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Chan wrote: "Enjoy Tink!"It's a reread for me :D I love this series
Tink Magoo is bad at reviews wrote: "Chan wrote: "Enjoy Tink!"It's a reread for me :D I love this series"
I loved the first one and will definitely read the next two. So sad the series won't be completed... 😢
#25 | 77. Each teammate reads a book that the teammate after them alphabetically has rated 5 starsBook: Him
Pages: 361
Qualifies: Rated 5 stars by Courtney
Rating: 🏒🏒🏒🏒
Completed: May 31, 2022
~KarenH~ wrote: "Tink Magoo is bad at reviews wrote: "Chan wrote: "Enjoy Tink!"It's a reread for me :D I love this series"
I loved the first one and will definitely read the next two. So sad the series won't be ..."
Oh no, how do you know? I liked this one but the first is my favourite because of Benson
Karen had so many I wanted to read! I narrowed it down to like five and then picked
. I can't decide if I like Cole or not yet. He's so pissy all the time. I'm waiting for whatever the big reveal will be to explain it. Love Savannah, though. I think Jaci Burton really writes heroines well. I've loved all her ladies.
#25 | 77. Each teammate reads a book that the teammate after them alphabetically has rated 5 stars -Chan - Courtney - Karen - Tink - Chan
Book: Going Wild
Pages: 285
Qualifies: Rated 5 stars by Chan
Rating: 4.5
Completed: 31st May
Tink Magoo is bad at reviews wrote: "~KarenH~ wrote: "Tink Magoo is bad at reviews wrote: "Chan wrote: "Enjoy Tink!"It's a reread for me :D I love this series"
I loved the first one and will definitely read the next two. So sad the..."
She passed away a few years ago an awful car accident. It was posted everywhere for a while. It was quite sad. There's a place for her fans to post goodbyes or to share what her books meant to them on her website. Not sure if it is still up though. It was there when she first passed away.
Oh no, that is so sad. Thanks for letting me know
Tink Magoo is bad at reviews wrote: "Oh no, that is so sad. Thanks for letting me know"Yes it is. I'd never read anything by her before Becoming a Vincent, so went to her GR page to check out what else she'd written and if there was anything about future Wild Ones books...saw the date of death on her profile so had to look into it further (just last summer actually, but she'd taken a break from writing a couple of years before that and hadn't gotten back to it yet).
Task 25 - 77. Each teammate reads a book that the teammate after them alphabetically has rated 5 stars. No pass for this task. 
The Bourbon ThiefPages: 432
Qualifies: Read and rated 5 stars by Tink
Rating: 5 stars
Completed: May 31, 2022
Completion Post - Task #2577. Each teammate reads a book that the teammate after them alphabetically has rated 5 stars. No pass for this task.
Playing to Win
Pages: 317
Completed: 6/1
How it Qualifies: Rated 5 stars by Karen
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review:
Cole is a football player who needs an image adjustment. He's been let go from several teams for his attitude on and off the field, and Savannah is brought in to fix him.
I liked Savannah right away, but Cole was a bit harder. It wasn't until about halfway through that he seems to soften enough to be likable. I never really felt like there was any reason for him to be the "bad boy", so I didn't really get his character. It's mentioned that he was let go from his first team, so then he was afraid of building relationships again, but it just didn't feel like enough for me.
This is a very "real life" romance. No drama or craziness, just two people being pretty normal. I liked this, but it was missing that oomph for me. It ended up dragging in some spots, and just didn't grab my attention like the other books in the series have. Not bad, but not my favorite.
Here is your next task!Task 26 - 79. Read 6 books that have the same romance trope, teams decide which trope.
As a team select a common romance trope, fake boyfriend, secret baby etc., then read 6 books that use that trope. Please include the selected trope in your completion posts. Remember to let me know how you know your book qualifies, be it precis, tags or lists - I need to know where to look to confirm your books. Include any necessary links or info in your completion posts.
