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href=&quot;https://su-romanticgirl.blogspot.com/2019/10/denuncia-plagio-dos-livros-da-harlequin.html?showComment=1570468026906#c8615929801921489049&quot;&gt;[DENÚNCIA] Plágio dos Livros da Harlequin&lt;/a&gt;: No último dia 24 de setembro de 2019 eu resenhei aqui no blog um livro que, na época, estava gratuito na Amazon. Falei o quanto eu hav...</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/5459976407231141509/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/10/denuncia-plagio-dos-livros-da-harlequin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/5459976407231141509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/5459976407231141509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/10/denuncia-plagio-dos-livros-da-harlequin.html' title='[DENÚNCIA] Plágio dos Livros da Harlequin'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-6439813093703406099</id><published>2019-08-03T17:11:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:11:08.470-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Aventura Ardente</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25100264&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Aventura Ardente&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1425841952l/25100264._SY160_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25100264&quot;&gt;Aventura Ardente&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12692&quot;&gt;Diana Palmer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2764352540&quot;&gt;3 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UPDATE: Reread March, 2019&lt;br /&gt;Kindle edition, portuguese&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK decent reads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Seis anos haviam se passado desde que se falaram pela última vez.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Planejara assustá-la para que Sally parasse de provocá-lo, mas a tentativa impulsiva de desencorajá-la acabara por surtir um efeito maior do que imaginara. Sally fugira dele naquela época e continuara a evitá-lo.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Eb me contou sobre isso e sobre o que aconteceu pouco antes de você ter ido viver comigo e com Hank, em Houston.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Uma vez você me disse que sempre o via em companhia de uma bela mulher nos eventos sociais – lembrou Sally com uma pontada de inveja.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Ebenezer teve algum relacionamento sério? – Sim. Houve uma mulher em Houston, alguns anos atrás. Eb se envolveu, mas ela o abandonou assim que soube em que ele trabalhava. Casou-se com um banqueiro bem mais velho que ela.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ebenezer mudou de posição, induzindo-a a se moldar à curva de seu corpo, o olhar cravado no dela. Podia senti-la tremer, ouvir o ruído excitado da respiração que ela tentava corajosamente esconder.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Sentiu o hálito de tabaco quando a boca sensual cobriu a sua.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A princípio, a veneração que Sally lhe dedicara quando adolescente o irritara, mas acabou por enchê-lo de orgulho.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Esperara qualquer reação, desde repugnância até choque, principalmente quando lembrava como a ex-noiva reagira à revelação. Porém Sally não o criticara ou julgara.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Sabia que Hank a traía. Presumi que tivesse a mesma liberdade.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Eu estava extremamente excitado naquele dia. Estava há muito tempo sem me relacionar com uma mulher, e você era uma menina de apenas 17 anos.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Eles a atacaram e a teriam estuprado se eu não tivesse aparecido – disse Eb, enquanto dava marcha a ré na picape e saía para a estada.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Eu já lhe disse que fui noivo, certo? –&lt;br /&gt;Ela nunca questionou de onde vinha meu dinheiro. Na verdade, quando tentei lhe contar, ela me impediu, dizendo que não importava, que me amava e me seguiria para onde meu trabalho me levasse.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Portanto, na noite da véspera do casamento, contei-lhe o que fazia para viver. Maggie pousou a aliança na mesa de centro, arrumou suas coisas e partiu da cidade naquela mesma noite. Casou-se dois meses depois… com um homem que tinha o dobro de sua idade.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Sally conhecia a história da ex-noiva de Eb, mas não tinha noção do quanto ele a amara.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Você… a encontrou… em Houston?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;– Não. Maggie me disse que quer se dedicar à carreira – respondeu ele. – Gosta de ter seu próprio dinheiro e ser independente.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Eb não fez nenhum comentário. Sentia-se claustrofóbico e não sabia por quê.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Agora a ex-noiva de Eb estava viúva, e ele trabalhava em uma atividade segura.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Fora desagradável o suficiente ouvir Eb falar sobre como a mulher que amara o rejeitara quase à beira do altar e perceber, pelo modo como falara, que ele não a havia esquecido.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Os sentimentos que ele ainda nutria pela mulher com quem planejara se casar eram evidentes na voz de Eb quando ele lhe falara de Maggie.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ora, Eb! – soou uma voz suave atrás de Sally. – Que coincidência encontrá-lo aqui, em um de nossos lugares noturnos favoritos.