div>
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<b>Total retellings read: 3</b></div>
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<b>Goal:</b> 21-25</div>
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This month I tried to get a mix of ARCs and backlist books... though it's rather ARC heavy. I'm also focusing on filling some gaps for authors I haven't read yet that will be at KissCon Weekend Affair on April 5-7! I've noted below where I link to the Goodreads page for each of the books which are KissCon authors. ♥ Also some of them I've read books by before and ADORE (like Cat Sebastian) but I happen to have an upcoming ARC by them, so I'm moving said ARC to the front of my TBR queue for March so I can have a book by said author super-fresh in my mind when I meet them to squee over and pee my pants about, haha.<br />
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38594296-the-scoundrel-in-her-bed"><i>The Scoundrel in her Bed </i>by Lorraine Heath</a> </li>
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<li>KissCon author</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38135735-rebel"><i>Rebel </i>by Beverly Jenkins</a></li>
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<li>KissCon author, and new to me author! I own quite a few of Beverly Jenkins' backlist books and just haven't made the time to read them, so I'm knocking this DRC out before KissCon, and hopefully it will send me down the rabbit hole to read all of her backlist, haha. </li>
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42117382-can-t-escape-love"><i>Can't Escape Love </i>by Alyssa Cole</a> </li>
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<li>KissCon author, a fave author & series, and one of my most anticipated books of the spring!</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068754-a-scandalous-deal"><i>A Scandalous Deal </i>by Joanna Shupe</a> </li>
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<li>KissCon author</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36501794-a-duke-in-disguise"><i>A Duke in Disguise </i>by Cat Sebastian</a> </li>
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<li>KissCon author, and one of my all-time FAVORITE authors!</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39863092-the-right-swipe"><i>The Right Swipe </i>by Alisha Rai</a></li>
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<li>KissCon author, and I was so exicted to get this DRC that I emitted a high-pitched squealing teapot noise. This book doesn't release until July, but I'm using the fact that Alisha Rai is going to be at KissCon as an excuse to move it to my March TBR and read it ahead of some other books that I probably "should" read first because I really just can't wait to read it, haha. </li>
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40374603-lady-derring-takes-a-lover"><i>Lady Derring Takes a Lover </i>by Julie Anne Long</a></li>
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<li>Eloisa James' Facebook group had a book release party for this one the other day with Julie Anne Long, and she shared some excerpt and MAN, I can't wait to read this. From the excerpts, it's going to be amaaaaaazing. Plus, Lenora Bell, one of MY favorite authors, said that Julie is one of <i>her</i> favorite authors. Julie is a new author to me, so I'm excited to read my first book by her!</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41724928-in-the-vanishers-palace"><i>The Vanisher's Palace </i>by Aliette de Bodard</a></li>
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<li>I got this egalley a while ago and was super jazzed to read it, and have heard really great things, but I just never got around to actually READING it, which is awful. Going to knock out this past-due DRC this month</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42648713-the-princess-of-baker-street"><i>The Princess of Baker Street </i>by Mia Kerick</a></li>
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<li>Another past due DRC, I read a couple of excerpts for this one and it looks just so cute and amazing. It's just that once that ARCs/DRCs/egalleys/whatchacallums get to be past due, there are more and more new books to focus on. I want to make sure I don't lose sight of this one, so I put it squarely on my March TBR!</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42641003-snow-white-with-the-red-hair-vol-1"><i>Snow White with the Red Hair </i>by Sorata Akizuki</a></li>
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<li>It's been a long while since I read any manga, so it's about time I did a deep dive... Will this get me hooked again? WHO KNOWS!</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40642333-the-bird-king"><i>The Bird King </i>by G. Willow Wilson</a></li>
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<li>This is actually the only book on this list that I have a physical copy of... The rest are going to be giving my Kindle a workout! This will be a nice change of pace to read a book made from trees!</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38942811-keep-christianity-weird"><i>Keep Christianity Weird: Embracing the Discipline of Being Different </i>by Michael Frost</a></li>
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<li>This is either going to be really good, or awful. We'll see! The premise seems like it's about Jesus being all about hangout about with prostitutes and the poor, and not being up his own butt and holier-than-thou (even though he actually <i>was</i> and <i>is</i> holier than thou) and how we, as Christians, should emulate that. Again... we'll see. </li>
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<li><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39893126-craftfulness">Craftfulness: Mend Yourself by Making Things</a></i></li>
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<li>I'm trying to read more nonfic this year, and I'm not gonna lie, these two are the shortest nonfic titles on my ARC list... LOL I'm interesting to see if blogging counts as "making things"?</li>
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It's Getting Scot in Here</h4>
<b>Suzanne Enoch</b><br />
<b>Wild Wicked Highlanders, book 1</b><br />
St. Martin's Paperbacks<br />
February 26, 2019<br />
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<i>HAPPILY-EVER-AFTER</i><br />
London socialite Amelia-Rose Baxter is nobody’s fool. Her parents may want her to catch a title, but she<br />
will never change who she is for the promise of marriage. Her husband will be a man who can<br />
appreciate her sharp mind as well as her body. A sophisticated man who loves life in London. A man<br />
who considers her his equal—and won’t try to tame her wild heart...<br />
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<i>IN THE HIGHLANDS</i><br />
Rough, rugged Highlander Niall MacTaggert and his brothers know the rules: the eldest must marry or<br />
lose the ancestral estate, period. But Niall’s eldest brother just isn’t interested in the lady his mother<br />
selected. Is it because Amelia-Rose is just too. . . Free-spirited? Yes. Brazen? Aye. Surely Niall can find a<br />
way to soften up the whip-smart lass and make her the perfect match for his brother for the sake of the<br />
family.<br />
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<i>JUST GOT A WHOLE LOT HOTTER.</i><br />
Instead it’s Niall who tempts Amelia-Rose, despite her reservations about barbarian Highlanders. Niall<br />
finds the lass nigh irresistible as well, but he won’t make the mistake his father did in marrying an<br />
