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This is as expected a really fun read/listen... But maybe a tad too digressive?!
I don't mind it too much, but it does seem l.o.n.g.

Meghan's books are always so fun 😆

Ok, I hereby officially announce to myself that, despite having surpassed all my reading expectations this year, I did not manage to complete this season Goodreads' challenge. More than half of the section were out of my comfort zone, so I postponed them and now I'm short on days and with 2 other books to read. 🥺

I give up on them, but - now that I know how they work- I commit myself for the year to come ♥️

Wasn't this supposed to be supernatural somehow?! Not full-on fantasy but I expected... Something. Instead we have a mafia war.. not how I wanted to end the year. 🥲

What the f is up with this Italian?
That sentence doesn't make any sense I swear 😅
At least the bad accent should be on purpose... I think?!

I'm goo ♥️

✎“You are very beautiful,”
“Come on.”
“Is the truth. Your freckles.
I am nuts about them.”
“I have no idea why. I hate them.”
“Noooo... Hollander. They are stunning.”
“Stunning?”
“Yes. Am I not using that word right? Very beautiful. Um... take my breath?”
“Wow. All right.”
“The first time I met you. Those freckles...”
...
“You were such a dick to me.”
“Mm. I did not like you. Just your freckles.”

They're so G O N E. 😍

✎ "There was something a little too...tender...in the way Rozanov was looking at him. And there was something that was far too soothing about the way Rozanov’s fingers combed through Shane’s short hair, and curved down to trace the bridge of freckles that stretched across his face."

✎ "We were supposed to stand alone at the top, but we will always be there together. We will keep climbing until no one else can reach us, but it will always be together."

Awhh they're cute 😍

Loving the story, not so much the narration style with the 3rd person. I would have preferred the 2 POVs and 2 voices... 👉🏼👈🏼

Watch me cry till next year

✎ “Do you know why I kept saying the best song was ‘Space Oddity’?”
“Because of your favorite part.”
“When he says, ‘Tell my wife I love her very much . . .’ ”
“And then he says, ‘She knows,’ ”
“Yeah, that’s it. That’s the best part of that song. But do you think she knows? Do you really think she knows?”
“She knows, She absolutely knows.”
“Okay, I can live with that.”

Vanessa, the Woman you are 🥹

✎ “I can wake up every single day and choose you, over and over and over again. If you’re in bed next to me, I will take your hand. If you are not, I will go find you. I will spend the rest of my life, if I get that lucky, seeking you out. Not because I promised you or because you’re there. But because I will want to. I will want to be beside you. Every day. Forever."

WHY WHY WHY can't I see my own updates on my phone profile page?!?!? 😤😤😤

Do I really have to like every one of my own posts just to save the chronological view of my thoughts?!

Well, that prologue doesn't bode well 😲

This is so frustratingly true 💔

✎ “Happiness is so hard to come by. I don’t understand why anyone would begrudge anyone else for managing to find some of it.”
“That’s because you’re too good for the world you love so much,” Vanessa said.

💗🌈🦋

✎ “Vanessa,” Joan said. “I want to do this forever.”
Vanessa turned to Joan and smiled. And then kissed her temple and said, “Wouldn’t that be something?”

I get the feeling, Joan 😍

✎ “I want to do everything with you. I want to be so close to you that I’m worried I’m being creepy about it.”

👩‍❤️‍👩✨🚀

✎ “The whole sky makes sense to me now,” Vanessa said. “Because of you.”
And Joan thought, Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no.

Ahhhhw, I love Vanessa so much 🥰

✎ “You are what you are, and I like what you are. Anyway, nobody is one thing all the time. Maybe you’ve been a Goody Two-shoes up until now. But anything can happen,

The night is young, and you’re out with a bad girl.”

✎ "Bravery is being unafraid of something other people are afraid of. Courage is being afraid, but strong enough to do it anyway.”

Wait this is so cute 🥰
I absolutely have to catch up with some of Laura Pavlov's books next year... And I do have some on my TBR already.

I love seasonal novellas as a way to introduce myself to many authors at one time! 💕

Awhh this seems so cute 🥰

✎ « We are so determined to learn what lies beyond our grasp that we have figured out how to ride a rocket out of the atmosphere. »

I love a Scottish accent but I'm afraid without a written text I might not get some statements 😆
Fortunately I can rewind ✨

OH MY GOSH, LUCAS!
I'm gushing over here 🫠💗
I knew you couldn't keep the act for long ✨

✎ I feel the bed shift. His strong arm wraps around my waist, pulling me back against his chest. His face buries in my hair, and I feel him inhale deeply. It’s a long, slow breath like he’s trying to memorize the scent of me.

Oookay, last holiday season we left Lucas at :

┃“So, what’s your story? Why are you single?” I ask. “Because I have standards,”

Time to encounter THE standard aka his childhood first love 💖

This is not exactly good, but not bad at all. Like a perfect guilty pleasure, addicting like a trashy reality show but make it dark.
My common sense is already done with the MFC, but I can't stop listening 🍿❤️‍🔥

Ok, I sense the chemistry... I'm intrigued, even if mobster life is not my usual romance choice. 😌

I hadn't noticed the similarities with "When in Rome" by Sarah Adams the first time 🤔💗

Okay, time for a reread 💗
I loved this 2 years ago, now I'm re-reading with the audiobook company before going into book #2!

I'm having so much fun with this book! ❤️‍🔥😆
A bit unrealistic? YES (fortunately), but I love it!