&lt;br /&gt;Não podia ser outra pessoa senão a ex-noiva de Eb.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;O coração de Sally perdeu uma batida ao perceber os olhos verdes de Maggie se iluminarem diante do convite.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Não foi o sentimento que nutriam um pelo outro que os separou, mas sim o trabalho do qual Eb não queria abrir mão, nem mesmo pela mulher que amava o suficiente para se casar.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Não era de admirar que Eb a tivesse repudiado anos atrás. Ao lado da exótica Maggie, Sally se sentia insignificante.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2764352540&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/6439813093703406099/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-aventura-ardente.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/6439813093703406099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/6439813093703406099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-aventura-ardente.html' title='Review: Aventura Ardente'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-529387968579025826</id><published>2019-08-03T17:10:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:10:50.801-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Sem coração</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40228906&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Sem coração&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1527532895l/40228906._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40228906&quot;&gt;Sem coração&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12692&quot;&gt;Diana Palmer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/273214050&quot;&gt;3 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UPDATE: Reread March, 2019&lt;br /&gt;Portuguese Edition, Kindle Unlimited&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK decent reads.&lt;br /&gt;===========================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1275102712?book_show_action=false&amp;amp;from_review_page=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BEST REVIEW EVER&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update: Re-read in January 2015&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Maldita, você começou isso! – disse ele, os dentes cerrados, tão chocado por sua frenética perda de controle como pela rejeição dela por ele como homem.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Jason repetiu o episódio na mente, e a raiva cresceu a partir do constrangimento, aliada à rejeição, à humilhação e ao orgulho ferido. Demostrara seu desejo por ela, e Gracie tinha se mostrado… repugnada. Vira aquilo no rosto dela.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Naquele momento, não se importava se não a visse mais pelo resto de sua vida.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Uma ruiva linda e viva se aproximou dele à mesa de bebidas, onde ele preparava outra dose de uísque e gelo.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Os olhos dela eram de um azul muito pálido num rosto lindo e delicado. Um longo cabelo vermelho lhe descia pelas costas quase até a cintura, com ondas tremulando como o mar em sua extensão sedosa.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Era uma mulher sexy, de pernas longas, com um olhar faminto. Estava olhando-o daquele jeito agora, e Jason se sentia enfraquecer. Seu ego estava no chão e ele precisava se lembrar de que algumas mulheres o consideravam um homem atraente.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A última coisa de que se lembrava era de afundar numa cama enorme e macia.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Estava deitado sob os lençóis com sua cueca de seda. Ao lado dele, estava uma ruiva completamente nua que dormia em seus braços.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Essa linda criatura enroscada em seus braços obviamente o achara irresistível e agora enfrentava a perspectiva de tê-la engravidado por sua falta de controle.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Não queria voltar sozinho para casa.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Imaginou-se entrando na mansão em San Antonio de braços dados com essa mulher e vendo o rosto chocado de Gracie.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Quero que vocês duas conheçam Kittie Sartain – disse ele suavemente. – Minha noiva.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Gracie não sabia o que dizer. Ninguém jamais lhe falara de maneira tão grosseira. Olhou para Jason, mas ele estava observando a ruiva com evidente admiração.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;John, Dilly, esta é Kittie, minha noiva. – Jason lhes apresentou a ruiva. – Ela é uma das principais modelos do país. Vocês provavelmente já viram o rosto dela em capas de revistas.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;O coração de Gracie estava se partindo. A família deles, seus leais amigos e empregados estavam sendo tratados como se fossem hóspedes indesejáveis.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Imagine só, convidar empregados para se sentar à mesa e jantar com você – queixou-se Kittie. – E você deixa sua irmã de criação viver com você, na idade dela? O que as pessoas devem pensar?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Vocês se acostumarão com ela – disse severamente. – Não é tão ruim como parece. Ela apenas não conhece vocês.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Kittie se queixou de tudo, beliscou a salada, tomou café preto e resmungou sobre a qualidade da comida. Depois da refeição, ela e Jason foram para a sala de estar, onde ela se aninhou no colo dele e passou o resto da noite beijando-o.