This time around my discussion post centres around something very simple. I have always had a short attention span, not so short I don’t focus, but I am easily distracted. I feel like I’ve not always been this way but over the fact few years, that’s definitely been true. My web browser usually has at least open tabs at any one time, and that’s if I’ve been good and shut them as I go along. I follow link after link and often have things I never get to reading but leave open ‘just in case’. I joke that my watch list on Netflix is aspirational because I have so many films and TV shows in there I will never get to watch. I get bored partway through a film and end up googling what happens because I know I won’t get to the end or I stop watching a TV show part way through a season because I need a break and never go back to it and then try again three years later. Hell, I play video games and never finish them. I can probably count on one hand the number of games I’ve got to the end on. Some might say that’s because I don’t commit to things, but it’s just I get bored. And this happens with books too.
I have many a long series I’ve been reading and loved and then put aside for a break, or to read a review copy, or simply because I was waiting for the next book to be released. And then I never return to it! It’s not that I dislike the series, but something stops me from returning and when I’m finally back in the mood to read it, I feel the need to start from the beginning because of my book amnesia… and then I never get past where I quit last time. It’s a vicious cycle! I like these series, like the Mercy Thompson series and the Kate Daniels series, but each has fallen victim to my distractedness and I still haven’t got to finish them. It’s not even like I have commitment issues or something, I’ve bought the books I just can’t seem to get any further in the series and I love these books.
And it’s not just series (although they are the main victim of my short attention span) I’ve even started getting distracted from books when I’m halfway through reading. When I started writing this post there were 4 books on my currently reading shelf that I had put down partway through and was struggling to motivate myself to get back to. In fact, I was actively procrastinating to avoid them. I did not want to read them and it was no fault of whichever book I was reading. They all seemed to be decent reads but my brain decided that I did not want to read them it didn't sound as interesting as whatever took my attention instead. I mean, I was actually really loving reading The Tethered Mage, and I put it aside to blog and watch a little Game of Thrones… and then my brain had completely gone off reading the book and I don’t know why. I tried to read the next chapter and couldn’t get absorbed back into it like I was before I put it down. I’ve embraced DNF-ing that one and read the last chapter, but I don’t know why I went off reading. The same thing happened with Offensive Behaviour by Ainslie Paton. I adore Ainslie Paton’s books and I really liked that this one featured a virgin male main character because romance has plenty of virgin heroine’s who have a mind-blowing first time with an alpha male but very few virgin men are to be seen and so I love when I find one, but then I ended up falling out of the mood to read this one part way through. It’s like a switch was flipped in my brain and it became the last romance I wanted to read.
I don’t think I’ve heard anyone say they have this happen to them. This is actually one of the reasons I tend to try and read a book within a couple of days because otherwise I get bored and I don’t know why. I’ve always been a bit of a mood reader but I don’t know why I’ve only started noticing it more recently. I think I’ve always been a bit like this and that’s why I devour books in one sitting. I know I can read long series, I’ve read Harry Potter for god's sake, those books are long. But I think anytime I’ve read longer books I’ve done it in binge mode. I am a binger when it comes to reading and watching stuff. I binge watched before it was cool.
Anyone else find themself getting bored part way through things? Especially if they spend too long reading the same book? Or is just me? Am I just cursed with a short attention span?
Serious Moonlight – Jenn Bennett
Published: 16th May 2019 (UK paperback)
Source: Netgalley
Genre: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
My Rating:
From award-winning Jenn Bennett comes a swoon-worthy story with a compelling mystery at its heart
Raised in isolation and home-schooled by her strict grandparents, the only experience Birdie has had of the outside world is through her favourite crime books. But everything changes when she takes a summer job working the night shift at a historic Seattle hotel.
There she meets Daniel Aoki, the hotel’s charismatic driver, and together they stumble upon a real-life mystery: a famous reclusive writer—never before seen in public—is secretly meeting someone at the hotel.
To uncover the writer’s puzzling identity, Birdie must come out of her shell, and in doing so, realize that the most confounding mystery of all may just be her growing feelings for Daniel.
I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This in no way affected my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
I’ve dithered over this review for several days, maybe even a week. I just couldn’t figure out how to explain my love for it whilst balancing out with… not complaints, but maybe niggling moments that bothered me only after I was looking back on what I’d read. They didn’t mean there was anything wrong with the book, I loved it, but they are things to think on I suppose.