Englishwoman who doesn’t like the Highlands. Does he have what it takes to win her heart? There is<br />
only one way to find out...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">I kind of wanted to shake Amelia-Rose several time in this book. I had to keep reminding myself that she is a VERY sheltered nineteen year old and that I should have patience with her... BUT OH MY GOSH, I've gotten so used to strong and sassy women in my historical romances, and it was difficult to watch Amelia-Rose struggle so hard to figure out who she is. Still, she goes through a lot of personal growth throughout this book, which is something I love to see in a romance novel, so I will give her that. She also has a great spirit and inner fire, she just keeps trying to squash it and hide her light under a bushel to please her family and be a dutiful daughter (boooooorinnnnnng!) </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">Niall, I love. I love that he fills the middle-child peacemaker role despite being the youngest of three brothers, though I guess if you count his (absent) baby sister he is </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">technically</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"> a middle child? He's so clever and charming, and I love how patient he is with Amelia-Rose while she sorts herself out, and he lets her - no, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">encourages her</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"> to be herself and seek her happiness. He's also ready to meet her halfway, which is amazing, and he doesn't try to make decisions for her or decide what's best for her. He listens to her, then believes she means what she says. SWOON. Total consent boner .</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">I'm excited to read Aden's book, but not sure how Suzanne Enoch is going to make me like Coll... Also, this one was a little more brogue-y than the last Highlander romance I read by Enoch, which I didn't always love, but it wasn't so heavy as to be too distracting. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">This is the first book in the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">Wild Wicked Highlanders</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"> series, and can be read as a stand alone. </span><br />
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Once upon a time—in May
1785, to be exact—Angus MacTaggert, Earl Aldriss, traveled from the middle of
the Scottish Highlands to London in search of a wealthy bride to save his
well-loved but crumbling estate. Aldriss Park had been in the MacTaggert family
since the time of Henry VIII, when Domhnall MacTaggert, despite being Catholic
and married, declared publicly that Henry should be able to wed as many lasses
as he wanted until one of them got him a son. Aldriss Park was the newly minted
earl’s reward for his support and understanding.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For the next two
hundred years Aldriss thrived, until the weight of poor harvests, the
ever-intruding, rule-making Sassenach, and the MacTaggerts’ own fondness for
drinking, gambling, and wild investments (including an early bicycle design
wherein the driver sat between two wheels; sadly, it had no braking mechanism
and after a series of accidents nearly began a war within the MacTaggerts’ clan
Ross) began to sink it into disrepair.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When Angus inherited
the title in 1783, he realized the old castle needed far more than a fresh coat
of paint to keep it from both physical collapse and bankruptcy. And so he
determined to go down among the enemy Sassenach and win himself a wealthy
bride. The English had made enough trouble for him and his over the centuries, so
they could bloody well help him set things right.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On his second day in
London, he met the stunning Francesca Oswell, the only offspring of James and
Mary Oswell, Viscount and Viscountess of Hornford—who had more money than Midas
and a bevy of very fine solicitors—at a masked ball where he dressed as a bull,
and she as a swan. Despite the misgivings of nearly every-one in Mayfair, Angus
and Francesca immediately fell madly in love, and married with a special
license ten days later.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A week after that,
Angus took Francesca back to Aldriss Park and the Highlands, where she found
very little civilization, a great many sheep, and a husband who preferred
brawling to dancing, and he discovered that her father’s solicitors had
arranged to keep the Oswell family money in Francesca’s hands. This made for
some very spectacular arguments, because there is nothing more combustible in
the world than an impoverished Highlands laird in disagreement with an
independently wealthy English lady about his own ancestral lands.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Over the next thirteen
turbulent years the estate prospered, and Francesca gave Angus three sons—Coll,
Aden, and Niall—and with each one became more concerned that this was not a
life for any civilized person. She wanted to bring the boys back to London for
proper educations and to live proper lives, but Angus refused, stating that what
had been good enough for him would be good enough for his lads.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When a fourth child, a
daughter, arrived in 1798, Francesca reached her breaking point. No daughter of
hers was going to be raised with an uncivilized accent in a rough country where
she would be ridiculed by proper Society and unfit to marry anyone but a
shepherd or a peat cutter. Angus refused to let his lads go, but he allowed
Francesca to take young Eloise and return to London—on the condition that she
continue providing for the maintenance of the estate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Francesca reluctantly
agreed, but given that she controlled the purse strings, she had her own
conditions to try to keep
some influence with her wild sons: All three boys must marry before their
sister, they must wed proper Englishwomen, and at least one of them must marry
someone of her choosing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She knew Angus would
raise them as he pleased, but they were her children, too, by God, and she
meant to see to it that they had some semblance of propriety in their lives—she
was a viscount’s daughter, after all, and certain things would be expected of
her offspring. She refused to allow them to be viewed as unsophisticated wild
men by her London neighbors, and she remained determined to have a presence in
their lives.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To enforce her will,
she convinced (or rather, coerced) Angus to put his signature to the agreement,
which contained this provision: If young Eloise MacTaggert did marry before any
of the boys, Francesca would cut off all funds to the estate. If they were to
insist on defiance, they would have a heavy price to pay for it—one they and
their tenants could not afford.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Angus had no choice but
to agree, and considering that Coll, the oldest, was only twelve at the time of
Francesca’s departure and Eloise was but a wee bairn, he was willing to wager
that he would have time to renegotiate. Angus and Francesca remained married,
but neither would bend enough to visit the other ever again. As far as the lads
were concerned, their mother had abandoned them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the spring of 1816
Angus received a letter from Francesca announcing their daughter’s engagement,
