Just taking you on my reading 😁 #30

Books 📚 included 👇🏼

The Bride, Totally Lucky, It’s Always Been You, Clockwork Angel 😇 , Entreat Me, The Bride, Between Wrath And Mercy, Driving Me Wild 😜

Sunday

Totally Lucky

• Emmett – H, human, bartender at The Bar, 6’1” tall
• Jasmine – h, manticore shifter, engaged 😱, bartender at The Bar, jaded with love
  • Cabin – where Riply brought Emmett
  • Aspen “Rasp” – betroved, manticore shifter,
• The Bar – Felix’s bar, site of shifter speed dating
  • Felix
  • Luna
  • Carly – employee
• Shifter genes dominant

+additions

To be continued… ⏸

It’s Always Been You

The Bride

• Alec Kincaid – H, Scottish laaird, scoundrel, one of the youngest laird, tall
  • Helena Kincaid – suicide, wife, 3 days to die
  • Daniel – soon to be Laird Ferguson, 1st choice to marry
• Jamie – h, English, daughter of Baron Jamison, youngest daughter, knows Gaelic, favorite 😍
  • Wildfire – 🐎
  • Beak – stable master
  • Andrew – baron, admirerer
    • Olivia – promised, arranged marriage
  • Sisters (3)
    • Twins 👯‍♀️
      • Agnes
      • Alice
    • Mary
  • Baron Jamison – 4 daughters, 1 unmarried, calls his daughters ANGEL 😇 , marry off 2 daughters 😮
    • Herman – servant

Funeral for Helena Kincaid 🪦 1102. Alec coming 🐎 Mary daughter as punishment to the throne 😱 for NOT paying taxes 😂 daughters come up with ploy 😏 Scot men arrive after 3 days. Meet Beak first 🤔 🎁 😏 Alec sees and chooses Jamie 😍 3 days early. 😮 Alec attracted to Jamie, Daniel likes Mary 😍 But Jamie in bobdage.

Chapter 5

Interesting premise 🤔 Girls under impression Alec killed his late wife 😱 like #fallofvicesanddices, h compromised by a father/brother’s actions 😱 A truly maddening situation 🤬 1st meeting 😏 and section ends with them married 😋

Clockwork Angel

1878 ⏱ Tessa kidnapped 😱 and reacued 🙌🏼

• Teresa “Tessa” Gray – shape changer, warlock?
  • Nathaniel “Nate” Gray – brother
  • Aunt Henrietta
  • Dark sisters 👯‍♀️
    • Ms. Dark
    • Ms. Black
  • Magister
• Clave
  • Will Herondale – shadowhunter
  • James “Jem” Carstairs – shadowhunter
  • Charlotte Branwell – shadowhunter
    • Henry Fairchild – husband
    • Sophia “Sophie” – maid
  • Jessamine
  • Institute
    • Nephilum = shadowhunter 👊🏼 demons
  • Mundanes

Monday

It’s Always Been You

See ‘It’s Always Been You Friends To Lovers Anthology’

The Bride

• Alec Kincaid – H, Scottish laaird, scoundrel, one of the youngest laird, tall, calls Jaimie ‘English’
  • Marcus – friend, sibling
    • Angus – friend
      • Elizabeth – Angus’ wife, sibling
    • Edith – wife
  • Ammie – Helena’s sister
  • Gavin – 2nd
  • Helena Kincaid – suicide, wife, 3 days to die
  • Daniel – soon to be Laird Ferguson, 1st choice to marry, marries Mary, has a mistress 🤬
• Jamie – h, English, daughter of Baron Jamison, youngest daughter, knows Gaelic, favorite 😍, healer 👩‍⚕️, youngest
  • Wildfire – 🐎
  • Beak – stable master
  • Andrew – baron, admirerer
    • Olivia – promised, arranged marriage
  • Sisters (3)
    • Twins 👯‍♀️
      • Agnes
      • Alice
    • Mary
  • Baron Jamison – 4 daughters, 1 unmarried, calls his daughters ANGEL 😇 , marry off 2 daughters 😮
    • Herman – servant