The most important thing to know is I honestly really loved it. Serious Moonlight is a rare read for me, I don’t read as many YA books anymore and this was a reminder why YA books of any genre are not to be overlooked. It reminded me why I love books in this category so very much even though many are not for me anymore. Jenn Bennett is an author who could convince me to read anything she wrote, though, so as soon as I saw this on Netgalley I knew I had to request it and I was jumping in joy when the approval came in.
This book has some strong characters within its pages and I was seriously impressed at how she made me like all of them. Birdie is a teenage girl who has not had much chance to just be a teenager. She grew up with her mother in Seattle until she, unfortunately, died far too soon and left Birdie with some serious abandonment issues. She then lived with her grandparents on a small island and was home-schooled by her grandmother who had some very strict rules for Birdie. She was sheltered and she had few friends beyond her mother’s best friend, Mona. Birdie and Mona were Daring Dames together and I really loved their friendship and how Mona acted as both as parent and friend for Birdie yet never treated her like a child. Mona treated Birdie as a grown up and although I think she sometimes forgot how young Birdie was, she always treated her with respect and it meant Birdie was open with her about everything that happens from speaking about sex to talking about Mona’s own boyfriend and that was awesome to see.
And there is Daniel, our love interest and such a charmer. He isn’t some cocky ladies man or even a really popular guy, he is just a good-looking guy who couldn’t believe his luck when Birdie showed some interest in him after he showed her a magic trick in a diner… until she ran away because she didn’t know how to act around a boy she liked. Daniel Aoki is into magic and gaming and things like D&D. He is geeky and sweet and was such a nice guy. I adored him, even if I wanted to have a few strong words with him towards the end. He was a genuinely good guy so I couldn’t stay mad with him for long.
Jenn Bennett doesn’t just do awesome characters I easily like, though. She also writes about many issues well. She writes sex positive books, which I adore, and has her characters talk about sex and I respect that. I want YA books to approach sex, not as a negative and there should certainly be no shame about it either, but I like when characters talk about sex before it happens and approach it sensibly. And we have that here, there is mention of using protection (because it still really pisses me off when protection is not talked about in any book with sex, including romance). And when Birdie was talking to Mona about it she was always so positive just asking the ever important question of if she was safe. I want sex to be talked about honestly, about being safe and about being comfortable when it happens. The honesty that it isn’t always good but it’s also about being comfortable with the one you’re with to make it better.
This book also dealt with some heavy issues within its pages beyond not shaming anyone for the choices they make with their body and it handled them well. Birdie is still reeling from losing her grandmother recently (even if their relationship was not all sunshine and rainbows but more a bit antagonistic) and she hasn’t fully recovered from losing her mother as a child. She had some serious abandonment issues which are heavily explored throughout the book and I respected that. And I really loved how well grief is shown not be a short process you get over but instead an experience you go through again and again. You never get over losing someone you love but instead come to terms with it and the fact that they’re absent and reflect on what that means. But it’s not just grief, there was also suicide and a very sensible and mature approach to mental health which came as a surprise in the storyline but meant some impressive character development.
I liked that Birdie was in denial about her narcolepsy as well. She had a method of avoidance about many an issue in her life (which I understand but was very unhealthy) and her health was one part of it. I liked that eventually she was forced to address her health and that getting medical help (and not relying upon google answers to health) was the best way and she was slowly getting a grasp on her well being by the end. And therapy was promoted as a healthy choice for mental health and having a strong family support system that still allowed independence.
I do wish Birdie had a larger circle of friends beyond her family. Her support system was so small and that was partially due to circumstance but also because she closed herself off. I got that a lot of this book was about learning to let people in and make friends, but so much of the book was centred on her and Daniel and although her aunt Mona was there I did wish she had someone her own age to speak with who wasn’t a romantic interest. Same goes for Daniel, we don’t see things from his perspective, but I felt like they were a little isolated and would have liked to see more side characters,
Anyway, I really loved this book, even if I wanted more of a friends and family presence in the book, that was a minor grumble about a truly amazing book. I was smiling and hugging this book close by the end. I loved the slowly developing friendship and romance between Birdie and Daniel and the mystery element was brilliant, although I guessed it by the end. I seem to be a fan of mystery within my romantic reads and this was pretty good. I definitely recommend.