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Kittie tratou todos da casa com rispidez, especialmente Gracie.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Jason levou a noiva para diversos eventos culturais, incluindo um balé e um concerto sinfônico.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você terá que fazer alguma coisa a respeito de Mumbles antes de voltarmos para o dia de Ação de Graças, Gracie – disse ele calmo. – Kittie é alérgica a gatos.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ele não pode ficar na casa com Kittie – disse ele, desviando o olhar.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ah, pelo amor de Deus, é só um gato velho… não um bebê! – gritou, enfurecido demais com a possibilidade de lágrimas.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ele está velho, Gracie – disse áspero. – Não tem muito tempo para viver, de qualquer maneira. Pode ser um ato de misericórdia levá-lo para o veterinário e lhe dar uma...&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– E você vai fazer o quê? – perguntou, a raiva brilhando nos olhos. – Conseguir um emprego? Que qualificações você tem, além de ser anfitriã de chás e festas, Gracie? – Apesar dos olhos enfurecidos, a voz dele era fria.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Seu orgulho ferido pela rejeição de Gracie o entregara de bandeja à Kittie. Quanto à possibilidade de que a engravidara, era uma piada. Vira sua caixa de pílulas anticoncepcionais, que ela mantinha sobre a mesinha de cabeceira.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Todo mundo ri de mim, acha que sou cabeça-de-vento, desajeitada e incapaz de fazer qualquer coisa realmente importante. Até mesmo Jason finalmente admitiu que acha que eu não sou capaz de fazer nada, a não ser preparar suas festas e ser a anfitriã.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você já tem um carro – argumentou Barbara. Gracie cerrou os dentes com força. – Não tenho mais. Kittie disse que Jason lhe deu permissão para usar o VW, já que pagou por ele.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– A srta. Sartain a demitiu. Ela deixou que todos fossem embora… Disse que eram velhos demais…&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Sim, eu a expulsei! Ela nem mesmo discutiu comigo. Disse que estava contente por ir embora! – Não acrescentou que usara de chantagem para conseguir a partida de Gracie.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Uma mulher sedutora pode transformar um homem num tolo, mesmo um homem mais velho.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Um dos membros da quadrilha dos Fuentes. O homem que me ajudou o matou enquanto ele tentava me estuprar.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/273214050&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/529387968579025826/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-sem-coracao.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/529387968579025826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/529387968579025826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-sem-coracao.html' title='Review: Sem coração'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-8087283371855183878</id><published>2019-08-03T17:10:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:10:34.193-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Connal</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/572309&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Connal&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1387705837l/572309._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/572309&quot;&gt;Connal&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12692&quot;&gt;Diana Palmer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/273216442&quot;&gt;3 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK decent reads.&lt;br /&gt;============================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UPDATE: Re-read in March, 2019&lt;br /&gt;Casamento Acidental - portuguese edition, Kindle Unlimited&lt;br /&gt;==============================================&lt;br /&gt;UPDATE: Re-read in June 2016&lt;br /&gt;UPDATE: Re-read in October 2014.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;C.C. não amava Penelope. Nunca amara. Ela, no entanto, o adorava desde os 19 anos,&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Não era uma moça bonita, mas tinha uma figura agradável, mesmo que mais para roliça. Penelope não se encontrava acima do peso, apenas tinha um corpo curvilíneo que preenchia generosamente o jeans. Tocado pelo sol, o cabelo refletia uma nuance quase vermelho-dourada. O nariz reto era coberto por uma camada de sardas.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;C.C. a observou com olhar desinteressado.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Quantos anos tem, Pepi? – Sabe muito bem que tenho 22.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Vinte e dois contra meus 30 anos. E 22 de pura ingenuidade – disse ele proferindo as palavras devagar. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Pobre e torturado homem! Perdera a mulher e o filho que ainda nem havia nascido durante um passeio de rafting em uma corredeira, ao qual tivera a infelicidade de sobreviver.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Vivi o suficiente para saber que ninguém nunca resolveu seus problemas fugindo deles.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Pode escrever o que estou dizendo, menina, ele é mais do que aparenta ser.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Aquilo a magoou. C.C. a fazia parecer uma vaqueira qualquer. Talvez fosse essa a imagem que tinha dela… como um daqueles homens com quem trabalhava.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ainda vestindo jeans. Está sempre com roupas masculinas. Tem pernas, garota? Ao menos, tem seios…?