Married 💍💍 returning to Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🐎 with Mary and Daniel 💍💍 Mary fell 😱 from pace 🐎 Jamie starting to see Alec as attractive 😍 Loyalty to Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ✊🏽 Bandits on the road 😱 Wait until Jamie wears Alec’s plaid 😏 ⚾️⚾️ Alec’s 🤚🏽 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (7) Arrive at Alec’s home 🤔

Chapter 9 (audiobook +1 from book 📖)

The bandit scene showed 1) Jamie’s fierceness and 2) Alec’s opinion of Jamie 🤔 Finally at Alec’s castle 🏰 and see Alec in his niche 🤔

Tuesday

The Bride

Find Angus’ body 🪦 Jaime wants to attend to Angus 👩‍⚕️ Angus’ broken arm 🥲 Saves Angus 🙌🏼 Jaime & Alec 🤬 about what it means to be married 💍 💍 Mary visits (run away 🤬) Daniel confronts Alec 🤬 Madam Ferguson’s sanctuary 🙏🏾 Daniel takes Mary home 🤬

Chapter 12

See animosity between Alec & Jaimie 🤬 Glad to see more of Mary & Daniel 🥰 Section ends with Daniel taking Mary back home 🏡 This scene, while about Daniel & Mary, had commentary about Alec-Jamie’s marriage 🤔 How yo be a spouse (or wife) is already a subject that leads to an argument 🤬

It’s Always Been Us

I DO IF YOU DO
BY ANNA KLEIN

See ‘It’s Always Been You Friends To Lovers Anthology’

BREAKING WAVES BY TRINITY WOOD

See ‘It’s Always Been You Friends To Lovers Anthology’

Clockwork Angel 😇

• Teresa “Tessa” Gray – shape changer, warlock?
  • Nathaniel “Nate” Gray – brother
  • Aunt Henrietta
  • Dark sisters 👯‍♀️
    • Ms. Dark
    • Ms. Black
  • Magister
• Clave
  • Will Herondale – shadowhunter
  • James “Jem” Carstairs – shadowhunter
  • Charlotte Branwell – shadowhunter
    • Henry Fairchild – husband
    • Sophia “Sophie” – maid
  • Jessamine
  • Institute
    • Nephilum = shadowhunter 👊🏼 demons
  • Mundanes

Tessa shifts into Jessamine 😮

Wednesday

Entreat Me

• Ballard DeSpvetaire – H, Lord of Catactor, ruthless lord, cursed
  • Magda – housekeeper
  • Ambrose – sorcerer
  • Isabelle- wife, 🤬 Ballard
    • Cedric Granting – lover, from Grunting
    • Gavin de Lovit – not Ballard’s biological son, cursed son for revenge
      • Senia Halace – h, love interest 🥰, Mistress Halace, runs away, book bider
        • Mercer – dad, in debt 💸
• Luvean “Lou” Dwinda – H, Sinia’s sister
  • Thomas Dwinda – dead husband of 3 years
  • Gimonin – suitor
• Monte Blanco
• Flux – curse
  • High tide
• Catactor

Ballard’s wife dies from childbirth 😱 Senia’s marriage dilema 🤔 Gavin goes home 🏡 with Sinia 🙏🏾 Sinia falls for Gavin. Luo follows after Senia 😱 Lou settles in 🤔 Lou’s late night stroll 🚶🏽‍♀️ Lou breaks Ballard’s nose 👃 😂 Winter of courtship 🙏🏾 Lou goes home then goes back. Flashback to Isabelle being chased by Ballard over land 😱 Lou meets Ballard 🥰 Debt paid 💸 Ballard lusting for Lou 😏 Ballard asks for a night 😏 🙅🏼 companionship 💡

Check-in

Chapter 6

Got the setup for the story 🧐 Interesting HOW it differs from Beauty And The Beast. I see the similarities 💡 End section with Lou seeing Gavin 😮 Dynamic between girls reminded me of The Viscount Who Loved Me 🧐