and he promptly collapsed. He’d hoped his sons would have found themselves
Scottish lasses by now and shown their mother she couldn’t control their lives
after all, but the lads were defiant and wouldn’t be rushed. Now it appeared to
be too late.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He summoned his sons to
his apparent deathbed and confessed all—Francesca funding the estate, the pernicious
agreement, and their mother’s grasping claws, which he explained was a symptom
of all Englishwomen and their weak, clinging, cloying ways. For the sake of the
property and their tenants the young men must go to London. At once. No sense
even taking time to put him in the ground, much less mourn him, because
Francesca wouldn’t excuse the loss of time, and they needed to marry before
their sister.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The lads—grown men,
now—were not at all happy suddenly to learn about the responsibilities and
rules foisted upon them by a woman they barely remembered. Being wily,
freehearted, and exceptionally handsome men accustomed to doing things their
way and certainly not bowing to the demands of a demented Englishwoman, they
determined to go down to London not to comply, but to outwit their mother and
upend any plans she had for them. And thus, dear reader, begins our story.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A native and current resident of Southern California, Suzanne Enoch loves movies almost as much as she loves books, with a special place in her heart for anything Star Wars. She has written more than forty Regency novels and historical romances, which are regularly found on the New York Times bestseller list.<br />
When she is not busily working on her next book, Suzanne likes to contemplate interesting phenomena, like how the three guppies in her aquarium became 161 guppies in five months.<br />
Some of Suzanne's books include <i>Barefoot In The Dark</i>, <i>It's Getting Scot in Here</i>, <i>Lady Whistledown</i><br />
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<b>Author: </b>Jenny Colgan<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>William Morrow Paperbacks (March 12, 2019)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">From </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">New York Times </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">bestselling author Jenny Colgan comes a hilarious romantic comedy about a down-on-her-luck florist whose future begins to bloom when she takes on the challenge of helping to transform her nerdy roommate.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Holly is a frustrated florist whose life doesn’t seem to be coming up roses. Fleeing a roommate situation from hell, she moves in with a motley crew of friends—Josh, a sexually confused merchant banker; Kate, a high-flying legal eagle with talons to match; and Addison, a gorgeous computer geek who spends his days communicating with his online girlfriend and anyone who worships at the altar of Jean-Luc Picard. From the moment Holly catches a rare glimpse of Addison, she’s smitten. The only problem is how to get him to swivel his chair from the computer screen to her adoring gaze.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">After a series of false starts—involving a new friend and mathematician, Finn—Holly coaxes Addison away from his computer screen and out into the open. While “out in the open” spells disaster for Addison, curiously, her own future begins to bloom. Holly and her friends make desperate attempts to connect with Addison, drag him away from his fiercely possessive girlfriend, Claudia, and get him to communicate with the real world.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">With Jenny Colgan’s trademark wit and a cast of unforgettable characters, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">My Very '90s Romance</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> will capture your heart.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Review</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">I liked the way this book ended enough to give it back an entire star. That being said, HOLY PROBLEMATIC BOOK, BATMAN! Holly is a super judgemental bitch, and just pretty all-around unlikelable. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">This book is soooo fatphobic, it makes my physically ill. Even this misleading blurb!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">"Holly and her friends make desperate attempts to connect with Addison, drag him away from his fiercely possessive girlfriend, Claudia, and get him to communicate with the real world." Holly spends most of the book trying in her weird, delusional way to hook up with Addison DESPITE THE FACT that he says he has a girlfriend, and she makes (NUMEROUS) disparaging remarks about Addison's girlfriend because she's fat. ALSO, Addison makes huge strides to come out of his shell and he </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">tells Holly is because Claudia has encouraged him to be more social and get out more</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">. So no, Holly and her friends are not making desperate attempts to connect with Addison and drag him away from his fiercely protective girlfriend - </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">HOLLY</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> is making desperate attempts to hook up with a guy who already has a girlfriend, while said long-distance girlfriend is incredible supportive despite her own crippling battle with agoraphobia. HOLLY IS A BITCH. /mic drop </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Also, she cavalierly uses guys she doesn't even like, and the way she treats Finn is abominable despite that fact that 1) he's clearly THE MOST ADORABLE NERDBOY and 2) they have the cutesty and best chemistry. She is just ... UGH. Yuck. There is also a lot of homophobic ribbing of Josh, who may or may not be straight/CIS, and the handling of Josh and his gender/sexuality was just ... not done well. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">I liked the way this book resolved (for the most part...) and I'm glad I stuck with it and kept reading, but it is VERY problematic. I'd have liked to see Holly go through some realization of what a horrible person she is and maybe some self-growth, but we don't really see that... or maybe not go around making disgusting comments about peoples' weight all through the book (both about Claudia and about Dr. Flowers...) Actually, Holly basically makes disparaging, snotty observations about </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">everyone</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> she encounters, which is rich since she very much does </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">not</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> have her shit in order.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">"But wait, why did you rate this 3 stars?" you may be asking. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Reasons I </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">did</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> like this book:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">* Finn</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">* God</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">* Chali</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">* Finn & Addison nerd-bonding</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">* Nurse Stephen in general</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">* Dr. Flower's enjoyment of Chali's band</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">* God again (he was really funny, ok?)