I'm starting with
, and have a brand new M&G list with several 'friends to lovers' books on it, so I can easily do two. 😃
i just finished The Charm Offensive. It was really good! Seriously a great read! I don't buy the interracial aspect b/c the author does a poor job of illustrating the differences of the MCs. She doesn't take the time to talk about Dev's indian background, so that aspect is such a waste. However, the way she tells the LGBT story and touches on mental is so good.
My book is so stupid!!! But I'm already 100 pages in, so I'm going to push through. But it's stupid. I don't think the author even read it before publishing it because the MCs change what their relationship is so frequently 🤦♀️
Ok, seriously, the heroine is motified that she accidentally sent her boy friend/f*ck buddy a text message that she needs tampons 🤦♀️. This is an adult? Wtf. Three pages of her freaking out. Smh.
Task 26 - 79. Read 6 books that have the same romance trope, teams decide which trope. Book 1
BrooklynairePages: 298
Qualifies: Tagged 'friends-to-lovers by 271 people on page 1 of tags
Rating: 4 stars
Completed: June 1, 2022
Book 2
Big Bad BeastPages: 368
Qualifies: Tagged 'friends-to-lovers by 7 people on page 1 of tags
Rating: 4 stars
Completed: June 2, 2022
Completion Post - Task #2679. Read 6 books that have the same romance trope, teams decide which trope.
Team chose friends to lovers
Playing for Keeps
Pages: 390
Completed: 6/2
How it Qualifies: Tagged 'friends to lovers' by 95 people
Rating: ⭐️⭐️
Review:
This is one of those books where I have to wonder if the author even read through it before publishing. Justin and Elise flipflop so much that it's hard to tell if the author even remembered what she wrote in each chapter.
First, we open with Justin confessing in his internal monologue that he's sick of all his random hookups and is obsessed with Elise, his best friend and roommate's little sister. Elise also happens to have a crush on Justin, and that night they hook up. The next morning, Elise is worried that Justin might regret it because he's a manwhore, and when Justin sees that she looks nervous, decides to pretend he doesn't remember that they hooked up .....for THREE freaking months.
And during that time, despite having "feelings" for Elise, he continues to be a manwhore and be with other women, but it's supposed to not be a huge deal because he doesn't bring them back to his bed that he slept with Elise in.
Finally, after three awkward months of not talking (and somehow Owen the brother and friend doesn't notice), they finally talk, and Justin admits that he does remember. He says that he's sick of sleeping around and might be ready for something more serious, so the two of them start dating...
Nope. They start a no-strings, friends-with-benefits thing because that makes total sense after Justin admitted that he wanted to try something more meaningful than the one night stands he's been having and Elise is already in love with him.
Then we have more back and forth. Are they in a relationship or not? Sometimes?
Of course, the first night Elise and Justin were together, she was a virgin. But since it didn't go well, Justin decides to redo her de-virginizing...twice. In the first one, he apologizes, and does the whole "you're so tight", "tell me if it hurts" yada yada yada, as if he forgot that he already banged her silly with no issue. And then he comes back another time with flowers and wine and stuff and says it's because he wants to make up for taking her virginity badly. Did he forget he already did that? They already had sex between the first time and that time? So weird.
And then a whole ridiculous five pages where Elise is mortified that she accidentally asked Justin to buy her tampons.
OMG tampons! I'm so embarrassed! /s
I like my romances to feature adults. Nothing embarrassing about a dang tampon.
Anyway....
Eventually, Justin wants to come clean with Owen because he thinks he really wants to be with Elise. He puts out a hypothetical, which Owen shuts down, but Justin continues to see Elise. Then, in like the next chapter, Elise offers him a key to her place, and he LOSES HIS MIND! Boy dumps her right then because he suddenly doesn't believe relationships can work and he'll probably cheat on her in a year or whatever anyway.
But instead of walking away, Elise says he's the best man she's ever known and that they need to talk about the "break up" later.
And the next time they talk, they're just back together and suddenly love each other. Then we have three chapters where they go see their families for some reason. The End.
