Listen With 🎧 Precious

Life Update 6/29/22

Mood: Steady

Currently Reading:

Walk it out: 🤷🏽‍♀️ it’s been hot 🥵

Events I’m excited for:

Nephew’s birthday 🥳

Old friends 😍🫶🏼

Something good :

Something bad:

Covid 😷 especially in the summer 🤬

Something great 😁:

1st buddy read 🫶🏼🙌🏼 (already made a google doc 😂😇)

Just taking you on my reading 😁 #26

Books included 👇🏼

Blindsided, Always Practice Safe Hex, Mating The Huntress, Crashed Out, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Thrown Down, Wolfsong, Origin

Sunday

Her Night With Santa 🧑‍🎄

Blindsided

Monday

Always Practice Safe Hex

Tuesday

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Reread 🥰

Summer’s past

Mating The Huntress

8 chapters 111 pages
Luke Anthony – H, , artist, werewolf, calls Chastity Chas,
Chastity Adofo – h, huntress, works st a coffee shop, knows Luke is a werewolf, professized she’d get her heart torn out with her 1st kill, family of hunters/huntresses, 25 yo, 1 of 14 kids (youngest)
- Solomon – dad
- Adina Adolfo – mom
- Vivtory Adofo – sister
- Valour “Val” Adofo – brother, 19 yo
- Constance Adofo – oldest sister
- Prudence Adofo – sister
- Mercy Adofo – sister
- Cup O Go – cafe

⚾️⚾️ Luke’s 👅 & 🤚🏽 mate you?! 🙏🏾 Chastity sees her parents. Mates 🥰

Mating = bite each other 😏 ⚾️⚾️ Luke’s 🤚🏽 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (8)

Crashed Out

15 chapters + epilogue

Sarge “Punyo” Purcell – rock star, guitarist, 6’2”
- Old News
  - Lia – drummer
  - – basist
- River “Riv” – sister, 2 years younger than Jas, factory worker 🏭
  - Marcey – daughter
Jasmine “Jas” James Taveras – River’s best friend, factory worker 🏭👩‍🏭, singer, 29 yo turning 30 yo 😏
- James Taveras – manager for Old Town
- Carmen – date
Hook, New Jersey – hometown
- The Third Shift – bar
- Lincoln tunnel
Christmas 🎄
7 year age gap

Restart ✌🏽😏😉Won’t say much 🤫

Auto masturbation 😏😂 Sarge follows ⚾️⚾️Sarge’s 🤚🏽 James and Lita 🥰👊🏼 💡, bailing Lita out ⚾️ ⚾️ Sarge’s 👅

Wednesday

Crashed Out

Sarge “Punyo/Rico” Purcell – rock star, guitarist, 6’2”
- Old News
  - Lia – drummer
  - – basist
- River “Riv” – sister, 2 years younger than Jas, factory worker 🏭
  - Marcey – daughter
    - Vaugn – baby daddy, soldier
Jasmine “Jas” James Taveras – River’s best friend, factory worker 🏭👩‍🏭, singer, 29 yo turning 30 yo 😏
- James Taveras – manager for Old Town
- Carmen – date
Hook, New Jersey – hometown
- The Third Shift – bar
- Lincoln tunnel
Christmas 🎄
7 year age gap

Additions 😉

⚾️ ⚾️ Sarge’s 👅 and 🤚🏽⚾️⚾️⚾️ (8) ⚾️⚾️ Sarge’s 🤚🏽 ⚾️ ⚾️ Jas’ 👅 Sarge’s 🤚🏽 at the factory 🏭

River 🤬 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (12)

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Isabelle “Belly” Conklin – Flavia
- Laurel Conklin – mom
- Steven Conklin – brother
- Taylor Jewel – friend
  - Bridget Jewel – sister
- Cam Cameron – Sectest, 🥰
Susana Fisher – has breast cancer
- Conner Fisher
- Jeremiah Fisher – jokster
Cousins
- Scoops

Thursday

Crashed Out

Sarge “Punyo/Rico” Purcell – rock star, guitarist, 6’2”
- Old News
  - Lia – drummer
  - James Brandon – basist
- River “Riv” – sister, 2 years younger than Jas, factory worker 🏭
  - Marcey – daughter
    - Vaugn – baby daddy, soldier
Jasmine “Jas” James Taveras – River’s best friend, factory worker 🏭👩‍🏭, singer, 29 yo turning 30 yo 😏
- James Taveras – manager for Old Town
- Carmen – date
Hook, New Jersey – hometown
- The Third Shift – bar
- Lincoln tunnel
- Adeline – church ⛪️ event organizer
Christmas 🎄
7 year age

