PtP R24 - Wedding Between the Lines (3)

[Catsalive]

Week 9 completion


Book:Possession In Death by J.D. Robb
Date: 15/6 3★
Review:
At the end of Indulgence in Death, I was disappointed that they didn't get to have their party, & here it is. The whole gang is gathered together, enjoying food & friendship, when Eve gives someone a lift home & stumbles upon another murder. Eve is possessed by the dead woman, Gizi Szabo, who is searching for her missing great-granddaughter. In searching for Beata, they also uncover a serial murderer. Big score for the NYPSD.

It's a nice speedy piece of action, however, I could have done without the "woo-woo", it spoils the logicality of the series: it's already set in the future, I don't need supernatural as well, but it is an entertaining interlude.

[Michelle]

Week 9 Selection Post - Option 1




Book: Beautiful Beginning by Christina Lauren
Pages: 209
Qualification: Wealthy character. Tagged billionaire 12 times

[Michelle]

Week 9 - Completion Post



Beautiful Beginning by Christina Lauren
Finished: 6.19.25
Rating: ★★

Review: This is book #3.5 of the Beautiful Bastard series and it wasn't worth it's own book. They're getting married; we knew that in book 3. That's the plot. No fun/unexpected twists. Bennett decides for the both of them that they'll wait until the wedding night before they "do it" again. Just a lot of sexual tension knowing how this would end. If I could have skipped this book I would have. Unfortunately, I expect the next book (#3.6) to be unnecessary, too.

[Shan ~A~]

Completion Post - Week 9
Option 1
Book: The Fake Boyfriend Fiasco by Talia Hibbert
Page Numbers: 210
How it fits: From Precis, "For millionaire footballer Nikolas Christou..."
Finished: 06/17
Rating: 4 stars
Review: These two were so fun and super sexy together. The narration was on point, honestly although I enjoyed both Rooke Kingston could have narrated the entire thing herself.

It's been a while since I read a book by Talia Hibbert, and I don't if my memory is lapsing, but I don't remember her writing scenes so spicy and good. Girl!!! You did your thang her. Lol!

Nik basically falls in love with Aria at first sight, but he realizes right away that Aria is not into that, so he concocts a plan with her help (unknowingly) to have her be his fake girlfriend to ward off unwanted advances.

He's so freaking charming, and downright sexy that she eventually finds herself falling for him. He's also so freaking honest that he tells her about his plan, and of course she freaks considering her background.

[Jane (PS), Moderator]

🌺 Just Vicki's completions for the last 2 weeks :)

[Jamie (TheRebelliousReader)]

Week 10

Option 1
15. A honeymoon trip will generally mark the beginning of the couple's married life.
Read a book tagged 'holiday' or 'vacation'. These are the only tags that will work.
So this can be a genre on the main page or on the book's shelves. A list will not work.


Please ask in the Q&A if you aren't sure.

To insert links in your posts, please read these instructions in the Q&A thread:
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Option 2
Key date: 20 December 2024
Team mate read on or after this date and rated at least 3 stars


Option 3
Pass

[Jamie (TheRebelliousReader)]

Selection Post - Week 10

Book: I'll Get Back to You by Becca Grischow
Pages: 317
Qualification: Tagged as Holiday 55x

[Vicki]

Completion Post ~ Week 8
Option 1


Book: So Not Meant To Be
Author: Meghan Quinn
Read: 19 Jun
Rating: 4 stars

Review:
I am thoroughly enjoying this series. I read book 1 and 2 so that I could read the 3rd in the series since I had gotten it from NetGalley. If there's one thing I can say for this book (and the 1st) it's that it had the power to make me literally laugh aloud which I don't do easily or often. I love the Cane brothers.

JP and Kelsey are cute and their characters are well-developed. When he first meets her (his soon-to-be sister-in-law BTW), he is taken in by her. She, however, not so much. lol I loved their bantering and their growth in their relationship. Definitely fun to watch happen.

