Just taking you on my reading 😁 #28

Books 📚 included 👇🏼

I Think I Might Love You, I Think I Might Need You, Thrown Down, Worked Up, Totally Basted, Wound Tight, Birthday Shot, A Lady Chosen

Sunday

I Think I Might Love You

• Jaclyn “Jac” Love – h, recently single, student at Blakewood“Wrong bitch” 🎶, to do 400 hours of community service, works at Dreamery
  • Donald “Donnie” Love – dad
  • Josaphine Love – momMiss Thing – cat
• Jemma
• 🤦🏼‍♀️ erased 😂🤬

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Gist at at he start: Jac recently broke up with her boyfriend and goes to her sister’s apartment, where she comes upon a naked Kadan

⚾️⚾️⚾️ (6) ⚾️⚾️ Kadan’s 👅 at Dreamery 😏

Alumni ball 😏 Dedra there 🤬 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (10) Graduation 👩‍🎓

I Think I Might Need You

This series, conveniently named The Love Sisters 👯‍♀️ series, is on the Live sisters. We’ve met Jaclyn this book is Joia’s story, leaving us with Jemma last 🤔

• 2nd chance
• Contemporary novella
• 14 chapters/almost 4 hours
• Twist on secret 🤫 pregnancy 🤰 trope

• Joia “ Jojo” Love – h, pregnant 🤰 found out live 6 months 😮 😱, likes to workout (fit bitch), broken up 8 years, influencer
  • Justin Wright – cousin
  • Jason Wright – cousin
    • Reece – pregnant 🤰, hitory of misscarriage
  • Dalton – ex, baby daddy?!, found out live 😱
  • Devon – cousin, doctor 👨‍⚕️
  • Jemma – sister, oldest, sublets to Kadan, likes to travel 🧳 , writer
    • Foster – ex
  • Jaclyn “Jac” Love – h from I Think I Might Love You, recently single, student at Blakewood (new grad), to do 400 hours of community service, works at Dreamery, pregnant 🤰
    • Kadan Davenport – H from I Think I Might Love You,
• Theodore “Teddy” Graham – H, 6’2”, college ex, influencer, found out Joia was pregnant online , enjoys working out, broken up 8 years
  • Taye – friend
  • Theo – dad
  • Lia – sister
  • Salinas – mom

Graham family home 🏡 🤗

Teddy kisses 😘 Joia ⚾️ invite Teddy in 😏 ⚾️⚾️ Teddy’s 👅 on Joia ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (8) 5 months pregnant 🤰 New Year’s baby 😮 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (9) exes with benefits 😏

Gist at at he start: Joia finds out she is pregnant 🤰 😱 but who’s the father?!

Monday

Happy 4th of July! 🧨🎆🎇🎊

I Think I May Need You

• Joia “ Jojo” Love – h, pregnant 🤰 found out live 6 months 😮 😱, likes to workout (fit bitch), broken up 8 years, influencer
  • Justin Wright – cousin
  • Jason Wright – cousin
    • Reece – pregnant 🤰, hitory of misscarriage
  • Dalton – ex, baby daddy?!, found out live 😱
  • Devon – cousin, doctor 👨‍⚕️
  • Jemma – sister, oldest, sublets to Kadan, likes to travel 🧳 , writer
    • Foster – ex
  • Jaclyn “Jac” Love – h from I Think I Might Love You, recently single, student at Blakewood (new grad), to do 400 hours of community service, works at Dreamery, pregnant 🤰
    • Kadan Davenport – H from I Think I Might Love You,
• Theodore “Teddy” Graham – H, 6’2”, college ex, influencer, found out Joia was pregnant online , enjoys working out, broken up 8 years
  • Taye – friend
  • Theo – dad
  • Lia – sister
  • Salinas – mom
• Fresh – online series