Have you read this, what did you think?
Where do the weeks keep going? I swear, I sit at work lamenting how each day is dragging but I’m still shocked to see the end of the week arrive. I honestly don’t know where the time goes.
When you’re all reading this I’ll be out brunching with friends. Yes, I have become a lady who brunches… but only on a Sunday. We’re trying a new place in a town nearby. I’ll be nice, I feel like I haven’t seen these friends in a little while and we always have a great time when we’re together. It gives me a break from home anyway.
Have I told you guys my mom has decided to have her kitchen done? Well, she has, and so the past couple of weekends have been filled with emptying the kitchen cupboards and trying to eat all the food out of the freezer so we can move it. It’s been exhausting and it means potentially three weeks of no washing machine or cooker! I mean, I’m sure it won’t go on for that long (we hope) but they are fully tearing it out, replastering, rewiring and redoing the plumbing before we have something end fitted. And my mother obviously decides to have this done the month before we go on holiday, but it means it should be sorted before we go and she’ll finally have the new kitchen she’s been talking about for like two years. It’s fun but exhausting, So a brunch away from home appeals as the no kitchen saga begins next week and I know I will slowly grow fed up of takeaways, pot noodles, and microwave meals.
Things are changing at work, as well. Someone handed their notice in at the start of the week and that obviously means everyone is all a flutter in our department. Gossip everywhere of ‘where are they going’ and all that and it’s exhausting as it means rearranging the workload for less staff and it means holiday which was previously booked at a completely reasonable time is not a little awkward. It’s nothing major and we’ll quickly adapt, but it’s meant a lot of change in the office.
I’m on to season 4 of my Game of Thrones rewatch and I forgot how awful some characters were. I despise Joffrey and Ramsay Bolton (ad all of the Bolton’s) are just despicable human beings. I think I got all caught up in the current war between the white walkers and everyone else that I forgot the wars of man which were truly despicable, you know? It’s still fun, though, and since I have a week off of work coming soon I know that’s what I’ll spend my time watching until I’m caught up to season 8 (which I may rewatch anyway, even though I’m watching it weekly with everyone else).
What I’ve Been Reading
After complaining I had a meh reading week last week I return once more with an excellent (and YA heavy) reading week this week. After enjoying Foolish Hearts so much, and since I read Jenn Bennett’s latest release, Serious Moonlight, I decided to dust of Starry Eyes and finally get to reading it. Which then inspired me to pick up Save the Date, another YA release I was excited for and never got to reading. I then smashed a couple of ARCs off of my reading list and My So-Called Bollywood Life and The Bride Test were both excellent reads I’m excited to review here soon. I really enjoyed them and spent more time reading rather than watching Game of Thrones, which I didn’t expect. And then decided to close my week with Letters to the Lost. I loved it when I read the ARC and finally cracked the copy on my shelf and reread (because I also have Brigid Kemmerer’s newest release to review from Netgalley… and I still haven’t read her other book More Than We Can Tell, which I had an ARC for… I' was hoping to inspire myself to read both of those too). I loved it just as much second time around and bought a copy of More Than We Can Tell so can’t wait to read that next.
New To Me
Three new books this week. My preorder of The Austen Playbook arrived on my Kindle and that made me smile. I’ve also ordered the paperback so hopefully, that will arrive in the next couple of weeks. In case you didn’t know, I loved that book so go buy it if you haven’t already. Anyone who follows me on twitter will know I was beyond excited to be approved for The Bride Test (it only appeared on Netgalley UK in the past week or so, and I was in like a shot requesting that) I also enjoyed that… thinking on it now maybe not in the same way I loved The Kiss Quotient, but it was a damned good book. And finally, I bought a copy of More Than We Can Tell and I can’t wait to start reading that. I’m on a YA reading streak and I will not look a gift horse in the mouth. I’ve already removed three unread books from my shelf at home and if this continues I might knock out a few more. I am drowning in a sea of unread books and I’m trying to get it under control by the end of the year (so fewer impulse purchases of cheap Kindle books are in my future).
How has your week been? Have you found yourself drawn to books you didn't think you were ever going to be in the mood to read? And anyone have any tips for trying to conquer your unread books?