[Jane (PS), Moderator]

🔔

[Jamie (TheRebelliousReader)]

Completion Post - Week 10

I'll Get Back to You by Becca Grischow
Finished: 6/21/25
Rating: ★★
Review: I didn’t like anything about this. The fake dating was pointless. Ellie and Murphy had no chemistry whatsoever. They both were also so incredibly unlikable. All the characters were. Murphy had this weird codependent thing with her best friend, and that was strange because I thought they were going to be end game. The plot meandered and felt like it was going nowhere and this book was so awfully paced and really boring. The writing itself was not bad but as a romance this didn’t deliver at all and it just wasn’t an entertaining read. This was a slog to get through.

[Shan ~A~]

Selection Post - Week 10
Option 1
Book: Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
Page Numbers: 386
How it fits: Tagged vacation 13x
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

[LaurLa]

Selection Post ❱❱ Week 10 ❱❱ Option 1
Call ❱❱ 15. A honeymoon trip will generally mark the beginning of the couple's married life


Task ❱❱ Read a book tagged 'holiday' or 'vacation'
Book ❱❱ Other People’s Summers
Pages ❱❱ 350 (linked ebook edition)
How it fits ❱❱ tagged holiday-romance 1 time (approved in Q&A)

[LaurLa]

Completion Post ❱❱ Week 10 ❱❱ Option 1
Call ❱❱ 15. A honeymoon trip will generally mark the beginning of the couple's married life


Task ❱❱ Read a book tagged 'holiday' or 'vacation'
Book ❱❱ Other People’s Summers
Pages ❱❱ 350 (linked ebook edition)
How it fits ❱❱ tagged holiday-romance 1 time (approved in Q&A)
Date Read ❱❱ 06.21 ★★★★
Review
Sweet book about learning to overcome your own fears and the absolute value of friendship and family/found family. There was a small smattering of romance but not even close to the focus of the story. Things tied up really neatly at the end and I wasn't convinced by the way Milly's ex-husband turned 'nice' again. I feel for Milly to have really grown and come into herself, it would have been better for her to stand up to Richard while he was being an ass and that she was able to walk away from that feeling strong and moved on - instead his niceness didn't really feel like she overcame her conflict-avoidance in order to make her stand. Other than that, it was a good story and I enjoyed it very much.

[Michelle]

Week 10 Selection Post - Option 1



The Worst Best Man byLucy Score
Pages: 448
Qualification: Tagged Vacation x4

[Catsalive]

Week 10 selection - option 1


Book:Father Christmas by Barbara Metzger
Pages: 214
Task: Read a book tagged 'holiday' or 'vacation'
Qualification: MPG/Tag Holiday

[Michelle]

Hi team,

I will have my book read before Friday, but I won't have access to a computer until Monday to post my review. Is that ok?

[Jane (PS), Moderator]

🐝
Just Vicki's selection outstanding.

[Jane (PS), Moderator]

Michelle wrote: "Hi team,

I will have my book read before Friday, but I won't have access to a computer until Monday to post my review. Is that ok?"

Hi Michelle - I announce the final call on Friday PM. Depending on where the teams are at, its a race off to win, with teams trying to have all their books read heading into this final week.

But if you can't post, you can't post. So just do your best, I would say :)

[Shan ~A~]

Completion Post - Week 10
Option 1
Book: Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
Page Numbers: 386
How it fits: Tagged vacation 13x
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Finished: 06/23
Rating: 3 stars
Review: Just in case my thoughts while reading contain spoilers they will be under a spoiler tag. Before that I want to say that I don't usually read YA romances unless I know going in, by reading reviews, it's supposed to be full of humor or like one a read months ago that reminded me of 13 going on 30.

This had the romance element, but for me the focus was on Lina and her trying to figure the truths her mother didn't tell her before she passed, plus Lina dealing with the grief of losing her mother as well.