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">* Finn some more (Team Finn)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">So mostly side characters that saved the day, as the main character just didn't float my boat. Hooray for great side characters, though!! But if it weren't for God and Finn, this would have been a 2 star read,and if not for the other side characters (and that party scene with Finn & Addison, as well as Finn's scenes with Holly that made me not HATE HER GUTS) I'd probably have DNF'd this one... :/</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">An ARC of this book was provided by the publisher via Edelweiss + for review.</i></span>Elley Otterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05441675454627995780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4779912966265879051.post-80920737472228621162019-02-28T14:47:00.002-06:002019-02-28T14:51:54.065-06:00Book Blitz: Can't Text This by Teagan Hunter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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That's how I ended up in the bathroom of some dive bar with a stranger.</div>
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Me, Monty Andrews, the quintessential virgin girl next door.</div>
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I was so out of my element, but there was no denying our explosive attraction, even via text.</div>
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Commence Operation Bang Each Other Out of Our Systems, because that was all it was--unfinished business.</div>
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I had no intention of falling back into the sheets with the tattooed, muscly, dirty-in-the-best-kind-of-way single dad over and over again...but I did.</div>
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Everything was going great--until we discovered I was his son's teacher.</div>
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Dropped out of high school? Check. Ran away with loser boyfriend at age sixteen? Check. Fell for every line from every guy? Sadly, check. But now, Tess Paplion has started over. Juggling multiple part-time jobs while finishing her college degree, she’s not letting anything get in her way. Especially not a sexy angel investor with “one-night disaster” written all over him.</div>
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Mason Coleman just inherited a 200-pound invalid Mastiff—and an intriguing, unusual, and thoroughly infuriating dog nanny who turns his life upside down the moment she steps through his front door. No matter how she makes him feel Mason doesn’t do commitment—so what happens when he falls for her? And worse, what happens when she wants nothing to do with him?</div>
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About the Book</h3>
<strong>Heartbreaker</strong><br />
by Inara Scott<br />
<strong>Series</strong><br />
Bad Angels Book One<br />
<strong>Genre</strong><br />
Adult<br />
Contemporary Romance<br />
Romantic Comedy<br />
<strong>Publisher</strong><br />
Entangled Amara<br />
<strong>Publication Date</strong><br />
February 25, 2019<br />
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Excerpt</h3>
Chapter One<br />
None of the three of them remembered exactly where the nickname “Bad Angels” had come from.<br />
Connor and Nate accused Mason of making it up to pick up women. But as a six-foot-two former quarterback who also happened to be a founding member of one of Silicon Valley’s hottest venture capital firms, Mason didn’t exactly need a nickname to get a date.<br />
On the other hand, as Connor and Nate were quick to point out, being called a Bad Angel didn’t hurt—and Mason Coleman wasn’t the sort of guy to give up an advantage unnecessarily.<br />
Most likely, the nickname had been the invention of an intrepid gossip reporter, looking for a creative headline for a story describing the latest San Francisco venture capital firm and its three hot founders. To be fair, Mason and his partners weren’t really angel investors, as the name was intended to suggest. Angels were usually older, more established individuals who invested their money in young, risky start-ups. Mason, along with his partners Nate Etherly and Connor Ashton, managed an investment fund made up of a combination of their and other people’s money. But if someone wanted to call you an angel, why fight it?<br />
Mason chose to use it.<br />
Sometimes, just before he brushed his lips against the soft, delicate skin at the base of a woman’s neck, or gently cupped the back of her head in one large palm, he’d whisper, “Which do you prefer? The bad…or the angel?” And then he would laugh, wickedly, because he knew the answer to the question was both.<br />
And more.<br />
Early on, Mason had been pegged the pretty boy of the trio, with Connor being the smart one, and Nate being the negotiator. He had more money than he could have ever imagined. He got to go to work with his best friends and live in San Francisco, a city that amazed him every day. Life was pretty damn good.<br />
But then on Friday afternoon, he’d run into a small problem. Or rather, a big problem. A problem that was currently lying on his white leather couch, panting.<br />
And drooling.<br />
“Move, Wick.” He gave the dog’s massive shoulder a push as he squeezed alongside it on the couch. A ray of sunlight broke through the early afternoon clouds—a welcome sight on a damp and cold February afternoon, after two weeks of unusually heavy rain. But the beam of light did little to transform the hulking beast on the leather couch, or disguise the long strand of drool that was dangling above his pants. “Do you have to do that on the leather?”<br />
The monstrous mastiff whined and gave a doggie version of a smile in response but made no attempt to move. Since Wick’s naturally high level of laziness was currently paired with a prolonged recovery from a knee injury, once he got on the couch, he tended to stay there.<br />
Ditto Mason’s bed.<br />
“What the hell am I supposed to do with you?” Mason ran his fingers through his hair with a familiar feeling of frustration. “You’re as big as an ox, totally untrained, and Alli failed to mention that you need medication two times a day and go to the bathroom every few hours.” He pointed at the beast, whose massive tail thumped in pleasure. “That, my oversized friend, makes it very hard to entertain.”<br />
Wick seemed to have a knack for finding exactly the wrong moment to request assistance going outside. And since his “request” came with a bark that could wake the dead and slimy kisses from his perpetually soggy face, ignoring him wasn’t an option.<br />
Promise me you’ll keep him with you, Alli had said, tears dripping from her eyes. Just till graduation. It’s only a couple of months! You know my landlord always hated him. He’ll evict us if he sees Wick here again. What am I supposed to do?<br />
The landlord, Mason mused, sounded entirely rational. Wick was the worst behaved dog he’d ever seen. He howled and barked when he didn’t get his way, stole food off counters, and had already put deep gouges in the soft wood floors and the front door from scratching to go outside. Once outside, he lunged at any dog he saw, or, when his knee hurt or he got tired, he just lay down and refused to move.<br />
And then there was the bladder control. Alli swore it was the medications he was taking—some kind of steroids for a chronic skin allergy. Mason was pretty sure he’d never recover from watching the massive beast let loose with a gallon of pee when denied a trip outside at 4:00 a.m. It was like watching a Clydesdale taking care of business in a pasture.<br />