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Suponha que mudássemos seu sobrenome para Tremayne – perguntou ele hesitante. – Claro, por que não? Está sempre correndo atrás de mim, Penelope Marie Mathews, então por que não se casa comigo e faz a coisa da maneira certa?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Se não se casar comigo… – ameaçou C.C. com astúcia bêbada – entrarei em um bar, atirarei a esmo, e nós dois iremos presos. Agora mesmo, Pepi. Neste minuto. Estou falando sério.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Pepi foi quase arrastada para a capela.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Em seguida, ele estendeu o papel na direção dela, respirou fundo e desabou no chão da capela.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Talvez tenha de me conformar em ser paparicado por você, mas jamais ficarei casado com você quando sóbrio.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você não passa de uma garota. Não é nenhuma mulher fatal.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;As consequências de sua farsa poderiam ser trágicas e de longo alcance, ainda mais se C.C. resolvesse se casar com Edie. Ele seria considerado bígamo sem nem ao menos saber.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Se ao menos conseguisse perder peso para ficar com a silhueta mais parecida com a de Edie…&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;O dorso do dedo indicador longo lhe tocou o rosto em uma carícia lenta e devastadora.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;C.C. a mantivera fora do alcance durante anos, mas Pepi não era inocente, portanto, não tinha de se preocupar com a consciência&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Acho que já tem idade para saber por que os homens procuram mulheres como Edie. Ele é um homem. E tem… suas necessidades.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ela usava mais maquiagem do que de costume e exibia uma beleza genuína, com sardas e tudo.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Acho… Ora, ora, olhe para aquele vestido!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edie acabara de transpor a porta, trajando um vestido vermelho, com um decote profundo nas costas que se estendia até a altura da cintura e formava um V na parte da frente. A despeito do comprimento, servia como uma propaganda para divulgar sua beleza loira e atraía uma boa quantidade de olhares.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Venha comigo e verei se consigo convencê-la do contrário – acrescentou com expressão afetuosa e uma voz grave e sensual. – Essa é uma oferta irrecusável – murmurou Edie em resposta. – Boa noite, Penelope, Brandon.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Edie é suficiente para você? – rebateu ousada. – Quando estou disposto, qualquer coisa com seios é suficiente para mim – disse conciso e irritado com a recusa de Pepi em admitir que se interessava por ele.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Não quero me casar, seja com uma boa cozinheira ou uma mulher elegante – murmurou C.C. distraído, franzindo a testa e voltando a se concentrar em passar manteiga em um pão, alheio à expressão estampada no rosto de Pepi.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Observou-a em silêncio, pensando no quanto ela era atraente, com quilos a mais ou não.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Teria de fingir estar apaixonado por Edie para afastar Pepi. Para se certificar de que ela não alimentasse nenhuma esperança.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Após experimentar o ardor de C.C. minutos atrás, era doloroso ser lembrada de que ele pertencia a outro alguém. Pepi se ergueu e começou a retirar a mesa, distraída.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ao lado da loira, sentia-se como um canhão.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;De qualquer forma, por que C.C. olharia duas vezes para ela com uma mulher tão linda quanto Edie em seus braços?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Porém, o óbvio interesse de C.C. em Edie a estava matando. Ele mantinha um braço possessivo em torno da loira, e em determinado momento inclinou a cabeça e lhe capturou os lábios com um beijo faminto na frente de Pepi e de todo El Paso.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Foi melhor assim. Eu vinha alimentando esperanças vãs com esse homem.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você sabia que eu jamais me casaria com uma maquiavélica simplória e roliça como você se estivesse sóbrio! Não é nem um pouco atraente, Pepi, e seus modos e a maneira de se vestir se parecem mais com os de um homem do que de uma mulher.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Pai, ele ama a esposa que morreu. Acho que ainda sofre por ela. Lembra-se de como se sentiu quando mamãe se foi?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você é maquiavélica, mentirosa e provavelmente uma caça-dotes.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Saíra com Edie, havia… E estava casado!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Não quero ter filhos. Tampouco uma esposa – respondeu ele sacudindo a licença de casamento. – Muito menos uma que não escolhi!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Lembrou-se do que ele lhe dissera em Juárez, sobre ela ser roliça e simplória.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você foi sincero. Sempre soube que nunca desejaria uma gorda desmazelada como eu…&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Feia, acima do peso e caipira até a medula dos ossos. Papai sempre disse que você era sofisticado o suficiente para se casar com uma socialite, e tinha razão. Edie faz seu estilo.