Day 9 🤔 Spinning wheel 🤗🥰 Spinners wheels 🙌🏼 Meet Ballard again 😍 Ambrose & Magda 🫶🏼😍🥰 See a portrait of pre-flux Ballard 😱 Senia notices Lou likes Ballard 😍 Cedric Granting vs. Ballard 🤬 marriage discntinue? Deul 👊🏼 Cedric after land 🤔 Ambrose teases Ballard about Lou 😏 Ballard hunting bull with Magnus 🐎 Kill bull 👊🏼 Ballard shirtless 👕 😏 Ballard imagines Lou helping him bathe 🙌🏼😍😂 Lou in a shift 😏

Chapter 17

Begin their winter ❄️ Lou chaperoning for Senia 🧐 Lou attracted to Ballard 😍 Ballard shirtless 😏

The Bride

• Alec Kincaid – H, Scottish laaird, scoundrel, one of the youngest laird, tall, calls Jaimie ‘English’
  • Hessie – cook 👩‍🍳
  • Marcus – friend, sibling
    • Angus – friend
      • Elizabeth – Angus’ wife, sibling
    • Edith – wife
  • Ammie – Helena’s sister
  • Gavin – 2nd
  • Helena Kincaid – suicide, wife, 3 days to die
  • Daniel – soon to be Laird Ferguson, 1st choice to marry, marries Mary, has a mistress 🤬
• Jamie – h, English, daughter of Baron Jamison, youngest daughter, knows Gaelic, favorite 😍, healer 👩‍⚕️, youngest
  • Lindsey – boy
  • Wildfire – 🐎
  • Beak – stable master
  • Andrew – baron, admirerer
    • Olivia – promised, arranged marriage
  • Sisters (3)
    • Twins 👯‍♀️
      • Agnes
      • Alice
    • Mary
  • Baron Jamison – 4 daughters, 1 unmarried, calls his daughters ANGEL 😇 , marry off 2 daughters 😮
    • Herman – servant

McFearsom vs. Kincaid feud 🤬 Jaimie cares for son 👩‍⚕️ RESPECT 🤬 Alex too 🤬 Kiss 😘 ⚾️ 😏 ⚾️⚾️ Alec’s 👅 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (12) promise not to leave 🤞🏼Jamie in danger ⚠️ 😱 Gavin 🤬 Ho to bed in the afternoon 😏 ⚾️⚾️ Jamie’s 👅 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (13) plaid 😏 Jamie seeks out Gavin 😏 Gavin acting strange 🤔 Alec sees Angus-Elizabeth 🤔 Alec learns Jamie can speak Gaelic 😂 🤫 Alec testing Jamie 😇 😏 Twins and Gavin 💡 Jamie settling in 🤗 Edith 🤬👊🏼 on behalf of Helena 🪦 Helena’s daughter (Marry Kathleen) 🤬😱 Get Marry Kathleen 👨‍👧

Chapter 15

Jamie’s role as a healer really reminds me of Claire in Outlander 🧐 2nd intimate scene better than the 1st (consentual & make-up sex 😏) Jaimie getting more respect ✊🏽 Growing affection between Alec-Jamie 🥰 Gavin being suspicious 🤔 Someone is trying to kill Jaimie ⚠️😱 and it’s confirmed 👍🏽 Playful banter 😊 Alec protective of Jamie 🤬Show her he cares 🥰 Jamie finding out about Marry Kathleen 🤬

Drive Me Wild

• Griffin – mechanic 👨‍🔧 ⚒️

Between Wrath And Mercy

• Rainier “Rain” – Prince 🤴
• “Emma” – 34 yo
  • Maureen – friend
  • Elora – daughter, 16 yo, Beloved—the conduit with goddess-granted divine abilities prophesied to bring peace to the Three Kingdoms, likes to read
    • Faxon – dad
  • Lucia “Luce” – older twin sister, previous beloved
• Mira – port city
  • Ravemont Estate
  • Folterra

Lucia as the Beloved 😱 Hide Elorra 🙅🏼‍♀️ Bring Elorra to Ravemont

Thursday

Entreat Me

Lou helping Ballard bathe 🛀 Save Lou 🙌🏼 Ballard worrying over Lou 😱 Sleep naked 😂 ⚾️⚾️ Ballard’s tongue, Lou’s 🤚🏽 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (10) Inturrupted by Ambrose 🤬😂 Senia and Gavin knock on Lou’s door 🚪 Senia asks Lou to stay the night 🤬 Lou cleaning 🧼 up wine 🍷 Lou & Ballard plan to meet up tonight 😏 Kiss 😘 in buttery ⚾️⚾️ Lou’s 🤚🏽 & 👅 Magda waiting in kitchen 😂😇 Lou comes to Ballard’s room 😏 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (12)