Except on his hardwoods.<br />
Still, Mason had never been able to deny his baby sister anything, and with his parents out of the country, he felt responsible for her. Now in her senior year—or whatever you called it when you’d been attending college half-heartedly for six years and finally teetered on the brink of graduation—she’d threatened to drop out for the third time if he didn’t promise to personally nurse Wick back to health.<br />
Don’t even think about sending him to some kennel, Alli had warned, wagging her finger at him like she’d done as a little girl when he’d forgotten one of her instructions. Wick is a very sensitive animal. He needs to be at home, with his family.<br />
Right. Mason snorted his disgust. Wick would call anyone with a hot dog or a large ham bone family. “You need a babysitter,” he told the dog. “Round-the-clock.”<br />
Since the dog arrived forty-eight hours ago, Mason had been forced to cancel all his plans for the weekend, including lunch with a couple of college kids who had apparently invented some new kind of fuel cell, and a charity black-tie event that he’d paid thousands of dollars to attend, mostly because there would be several of his competitors attending and he did his best work when he could get people drunk on cheap champagne and convince them to spill all their deepest, darkest secrets.<br />
It was one thing to clear his weekend, but tomorrow was Monday, and he had a full day of meetings and no idea what he was going to do with the giant catastrophe on his couch.<br />
As if he could hear the path of Mason’s thoughts, Wick made a groaning noise deep in his throat and half fell, half stumbled off the couch and walked to the door. Thanks to his size and weight, Alli said it could be several more weeks before he was completely recovered from his injury. Or, she’d hinted, he might need surgery, an expensive prospect she had happily assumed Mason would finance.<br />
Once at the door, Wick scratched an enormous paw down the wood and barked once.<br />
Loudly.<br />
Mason closed his eyes and sighed. “Really? Didn’t we go out like an hour ago?”<br />
Wick replied by scratching again, then lowered his head and gave a good hard shake, sending jowls and drool flying. He briefly lost his balance, nails skidding on the hard wood. Mason gritted his teeth and jumped up. After two “accidents”—which really felt like the wrong word, given that they seemed quite intentional—he’d learned to jump when Wick decided it was time for a potty break.<br />
He grabbed the worn leather leash from the table beside the door and clipped it to the dog’s collar. Wick lumbered along obediently by his side to the elevator bay and waited patiently while Mason pressed the button. A moment later, there was a quiet ping and the doors opened silently.<br />
“Stop pretending you’re trained,” Mason grumbled to the dog. “We both know the truth.”<br />
That became painfully clear a moment later, when the elevator reached a lower floor and the doors opened again.<br />
…<br />
As Tess Papion waited for the elevator, she sent out a silent prayer that it would arrive empty, and she wouldn’t have to encounter any of the wealthy residents of the Stella looking like she’d just rolled in from a rough night in the Tenderloin.<br />
She pushed one long strand of hair behind her ear, wishing she had taken five minutes to fix her haphazard ponytail before she’d left her client’s apartment with three dogs in tow and a rat’s nest on top of her head. Then again, would a better ponytail really make a difference? Her white T-shirt had a coffee stain somewhere around her left boob, her army green cargo pants were covered with muddy paw prints, and her oversized bomber jacket had a suspicious odor that probably had something to do with her neighbor’s dog Fifi, who she’d been dog sitting for the past two nights.<br />
What, exactly, Fifi had done to it, she didn’t want to know.<br />
It wasn’t that she didn’t like clean clothes. She did. She liked them very much. It was just that when you ran your own dog-walking and pet care business while also working part-time at a vet clinic and doing landscaping on the side, and it had been the rainiest February in San Francisco history, clean clothes could be hard to come by.<br />
And in her defense, the jacket had looked clean when she grabbed it from the couch, and the T-shirt and pants had been clean when she left the house this morning.<br />
And her hair?<br />
Well, she really had no excuse about the hair.<br />
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At least the sun looked like it might be trying to break through the clouds. The prospect of not walking in the rain raised her spirits considerably. Besides, today was an easy day, with only three dogs sitting near her ankles while she waited for the elevator. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, she walked a whole pack of dogs from the Stella—one of San Francisco’s swankiest new high-rises just a short walk from the Financial District, and a few blocks from the Embarcadero—but on Sunday she just walked Beyoncé and Jay-Z, a pair of mutts that bore absolutely no resemblance to their namesakes but apparently inspired similar devotion in their owner, a thirty-something lawyer who rarely worked less than ten hours a day, even on the weekends.</div>
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The third dog was her own—a tiny white Maltese named Astro she’d rescued from a shelter a few years ago. Her house was around an hour drive from downtown—could be much more, depending on how backed up the Bay Bridge was—and with the hassles of traffic and expense of parking she normally took the bus. On the weekends, though, she splurged and drove, and brought Astro along for the ride.</div>
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Astro stayed quiet, but Beyoncé shifted her weight restlessly. Tess murmured her name quietly and she stilled. Beyoncé hadn’t been trained at all when Tess had started walking her, but in the three months since she’d made great improvement. Thank God. Though Tess had a lot of clients closer to home, she’d found San Francisco’s rich and busy were willing to pay double her home rate, not to mention they were much better tippers, so she’d been working extra hard to build her downtown clientele. If Beyoncé and Jay-Z became model citizens of San Francisco’s dog park scene, it could very well lead to more work for Tess.</div>
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One of her fellow dog walkers had recently hit the jackpot with a client who thought her dog was lonely and needed a companion. Translation: said dog walker was now getting paid to hang out in a swanky apartment with a sleeping Dachshund.</div>
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Sitting around in an apartment keeping a dog company for twenty dollars an hour? Tess could totally handle that.</div>
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When the doors to the elevator opened, she started to walk forward but leapt back when a blur of tan fur lunged toward her. Right behind the dog, a substantial pair of biceps lurched off the elevator and into the hall.</div>
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“Damn it, Wick!” The owner of the biceps swore viciously as he yanked back on a leather leash, fighting to regain his balance and stop his dog’s forward motion at the same time.</div>