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Placental abruption 😱

I Think I May Want You

• 12 chapters/3 h 26 m
• Strong ✊🏽 h 🙌🏼

• Jemma Love – h, travel writer ✍️ , chapter 5 man in Cuba 🇨🇺 months ago, lonely 😞
  • Tonnie – friend
  • Sean – ex fiancee, broke up 6 months ago, cheated 🤬, 🪦
  • Joseph “Joey” Wright – cousin, doctor 👨‍⚕️
    • Devan Wrighr – cousin in law, NP 👩‍⚕️
      • Jodie – baby
      • Jaden- nephew
  • Julia Joia “ Jojo” Love – h, pregnant 🤰 (7 months), found out live 6 months 😮 😱, likes to workout (fit bitch), broken up 8 years, influencer
    • Theodore “Teddy” Graham – H, 6’2”, college ex, influencer, found out Joia was pregnant online , enjoys working out, broken up 8 years
      • Theodore III “TJ” – son
  • Jaclyn “Jac” Love – h, recently single, student at Blakewood“Wrong bitch” 🎶, to do 400 hours of community service, works at Dreamery
    • Kadan Davenport – H from I Think I Might Love You,
• Levi Anders – H, neighbor of Devan Wright, Mr. Chapter 5 😏 , artist 👨‍🎨 , recently lost mom 🥲, mom passed 7 months ago 🥲
  • Marie Anders Center – gallery, community center
  • Morgan – friend
• Cutches & Cream – Kadan and Jaclyn’s ice cream shop

⚾️⚾️ Levi’s 🤚🏽 and 👅 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (3) ⚾️⚾️ Levi’s 👅 Jemma’s 👅

Walks in on Jac-Kadan 😂 Teddy and TJ 🫶🏼😍 Reenact Cuba 😍😉😏

Thrown Down

Refresher: Vaughn is set to receive a medal 🎖 of honor 👏🏽 River going to accompany him 😏 Duke’s sisters babysit Marcy 🤗 so they can go on a date

• River Purcell – class president, works in factory 🏭 & Kick Bucket
  • Mr.Purcell – dad
  • Adeline – choir director
  • Marcy – daughter
    • Helen -babysitter
  • Sarge Purcell – brother
  • Kicked Bucket- bar where River works
  • Cece Sinclair – editor ✍️ for Parker & Rowe Publishings, friend
• Vaughn De Matteo – soldier (army) for 2 years, lived in Baltimore, came home after Sarge’s letter ✉️, works as private security, alcoholic 🥴, calls River Doll, security specialist
  • Security team
    • Bautista
  • Duke Crawford – friend, former soldier, H from Worked Up 🙌🏼, 4 sisters 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️
    • Lisa – sister
  • Rener Bastian – factory 🏭 personnel, boss, three piece suit
• Baltimore, MD
• Hook, New JerseyThe Third Shift

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Date 😍 River 🤬 ⚾️⚾️ Vaughn’s 👅 ⚾️⚾️⚾️(15) gloving up 😏 and sharing secrets 🤐 Vaughn drives Marcy for a fishing trip 🎣 and the ceremony 🙌🏼 Marcy proud of Vaughn 😍

⚾️⚾️ Vaughn’s 👅 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (17) ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (20) Vaughn got the factory security job 🙌🏼 👍🏽

Father secret 🤫 out because… 🤔 House deed 🤬 Vaughn storms off 🤬 River waiting on him 🤔 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (22)

