Friday Reads | Thirteen: Part One

January 20, 2017February 12, 2019 ~ Ofelia Gränd ~ Leave a comment

OMG! I read Thirteen: Part One (The Others Project #2) by Adrienne Wilder and I had promised myself not to, not until Part Two was out. Why did I?! *wail* Well, I know why. I really liked Seven and have been waiting for the next part of the series for ages (feels like ages at least), and every time I’ve gone through my TBR list I’ve seen that green number there.

I’m not overly big on Sci-Fi, or rather this is my kind of Sci-Fi. I tend to avoid the first contact alien invasion kind of stories but books like this grab hold of me and never let go until there is nothing left to read.

So why wait to read this book? Because it ends right in the middle, and when I say right in the middle, I mean right in the middle. I don’t think there was a single chapter ending with such a cliffhanger as the book did. There was a silent NO! bouncing around in my head when I came to the last line of the page and it said ‘End Book One.’ So now I almost wish I hadn’t read it *sigh*

It was awesome, though. I love the grittiness of the world presented and I really hope there will be more Others books…soon.

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Book Two (part one) of the Other’s Project.

Quinn Farlin’s life just went from the frying pan into the fire.

All because he made one stupid mistake: he fell in love. Then he was left behind by the love of his life as payment for her freedom. Now Quinn lives as a slave to the Kent Family Empire; counterfeiting, money, paintings, rare coins, and anything else to keep his knees intact and his heart beating.

There seems to be no way out until one night a fireball falls from the sky and a mysterious voice on the phone saves his life. All the stranger asks in return is help for friend.

A friend with scars down his spine. A tattoo of the number 13 on the back of his neck. A friend who upon meeting Quinn can read his mind and watches him with adoration.

And while Quinn is convinced he’s still in love with the woman who left him, his heart has other plans.

Now it’s just a matter of staying alive; a task easier said than done, since nothing is what it seems to be, and the world he’s always known just fell down the rabbit hole.

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Friday Reads | Drawing Love

January 13, 2017February 12, 2019 ~ Ofelia Gränd ~ Leave a comment

This Friday I’ve read Tully Vincent‘s Drawing Love. It’s been out for almost a year but I first saw it now – shows how good I am at paying attention. I’ve been meaning to read Tully Vincent’s debut story, The Last Yeti, since it came out in 2015 but it’s still there on my to-read list *sigh*.

I’m glad I read Drawing Love as soon as I saw it, though. It’s super cute.

Taylor is organising the Cupid Dance at his school. The pressure is wearing on him, as is having to make a decision about what to do in the future. All the stress is making his agoraphobia worse and walking through the school doors is threatening to set off a panic attack. But, turns out, Taylor isn’t the only one being nervous today. Gordon, Taylor’s kindergarten sweetheart, has something he wants to ask Taylor.

Drawing Love left me smiling, and it managed to do so in only nineteen pages. I love short fiction when it’s done well!

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Taylor Elliott takes being head of the Cupid Dance decorating committee very seriously–he’s determined to dazzle his fellow students with his knack for glitz and glamour. Until the committee’s techie bails at the last minute and Taylor’s agoraphobia kicks in, leaving him on the verge of a panic attack. Can a childhood cupid show Taylor how to use his flair for creating sparkle in a whole new way?

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Friday Reads | Tommy’s Blind Date

January 6, 2017February 12, 2019 ~ Ofelia Gränd ~ 1 Comment

The first Friday Reads post of the year *rubs hands*. I’ve been reading Tommy’s Blind Date by Anne Brooke, not because I longed to read it, I didn’t even know what it was about – though the title says it all, doesn’t it? No, I read it because those rubber ducks glare at me every time I look at my kindle library. I’m not sorry I read it, though.

Opening the book, I don’t know what my expectations were but it made me smile. A couple of pages in Tommy is on a blind date with the much younger, much hornier, and much drunker Hector and I just love it when Tommy ‘queens it up for Britan’.

This is not a story filled of surprises, you pretty much know what’s going to happen all along, but it didn’t bother me. It’s short, it’s steamy, funny, and a good friends-to-lovers read. Definitely, worth the glaring ducks LOL!

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Thirty-two year old Tommy Godolphin has been on a series of blind dates, as he doesn’t want to be single any more. However, none of them really hits the spot and the latest one has proved a complete, if amusing, disaster.

When he recounts what happened to his best friend, Jacob, he expects Jacob to laugh with him as usual, but this time he doesn’t. Instead, Jacob challenges Tommy to go out on a blind date with him, to see what, if anything, he might be doing wrong. If Tommy accepts, how will their friendship survive?

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