(view spoiler)[June 22, 2025 –
7.0% "Why wouldn't her mother tell her that Howard was her father? Especially knowing she was dying. And if Howard was such a great guy, why hadn't she told her about him in all these years? Why couldn't she just stay with her grandmother and meet her father first?
If the full story of why he wasn't involved isn't in this story that will be -1 star."
June 22, 2025 –
27.0% "Okay, so Howard didn't know about Lina, but instead of giving an explanation the excuse was our relationship was complicated. That is a cop out. At this point, I think Lina deserves to know the story to understand why her mother didn't tell Howard about her. The -1 star is still on the table if we don't get the full story by the end of the book.

There is a journal that belonged to Hadley, so we'll see."
June 23, 2025 –
37.0% "I was thinking this before when someone pointed out the differences between Lina and Howard, but after that overheard prematurely ended conversation between Howard & his friends, plus him saying her mother didn't tell her something (well her mother didn't really tell her anything), makes me think that maybe Howard isn't her father. Maybe he's related to her father, or they were all friends.

I guess we'll see."
June 23, 2025 –
100.0% "Well, I was right about Howard & Lina's relationship, and at least we got the full story. I think I would have liked this more if it had involved her reading the entire journal before visiting the places her mother went and deciding at that point if she wanted to meet the douche, Mateo.

Overall, I really like Howard more than anyone else. Not many men would do what he was doing. Even if he did it awkwardly." (hide spoiler)]

Now will I read more books in this series. Possibly depending on who and what they are about.

[Catsalive]

Week 10 completion


Book:Father Christmas by Barbara Metzger
Date: 26/6 1★
Review:
What an awful farce! Too much going on & almost slapstick at times: it's more like a contemporary tale plopped down in the Regency era. I didn't believe in the romance at all, & Graceanne (such an American name for an English period piece) & Leland (also unlikely) irritated me the whole way through. They are rather a stupid pair & the cutesy twins bored me. Not my cup of tea, I suppose.

[LaurLa]

Week 11


Option 1
4. Music is played ~ before, during or after
Read a book with an MC who is a musician or music composer/lyricist. Not a poet.

Qualification must be found on Goodreads and come from the book's main page, a list or shelf/tag.

Tags such as music, musician, singer, composer, rockstar will work. These tags MUST be in context. The tag 'artist' will not work on its own. Combo tags such as 'arts-music-writing' or 'rockstar-actor- famous' will not work as they are too broad.
Please ask in the Q&A if you aren't sure or if the qualification is borderline.


To insert links in your posts, please read these instructions in the Q&A thread:
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Option 2
Key date: 27 December 2024
Member has read on or after this date and rated at least 3 stars

If you use this option, this week you must select your book from the team shelves immediately below your team in this list. The last team picks from the first team.

3 - Wedding Between the Lines
9 - The TBR-idesmaids
12 - I Do Crew
8 - We Do Take Thee Trope
4 - Aisle Be There For You
10 - Storybook Soulmates
11 - Maids of Dishonour
5 - You May Kiss The Book
6 - The Book Affair
1 - Novel Nuptials
7 - Kiss The Miss Goodbye
2 - Til the Last Page Do We Part

Eg. Team 3 picks from team 9's members bookshelves. Team 2 picks from team 3's members bookshelves.

DO NOT PICK from a team member who has left the team during the game. Picks must come from current members. If you aren't sure if they are current, please check on the spreadsheet that is linked in the first message of this thread.


Option 3 The pass is not available this week.

[LaurLa]

Selection Post ❱❱ Week 11 ❱❱ Option 2
Call ❱❱ 4. Music is played ~ before, during or after


Task ❱❱ Read a book from team 9 - The TBR-idesmaids team member shelves: Key date: 27 December 2024
Book ❱❱ The Uncommon Reader
Pages ❱❱ 120 (linked ebook edition)
How it fits ❱❱ Heather read on 06.11.25 and rated 4 stars

[Shan ~A~]

A winner has been announced. Team 11

Of course, I didn't see it until after I found a book. 🤣🤣

It's been fun everyone!!!

[Jamie (TheRebelliousReader)]

There's a winner already? That was fast. This was fun. Great playing with you all!

[Catsalive]

Wow! Finished already. Thanks Team.

[Vicki]

I had a good time this round. Sorry I got behind the last week, but next time I'll do better...I hope! :)