It’s time, once more, for a first impressions post because I have discovered I have hundreds of unread books and I need to pull my finger out and start reading some (or at least try reading some). I was still in the mood for a good fantasy read so I to try a few books I’d rediscovered when I was tidying up my shelves. Each have been on there a little while and it was time to do the whole ‘should I stay or should I go’ thing.
Fire and Thorns (Fire and Thorns #1) – Rae Carson
Published: 20th September 2011
Source: Purchased
Genre: Fantasy
Princess Elisa is a disappointment to her people. Although she bears the Godstone in her navel, a sign that she has been chosen for an act of heroism, they see her as lazy and useless and fat. On her sixteenth birthday, she is bartered off in royal marriage and shipped away to a kingdom in turmoil, where her much-older-and extremely beautiful-husband refuses to acknowledge her as his wife. Devastated, Elisa decides to take charge of her fate and learn what it means to bear the Godstone. As an invading army threatens to destroy her new home, and everyone at court maneuvers to take advantage of the young princess, Elisa becomes convinced that, not only is her own life in danger, the whole world needs saving. But how can a young girl who has never ridden horseback, never played the game of politics, and never attained the love of a man save the world? Elisa can't be sure, but she must try to uncover the Godstone's secret history before the enemy steals the destiny nestled in her core.
So this book is also known as The Girl of Fire and Thorns and I bought the first and second book in this series so long ago I can’t even remember why, but I feel like I saw good reviews and bought it on that… and then never read them. Well, that’s a lie, I’ve tried to read this first book a few times and ended up DNF-ing because it just did not work for me. But I figured it was more me than the book so I figured it was time to give it another go since I didn’t remove it from my shelves so I couldn’t have hated it.
So there isn't a whole lot going on in the first chapter so it's difficult to get a full sense of Elisa's character but I tried. I liked she was not a skinny white girl who was there to save the world. Instead, she was big (she is straining her outfit in the very first scene and then goes to the kitchen to get more food cos hell she wasn’t going to miraculously drop a few pounds by the time she has to wear it so might as well embrace it and eat some good food). I liked that she was not super confident but instead was reserved and uncertain. I was shocked she was 16 and getting married but what can out do? It wasn't unrealistic.
So there isn't a whole lot going on in the first chapter so it's difficult to get a full sense of Elisa's character but I tried. I liked she was not a skinny white girl who was there to save the world. Instead, she was big (she is straining her outfit in the very first scene and then goes to the kitchen to get more food cos hell she wasn’t going to miraculously drop a few pounds by the time she has to wear it so might as well embrace it and eat some good food). I liked that she was not super confident but instead was reserved and uncertain. I was shocked she was 16 and getting married but what can out do? It wasn't unrealistic.
I did struggle to get a sense of Elisa though. We find out she has a stone in her navel and is god touched or whatever but I didn't know what any of that meant and I didn't know if I should like or hate her family and who was the dude she married?
Yeah, basically I didn't get enough sense of anyone from that first chapter but did want to continue reading after so that's a win right? But I wasn’t super eager to keep reading, I just wanted to keep reading because I had no clue what to think so wanted ot get more of a sense of things by continuing to read. Not exactly a major endorsement for continuing. I think this is going in the meh pile.
Verdict: Meh, you convince me to read otherwise it’s going to charity.
Source: Purchased
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good... and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt.
Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman with very a special mission... and the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one.
Phèdre is trained equally in the courtly arts and the talents of the bedchamber, but, above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Almost as talented a spy as she is courtesan, Phèdre stumbles upon a plot that threatens the very foundations of her homeland. Treachery sets her on her path; love and honor goad her further. And in the doing, it will take her to the edge of despair... and beyond. Hateful friend, loving enemy, beloved assassin; they can all wear the same glittering mask in this world, and Phèdre will get but one chance to save all that she holds dear.
Set in a world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, heroic traitors, and a truly Machiavellian villainess, this is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. Not since Dune has there been an epic on the scale of Kushiel's Dart-a massive tale about the violent death of an old age, and the birth of a new.
This one has been on my shelf for a good long while and I have been intimidated by it ever since it arrived in the post. That book is huge! I know there are reasons why I wanted to read it but all those things have been blocked out by the massive tome this book is. Seriously, I’m not usually overly daunted by big books, but this one is bigger than most.
