Stephanie A. > Recent Status Updates

One thing I do wish more authors would go back to doing is saving the one and only bedroom scene for the last chapter, both to enhance the Yearning and so that you can simply quit early if you so choose; the end of this page works perfectly as an ending with all the closure you truly need.

When the adaptation of my dreams becomes reality, I feel sorry for Wardrobe because this magic blue dress has a lot to live up to.

(P.s. I'm still not particularly rooting for them. I read too much YA to ever be okay with the rationale.)

I dont think you needed your shirt off for her to hear your heartbeat. 🤨

I HATE THIS, pt. 2

TAKE HIM BACK. This is the only groveling man who has ever deserved a second chance.

Hmm guess you cant do spoiler cuts in status updates. Alas I am NOT typing that all out on my phone again. Hidden from feed at least.

Oh no this is awful. Didnt even consider that <spoiler>the messages might come back to bite them. was holding out hope that at least Maggie would randomly break up with him first...</spoiler>

Petition to slightly rewrite the end of ch.18 so he doesnt go home, slap one or two new chapters on for closure and make this at least a 4 star book???

This killed me. Never mind, Ridge/Maggie 5eva. Sydney who

You know what? Changed my mind. Polyamory could be a solution here. let's Sister Wife it up.

LIKE THIS. I WISH I COULD ACTUALLY SEE THIS HUG.

Also, though, Sydney should probably move the hell out already. Living with your ex or crawling back to your parents are both far less harmful or embarrassing living situations at this point.

I do feel like this level of UST, with sufficiently attractive casting, could work for me in a TV series. I would reblogging gifsets of every look and technically-innocent touch in a spree right now. But I gotta SEE the chemistry to overcome cheating on/leaving someone this good.

I still don't hate the reading experience, but I'm also spending every minute wishing this was a book with literally any other kind of obstacle to them being together, because I really think she could have had something here.

Gonna be so f'real, I do not see how she is gonna succeed at making me root for this couple.

Lmao, "A Disgraceful Drubbing" is such a good chapter title.

I'm sorry?? You just wrote 10 pages of porn and now wanna pass me off with "we stayed up late talking and reminiscing and everything felt so effortless, like it used to"? PRIORITIES, STRAIGHTEN THEM

AGAIN?? It has been 2 seconds. I am beginning to wonder what else you even have in common.

Oh NO. Noooooo. Flipped past looking for the end of it as fast as I could but did not save my eyes from all of it so this is my clear and emphatic warning to just go ahead and skip all of chapter 18 up to the flashback part; what in the Elsie Silver levels of horrifying XXX.

OK I actually really like Caleb's plan for "leaving a legacy."

What incredibly sweet gestures. is this the best marriage-rehab story ever?? (well. no. because of all the porn. but outside of that I absolutely love how focused we've been on strengthening them without needing to actually break them first.)

1st: this speech is Grey's Anatomy-worthy except with extra insecurity, my heart! 2nd, CALEB LET ME LOVE YOU. Being perfectly happy with how things are, hoping they stay the exact same for the next 30 years and being upset when your partner thinks you both need to change in order to grow? THE perfect man. The only valid use of an F-bomb so far in this book is "Fuck me for being happy I guess." So cathartic.

Oh wow this laundry list of insecurities that she imagines Caleb secretly thinking about her...I mean she SHOULD feel bad about drinking too much, but otherwise, these are exactly the things I would worry about in her position about not living up to her potential, "the potential he saw in me before I saw it in myself. That he has, no doubt, painfully watched go to waste over the years." OUCH TO THE HEART.

what is this obsession women have with wanting an independent stage. I also went from daughter to wife* and I would 10/10 recommend. 100/10 if your future spouse is rich and not stingy about sharing money. (*admittedly I did go to college in between, but I would say my life more closely resembled that of a teenager in boarding school than learning to live as an independent adult).

What do you *mean* you "wouldn't wish being a 10-year-old girl on anyone, it's lousy"? That is literally the best age. IDK what kind of weird life you guys led but that was PRIME 'having amazing fun being a kid and playing with toys without being a LITTLE kid' years. No part of me was thinking about growing up except vaguely in the sense of 'when I'm an adult I will live on a farm with dogs and horses.'

WHY!!! The degree to which no one has ever needed to read something like the start of chapter 4 is incalculable.

NO YOU WERE DOING SO WELL, who told you to introduce c-words! Strike these last 2 pages from the record. So close to making open door readable...

Also, for the record, I was fully prepared for it to turn Accidentally Sexy and I have no qualms with that either, y'all have earned it.

G RATED BED SHARING SLEEPOVER SUGGESTION?? This is the best fake dating plot I've ever seen.

'Shh. I'm fulfilling a teenage fantasy. Do you think you could make your skin sparkle? Like a morally conflicted, self-described disco ball serial killer?"

Literally giggling and kicking my feet right now.

This man's compassion levels exceed expectation at every turn and I am getting into a bit of a swoon about it.