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Soooo, I started to read this yesterday (9/5/20) without reading anything on it and so far I LOVE IT, but I started to get that feeling like it wasn't going to go in the direction I was imagining it going, so I cam back here and read a few reviews which hinted at what I already suspected, and so I'm going to pause here [chapter 4] until I'm in the right mental space to get through it, then I'll be back... ❤

That scene at the 42nd percent mark... Yooooo, I CAN'T STAND Steel! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

"A thousand million stars in the sky would not be enough to count the ways I love you. Or grains of sand on the beach, even if you split every grain in half."

❤❤❤❤❤

He melted into David’s touch, turned into his hand. His lips grazed David’s wrist, chapped skin barely kissing his pulse. “I’m coming back to you.” Finally, David let him see, when Kris looked into his eyes, everything... “I’m coming back to you,” David whispered, his voice shaking. “If you want that.”

"The Joy of Gay Sex." Glen read aloud. Then he smiled, or
perhaps leered would be a better word. "So the idea is we
work through every chapter, trying out everything?"
Tyler blushed bright red. Glen leaned over and kissed him.
They kissed for a while.

He had an expression on his face that
suggested he ate lemons with hot sauce.

I'm in LOVE! ❤

“Not straight,” he spoke into my ear after his lips traced a path there with teasing nibbles. “Gay. Really very gay. With you, possibly even more gay.”

Aunt Londa, you breath-of-fresh-air you in the midst of this clusterfuck!!! 🌹
Thank you for the life-line that is you. 💜

I can see the light at the end of this tunnel!

“You’re a Marian, remember? We don’t go away. We’re like a nasty case of crabs.” Truer words have not been spoken in this book, until this point!!! My gosh! Somebody PLEASE bring the Z-pack... STAT! 💊💉

Soooo the AJ-Dante bits are SOOOOOO OVER THE TOP 🙄 and I feel like it's compensation because of all the family drama. Griff is waaaaaaayyyyyy too prominent in this considering it's not his story.

I'm so disappointed and if not for my investment in the Wilde series and need to understand (which is why I started the Made Marian series to begin with), I'd DNF. As it is, I catch myself "speed reading" to finish.

It started out so promising too... now I'm scheming through Tilly bits to try and find some Dante-AJ that isn't sex!! Don't get me wrong... I LOVE sexy-time, but can we at least pretend to tell a story???

And what's up with that story arc???? I'm just going to drop everything and run off like that???? REALLY???????? That's the best we could do??????? 🤨🤨 ugggh I'm disappointed!

Ok, the side stories are becoming too much. I don't need to know about Tilly's adventures getting drunk-married when trying to get to know Dante and AJ. 😑

This is morphing into: Tilly this Tilly that [insert sex scene here] Dante and AJ help Tilly [try not to sex scene here... change mind do it anyway] Tilly Dante Tilly AJ [oh look... more sex-ish]! When am I supposed to get to know these men??? 😡

S00... I guess we AREN'T going to address the GINORMOUS elephant 🐘 in the room <spoiler> bulemia</spoiler>???

But, we didn't address any of the others like, <spoiler> 30s
ago your ex-man was actively cheating on you, but for shits and giggles, let's have unprotected sex... STDs not withstanding... hopefully... or her lies? </spoiler> 🤷‍♀️ But I digress!
iAlas! Onwards! 😎

Oh Chris, 😍 You have my heart again! 💜💜

I KNOW, I KNOW, I'm a fickle "B", but hey, what can you do??? 💋💋

Aaannnnddddd Theennn he got a little bit Creepy!!! 😕

"It is NOT OK TO SPY ON YOUR GIRLFRIEND using the cameras at work, Christopher!!! It is CREEPY!! That is UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR!!! Stop it, Stop it right now, Christopher!!!" 😡

"Ashleigh..." He sighed. His heart felt like it would explode
from his chest. "

"Christopher could barely catch his breath. His big hands rested
on her hips and each kiss of her lips felt like the healing touch
of an Angel."
Oh Chris... you're stealing my heart! 💜💜😍😍

Yes, oh yes. Good things happened with lube. ~ Griff

Oh Nico, fancy running into you here... I'd forgotten about the friendship, and now I wonder if I would have enjoyed his story more (Facing West) had I read this first... 🤔

"I read the familiar pink print on the white shirt. The Marian Type. Something inside me jangled. The man wore my clothes. And a shirt that implied we were getting married, no less. Dear god. I began to think the joke was on me." ~ Griff Fox Marian.

Soooo... I knew, reading Borrowing Blue, that if I stuck with it, the author would not disappoint. I must say, from Teddy and Jared to Derek and Jude, now Griff and Sam, like fine wine, it's just getting better with age, and this is why... "He tasted like… I didn’t even know how to describe it. He tasted like mine." ~ Sam Coxwell

Dnf