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With reflexes honed from many visits to dog parks, Tess scooped up Astro and jumped back several feet, snapping Beyoncé’s and Jay-Z’s leashes to divert their attention away from the bear-sized monster straining to reach them. Through the white, silky fur she could feel Astro trembling, and the little dog began to bark in her most aggressive “I am small-but-mighty” voice.</div>
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“Sorry, I’m sorry!” The man leaned back with all his weight, struggling to keep his dog from reaching her. Beyoncé and Jay-Z joined in a chorus, and within moments the hall was filled with a cacophony loud enough to draw the attention of every resident of the Stella. Thankfully, they didn’t seem particularly inclined to fight. Probably because the beast lunging their way had each of them by at least a hundred pounds.</div>
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Tess’s adrenaline surged as she sought to control her pack, communicating calm even while her heart raced. She could not afford to have this get back to Beyoncé’s owner. He’d been insistent that the dogs stop barking—he’d had complaints from his neighbors already, which was one reason he was paying Tess to come by every day to walk them.</div>
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Once she’d secured the dogs and stopped the barking, Tess focused her attention on the idiot with the mastiff. He wouldn’t be the first person she’d met that had zero control over their dog, and even though they irritated her to no end, she had learned to be polite. After all, people with no control over their dogs were often her best clients.</div>
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And then she did a double take.</div>
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Because apparently the embarrassment gods hadn’t heard her prayer, and she’d somehow managed to end up in a hallway with an absurdly attractive man, one she’d seen in passing in the lobby of the building but never up close. A man who oozed good looks, testosterone, power, wealth, and for good measure, a seemingly clear recognition of his own charm.</div>
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“I swear I’ve got him now.” An apologetic smile firmly in place, the tawny-haired Adonis now had a two-handed grip on the beast’s collar. His muscles flexed as he wrestled the dog backward, and she was horrified to realize that she was staring with an open mouth at the sheer width of his shoulders, not to mention the contrast between those exceptional shoulders and his narrow waist. As he strained to keep the dog in check, a pair of dark jeans slipped low on his hips, and…sweet Jesus, was that his rock-hard stomach she’d just caught a flash of?</div>
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Tess forced her eyes upward, taking in his quick restoration of control over the dog with no small amount of respect. It was an impressive feat, given that the creature was at least two hundred pounds. While the man was tall, he was also lean, with that kind of ripped muscle in his arms that promised a six-pack and, God help her, those little lines of definition along the sides of his groin that she’d seen in pictures but never actually experienced in real life.</div>
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She shook her head, trying to ignore the erotic image of his jeans dropping low enough on his hips to reveal said lines. Her grandmother had been right. She really did need to get out more.</div>
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And Grandma had said that five years ago.</div>
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The man jerked back, hard, one more time, and the dog yelped and lurched from all fours to just three legs, favoring the fourth. He swayed for a moment, then sat down abruptly. The moment of exuberance passed, and the giant animal slumped onto the floor in a pool of hairy Jell-O.</div>
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Tess forced herself to look away as the man leaned over the limp creature. She definitely was not going to inspect the butt beneath those lovely, low-riding jeans. Trying to clear her mind, she whispered in Astro’s ear. “Settle down, pretty girl.”</div>
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The dog’s body vibrated with a tiny, feminine growl, but she stopped barking. Tess lightly shook the leashes to get Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s attention. She held up her left hand, and the dogs locked onto her signal, sitting quietly when she lowered her hand to her side.</div>
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When she glanced back at the man again, he was staring at his own dog with disgust. “You’re a menace, Wick. What the hell am I supposed to do with you?”</div>
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Tess relaxed slightly, though she kept her hand tightly on her own leashes. For the time being, the mastiff seemed unlikely to make any sudden moves, but she wasn’t putting anything past it. Thank goodness the dog appeared to be injured, or she wouldn’t have bet money the man would have won their tug-of-war.</div>
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“My sister’s dog.” He flashed her a brilliant smile, one that Tess was certain had previously worked to elicit state secrets, soothe charging bulls, and convince members of the opposite sex to spontaneously drop their panties. His eyes, she was alarmed to find, were hazel, somewhere between green and brown and flecked with actual gold, as if being gorgeous in a more conventional sense wasn’t enough. He had to go full on supernatural with his good looks.</div>
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“Really?” she replied, trying to think of something professional and yet intelligent to say. Something to distract him from the smell of her jacket and the state of her ponytail. “I guess he’s not used to elevators?”</div>
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Not exactly her best work.</div>
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“Elevators? I wish. Honestly, he’s not used to leashes. Or other dogs. Or obedience, as far as I can tell.” He sighed, though something in those hazel eyes continued to twinkle. “I’d probably just walk him at three in the morning to avoid crowds, but he’s taking some medication that makes him drink about five gallons of water a day, which means he needs to go outside to take care of business every few hours. I don’t have much choice.” He shrugged in an I’m exquisitely gorgeous but also adorably helpless sort of way.</div>
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She could tell he was fully expecting her to throw her panties at him and call it a day. Which wasn’t out of the realm of possibilities, although thanks to her disastrous history with men, she had a much more finely developed sense of self-preservation than most. Instead, she forced her brain back to business and a single word popped out of her mouth. “Steroids?”</div>
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He blinked. “Yes, how did you know?”</div>
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“Mastiffs are prone to skin allergies. Steroids are a common treatment, and they happen to make you thirsty, which explains why he drinks so much. You might want to try changing his diet. He could have a food sensitivity that’s causing the skin problem.”</div>
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Predictably, she was now doing her annoying wannabe-veterinarian babble. Great.</div>
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“Really? I’ll have to give that a shot.”</div>
