A Night to Surrender (July 2020) Buddy Read Discussion - Selina & Mina

[Aless, Discord/Readathon Procrastinator]

Welcome to A Night to Surrender Buddy Read Discussion thread! This thread officially opens on July 19th in this thread but only up to the group's current reading place. Do not spoil the book if you've read further than the group. Any extra days can be used to catch up!

Each week we will be reading by chapters. The suggested Buddy Read discussion schedule is as follows:

Week of 7/19
July 19: Chapter 1-6
July 20: Chapter 7-12
July 21: Chapter 13-18
July 22: Chapter 19-24
July 23: Chapter 23-29 + epilogue

PARTICIPANTS
~ Selina
~ Mina

[mina, Group/Buddy Reads Procrastinator]

With these kind of books there's nothing much to say.

*I was laughing at the sheep bombing cuz who in their right mind does that? I like the guys, Thorne is a special kind 😂
*For a second I was afraid for the lamb
*the spinster hive’s queen bee 😂😂
*😂 Mrs. Lange and her poem

[luna ☾]

I know what you mean about not having much to say lmao.

Mostly, I wanted to share this book with you cause I wanted to have someone to laugh with. Because Tessa Dare is the funniest historical romance author I've ever encountered so far lmao

That scene with the sheep bombing was HILARIOUS. The timing of it was great too cause Tessa's comedic timing is always on point. Just when you start telling people how safe your town is, something goes BOOM in the distance. Classic lmao.

And I was particularly dying at the part where he tackles her and when he tells her he bombed the sheep, her immediate thought was "oh poor guy, he must be mentally ill from the war"! And Colin having fun with it 😂

I really like the guys too! And I'm already excited for the next books bc they each get their own books at some point! I think Colin is next. Which reminds me of, yes Mrs Lange's poem 😂 The best part was how it was silent for a beat and then Colin was applauding 😂😂 ah man, i adore these people already

[mina, Group/Buddy Reads Procrastinator]

I have to say that after the under the tree sex scene I'm like "oh, great, another sex scene in public" whenever they can't control their desires 🙄🙄

[mina, Group/Buddy Reads Procrastinator]

It was okay, but I wasn't really that impressed. The newer books we read were better.

[luna ☾]

mina wrote: "I have to say that after the under the tree sex scene I'm like "oh, great, another sex scene in public" whenever they can't control their desires 🙄🙄"

I was mostly okay with the under the tree scene but what I was mostly bothered about was the fact that it was so public for the timeline it was in. Cause these days, you could have sex in public and you'll just get a slap on the wrist for it. Back then, if caught, it's a whole scandal. And it wasn't like they were being careful either? It was like full-on "let's take all our clothes off in the TOWN CENTRE, close to where there's a rowdy tavern where anyone can walk out and see us". I was bothered by it? But I wasn't mad. I just needed a bit of suspension of disbelief from then onwards.

I enjoyed the book a lot regardless because this is Tessa Dare and she's so hilarious to me and I loved the little snippets of other characters. But I agree! It was just okay. Mostly because the romance was just a straight "they meet and then fall in love almost immediately" romance. I think the next book will be more up our alley.

Just from reading the beginning of this book, I knew Minerva was gonna be paired off with the most outlandish rake ever because that's mostly just how it goes lmao so as soon as I saw Colin, I was like "THAT ONE. IT HAS TO BE".