Worked Up

• 23 chapters
• Contemporary small town novella series

• Samantha Waverly – from New York, artist 👩‍🎨 (children book illustrator) , 25 yo, uses tweet-deck, likes egg sandwiches 🥪 , ended engagement after 3 years, Old News fan 😊😍
  • Hudson – ex-fiancee, factory investor
  • Renner Bastian – step brother, factory CEO, gay
    • Art On Wheels 💡💭 – mobile art studio, Renner co-signs bank loan
• Duke Crawford – H, former soldier, H from Worked Up 🙌🏼, 4 sisters 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️, Goliath, likes Sports-center 📺 , Saturday bbq, Luke, machinery mechanic, knows who Samantha is
  • Marcy – friend’s daughter
    • Vaughn – friend, H from Thrown Down
    • River – h from Thrown Down, Sarge’s sister (H from Crashed Out)
  • Luanne – sister, oldest, generous , real housewives
  • Lisa – sister, twin 👯‍♀️ , organized
  • Lorraine – sister, twin 👯‍♀️, thoughtful
  • Lacey – sister, youngest , baby,
• Hook, New Jersey
  • The Third Shift

Saturday bbq 🍖🥩⚾️😘 lusting in the hallway 😏 River looking for Duke, invite Samantha to Old News show 😏

Birthday 🥳 Shot

• Novella
• Brother’s best friend
• Travel romance

• Shae Abbott – circus performer
  • Jada – best friend
    • Trinidad
    • Jamaica – 2 month gig
  • Angus -ex, layer
  • Sheldon – brother
• Kofi
• Antigua, Jamaica

Tuesday

Totally Basted

• Novella series
• Holiday romance (Thanksgiving)
  • 9 chapters = epilogue
    • 58 pages
• Mention of the Black Ops Bodyguard Shifters
  • Council raiding speed dating event 🤔
    • Get girls out 😱
• Marathon running H
  • Shifter H
    • Human-shifter parings

• Cooper “Coop” – H, turkey 🦃 shifter
  • Scout – younger brother , adopted, wolf 🐺? shifter, flirt 😏
• Henrietta “Hattie” – h
  • Lucy – friend
  • Dante – friend, savior
• 2 days to thanksgiving

Worked Up

Reread 🙌🏼 Read this with a book club. Liked the characters 🤔

At the concert…

Reread Chapter 7 🤔 River waiting for Samantha ⏱ Road trip to Atlantic City 🌆 1 hour drive 🚙 Sharing a room 😏 Adjoining rooms. Samantha knocks 😏 Sports Center 📺 wooing 😍 ⚾️⚾️ Duke’s 🤚🏽 & 👅 Renner 🤬 and Monday meeting. Duke 💍 Samantha accepts ⚾️⚾️ Samantha’s 😋👅⚾️⚾️⚾️ (11)

• Samantha Waverly – from New York, artist 👩‍🎨 (children book illustrator) , 25 yo, uses tweet-deck, likes egg sandwiches 🥪 , ended engagement after 3 years, Old News fan 😊😍Hudson – ex-fiancee, factory investor
  • Renner Bastian – step brother, factory CEO, gayArt On Wheels 💡💭 – mobile art studio, Renner co-signs bank loan
• Duke Crawford – H, former soldier, H from Worked Up 🙌🏼, 4 sisters 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️, Goliath, likes Sports-center 📺 , Saturday bbq, Luke, machinery mechanic, knows who Samantha is
  • Marcy – friend’s daughter
    • Vaughn – friend, H from Thrown Down
    • River – h from Thrown Down, Sarge’s sister (H from Crashed Out)
  • Luanne – sister, oldest, generous , real housewives
  • Lisa – sister, twin 👯‍♀️ , organized
  • Lorraine – sister, twin 👯‍♀️, thoughtful
  • Lacey – sister, youngest , baby,
• Hook, New Jersey
  • The Third Shift

Went back to Chapter 7. Kiss 😘 with Duke ⚾️⚾️⚾️ Not in Atlantic City yet 🤔 (last Goodreads check-in). Drive into Atlantic City 🌆 Samantha set ip Sports Center 📺 ⚾️⚾️ Duke’s 🤚🏽 & 👅