• Ballard DeSpvetaire – H, Lord of Catactor, ruthless lord, cursedMagda – housekeeper
  • Ambrose – sorcerer
  • Isabelle- wife, 🤬 BallardCedric Granting – lover, from Grunting
  • Gavin de Lovit – not Ballard’s biological son, cursed son for revenge
    • Senia Halace – love interest 🥰, Mistress Halace, runs away, book lover
      • Mercer – dad, in debt 💸
• Luvean “Lou” Dwinda – H, Sinia’s sister
  • Thomas Dwinda – dead husband of 3 years
  • Gimonin – suitor
  • Monte Blanco
• Flux – curse
  • High tide
• Catactor

Between Wrath And Mercy

• Rainier “Rain” – Prince 🤴
• “Emma” – 34 yo
  • Maureen – friend
  • Elora Mae – daughter, 16 yo, Beloved—the conduit with goddess-granted divine abilities prophesied to bring peace to the Three Kingdoms, likes to read, 🤫 prophecy and Beloved
    • Faxon – dad
    • Theo – friend
  • Lucia “Luce” – older twin sister, previous beloved
• Mira – port cityRavemont Estate
• Folterra

In Mira. Emma decides it’s time to tell Rlora of the prophecy and being the Beloved this trip 🤐

Friday

The Bride

• Alec Kincaid – H, Scottish laaird, scoundrel, one of the youngest laird, tall, calls Jaimie ‘English’Hessie – cook 👩‍🍳Marcus – friend, siblingAngus – friendElizabeth – Angus’ wife, siblingEdith – wife
  • Edgar – king 🤴
    • Justin – son, twin, kisses Jamie 🤬
    • Phillip – son, twin
  • Ammie – Helena’s sister
  • Gavin – 2nd
  • Helena Kincaid – suicide, wife, 3 days to die
  • Daniel – soon to be Laird Ferguson, 1st choice to marry, marries Mary, has a mistress 🤬
• Jamie – h, English, daughter of Baron Jamison, youngest daughter, knows Gaelic, favorite 😍, healer 👩‍⚕️, youngestLindsey – boyWildfire – 🐎
  • Beak – stable master
  • Andrew – baron, admirerer
    • Olivia – promised, arranged marriage
  • Sisters (3)
    • Twins 👯‍♀️
      • Agnes
      • Alice
  • Mary
  • Baron Jamison – 4 daughters, 1 unmarried, calls his daughters ANGEL 😇 , marry off 2 daughters 😮
    • Herman – servant

Jamie wants to hunt 🤬 🤥 Being Mary Kathleen 😏 Alec’s story telling 😂 Helena killed?! ⚾️⚾️ Alec’s 🤚🏽 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (16) Alec says “I love you” 🥰 King Edgar visits 🤴 Meet Justin 😏 Jamie admits to loving Alec (in Gaelic 🙌🏼) 😏 Surprises 🤬 Gavin & Jamie talk 🤔 Gavin and Jamie attacked 👊🏼 Alec comes and carries Jamie home 🙌🏼 Jamie’s attempted murderer 🤬 Andrew coming 😮 Jamie unites clans ✊🏽

Entreat Me

• Ballard DeSpvetaire – H, Lord of Catactor, ruthless lord, cursedMagda – housekeeper
  • Ambrose – sorcerer
  • Isabelle- wife, 🤬 Ballard
    • Cedric Granting – lover, from Grunting
    • Gavin de Lovit – not Ballard’s biological son, cursed son for revenge
      • Senia Halace – love interest 🥰, Mistress Halace, runs away, book lover
        • Mercer – dad, in debt 💸
        • Gimonin – suitor
  • Magda – housekeeper
  • Joan –
• Luvean “Lou” Dwinda – H, Sinia’s sisterThomas Dwinda – dead husband of 3 years
• Monte Blanco
• Flux – curseHigh tide
• Catactor

