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Looking For Group #3
Summoning Their Elementalist
Jasper didn't set out to fall in love with his best friend and professional gaming partner Zach, hell he never thought it an option. But when an accident cost him his wife's life leaving him a single parent, the two found comfort in each other. Happy, he couldn't have wanted more. Until the newbie spitfire redhead in their guild smoked them both in a duel and subsequently agreed to join their team.
Quick with her spells and even quicker with her words, she's got a soft spot for his daughter, and a growing place in his heart, as well as Zach's.
Only problem? She won't see them outside the game.
Zach has been happy with his partner Jasper and his daughter, even though they came together under less than pleasant circumstances. But as happy as they are, he can't deny his growing attraction to their guildmate and fellow teammate Shira. So when Jasper confides in him an idea to include her into their family, he's on board.
But, how are they going to convince her of that, when they can't even get her to meet them in person? And if they succeed, what will become of his relationship with Jasper?
Shira has three rules: don't date in person, don't hookup with guildmates, and most certainly don't believe an android can find love. After obtaining lifesaving cybernetics, she lost her modeling career, her dating life, and her confidence. She retreated inward, taking up a new gaming hobby due to new friends she made in the hospital.
Pairing up with fellow guildmates Jasper and Zach for player vs. player activities, she slowly finds her confidence again and embraces this new life, doing her best to escape her past. Except growing close to these two men tests her rules in ways she never expected, especially when they insist on meeting her.
And if they could summon her, what would become of them when her past comes back to haunt her?
Quick with her spells and even quicker with her words, she's got a soft spot for his daughter, and a growing place in his heart, as well as Zach's.
Only problem? She won't see them outside the game.
Zach has been happy with his partner Jasper and his daughter, even though they came together under less than pleasant circumstances. But as happy as they are, he can't deny his growing attraction to their guildmate and fellow teammate Shira. So when Jasper confides in him an idea to include her into their family, he's on board.
But, how are they going to convince her of that, when they can't even get her to meet them in person? And if they succeed, what will become of his relationship with Jasper?
Shira has three rules: don't date in person, don't hookup with guildmates, and most certainly don't believe an android can find love. After obtaining lifesaving cybernetics, she lost her modeling career, her dating life, and her confidence. She retreated inward, taking up a new gaming hobby due to new friends she made in the hospital.
Pairing up with fellow guildmates Jasper and Zach for player vs. player activities, she slowly finds her confidence again and embraces this new life, doing her best to escape her past. Except growing close to these two men tests her rules in ways she never expected, especially when they insist on meeting her.
And if they could summon her, what would become of them when her past comes back to haunt her?
329 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 25, 2019
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About the author
Shannon Pemrick
20 books191 followersShannon Pemrick is a full-time USA Today bestselling author of slow-burn romantic fantasy, fuller-time geek, and dragon obsessed. She also has too many novelty mugs, not enough chocolate, and a forbidden love-affair with all things shiny. When she's not burning her fingers across a keyboard handing out adventures and HEAs, she's rolling dice and getting lost in RPGs or searching for brides for her dragon overlords.
Learn more about Shannon by visiting her website.
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July 17, 2019
Wow another fantastic addition to the series! This story is absolutely packed full for amazing friends, gamers, and an adorable little girl. I quite literally couldn't put it down until it was finished and HELLO CLIFFHANGER!!!! I know this is part 1 of 2 but dang what a way to leave a girl hanging. If you haven't started this series you are truly missing out on a fantastic series and can I say, When is this game gonna be real because I would love to play!!!
I was gifted an ARC and will gladly provide a voluntary and honest review.
I was gifted an ARC and will gladly provide a voluntary and honest review.
July 26, 2019
I’ve been addictively reading along with each of the books in Shannon Pemrick’s Looking For Group series. No surprise then that I’ve been looking forward to Shira, Jasper and Zach’s story (and definitely Serenity’s story too, as she’s so adorable I want to have another child - something I’m long past being capable of). There have been so many hints of this story in the first two books that I thought I knew what to expect, but Summoning Their Elementalist (Book 3) proved me wrong. It had so very much more. Still a perfectly done combination of totally believable near future world with equally believable future tech immersive virtual reality RPG (role playing game for those not gamers) world. This “Friends-to-Lovers Ménage Romance” also had a fantastic and beautifully complex romance. I’m a lifelong gamer (in excess of a half century, gulp, with all but 13 of those years didn’t gaming), a lifelong reader of fantasy books (double gulp: over a half-century) and a lover of romance books. Summoning Their Elementalist satisfies any cravings in all three of these areas. Really my only complaint is that this is the first book in the series that ends on a cliffhanger. I’m going to wait waiting for the next book. Notwithstanding that, but for the fact that I’m literally dictating this review to my husband from my hospital bed I could go on and on with praises. The book definitely deserves it. Since I can’t do that I will simply note that the book is most definitely one to read, and it is easy to highly recommend. I’m definitely looking forward to the next (cliffhanger ending) book in this series.