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Birthday 🥳 Shot

• Shae Abbott – h, circus performer, 3 year age gap, 29 yo
  • Grace Abbott – mom
  • Jada – best friend
    • Trinidad
    • Jamaica – 2 month gig
  • Sheldon – older brother, best friends with Kofi since 6 yo, engaged
    • Kara – diancee
• Kofi Matthews – H, 3 year age gap, best friends with Sheldon since 6 yo, calls Shae Shae butter, 32 yo, lives in London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
• Antigua, Jamaica
• 4 years since their kiss 😘 😏

Wednesday

Totally Basted

• Cooper “Coop” – H, turkey 🦃 shifter
  • Scout – younger brother , adopted, wolf 🐺? shifter, flirt 😏
• Henrietta “Hattie” – h
  • Lucy – friend
  • Dante – friend, savior
• 2 days to thanksgiving

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⚾️⚾️ Coop’s 🤚🏽 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (6)

Worked Up

• Samantha Waverly – from New York, artist 👩‍🎨 (children book illustrator) , 25 yo, uses tweet-deck, likes egg sandwiches 🥪 , ended engagement after 3 years, Old News fan 😊😍Hudson – ex-fiancee, factory investor
  • Renner Bastian – step brother, factory CEO, gayArt On Wheels 💡💭 – mobile art studio, Renner co-signs bank loan
• Duke Crawford – H, former soldier, H from Worked Up 🙌🏼, 4 sisters 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️, Goliath, likes Sports-center 📺 , Saturday bbq, Luke, machinery mechanic, knows who Samantha is
  • Milo Bautista – security, friend
  • Marcy – friend’s daughter
    • Vaughn – friend, H from Thrown Down
    • River – h from Thrown Down, Sarge’s sister (H from Crashed Out)
  • Luanne – sister, oldest, generous , real housewives
  • Lisa – sister, twin 👯‍♀️ , organized
  • Lorraine – sister, twin 👯‍♀️, thoughtful
  • Lacey – sister, youngest , baby,
• Hook, New Jersey
  • The Third Shift

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Renner’s calls 📱 Renner would co-sign bank loan for art on wheels 💡 💭 Concert 🙌🏼 Duke 💍 with Samantha on his shoulders 😏 Samantha accepts 😊 shotgun wedding 💒 wedding night 😏 ⚾️⚾️ Samantha’s 👅 on Duke ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (10) warrior 🙌🏼

Drawing balcony and egg sandwiches 🥪 😍 Duke wants to date his wife 😮 😏

Morning after 😏 Samantha sore 😂 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (12) Renner on the phone 📱 🤬 Back from Atlantic City, marriage a 🤐 🤫

Birthday 🥳 Shot

Birthday brunch 🥳

• Shae Abbott – circus performer
  • Jada – best friend
    • Trinidad
    • Jamaica – 2 month gig
  • Gavin Abbott – dad
  • Grace Abbott – mom
• Kofi
• Antigua, Jamaica

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Totally Basted

Coop nulled by retrievers 😱 (4 v. 1). Then drugged. Threat for Felix. 🤬 Hattie to the rescue 🛟 🙌🏼 ⚾️⚾️ Coop’s 👅, Hattie’s 👅 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (epilogue)

• Cooper “Coop” – H, turkey 🦃 shifter
  • Scout – younger brother , adopted, wolf 🐺? shifter, flirt 😏
  • Martia – mom
  • dad
• Henrietta “Hattie” – h, self-defense instructor 👩‍🏫
  • Lucy – friend
  • Dante – friend, savior
• 2 days to thanksgiving

Thursday

Birthday Shot

• Shae Marie Abbott – circus performer
  • Jada – best friend
    • Trinidad
    • Jamaica – 2 month gig
  • Gavin Abbott – dad
  • Grace Abbott – mom
• Kofi
• Antigua, Jamaica

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Shae’s birthday 🥳 party 😏 ⚾️⚾️ Kofi’s 👅 & 🤚🏽 & Shae’s 👅 & 🤚🏽 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (9)