I have to say, it's another one where the shortness of the first chapter meant that I couldn't get a full idea of the book. Short chapters are great in a lot of ways, but less good to get a good first impression. I will say the writing seems intimidating. It's very wordy and it's definitely one which would take me a few chapters to get into the rhythm of the writing. And the names, I can tell this would be one I'd take a while to learn the character names, luckily there's a cast list at the start to help me keep track.
The small glimpse I've seen of this book definitely makes me think I'll keep on reading. I would have preferred to have it on my kindle simply because it would save my arms. Carting my copy around is a work out in itself. I'm a little sad I liked it, I'd kind of hoped to have it off of my shelf simply because it's so huge.
Verdict: Will read, but will need to psyche myself up for it
Source: Purchased
Genre: Fantasy
In the Raverran Empire, magic is scarce and those born with power are strictly controlled -- taken as children and conscripted into the Falcon Army.
Zaira has lived her life on the streets to avoid this fate, hiding her mage-mark and thieving to survive. But hers is a rare and dangerous magic, one that threatens the entire empire.
Lady Amalia Cornaro was never meant to be a Falconer. Heiress and scholar, she was born into a treacherous world of political machinations. But fate has bound the heir and the mage.
War looms on the horizon. A single spark could turn their city into a pyre.
The Tethered Mage is the first novel in a spellbinding new fantasy series.
The great thing about posts like this is that it helps me discover books (rediscover?) That I have on my shelves and this was an excellent rediscovery. Like the other books in this post, there is a short first chapter. You get a small taste of what's to come but this one had me eager to read more.
From the first couple of paragraphs, I thought I was on to a winner. The writing style just clicked with me and I was eager to keep reading. I liked the MC had snuck out for a book (about maths and magic I think) and I liked she was in a bad part of town and brave enough to go it alone. I even liked how she interfered to help a girl being cornered in a street by some big burly men and that that girl then turned out to have some power and she had to try and stop her instead of saving her and in the end, it all backfired for everyone involved. Basically, I just liked the vibe of this first chapter.
Now, since starting to write this post I have in fact started reading this book, and anyone that checked out my Sunday post will then know I have promptly fallen out of the mood for reading fantasy and have no motivation to pick this back up. But I started wanting to read it.
Verdict: I wanted to read.
Have you read any of my latest selection of first impressions? Can you convince me to read/pick back up any of these?
Published: 22nd April 2019
Source: Netgalley (but also purchased)
Genre: Romance, Contemporary
My Rating:
Freddy Carlton knows she should be focusing on her lines for The Austen Playbook, a live-action TV event where viewers choose the outcome of each scene, but her concentration’s been blown. The palatial estate housing the endeavor is now run by the rude (brilliant) critic who’s consistently slammed her performances of late. James “Griff” Ford-Griffin has a penchant for sarcasm, a majestic nose and all the sensitivity of a sledgehammer.
She can’t take her eyes off him.
Griff can hardly focus with a contagious joy fairy flitting about near him, especially when Freddy looks at him like that. His only concern right now should be on shutting down his younger brother’s well-intentioned (disastrous) schemes—or at the very least on the production (not this one) that might save his family home from the banks.
Instead all he can think of is soft skin and vibrant curls.
As he’s reluctantly dragged into her quest to rediscover her passion for the stage and Freddy is drawn into his research on a legendary theater star, the adage about appearances being deceiving proves abundantly true. It’s the unlikely start of something enormous…but a single revelation about the past could derail it all.
I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This in no way affected my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
I think I’ve mentioned it a time or two, but Lucy Parker is one of my absolute favourite authors. She writes these fantastic romances set around folks involved with London’s West End and just sucks me in each time. I always think surely she can’t beat the last book she wrote and each time she blows me away with another fantastic romance with characters I just adore. This time around she did all of that she might have even written a book which stolen the position of favourite in series from Act Like It for me. It is at least equal to Act Like It in my favourites list. It was that good.
