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Selection Post -- Task 6 -- Book published in 2017
Book: Shelter the Sea
Author: Heidi Cullinan
Pages: 190 (Kindle Ed)
How qualifies: First published Apr 18, 2017
www.goodreads.com/work/editions/55654...




Book: Shelter the Sea
Author: Heidi Cullinan
Pages: 190 (Kindle Ed)
How qualifies: First published Apr 18, 2017
www.goodreads.com/work/editions/55654...
Date read: April 8
Rating: 5 stars
Review: OMG, this totally hit all my feels -- MCs dealing with autism and social anxiety/depression who overcome so much to help themselves and others like them. What a beautiful sequel to the first book.

I have finished my book. I absolutely did not like it 😂"
That's too bad, Gustaf. I really enjoyed mine, which was why I couldn't put it down. Don't know why I didn't read it years ago. Also, I noticed the author promised another book or two in the series (at the end of the book) in 2018, but I don't see them attached to this series, so maybe not written.

I have finished my book. I absolutely did not like it 😂"
That's too bad, Gustaf. I really enjoyed mine, which was why I couldn't put it down. Don't know why ..."
She didn't publish anything in 2018 and then went on to publish her doctor's series in 2019. So maybe it just didn't hit? I don't know.

Book: My Forever, My Always
Author: Taylor Rylan
Pages: 350
How it qualifies: First published in June 15th 2017
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
Date read: April 8
Rating and review: 1 star
This started out really great. Fantastic even. I love myself some cowboys and Simon was an interesting character right away. Simon is loving his life on the family farm, in fact he can't think of anything he would rather do. However, he's lonely. Being gay in Wyoming doesn't leave him with a lot of options and everything he wants is someone to have a life with. Build a family with. Enter Sean. Sean moved to Wyoming to get away from his parent. Together with his twin brother he's operating a thriving architect firm. He's sworn to never date a client but it's hard when he gets hired to draw some building for Simon and his family.
So far, so good. I was all there for it. Loved the setting, the MC's and the secondary characters. Sadly, it all went downhill from Simon and Sean meeting each other. And I mean, down, downhill. Not just a little. Suddenly everything changed. We got a time jump a month in the future and got told about Simon and Sean getting to know each other after it happened. And the time jumps just kept on coming. "Summer turned to spring", "two weeks later", "three weeks later", etc, etc. Around the 40% mark our MC's was together and steadier than ever. And I was silently wondering what would happen in the rest of the book. Turns out I don't need to read the rest of the books in the series (not that I was planning to either way), because I got everything told in this book but from the perspective of Simon and Sean.
Basically, this could've been a five star read but what started out great turned out feeling more like amateur fan fiction. This is an edited version... I can't imagine what it must have been reading the first version. However, just like a car crash I couldn't look away and finished this in one go. I'll give the author that



I've heard good things about it!


As usual I loved it. Sadly T.A. Moors only wrote 2 books for this series. I would love to have more.

Book: Tease
Author: Ella Frank
Pages: 267
How it qualifies: First published in May 7th 2017

Bone to Pick [*book:Bone to Pick|35841515] by T.A. Moore
Published August 14th 2017 by Dreamspinner Press
pc: 240
read: 04/10/21
rated: 5 stars
review:
This was a re-read for me even as audioversion. I love this series. It is a pitty that T.A. Moore only wrote 2 books for this series.

Helke, can you please add a publication date? :)

Thank you Helke!
Em, how are you doing?

Helke, can you please add a publication date? :)"
Done (finally).

Gustaf, as we said, I'll pass this task to allow us to go to the next.
I'll be able to read for this one because I'll cancell this other challenges.
With only on going on, it should be easier for me.
I do apologise for not saying anything before guys.


Task 7 - 1. Each player reads a book by the same author, teams decide author - no pass for this task.
As a team select an author, then everyone reads a book by the selected author. Please include the selected author in your completion posts. Pseudonyms are acceptable.

Book: Pieces of You
by NR Walker
185 pages
Date read: April 22
Rating: 4.5 stars
Review: I honestly wasn't looking forward to another amnesia story (I had just finished another one for another challenge), but I found this one to be so sweet. Justin is hit by a truck and loses all memory of the last 5 years, when he met, fell in love and started living with Dallas. Dallas is so patient and sweet and stays by his side through weeks of recovery that Justin starts to fall in love with him all over again. There is no anger and raging, no fear, just love and patience. Gonna read the next one for sure!
How it fits: Written by N.R. Walker
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