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Não me importo com o seu dinheiro – rebateu Pepi, os olhos castanhos acusatórios. – Gosto de ter comida no prato e um teto sobre a cabeça, mas não poderia me importar menos com quanto dinheiro possuo, e você sabe disso! C.C. deixou escapar um suspiro rouco. – Trata-se de Hale?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Se já estou casado, não terei de me defender contra as noivas em potencial, certo?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Casar-me com você, com certeza, não foi ideia minha!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Não sou doce nem pequena. – Pepi pousou o garfo. – Sou simplória e gorda, como você mesmo disse.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Claro que ela não era o tipo de mulher que inspirava paixão nos homens, como era o caso de Edie.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Pepi sabia que C.C. não a amava. Ele deixara isso muito claro.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Beije-me, sra. Tremayne – sussurrou C.C. induzindo-lhe a boca a se abrir.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– É mesmo importante o modo como o uso? – indagou Pepi com frieza. – Afinal, não me tornam menos gorda.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Parece menos vulnerável, sim – afirmou C.C. sarcástico. – Não precisa debochar de mim. Não posso evitar a reação que você me causa.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Edie foi apenas uma diversão prazerosa e muito inocente. – C.C. escorregou a lateral do rosto pelo dela, de modo que a respiração soprasse quente na orelha de Pepi. – Nunca dormi com ela.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Pepi sorriu, até que um movimento lhe atraiu o olhar até Edie, que se encontrava a uma mesa próxima, sozinha, e com os olhos cravados em Connal.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Pepi se sentiu culpada e envergonhada com o fato de ele ter de ficar preso a ela, quando estaria muito melhor em companhia de Edie. Ela não passava de uma garota do campo. Não tinha nenhuma sofisticação.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ele e a loira tiveram um relacionamento, mesmo que não houvessem sido amantes.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Edie foi seu único relacionamento firme por um bom tempo – comentou Pepi abatida. – É compreensível que tenha alimentado esperanças.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;As mulheres sempre alimentam esperanças – retrucou ele com frieza amarga. – Claro que nem todas têm a sorte de fisgar um homem bêbado e arrastá-lo até uma capela matrimonial mexicana.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Nunca a deixaria esquecer. E que tipo de vida levariam?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Não chamaria isso exatamente de sorte. – Ela não lhe sustentou o olhar. – Obrigado – agradeceu C.C. ácido. – Posso dizer o mesmo.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;É mesmo uma simplória e tanto, certo, Pepi? Não sabe como beijar, não sabe fazer amor, jamais sonharia em tocar um homem abaixo da cintura…&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Até que a morte nos separe – acrescentou com escárnio.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;É mesmo tão cínico quanto faz questão de parecer? – Sou. – C.C. estreitou o olhar.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você sempre cuidou de mim – afirmou C.C. com voz calma. – Nunca a vi como mulher.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;C.C. deixou escapar um profundo suspiro. Havia fechado todas as portas, e agora não fazia ideia de como voltar a abri-las. Tudo o que sabia era que, se perdesse Pepi, sua vida não teria sentindo.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;MAS O afeto que Connal demonstrara mais cedo pareceu se desintegrar à medida que o dia avançava.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/273216442&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/8087283371855183878/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-connal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/8087283371855183878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/8087283371855183878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-connal.html' title='Review: Connal'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-2714959742121013428</id><published>2019-08-03T17:10:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:10:23.570-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: His Majesty&#39;s Child</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9432961&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;His Majesty&#39;s Child&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348673973l/9432961._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9432961&quot;&gt;His Majesty&#39;s Child&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/181368&quot;&gt;Sharon Kendrick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2892520346&quot;&gt;1 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 ⭐- Ugh! Didn&#39;t like it or triggers or pet peeve!&lt;br /&gt;=====================================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O despertar do desejo&lt;br /&gt;Sharon Kendrick&lt;br /&gt;His Majesty&#39;s Child&lt;br /&gt;Coleção Jessica, N° 130&lt;br /&gt;Editora Harlequin , 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Esta era uma trabalhadora temporária da Inglaterra... não uma mulher que merecia o seu desejo.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;E quando o fizesse, quando se entregasse de novo ao sexo, seria com uma mulher muito mais adequada do que esta inglesa alta, que tinha uma atitude tão estranhamente intensa.