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The Blueprint
Lily Simmons is adamant that her future will not include the traditional elements of marriage and family that most young women crave. Her parents' instability paired with their abandonment of her to a children's home when she was ten drives her desire for a solitary uncomplicated life. When country boy Jimmy charms his way through her defenses, Lily is forced to confront her past and reconsider her plan. After sacrificing her only chance at love for her best friend Kim, will Lily also sacrifice her one chance at motherhood?
243 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 4, 2013
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February 18, 2015
This book was NOT a romance - warning THERE WILL BE SPOILERS---
Unless of course you consider a woman's boyfriend and her best friend becoming a couple cause they couldn't keep their hands off each other and then taking the woman's child a romance.
The story is the h meets what seems to be a nice guy and starts a relationship, but according to her bff roomate, she is damaged and needs the bff's psych help to overcome her failings, so the bff cleverly manipulates the h under the guise of "helping" meanwhile she is hopelessly lusting after the h's boyfriend of a year while he is hopelessly lusting back. So the h breaks up with the H because the bff has convinced her the only way to heal the damage from her past is to sacrifice her happiness for them. Then she gives them her child with the H and leaves with the full encouragement of both betraying slime pits of worm excrement and the excrement's family who never liked the h and wanted the H to be with the bff anyway.
Why call this a romance at all? This should be under fiction or how to be a betraying scum drinking nematode in two easy lessons. The attempts to force the martydom of the h and the pathetic hypocritical empathy from the self serving, narcissistic cow droppings that were bff and the supposed H were just too much to be believed. I expected a romance with a nice HEA, instead I got mushroom compost served as high tea and it irked me a bit. The book is well written but the subject for a romance was just outrageous. I think huge effort was expended to make low life scum seem human and empathetic after a devastating betrayal of the heroine and that effort was a FAIL.
In no way, shape or form can you provide enough reason or sympathy for the H and bff to do what they did and call this an HEA. This was an outrage to the romance reader and should definitely be moved out of the romance category or a least carry a huge warning label-- which is what this review is intended to do. I do at least have the slim comfort that the heroine is better off without the garbage in her life, but am very disgusted that such morally bankrupt garbage slime sewage have custody of an innocent child.
As a dedicated HEA all the time romance reader, I don't like being blindsided and this book definitely did that, as well as make me want to vomit with the lack of concern and respect the two people the heroine loved most had in betraying her for their own selfish little depravities. This sad situation happens everyday in real life and I did not need in my happy little romance world and am now sorry I ever read this.
Unless of course you consider a woman's boyfriend and her best friend becoming a couple cause they couldn't keep their hands off each other and then taking the woman's child a romance.
The story is the h meets what seems to be a nice guy and starts a relationship, but according to her bff roomate, she is damaged and needs the bff's psych help to overcome her failings, so the bff cleverly manipulates the h under the guise of "helping" meanwhile she is hopelessly lusting after the h's boyfriend of a year while he is hopelessly lusting back. So the h breaks up with the H because the bff has convinced her the only way to heal the damage from her past is to sacrifice her happiness for them. Then she gives them her child with the H and leaves with the full encouragement of both betraying slime pits of worm excrement and the excrement's family who never liked the h and wanted the H to be with the bff anyway.
Why call this a romance at all? This should be under fiction or how to be a betraying scum drinking nematode in two easy lessons. The attempts to force the martydom of the h and the pathetic hypocritical empathy from the self serving, narcissistic cow droppings that were bff and the supposed H were just too much to be believed. I expected a romance with a nice HEA, instead I got mushroom compost served as high tea and it irked me a bit. The book is well written but the subject for a romance was just outrageous. I think huge effort was expended to make low life scum seem human and empathetic after a devastating betrayal of the heroine and that effort was a FAIL.
In no way, shape or form can you provide enough reason or sympathy for the H and bff to do what they did and call this an HEA. This was an outrage to the romance reader and should definitely be moved out of the romance category or a least carry a huge warning label-- which is what this review is intended to do. I do at least have the slim comfort that the heroine is better off without the garbage in her life, but am very disgusted that such morally bankrupt garbage slime sewage have custody of an innocent child.
As a dedicated HEA all the time romance reader, I don't like being blindsided and this book definitely did that, as well as make me want to vomit with the lack of concern and respect the two people the heroine loved most had in betraying her for their own selfish little depravities. This sad situation happens everyday in real life and I did not need in my happy little romance world and am now sorry I ever read this.
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April 2, 2020At least we are lucky that this crap was the only thing written by this person.(At least I really hope so!)
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April 3, 2020Worst book I have ever read.
August 11, 2016
It's very hard for me to be objective about this one since I am friends with the author. The beginning was okay, the middle was really good, but I didn't like the ending at all (too predictable and out-of-character). I settled with three stars, which is still awfully good for a first novel.
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