Gift 🎁 for Lou 🫶🏼 ⚾️⚾️ Lou’s 👅 Lou leaving 👋🏾 Sneaking back into her room 😏 Dinner 🍽 Lou key 🔑 to breaking curse 🤔 Plan for meet that night 😏 Ballard’s gift 🎁 for Senia and Lou from him and Ambrose. Hand mirror 🪞 and queen dagger 👸 Lou comes to Ballard’s room. Senia after seeing Lou-Ballard 🤬 Day out 😍

Between Wrath And Mercy

• Rainier “Rain” – Prince 🤴
• “Emma” – 34 yo
  • Maureen – friend
  • Elora Mae – daughter, 16 yo, Beloved—the conduit with goddess-granted divine abilities prophesied to bring peace to the Three Kingdoms, likes to read, 🤫 prophecy and Beloved
    • Faxon – dad
    • Theo – friend
  • Lucia “Luce” – older twin sister, previous beloved
• Mira – port city
  • Ravemont Estate
• Folterra

Teach Elora to use weapons? (Lucia didn’t) 💡Emma’s rift with her father after Lucia dies 🪦

Saturday

Entteat Me

• Ballard DeSpvetaire – H, Lord of Catactor, ruthless lord, cursedMagda – housekeeperAmbrose – sorcerer
  • Thomas – son
  • Isabelle- wife, 🤬 BallardCedric Granting – lover, from Grunting
    • Gavin de Lovit – not Ballard’s biological son, cursed son for revenge
      • Senia Halace – love interest 🥰, Mistress Halace, runs away, book lover
        • Mercer – dad, in debt 💸
        • Gimonin – suitor
  • Magda – housekeeper
  • Joan -servant
  • Claremont – servant
  • Ambrose – >410 yo, sorcerer 🧙‍♂️ , calls Ballard ‘Dominus’
• Luvean “Lou” Dwinda – H, Sinia’s sister
  • Thomas Dwinda – dead husband of 3 years
  • Monte Blanco
• Catactor
  • Flux – curse
    • High tide

⚾️⚾️⚾️ (15) spending a whole dat together 😏 Spring is coming 🐍 in the bed 😱 Roses 🥀 Ballard and the flux 😱 Ballard wants Lou to leave him 👋🏾 🥲 Lou told a sleeping Ballard 😴 Gavin gets out 😱 attack Lou 👊🏼 Senia proposes to Gavin 💍 💍 Wedding today 🙌🏼 Bath 🛁 😏 ⚾️⚾️ Lou’s 🤚🏽 Apologizes for saying ‘I love you’ 🙏🏾 Ballard says ‘I love you’ ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (17) in the bath 🛀 😏 Wedding 💒 🤗 Mercer in jail 😱 Lou goes back on Sparrow 🐎 Bail out Mercer from debtor’s prison. See Gimonin 👊🏼🤬 Gimonin mad at Lou 🤬 Lou missing Ballard 😍 Man in Lou’s bed 🤬 Gimonin holding a gun 🔫 Gimonin has mirror 🪞 😱 Lou bound to a tree 🌳, going to Catactor 😱 Catactor in Flux 😱 Gavin 🪦 Senia 😭😢 Gavin alive 🙌🏼 Ballard alive 🙌🏼✊🏽 Mercer kills Gimonin 🔪 Gavin’s curse lifted 🙌🏼 Ballard too 🤞🏼Leg wound, Lou shot Ballard 🦵 The curse broken 🙌🏼🫶🏼 Pou proposes to Ballard 💍 💍 😏 Epilogue Married 3 years, Ballard holds his son 👨‍👦

Between Wrath And Mercy

• Rainier “Rain” – Prince 🤴
• “Emma” – 34 yoMauree, friend, married to Faxon @ 18 yo
  • Mairin – friend
  • Elora Mae – daughter, 16 yo, Beloved—the conduit with goddess-granted divine abilities prophesied to bring peace to the Three Kingdoms, likes to read, 🤫 prophecy and Beloved
    • Faxon – dad
    • Theo – friend
  • Lucia “Luce” – older twin sister, previous beloved
• Mira – port city
  • Ravemont Estate

Emma feeling the loss of Lucia again 😢 Mairin visits 🧐