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Acha que não posso ter qualquer mulher que quiser na minha cama? Se posso escolher entre as mais belas, por que escolheria alguém como você?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você é a última mulher que escolheria para ser mãe do meu filho.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Não ouviu antes? – Deu uma risada desdenhosa. – Escolho minhas amantes num patamar social bem acima do que você ocupa, cara.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Gosto de louras curvilíneas e você não é assim. Além disso, espero que se vistam com elegância. De fato, a espécie de mulher com quem tenho intimidade usa apenas seda, cetim e lingerie de renda, não alguma coisa assim.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você é muito livre com seus favores.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;jamais a quisera a não ser para um caso breve.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Estava tão seguro de que concordaria em fazer amor com você, Casimiro? – Estava enganado? – Zombou ele.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Tinha fome dele... e esta fraqueza sexual permitia que ele tomasse todas as decisões.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;E a ideia de que pudesse ser o pai desse menino lhe pareceu ainda mais impossível.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Quer um café? – Não vim aqui para bobagens sociais.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Confusão inicial? – repetiu ele, furiosamente. – Está louca? Tem alguma ideia do que isso vai significar?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Acha que quero o seu dinheiro?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– O... o que pensou que aconteceria? Que apenas o deixaria entrar e fazer sexo comigo? – Não foi isto exatamente o que aconteceu da última vez?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Agora temos que decidir o que fazer – disse ele, o tom amargo.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Mas realmente não houve um “nós”, houve, Melissa? Nós nos conhecemos depois de uma festa e tudo aconteceu com muita rapidez depois disso.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Não considero um grande romance as poucas horas de sexo que fizemos, e você?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Não, não posso obrigá-la... mas posso tomar seu filho de você.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Assim, poderei encontrar uma noiva muito mais adequada, alguém que cuidará de Ben e o amará enquanto ele estiver conosco.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Enrubescida, Melissa se lembrou das palavras cruéis e desdenhosas de Casimiro quando a vira na camiseta velha que gostava de usar para dormir e se perguntou se ele aprovaria aquelas peças.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– Ele precisará cortar o cabelo antes do casamento.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;De todas as coisas a dizer no começo de sua nova vida com o filho! Era uma crítica a Ben e a ela.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Mas o coração dela gelou quando ele lhe colocou o anel no dedo trêmulo. Estava prestes a se casar com um homem que a via apenas como uma propriedade... e ocorreu a Melissa que jamais se sentira tão falsa em toda a sua vida.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Um artista profissional de maquiagem recebera o material bruto desta mulher sem refinamento, originária de uma pequena cidade do interior da Inglaterra... e uma beleza quase irreconhecível emergira.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Os fotógrafos haviam pedido que eles se beijassem e que Casimiro segurasse o filho... mas ele se recusara a atender aos dois pedidos. Como diabos poderia agir como um pai se não se sentia um?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você não é um exemplo de tradicionalismo, é, Melissa?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A voz era gentil, mas ele falara como alguém fala a uma pessoa pouco inteligente. Descartava-a com uma gentileza sob total controle; e Melissa jamais sentira tanta condescendência em sua vida.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2892520346&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/2714959742121013428/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-his-majestys-child.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/2714959742121013428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/2714959742121013428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-his-majestys-child.html' title='Review: His Majesty&#39;s Child'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-374317597892004711</id><published>2019-08-03T17:10:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:10:13.121-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Bittersweet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41566223&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Bittersweet&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1535590678l/41566223._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41566223&quot;&gt;Bittersweet&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8224639&quot;&gt;Krista Noorman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2892528117&quot;&gt;0 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DNF&lt;br /&gt;====&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“I don’t drink coffee,” she declared. His eyebrows raised. “Since when?” She looked straight into his eyes. “My appetite for coffee disappeared when you did.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Served him right, really. He couldn’t blame her for that reaction after not showing his face for four years.