I just didn't get this. The "relationship" was awful. Justin was a douchy manwhore. There's no real story here, and it meanders to an ending through what feels like three unnecessary epilogues. Hard pass.
#26 | 79. Read 6 books that have the same romance trope| Book 1Team chose friends to lovers
Book: The Charm Offensive
Pages: 368
Qualifies: Shelved friends to lovers by 41 people
Rating: 🎥🎥🎥🎥
Completed: June 1, 2022
#26 | 79. Read 6 books that have the same romance trope| Book 2
Team chose friends to lovers
Book: A Lie for a Lie
Pages: 285
Qualifies: Shelved friends to lovers by 23 people
Rating: 🏒🏒🏒🏒
Completed: June 2, 2022
Courtney wrote: "Completion Post - Task #2679. Read 6 books that have the same romance trope, teams decide which trope.
Team chose friends to lovers
[book:Playing for Keeps..."
LOL @ " Justin and Elise flipflop so much that it's hard to tell if the author even remembered what she wrote in each chapter."
Courtney, i'm crying over here. your review is so funny. When you said they finally start dating and then have the gif that says nah i'm kidding 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
#26 | 79. Read 6 books that have the same romance tropeTeam chose friends to lovers
Book: The Love Hypothesis
Pages: 383
Qualifies: Shelved friends to lovers by my link text 177 people
Rating: 5 stars
Completed: June 2, 2022
Chan wrote: "Courtney, i'm crying over here. your review is so funny. When you said they finally start dating and then have the gif that says nah i'm kidding 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣"
🤣🤣 That book made me so angry! Nothing made sense. I rage deleted all the author's books from my TBR last night after I finished. 🤣
Courtney wrote: "Chan wrote: "Courtney, i'm crying over here. your review is so funny. When you said they finally start dating and then have the gif that says nah i'm kidding 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣"
🤣🤣 That book made me so ang..."
OMGosh...that book must've been awful. i'm trying to think if i've ever done that. There's been two or three books where I thought about it and came close though
But how do you have a redo with taking someone's virginity? I read a book where the heroine caught the guy she was dating in the club with his hands up some other woman's dress. They locked eyes and he kept doing what he was doing.
The hero made it the heroine's fault b/c she wasn't supposed to be there, but also he was trying to push her away to keep her safe. How contradictory?! LOL that book made me so frustrated.
There are other ways to push me away and/or keep safe. Feeling up someone else not knowing I was going to be there doesn't seem like the most efficient way.
That's the type of book that makes me really hesitant about a lot of YA/NA. Some are fine, but a lot of them just come across as ridiculous and/or childish to me.
Chan wrote: "But how do you have a redo with taking someone's virginity? "He felt bad because he didn't know she was a virgin the first time, so he had to have the typical "taking virginity sex scene" with her. You know, lots of reassurance and talking about how big his piece is but it'll still fit 🙄. I guess the author likes writing that type of scene so much that she wanted to do it twice 🤷🏼♀️.
I read a book where the heroine caught the guy she was dating in the club with his hands up some other woman's dress. They locked eyes ..."
That kind of stuff drives me crazy. I don't mind if the hero is with someone else before he's with the heroine, but once he says he's into her or they get together for the first time, then dude needs to be faithful or I don't buy the relationship.
~KarenH~ wrote: "That's the type of book that makes me really hesitant about a lot of YA/NA. Some are fine, but a lot of them just come across as ridiculous and/or childish to me."Yeah, I usually stay away from NA and YA too for the same reason.
~KarenH~ wrote: "That's the type of book that makes me really hesitant about a lot of YA/NA. Some are fine, but a lot of them just come across as ridiculous and/or childish to me."Yeah. They read as immature. And maybe i was the exact same way when i was much younger, but my brain has refused to hold any of those memories and I don't remember acting like that. So, now it seems so implausible that people would do things like that.