+ Additions 😉

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Isabelle “Belly” Conklin – Flavia
- Laurel Conklin – mom
- Steven Conklin – brother
- Taylor Jewel – friend
  - Bridget Jewel – sister
- Cam Cameron – Sectest, 🥰
Susana Fisher – has breast cancer
- Conner Fisher
- Jeremiah Fisher – jokster
Cousins
- Scoops

+ Additions 😉

Several Days In June

Not sure I can 🤷🏽‍♀️ Chronic illness 🧐 ⏸

Thrown Down

22 chapters + epilogue
2nd chance
Single parent

Notes 📝

River Purcell – class president, works in factory 🏭 & Kick Bucket
- Adeline – choir director
- Marcy – daughter
- Sarge Purcell – brother
- Kicked Bucket- bar where River works
- Cece Sinclair – editor ✍️ for Parker & Rowe Publishings, friend
Vaughn De Matteo – soldier (army), lived in Baltimore, came home after Sarge’s letter ✉️, works as private security, alcoholic 🥴
Brooklyn, New York
Hook, New Jersey

Friday

Thrown Down

Kiss 😘 ⚾️ Riv 🤬👊🏼 Vaughn in The Third Shift & River drinking 🥴 ⚾️⚾️ Vaughn’s 👅 and 🤚🏽

River Purcell – class president, works in factory 🏭 & Kick BucketAdeline – 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), lived in Baltimore, came home after Sarge’s letter ✉️, works as private security, alcoholic 🥴, calls River Doll
- Duke Crawford – friend, former soldier, H from Worked Up 🙌🏼
Baltimore, MD
Hook, New Jersey
- The Third Shift

Wolfsong

Saturday

Thrown Down

River Purcell – class president, works in factory 🏭 & Kick Bucke
- Adeline – choir director
- Marcy May Purcell – 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), lived in Baltimore, came home after Sarge’s letter ✉️, works as private security, alcoholic 🥴, calls River DollDuke Crawford – friend, former soldier, H from Worked Up 🙌🏼
- Rener Bastian – factory 🏭 personnel, boss
- Duke Crawford – friend, served, works in factory 🏭, H of Worked Up, sisters (4)
  - Lisa
- Colonel Marioti – seeking out Vaughn 🧐 🤔 for medal 🎖 of honor
  - Carry men back 🙌🏼
  - Fort Hamilton
Baltimore, MD
Hook, New Jersey
- The Third Shift

1st meeting 😍 ⚾️⚾️ River’s 👅 Vaughn’s 🤚🏽 Family trip 🚗/✈️ – Marcy 😏 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ memory or IRL?! 🤷🏽‍♀️

Wolfsong

The Summer I Turned Pretty Episode 1 Watching Blog

Watched with my sister 🥰😁 then rewatched on my own 😂😇

Then rewatched with a friend on Amazon Watch Party 🧐

7 episodes

Watched: June 19 & June 20, 2022

Platform: Amazon

Duration: 44 minutes

Rotten Tomato 🍅 Rating: Season 1

Star Rating (of 5): ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Just a tasting 😋

Book to movie/show 🍿 : Y

Enjoyment 🤗: 🤗🤗🤗

Know where the series is going… 🧐 5 episodes to hook 🪝 me

Heat 🔥: Bellie & Cam with Connor on the side 😏

Rewatchable?: Y, I did 😂😇 2x

Content warnings: for this episode 🙅🏼‍♀️

The set-up: Bellie spends every summer in Cousins, this time she’s all grown up 😂😇

Key 🔑 Players:

Isabelle “Belly” Conklin
- Cam Cameron ♥️
- Taylor – friend
- Steven – brother
- Laurel “ Laur” – mom
Susanna Fisher “Bec” – mom
- Conner Fisher – Jeremiah’s brother
- Jeremiah Fisher – Conner’s brother

Important Places 🌎:

Cousins – beach house
- New England

Differences from book

+ debutante ball
When Belly met Cam
Straight edge

3-word Summary: Time of (the) year! 🙌🏼

A Daring Pursuit Reading Blog

Check-ins/Updates:

Before I begin:

From the Amazon description, get Romeo and Juliet vibes 😊 but perk of romance, guaranteed HEA 😁 Just finished

Chapter 6

Saw the animosity between Tristan and Carys 👍🏽 The Amazon Decription teases Tristan requests 1 week with Carys, but hasn’t been seen YET 🤔 Usually we have the set-up by this point 🧐