Worked Up

Go back to Chapter 12 (per Goodreads) ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (12). Meet with Renner 🤬 Annulment 🥲 Sam’s adt day 🖼 😍 Duke and Sam 😍 ⚾️⚾️ Sam’s 👅, Duke’s 🤚🏽 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (17) Machine needs fixing 🤔 Duke gives annulment papers & ring. Marriage license 💒 Broken machine reminds me of Lisa Kleypass’ Secrets Of A Summer Night. Vaughn and Milo in 🔥 too 😱 Sam 🤬 at Renner. Get married 🙌🏼

• Samantha Waverly – from New York, artist 👩‍🎨 (children book illustrator) , 25 yo, uses tweet-deck, likes egg sandwiches 🥪 , ended engagement after 3 years, Old News fan 😊😍Hudson – ex-fiancee, factory investor
  • Renner Bastian – step brother, factory CEO, gayArt On Wheels 💡💭 – mobile art studio, Renner co-signs bank loan
• Duke Crawford – H, former soldier, H from Worked Up 🙌🏼, 4 sisters 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️, Goliath, likes Sports-center 📺 , Saturday bbq, Luke, machinery mechanic, knows who Samantha is
  • Milo Bautista – security, friend
  • Marcy – friend’s daughter
    • Vaughn – friend, H from Thrown Down
    • River – h from Thrown Down, Sarge’s sister (H from Crashed Out)
  • Luanne – sister, oldest, generous , real housewives
  • Lisa – sister, twin 👯‍♀️ , organized
  • Lorraine – sister, twin 👯‍♀️, thoughtful
  • Lacey – sister, youngest , baby,
• Hook, New Jersey
  • The Third Shift

Wound Tight

• Lessons 😏
  • M/M

• Renner Bastion – H, factory CEO, “how to be gay” teacher 👨‍🏫
  • Bastian enterprises:
    • Vaughn -security
    • Duke Crawford – mechanic
    • Milo Bautista – security
• Milo Bautista – H, from Boston, security guard, just came out

After factory 🏭 explosion 💥 Renner has a bone to pick 🤔 for being a gay CEO 👨‍💼

Friday

The Lady Chosen

• 364 pages/6 h 13 m

• Tristan Wemyss – H, Earl of Trenton, former soldier, (major in guards), find Leonora Carling attractive 😍
  • Yale – superior
    • Christian Aledice – friend , soldier 15 years
    • Devoral
    • Charleston “Chales” Orstal
    • Tony Blake
    • Jack Wornfleet
  • #12
  • Billings – contractor
  • Joshua Bigs – night watchman, soldier turned squater
  • Ms. Timmons – visits her
    • Daisy – maid
  • Suri – 🏡 estate
• Leonora Carling – h being threatened, older, previously engaged, 26 yo
  • Castor – butler
  • Henrietta – 🐶
  • Humphrey Carling – uncle, bookish
  • Jeffrey Carling – brother, 24 yo, bookish
  • #14
  • Bloomsbury – used to live there
    • Mumpford
  • Dinner guests (6)
    • Horace Wright
    • Cunningham
• 1 year (July) to marry or lose fortune
  • Club: Bastian club
• Stonewall -Leasing agmt
  • Stonewall Enterprises

1815 🧐 Tristan with friends (7) 🤗 Friends gain title after service 🤔 The Wallflower series but 👦 Boys club 🧐 Bastian club. Teistan sees Leonora 😍 next door 😏 Leonara thought Tristan and friends attempted to buy Humpfrey a house. Stonewall assaulted 😱 Tristan visits 🧐 Burglariea 😱 ⚠️ Leonara. Leonara goes into See Leonora in garden 🪴 key 🔑 taken 😱 Leonara goes into Trenton’s house 🏡 Tristan kisses 😘 Leonora ⚾️ Tristan worries for Leonora 😱 See Ms. Timmons (neighbor). Leonora sees Tristan 😏 Thieves want something in #14 🧐 Tristan visits #14. Tristan kisses Leonora ⚾️ Seek out Mumford. German, Austrian, or Prussian 🤔 Dinner 🎊 Tour conservatory 😏