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She couldn’t tell if he was serious or not, but she’d fallen asleep the night before watching Build Your Business in Ten Easy Steps on YouTube and was suddenly aware that this was the moment where she needed to make her pitch. Mr. Gorgeous was obviously rich. Maybe his sister—who clearly needed some help with her dog—was as well.</div>
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“You know,” she said, trying to sound innocently helpful, “there are harnesses that attach the leash at the chest. You can also get a head collar or muzzle if he’s aggressive. Has your sister done any obedience training with him?”</div>
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“Training?” Tess wanted to cringe as his gaze slowly swept her from head to foot, lingering on the stain on her chest, her large glasses, and the hair falling out of her ponytail and around her shoulders in pathetic clumps. “I doubt it,” he said, “Alli isn’t the most responsible person you’d ever meet.”</div>
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Despite the fact that he was probably thinking she hardly looked capable of taking care of herself, let alone a giant mastiff, she soldiered on. “What part of the city does she live in? I might know some people who can help her.”</div>
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Like me.</div>
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“Actually, Wick’s staying with me right now.” He patted the dog’s enormous head with one large hand. “He just arrived a couple of days ago, and to be honest, I’m just in survival mode at this point.”</div>
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Tess forced herself to maintain a pleasant, confident smile at the realization she was actually now peddling for work from Adonis himself, not his sister. “What do you mean?”</div>
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“He’s, er, a bit of a challenge,” he replied, looking down at the dog with a concerned expression.</div>
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Internal alarm bells started to go off in Tess’s brain. She’d walked a lot of dogs, and on a scale from “easy” to “complete pain in the ass,” she had a bad feeling where Wick would end up. “What’s wrong with him? Is he recovering from an injury? I noticed he favored that back right leg.”</div>
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She could almost see the wheels turning in his brain. His gaze flicked to the dogs sitting quietly at her feet, and then to the vest she was wearing with the words, Trust Tess! embroidered on the pocket. She could feel the moment everything clicked in his mind, and then the preternaturally beautiful smile returned to his lips.</div>
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Warily, she took a step back.</div>
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“Trust Tess?” he murmured. His eyes lit up, and he gazed at her with a look of pure joy. “Tess, I knew you looked familiar! You’re a dog walker, right? I’ve seen you in this building before.”</div>
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She nodded. “I’m here a few days a week.”</div>
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“I’m Mason Coleman.” One of his biceps flexed as he gripped the collar more tightly in one hand, and waved with the other. “This creature is Wick.”</div>
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He exuded warmth and charm, waves of it coming off him like radiation from a nuclear power plant in meltdown. Even in the face of her significant skepticism of what was increasingly feeling like a con job, Tess could feel every one of her lady parts replying like a chorus of angels. “Yes,” they sang. “Take me! I’m yours!”</div>
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“Tess Papion,” she said. “Nice to meet you.”</div>
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“Tess, I can’t tell you how happy I am to meet you.”</div>
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“Why?” She stepped back farther.</div>
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“You’re a dog walker,” he said softly.</div>
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“Yeess,” she replied.</div>
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“And you train them, too?” he whispered, almost reverently. “Like those dogs?” He gestured with his free hand toward Beyoncé and Jay-Z. “They sit when you tell them? And stop barking?”</div>
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She nodded again. Sid Sales, the star of Build Your Business in Ten Easy Steps would probably tell her that this was the moment to close the deal. But there were two big red flags to this sale. The first was an enormous mastiff with some sort of undisclosed behavior problems and, apparently, very little in the way of training. Tess didn’t mind a challenge, but it would have to come with compensation.</div>
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“You’re pretty small.” He seemed to be weighing her with his eyes, and she suddenly found herself wondering if eating the entire pint of Ben and Jerry’s the night before had been a good decision. “Have you worked with big dogs?”</div>
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She snorted. “You’ll be happy to hear that, in my experience, size doesn’t matter, Mr. Coleman. It’s all about attitude.”</div>
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He smiled, and this time, it actually felt genuine. “Mason. And whoever told you that was lying.”</div>
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“Ha, ha, ha.” She rolled her eyes and shot a glance at the elevator, wishing there wasn’t a two-hundred-pound beast lying in front of it. This was painfully close to flirting. She didn’t care if he did need a dog walker. She needed to get the hell out of this hallway before she really embarrassed herself.</div>
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“Seriously,” he said, the laughter disappearing from his voice as he captured her in his golden gaze. “Tess, please. Tell me you’ll move in with me.”</div>
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<b>Authors:</b> P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast<br />
<b>Series:</b> The Dysasters, book 1<br />
<b>Publisher:</b> Wednesday Books (February 26, 2019)<br />
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P.C. and Kristin Cast, the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of the House of Night phenomenon, return to the scene with The Dysasters—the first action-packed novel in a new paranormal fantasy series.<br />
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Adoptive daughter of a gifted scientist, Foster Stewart doesn’t live a “normal” life, (not that she’d want to). But controlling cloud formations and seeing airwaves aren’t things most eighteen year olds can do.<br />
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Small town star quarterback and quintessential dreamy boy next door, Tate “Nighthawk” Taylor has never thought much about his extra abilities. Sure, his night vision comes in handy during games, but who wouldn’t want that extra edge?<br />
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From the moment Foster and Tate collide, their worlds spiral and a deadly tornado forces them to work together, fully awakening their not-so-natural ability - the power to control air.<br />
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As they each deal with the tragic loss of loved ones, they’re caught by another devastating blow – they are the first in a group of teens genetically manipulated before birth to bond with the elements, and worse… they’re being hunted.<br />