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Why was he back in town? After four years? Why hadn’t he stayed wherever he’d gone and never come back?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“We had plans and dreams …” She fought back tears as she finally said the words she had held inside for years. “You took all that away.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Harper, this is Kayla. My daughter.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The thought of Logan having a baby with someone else made her stomach twist.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Yes,” he answered firmly. “It was the summer before I met you. My ex-girlfriend.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2892528117&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/374317597892004711/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-bittersweet.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/374317597892004711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/374317597892004711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-bittersweet.html' title='Review: Bittersweet'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-7762486193568638245</id><published>2019-08-03T17:10:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:10:02.036-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Só Mesmo O Amor &amp; Desafio De Uma Vida</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35998187&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Só Mesmo O Amor &amp;amp; Desafio De Uma Vida&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1502403268l/35998187._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35998187&quot;&gt;Só Mesmo O Amor &amp;amp; Desafio De Uma Vida&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/57184&quot;&gt;Arlene James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2892533605&quot;&gt;3 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK decent reads.&lt;br /&gt;=======================&lt;br /&gt;Desafio de Uma Vida - Diana Palmer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Era linda. A criatura mais bela que já vira na vida. Possuía cabelo escuro, longo e ondulado, que lhe chegava ao meio das costas. Sua silhueta era requintada, perfeitamente constituída. Tinha seios pequenos e empinados e uma cintura bem marcada pelo vestido de festa prateado.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Tim trabalhava durante o dia e, quando chegava em casa, assistia televisão e depois queria sexo. Miranda não gostava de sexo. Para ela, não passava de uma obrigação desagradável que tentava exercer com a mesma resignação com que desempenhava todas as outras tarefas.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;O que você tem a ver com a minha vida? – exigiu ele. – Você salvou a minha. Agora é responsável por mim pelo resto da sua.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Era melhor não começar nada. Ainda possuía as cicatrizes da vez em que se envolvera inteiramente.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você é linda e tem um coração enorme. O tamanho de seus seios não vai importar para mim.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2892533605&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/7762486193568638245/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-so-mesmo-o-amor-desafio-de-uma.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/7762486193568638245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/7762486193568638245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-so-mesmo-o-amor-desafio-de-uma.html' title='Review: Só Mesmo O Amor &amp; Desafio De Uma Vida'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-2012210768394797480</id><published>2019-08-03T17:09:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:09:54.447-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Caminhos da Sedução - Coleção Harlequin Primeiros Sucessos. Número 53</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43434402&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Caminhos da Sedução - Coleção Harlequin Primeiros Sucessos. Número 53&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1546371609l/43434402._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43434402&quot;&gt;Caminhos da Sedução - Coleção Harlequin Primeiros Sucessos. Número 53&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12692&quot;&gt;Diana Palmer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2892546715&quot;&gt;3 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK decent reads.&lt;br /&gt;======================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você ainda o ama? A mãe ergueu uma das sobrancelhas escuras perfeitas. – O amor é um mito. – Oh, mamãe. – Anna suspirou. Polly se limitou a soltar uma risada. – Sonhe à vontade, criança. Prefiro ficar com meus comprovantes de depósito bancário e uma abundância de ações e títulos no cofre.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;E Nina está com ele. Aquela mulher é uma especialista em encontrar o impossível.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Trouxera Nina, que todo mundo sabia ser sua antiga paixão. A mulher era agora uma modelo de sucesso em Houston e estava visitando a cidade.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Sim. – Nina suspirou, complacente. – Minha carreira decolou depois que Evan me ajudou a encontrar aquela nova agência.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Evan estava lhe transmitindo uma mensagem muito clara: fique longe de mim.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A graciosa Nina se encontrava envolta em seus braços grandes, que a seguravam com casual intimidade. Por sua vez, os braços magros de Nina estavam enroscados no pescoço de Evan.