This book centres around Freddy, who we met briefly in Pretty Face, as she struggles with who she is and what kind of career she wishes to pursue in the theatre. She grew up acting, she’s a former child actor who has made the difficult progression into adult roles, except she is not loving the theatre as much doing the serious theatre her dad wants her to do to uphold the Carlton name. She misses the singing and dancing across the stage so when she gets offered a role in The Austen Playbook, a live play aired on TV where the viewers vote to choose the ending, it seems ideal. It’s a fun role which gives her a break from the serious for a few weeks whilst she gets her head straight. Instead, she keeps getting distracted by Griff, a theatre critic who also happens to own the house which the play is being staged in. And did I mention her grandmother had an affair which his grandfather as well? Yeah, this pair have family history.
I was always going to love Freddy. I loved her in Pretty Face and I loved her in The Austen Playbook. She’s grown since we last saw her and she’s developed into such a cool woman who is just lost in her career and I can totally relate to that. She doesn’t want to let her family down but it’s also making her miserable trying to be a serious actor and loving up to her grandmother, who was an amazing actress and also a playwright who write some play everybody has heard of (yes, I’ve already forgotten the name of said play… I have a bad memory, leave me be!) but Freddy knows she is not her grandmother, she is her own person, but it’s making her dad listen when he is hellbent on fitting her into a set mould. So her time away in the countryside learning the mammoth script for Austen Playbook is a relaxing break… or it was until she found herself attracted to Griff, discovers there have been cast changes which lead to her hanging out with a couple of folks she really doesn’t like, and she’s unravelling the mystery of why her grandmother broke off an affair with Griff’s grandfather, and who was this mysterious great aunt of Griff’s who no one seems to remember?
And Griff? In my head, all I could picture was Draco Malfoy for a while with all the Slytherin references made to his character (he was a Slytherin through and through, though, and I loved that). He isn’t cruel like Malfoy, though. He is actually a total sweetheart under his frowny serious façade. He is doing everything he can to look out for his family, even though his parents seem hell-bent on spending they really don’t have and his brother has once more concocted a plan to help, by hosting The Austen Playbook in the broken down theatre on their property, but he really isn’t helping (so Griff thinks, anyway). He has spent his whole life trying to keep his family on track and putting out fires and so he wasn’t happy-go-lucky. But I loved him because he cares so damned much. he cares that the actors in this play are well looked after (and don’t get killed by the ancestral home falling down around their ears). He cares to look into his family history so he can get the film project he’s working on off of the ground. And for reasons he can barely understand, he cares about Freddy Carlton. He didn’t intend to but he keeps bumping into her and there is a spark. And when they start to explore the chemistry between them? Well, I was a goner and so was he. Freddy is probably the last thing he needs, but also she is exactly what he needs because he has been struggling by himself for so long but he needs her to both point out when he is being an idiot where his brother is concerned, but also to give him support when he needs it.
If you can’t already tell, I loved the romance between Freddy and Griff. From the first time, they’re together (after Freddy overheard him talking about the onstage disaster she just had where she forgot her lines) and she rescues him from a falling bottle I just knew there was amazing chemistry to be had. And damn, the more time they spend on the page together the more I am cheering on this romance. And the best part of this romance? Even when they fell out you just knew they weren’t going to be apart for long. Like, there are arguments and they do fall out, but the arguments move them forward and develop the relationship rather than tearing them apart. They both always realise they are far happier together than apart and are always turning and looking for the other. They know they are far too unhappy to not be together.
I loved that outside of the romance there was a mystery storyline (no, I’m not talking about the play which is a murder mystery and something I would totally enjoy watching) but a mystery surrounding the history between Freddy’s family and Griff’s. Their grandparents had an affair and as Griff is trying to make a film about Freddy’s grandmother he is rather eager to find out what happened for the affair to end and Freddy invites herself along to help. And damn is that whole mystery so good. I really enjoyed how that journey brought them closer together(and almost broke them apart… but that’s more Griff’s fault than anything).
Look, Lucy Parker has packed a lot into this book. Some awesome characters (damn, I didn’t even mention how awesome the secondary characters are… except Nick, we all hate Nick who is named for Nick and boy will she not let you forget it), a brilliant romance, a mystery, a little blackmail (which backfires) and betrayal! It’s not a good romance if there’s not betrayal going on… but it’s not where you expect it. Look, just read the book, it has everything and more and it’s out today so really, what are you waiting for?
If I haven’t convinced you to buy I’m not doing my job right. Have you read the latest release from Lucy Parker yet?
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