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This got off to a really rough start for me. I'd almost say it was a slow start, except it launches into the story with multiple tornadoes tearing up a town, dozens of people dying, and an epic chase scene - so how do you really call that "slow"? And yet... There's a LOT of information dump happening in the first third to half of this book, and it sort of bogs it down. Then again, this is also the first book that sets up a greater duology/trilogy/series, so some of that is to be expected, and once the preliminaries were out of the way the rest of the book took off flying.<br />
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Foster is pretty abrasive and not the most pleasant person, so if your enjoyment of a book relies on you actually liking the main character from the get-go, The Dysasters might not be for you. I could see the vulnerable girl underneath the tough exterior, and she kind of grew on me. Then there's Tate, who has a very Clark Kent, corn-fed midwestern boy-next-door thing going on, and he's very sweet (if a little bland). They're the pair of kids associate with the air element, and the main focus of the majority of the book. Honestly, I probably wouldn't keep reading this series if it were just Foster and Tate, but in the final third (or so) of the book we're introduced to Charlotte and Bastien (the water kids), and OH, my swoon, I stan a cajun and a southern belle. *fans self* YES. I am 100% here for the next book in the series just to watch a romance blossom between Charlotte and Bastien, please and thank you. Just from the bits we've gotten from Charlotte and Bastien, I already like their characters so much more than Tate and Foster too, so I'm glad there are some main characters I can connect with (because I am one of those people who needs to like the MC's to truly enjoy a book!) I'm also interested to see where P.C. and Kristin Cast go with the fire and earth pairs, and I'm hoping for more diverse characters like Charlotte and Bastien (please please please).<br />
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A note: there is a LOT of swearing, which for a YA novel especially felt gratuitous and off-putting to me. Even if this hadn't been billed as YA, I wouldn't love the "Fucktastic Four" (which I'm assuming is a clever play on the Fantastic Four, which I get, but maybe drop it once and laugh and then move on?) Tate also called Foster a bitch a lot, which made me immediately like him a lot less, so we had some hurdles to cross. Also, while G-Pa as a character rocks... "G-Pa"? Really? Who calls their grandpa that? I question some of the linguistic choices, but okay...<br />
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This is the first book in The Dysasters ... series? quartet? trilogy? I don't see that it's been announced yet. Originally I assumed it would be a quartet with each book focusing on an element, but that doesn't seem to be the route Cast and Cast are taking (which is awesome, because if we hadn't met Charlotte and Bastien in book 1 I might not have made it to meeting them...) Some story arcs are closed within this book and you could theoretically read it as a stand alone, but it also sets the stage and larger ongoing story arc for the rest of the series. I'll be sticking around to give book 2 a change (because I need me some more Charlotte and Basten!!)<br />
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<b>About the Authors</b><br />
#1 New York Times & #1 USA Today bestselling author P.C. Cast was born in the Midwest, and, after her tour in the USAF, she taught high school for 15 years before retiring to write full time. PC is a member of the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame. Her novels have been awarded the prestigious: Oklahoma Book Award, YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, Booksellers' Best, and many, many more. Ms. Cast is an experienced teacher and talented speaker who lives in Oregon near her fabulous daughter, her adorable pack of dogs, her crazy Maine Coon, and a bunch of horses.<br />
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Kristin Cast is a #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling author who teams with her mother to write the wildly successful House of Night series. She has editorial credits, a thriving t-shirt line, and a passion for all things paranormal. When away from her writing desk, Kristin loves going on adventures with her friends, family, and significant other, playing with her dogs (Grace Kelly and Hobbs the Tiny Dragon), and is currently obsessed with her baby.<br />
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Marriage has worked out quite nicely for her older sisters, yet Lady Augusta Vivers is certain it would end her studies in languages and geography, and stop her from travelling. But when her mother thwarts her plan to attend the only university in Europe that accepts women—in Italy—she is forced to agree to one London Season. Spending her time at parties proves an empty diversion—until she encounters the well-traveled Lord Phineas Carter-Wood. Still, Europe awaits . . .<br />
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“Italy!” Her brother’s bellow could probably be heard all over the town house and in Berkeley Square. Possibly even farther.<br />
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From her position on the sofa, Lady Augusta Vivers stifled a sigh. She refused to allow her posture to sag or disappointment to show on her countenance. She had known her campaign to be allowed to attend university was not going to be easy. Perhaps she should have started her scheme earlier. Or given her brother a hint to temper his shock.<br />
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“It is not as if Padua is some unknown place in South America or Africa,” she pointed out calmly.<br />
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“Where on earth did you come up with such an . . . idea?” Her mother paled a bit and her faint voice pierced the deadened air.<br />
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“I wish to further my studies.” Augusta fought to keep the exasperation from her tone. Why else would she want to go to university? Not only that, but traveling there and living in Italy for a time would allow her to see a little of the world she had been studying. “As educated as Miss Tallerton and Mr. Winters are, they long ago exhausted the limits of what they can teach me. Which is the reason I have been corresponding with professors in Europe and taking lessons from visiting scholars, hoping to learn more. It is no longer enough.” In fact, her thirst for knowledge had grown to the point that she needed to attend university as much as she needed food or air. “Yet it has become clear that the only way I am going to succeed is by studying with experts. For that, I must attend university.”<br />
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“But, my dear”—her mother paused for a moment as if to gather her thoughts—“do you not wish to wed?”<br />
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Of course she did. Just. Not. Now. “I do not recall anyone asking Charlie if he was forsaking marriage simply because he wished to attend Oxford.” She wished Grace’s brother, properly called the Earl of Stanwood was here. He’d be able to help. Augusta turned her gaze back to Matt. As her guardian and Earl of Worthington, he was the final decision maker. “If I were a boy you would allow me to go.”<br />
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