Trenten kisses Leonora 😘 ⚾️

Birthday Shot

• Shae Abbott – circus performer
  • Jada – best friend
    • Trinidad
    • Jamaica – 2 month gig
  • Gavin Abbott – dad
  • Grace Abbott – mom
• Kofi
• Antigua, Jamaica

⚾️⚾️⚾️ (10)

Saturday

The Lady Chosen

Kiss 😘 in the conservatory 😏 ⚾️

• Tristan Wemyss – H, Earl of Trenton, former soldier, (major in guards, joined at 20 yo, spy), find Leonora Carling attractive 😍
  • Yale – superior
    • Christian Aledice – friend , soldier 15 years
    • Devoral
    • Charleston “Chales” Orstal
    • Tony Blake
    • Jack Wornfleet
  • #12
    • Montrose’s place 🏡
  • Billings – contractor
  • Joshua Bigs – night watchman, soldier turned squater
  • Ms. Timmons – visits her
    • Daisy – maid
  • Suri – 🏡 estate
    • Mallingham Manor 🏡
      • Clitherow – butler
      • Ladies (8)
        • Hermione – aunt
        • Hotense
        • Mortimer – uncle 🪦
    • Gasthoepe
    • St. Ives – acquaintance, wants to court Leonora
• Leonora Carling – h being threatened, older, previously engaged, 26 yo, spinster since 25 yo
  • Castor – butler
  • Henrietta – 🐶
  • Humphrey Carling – uncle, bookish
  • Jeffrey Carling – brother, 24 yo, bookish
  • #14
    • Toby
  • Bloomsbury – used to live there
    • Mumpford
  • Dinner guests (6)
    • Horace Wright
    • Cunningham
  • Somerset house 🏡
    • Cedric’s Gardens
  • Cedric
    • A.J. Coruthers 🪦
  • Mildred – aunt
  • Gertie – aunt
• 1 year (July) to marry or lose fortune
  • Club: Bastian club
• Stonewall -Leasing agmt
  • Stonewall Enterprises

Montgomery Mumford 🧐 Trenton already has a conservatory 🤔 In the study 😏 Stroll through gardens 😏 Seducing Leonora 😏 Back at #12 😏 Library 📚 Teach me 🙏🏾 teacher 👨‍🏫 Leonara kisses Tristan 😘 ⚾️

Feel asleep 😴 Tristan trying to get Leonara to marry him 🤔 🙏🏾 Initiation = consent to be Tristan’s 🧐 Mutual attraction 😏 Indulge for a month 🧐 🙌🏼 Look for a room 😏 ⚾️ ⚾️ Tristan’s 🤚🏽 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (11)

1 week of seeing each other at the same events 😏 Martianess of Huntley Gala. Lord Beaver & other suitors 😏 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (12) At a ball without Tristan there 🧐 Mark Warton (ex-fiancee) 😱 and Heather 🤬 Tristan arrives. Walk Henrietta. A.J. Coruthers 🧐 Leonora finds Tristan 😵‍💫 Earl that needs to marry 🤔 Crissie 🤬 Migraine 🤥 😏 Leonora 🤬 Tristan needs to marry 💍 Henrietta 😱 Leonora 😱 struck. Tristan there 🤬 Encounter Mumford 😱 Tristan cares for Leonora 🫶🏼🥰😍 Leonora goes to Tristan to apologize 🙏🏾 Leonora agrees to marriage 🙌🏼 accommodate tendencies 😏

Birthday Shot

• Shae Abbott – circus performer
  • Jada – best friend
    • Trinidad
    • Jamaica – 2 month gig
  • Gavin Abbott – dad
  • Grace Abbott – mom
• Kofi
• Antigua, Jamaica

Beach day 🏖 1st date 😏