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And the final grovel was just too underwhelming. I needed him to GROVEL. And instead it was a simple apology and immediate forgiveness. I needed the drama. Especially after the emotional rollercoaster he put her through. As in Cat out of Hell (2015), Truss piles up ingenious plot twists, preposterous coincidences, snarky asides, and characters out of P.G. Wodehouse, this time replacing her murderous felines with a setup out of the genre’s golden age. Readers who can suspend their disbelief are in for quite a workout. About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv Volts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Everyone in the art world is obsessed with Wyatt Cole. He's immensely talented and his notoriously reclusive personal life makes him all the more compelling. But there's a reason why his past is hard for him to publicize. After coming out as transgender, Wyatt was dishonorably discharged from the military and disowned by his family. From then on he committed to sobriety and channeled his pain into his flourishing art career. While Ely and Wyatt's relationship started out on a physical level, their similar struggles spark a much deeper connection. The chemistry is undeniable, but their new relationship as teacher and student means desperately wanting what they can't have. In her introduction, Truss mentions that this book, in addition to writing a police comedy serial for the BBC, she was hoping to gain membership in the Detection Club of London. In fact, that's really the whole purpose of this book ... to transform her BBC series and gain admittance to a club she reveres. Ah, such lofty goals. I should have known not to expect great care when she writes " A Shot in the Dark is set in 1957 ... Most of us weren't there, so I felt pretty free to make it up." Which leads me to my main takeaway for this book - go into this expecting a contemporary with a romantic subplot and I can pretty much guarantee you'll fall in love. Elements of Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Lee expertly crafts complicated characters who are haunted by their former lives, how they’ve grown from those traumatizing experiences, and how fragile their new identities are without the love and support of found-family.”– Booklist brimming with tenderness, a shot in the dark paints a portrait of two broken individuals whose sharp edges come together perfectly just like in kintsugi. White Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Spotlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 A profoundly emotional love story that takes its themes of addiction, faith, and art as seriously as it does its romantic arc. […] Exploring the courage required to take a chance on another person, this resonant romance cuts deep.”– Publisher’s Weekly, starred review
note that i've marked this as sapphic because ely, our main character, is pansexual. the romance is m/f) These 2 have palpable chemistry from the very beginning. Their first meeting (and STEAMY night together) was electric. But the romantic conflict felt murky as best.Both Ely and Wyatt are ex-addicts and I’ve just never read a book like this as the two of them fall in love while navigating their past trauma and the forbidden nature of their connection. Known British writer Hector Hugh Munro under pen name Saki published his witty and sometimes bitter short stories in collections, such as The Chronicles of Clovis (1911). Ohms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Listen, listen, I LOVED it. I have been asking for a m/f romance with a trans man that feels respectful but accurate, where he is sexy and hot but takes into account his life experience. This is it. But it's not for everyone. It's been a trend for me this year to get super into romance novels that are so much more than romance novels, that have full, complex and messy characters who have so much more going on in their life than just romance. The dialogue is witty, the writing is sharp and hurts when it needs to. Chef's kiss Most shots in the dark miss. Scientists learn this early in their career – most of the guesses we make as to how things work will turn out to be wrong. In fact, a proper understanding of science requires thorough knowledge of all the ways in which humans deceive themselves into believing things that are not true. In fact, most shots in well-lit conditions (informed by prior knowledge) miss. Ignoring prior knowledge results in chances that are all but hopeless.Ahh, where to begin?...This is definitely not your usual cozy mystery - mystery for sure, but way more farcical with a grand touch of Keystone Cops. A dear friend of mine was driven to suicide by Crystal, just ask Luigi, and I personally feel a deep and abiding grudge against the vile man which I can never overcome, coming as I do from Yorkshire where we can’t help it. I am confessing because I do not want police time wasted in following up other fanciful lines of enquiry, however plausible they might look at first glance. The killer is me, and I act alone, using a gun that no one knows I’ve got. And damn the man to hell, I say, because I am known not to mince my words and to write hard-hitting northern plays and so on.
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