May 29, 2022
I'm not really sure what I was expecting when I got this book. I can say that it far exceeded my expectations. I loved this book. I'm not sure if its because I also love to play games and therefore found myself lost in this fantastical game world also. Or if it was all the little details that this book has. You got all of them. They weren't just skimmed over. I loved that. You saw the day to day with these people. The struggle and fear, the courage and hope, the joy and the sadness and anger. You got up close and personal with it along with them.
I'm not sure when I have enjoyed as book as much as this one. I literally didn't want to stop reading it for any reason once I picked it up. I finished it in one sitting and as soon as I finish this review I will be starting the next one! This is the first book I have read by this author and I was so not disappointed with it. I was kind of surprised at how much I loved it and didn't feel lost reading it being that this book is in the middle of the series. I will read all of them eventually but this story... I have to finish reading.. I have to know how it ends.
I'm not sure when I have enjoyed as book as much as this one. I literally didn't want to stop reading it for any reason once I picked it up. I finished it in one sitting and as soon as I finish this review I will be starting the next one! This is the first book I have read by this author and I was so not disappointed with it. I was kind of surprised at how much I loved it and didn't feel lost reading it being that this book is in the middle of the series. I will read all of them eventually but this story... I have to finish reading.. I have to know how it ends.
July 18, 2019
I’ll start by saying this book was more of an almost 4 star read.
I really liked the summary and I dove into it even without reading the first two because I really wanted to read about this happy gay couple and their daughter having a wonderful woman join their family as a girlfriend and mother figure. Instead, I got a book about a woman struggling through PTSD and her own self-image fears as someone with cybernetic prosthetics, and the longest ~300 page slowburn I’ve ever read.
I guess I’ll have to read the next book when it comes out so I can get the relationship I was hoping for. 🤞
I really liked the summary and I dove into it even without reading the first two because I really wanted to read about this happy gay couple and their daughter having a wonderful woman join their family as a girlfriend and mother figure. Instead, I got a book about a woman struggling through PTSD and her own self-image fears as someone with cybernetic prosthetics, and the longest ~300 page slowburn I’ve ever read.
I guess I’ll have to read the next book when it comes out so I can get the relationship I was hoping for. 🤞
August 12, 2019
★ Playing both worlds ★
—>>> Review Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars - I have not had the chance to read the first two books in this series, but I did enjoy delving into the gaming world as well as the more advanced world of cyberkinetics and meddling household AI. The day-to-day lives of the main characters were given a lot of detailed attention as were all their insecurities and how they worked through them, to include the daughter’s fears, with the pace picking up when they were actually playing in their gaming world and finally moving forward with their real-life relationship development.
—>>> Review Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars - I have not had the chance to read the first two books in this series, but I did enjoy delving into the gaming world as well as the more advanced world of cyberkinetics and meddling household AI. The day-to-day lives of the main characters were given a lot of detailed attention as were all their insecurities and how they worked through them, to include the daughter’s fears, with the pace picking up when they were actually playing in their gaming world and finally moving forward with their real-life relationship development.
January 9, 2023
Dancing the dance
[Third in a series, I've started here, so no backstory knowledge. ] One hundred years ahead, VR gaming is a profession and two Boston-based men struggle to make a living. Occasionally they join up with a California-based female who has multiple cybernetic body elements. Until the story ends in a cliffhanger, the joint plot of dealing with post-accident trauma and a potential MMF triad drive this novel. Intriguing characters well drawn, realistic (future) environment.
[Third in a series, I've started here, so no backstory knowledge. ] One hundred years ahead, VR gaming is a profession and two Boston-based men struggle to make a living. Occasionally they join up with a California-based female who has multiple cybernetic body elements. Until the story ends in a cliffhanger, the joint plot of dealing with post-accident trauma and a potential MMF triad drive this novel. Intriguing characters well drawn, realistic (future) environment.
July 27, 2019
Maybe if I was into gaming...Maybe if I had read the first two books,......Maybe if I liked or cared about any of the characters!! Too many "Maybes" for me. This book was hard to get into, didn't hold my interest, and I just didn't care about Shira, Jasper, or Zach . Again, if you read the first two books or were into the gaming genre, may be for you.
****I received a copy from Hidden Gems and this is my honest review****
****I received a copy from Hidden Gems and this is my honest review****
July 18, 2019
I love the story line however it’s not my favourite book by this author. The idea for the characters and the plot line were really great and I enjoyed the book however I sometimes struggled to connect with the characters it almost seemed detached to me at points. That’s not to say there weren’t really great bits in the book. I’m looking forward to the next one and would still recommend the book.
July 25, 2019
This is the 3rd book in the series and I do recommend reading them in order. Zach and Jasper didn’t plan on falling for each other when Jasper lost his wife but when Shira joins their team sparks begin to fly between them. Will Shira agree? Fast-paced read with lots of drama and great chemistry. The story has plenty of drama and the characters have great depth. I really liked it.
August 2, 2019
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