Chapter 17

This is the set-up I was waiting for and I’m excited 😊 😆 🙌🏼 Really enjoy country parties 🎊 (usually requires multiple days 😏) Interesting how Carys is not a virgin (women of that time usually are). That detail reminds me of Then Came You by Lisa Kleypas 🤔 🧐 The country party reminds me of It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas 🧐 The more you read the more parallels you draw 🤔

Chapter 28

Carys and Tristan’s lessons 😏 🤫 Manageries and animals remind me of A Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare because Carys ♥️ animals 😁 Carys’ arguments about animal captivity = animal rights ✊🏽 and the sex lessons are fun 😊😂 at a country getaway 😍

Blindsided Reading Blog

Check-ins/Updates:

Before I begin:

😮 Teaching 👨‍🏫 😍 among best friends 😍 Love friends to lovers 🙌🏼 Reminds me of Go Deep by Rizly Adams 🧐

Chapter 6

Reads well (pleasant on audio) 🤔 Fairly light and fluffy but can feel Freya’s insecurities about her body 🥲 but love the way Mac constantly reassures her 🤗 The wedding 💒 for Dune-Ally will come up again 🤔 Multiple characters have trmarkedon how beautiful Freya is, makes me curious 🤔

Chapter 18

♥️ Freya & Mac 🙌🏼 I like the dynamic between them 😊😍 You can feel the comfort of good friends 😊 Freyais noticably less body conscious, a more enjoyable reading experience 😁

Leading up to the Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 trip 😏😂 That last scene was 😂🤣 at the car wash 🚗 😂🤣

Chapter 28

Too be honest, forgot to check in 🤥 But something I remember and Not talking about yet… Mac says some horrible stuff. I understand he’s in a dark place… but it’s NEVER ok to say those things 🤬

Wildfire Reading Blog

Check-ins/Updates:

Before I begin:

Like this series 😊 My recording for Burn For Me was included in a podcast free for all 😁

Chapter 6

Action-packed beginning 🫶🏼👏🏽🙌🏼 Ties into what happened in White Hot a lot 🧐 Like the friendship between Cornelius and Nevada. Like that Rogan and Nevada are together 🥰😍 Mission: Find Brian in full effect 🧐

Queer Romance Readathon

When: June 13 – 20

#queerromancereadathon

⚠️ More in Just taking you on my reading 😁 #25 😉

Highlight @ https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTA3NzkxMjY2ODc4NDEz?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Novella/short story – Her Night With Santa by Adriana Herera
Historical Romance – A Lady For A Duke by Alexis Hall 🎧
Latinx author – Her Night With Santa by Adriana Herera
Indie author ✍️ – Drag Me Up by R.M. Virtues
New To You author ✍️ – Her Night With Santa by Adriana Herera

LIVE 6/20 at 6 pm EST

Just read my first M/M romance 🙌🏼 Jingle Bell Jock

https://listenwirhprecious.com/2022/05/22/walking-in-a-witchy-wonderland/

TBR

Drag Me Up by R.M. Virtues (ebook)

Group bool
Hades-Persephone retelling

https://listenwirhprecious.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/neon-gods-reading-blog/

Her Night With Santa by Adriana Herera (ebook)

A Lady For A Duke by Alexis Hall 🎧

Wolfsong by T.J. Klune 🎧(just because 😆)

Monday

Drag Me Up

Hades-Persephone retelling 🙌🏼 Woke up to a live 🙌🏼

Just saw! 🙌🏼👏🏽👇🏼

Format influenced 👇🏼😂 Just reading what I want 😮

Tuesday

So my audiobook is going to be 👇🏼

Audio option 😉

GROUP book 🙌🏼 still in progress… ebook….

Plugged in 😬

Nice even check-ins 😊

Updated on Goodreads too 😉

Wednesday

Drag Me Up

Keep my place in my ebook so 👇🏼 A Lady For A Duke

https://listenwirhprecious.com/2022/06/15/jurassic-world-watching-blog/ 😉

A Lady For A Duke

A Lady For A Duke most like expected romances 🤔

Upon completion

Thursday

Really liking this story 😍😊

World 🌎 😮

Friday

A Lady For A Duke

Drag Me Up

Saturday

Drag Me Up

Determined to finish 😂😊😇

Thanks

Her Night With Santa

Sunday

White Hot Reading Blog

Check-ins/Updates:

Before I begin:

Excited to move onto the series! Haven’t seen much romance YET but getting flirting 😏

Chapter 6

Already action-packed! Builds on Burn For Me, so the series must be read in order 📝 This story heavily deals with death and trauma. Definitely intrigued to find out more