Courtney wrote: "Chan wrote: "But how do you have a redo with taking someone's virginity? "He felt bad because he didn't know she was a virgin the first time, so he had to have the typical "taking virginity sex s..."
lol the author wanted to write it twice and found a way to create that scene for her readers again.
I don't have a hard and fast rule about cheating in books. I don't like it, but depending on how it's written, I could still end up liking the book. But the one I described was just awful. I think the author was trying to create a lovable jerk, but she left him with no redeeming qualities.
I'm seeing two of everything this morning, so I'm not going to check your books until this improves...Here is your next task!
Task 27 - 83. Read 8 books with a white flower/s on the cover.
You can use any edition's cover to qualify for this task. Please post the qualifying cover in your completion post. Remember to use the first edition Kindle page count though!
I'll go for
I've started on
(small white flowers in background). I have a couple more in mind that work (alternate covers of
and
), but not sure which one I'll read next. I should have time to read all three though, if anyone doesn't have time for two.
Oh man I had such a hard time with this one the last time! I remember there was one I thought had flowers, but it was a small white dog 🤣. Let me start looking!
#27 | 83. Read 8 books with a white flower/s on the cover | Book 1Book: Finding Our Forever
Pages: 224
Qualifies: White flowers at top of cover
Rating: 👦👦👦
Completed: June 3, 2022
#27 | 83. Read 8 books with a white flower/s on the cover | Book 2
Book: Born in Ice
Pages: 368
Qualifies: White flowers on the cover
Rating: 🏡🏡🏡🏡
Completed: June 4, 2022
That book was interesting, but I think it was too short for the topic that author was trying to tackle. It was only about 6 hours listening time.
My second book was between
and
I'm going with Born in Ice. I'll start it now and finish up tomorrow.
I found this one
. It's a bit long, though, so I probably won't have it done til tomorrow.
I like the title of that series, courtney 😁
Task 27 - 83. Read 8 books with a white flower/s on the cover. Book 1
How to Be a WallflowerPages: 384
Qualifies: Small white flowers on cover above
Rating: 4 stars
Completed: June 3, 2022
Book 2
Happy Ever AfterPages: 369
Qualifies: White flowers on this cover:
Rating: 4 stars
Completed: June 4, 2022
Book 3
The Princess and the RoguePages: 334
Qualifies: White flowers on this cover:
Rating: 4 stars
Completed: June 4, 2022
Courtney wrote: "I found this one . It's a bit long, though, so I probably won't have it done til tomorrow."Courtney, I'm well into my second book and have a third lined up that I can easily finish by tomorrow evening, so if you don't think you'll have time for a second, I've got you covered! 😁
Chan wrote: "#26 | 79. Read 6 books that have the same romance trope| Book 1Team chose friends to lovers
#26 | 79. Read 6 books that have the same romance trope| Book 2
Team chose friends to lovers
Book: A Lie for a Lie
Pages: 265"
Please correct to the first edition Kindle page count (285). Thanks.
~KarenH~ wrote: "Courtney, I'm well into my second book and have a third lined up that I can easily finish by tomorrow evening, so if you don't think you'll have time for a second, I've got you covered! 😁."Thanks!
I had to quit mine. It was sooooooo boring! The whole storyline is about the hero maybe going to be court maritaled for desertion, and his old boss stealing his idea for some sort of shooting, training range. All while he's trying to invent a better bullet. 70 pages in and the MCs have had one conversation. Just not feeling it. I found
, so I'm going to give that a try instead.
I just realised only one of mine will work because the GoodReads page count is lower than the amazon one. I'll try and find a second but it's harder than I thought to find shorter ones
Task 27 - 83. Read 8 books with a white flower/s on the cover.Book 1
The Remake
Pages: 182
Qualifies: white flowers on cover
Rating: 3 stars
Completed: June 4, 2022
Book 2
Wrong Wedding
Pages: 253
Qualifies: small white flowers at the bottom of the cover
Rating: 2.5 stars
Completed: June 4, 2022
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