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Desviando o olhar, ele inclinou a cabeça e beijou Nina na frente de todos os presentes.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Nina estava ofegante quando ele a soltou. E Anna havia desaparecido.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Eu o ajudarei a se livrar dessa menina, sem problemas.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Anna é problema de Randall, não meu. Ajude-me a fazer com que ela desgrude de mim. Nina exibiu um sorriso afetuoso. – O prazer é todo meu.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Evan não dançou com mais ninguém além de Nina e lhe dispensava tanta atenção que a especulação sobre uma possível reconciliação entre os dois se espalhou feito fogo em palha.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Não sabia que você pintava. – Com a atenção que me dispensa, não é nada surpreendente – retrucou ela, imperturbável, aplicando mais tinta amarela à tela.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ele só me convidou para sair para mantê-la afastada. Disse-me que faria qualquer coisa para se livrar de você.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Não precisa me explicar nada, sei como se sente. Você me quer, mas eu não sirvo.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Nina faz mais seu estilo – afirmou ela, amarga, empurrando-lhe o peito. – É experiente e sofisticada. Aposto que sabe tanto quanto você!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Nina não está correspondendo ao seu ardor, ou isso é algum tipo de vingança? – perguntou ela.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Concordo. Boa sorte em seu novo emprego. Transmitirei suas saudações a Nina.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Não fora capaz sequer de tocar a mulher que se colara a ele naquela cidade. Era o que prendia fazer quando a levara para seu quarto de hotel, lhe oferecera alguns drinques e flertara com ela. Mas, quando a tomou nos braços e começou a beijá-la, nada aconteceu.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Pela primeira vez, seu corpo o traíra. Dispensara a mulher e xingara Anna até ficar rouco.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;– E o que você faz comigo é justo? – perguntou ele em um tom de voz frio. – Não tenho feito nada a não ser evitá-lo – retrucou Anna, tristonha. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Por que não se casa com ele? Isso a faria desgrudar de mim.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;O jogo virou – disse ele, suave, com os olhos faiscando. – Como se sente? – Detesto isso! – vociferou ela. – Eu também detestava, querida – retrucou Evan com a voz fria.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Até mesmo um homem que aprecia mulheres ficaria enojado com esse tipo de perseguição.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;As semanas que se seguiram se arrastaram, com Evan a assombrando a cada esquina. Ele levou Nina à galeria para comprar quadros, mostrando-se tão atencioso com a namorada que Anna teve vontade de gritar.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Evan circulava por toda a cidade com Nina e parecia mudar seu caminho apenas para se certificar de que ela os visse.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2892546715&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/2012210768394797480/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-caminhos-da-seducao-colecao.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/2012210768394797480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/2012210768394797480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-caminhos-da-seducao-colecao.html' title='Review: Caminhos da Sedução - Coleção Harlequin Primeiros Sucessos. Número 53'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-685468971220463158</id><published>2019-08-03T17:09:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:09:39.684-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Home to Stay</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31573082&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Home to Stay&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1471839682l/31573082._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31573082&quot;&gt;Home to Stay&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8141920&quot;&gt;Callie James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2781972156&quot;&gt;3 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK decent reads.&lt;br /&gt;======================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Apparently, a divorce from Matthew Brewer and a full year away from him hadn’t changed that fact. “Brody isn’t here, Matt. What do you want?”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;His career had ultimately cost him his marriage.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;She was a single mom and had been at least half of their son’s life. He could hardly pretend to be a fulltime father simply because he’d been available by phone.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“And it isn’t to me? Do you think this is the easier route for me to take? That I like working twelve-hour days while playing the role of mother, teacher, and father to my son?”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;To complicate the issue, there remained the matter of his job. The one he hadn’t fully left yet.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Any time you begin a sentence with you know I love so-and-so, things usually don’t end well. Probably best you don’t finish that statement, Mom. Assuming you don’t want to run Matt off to another war just so he can escape the criticism around here.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;He’d noticed several years ago the differences in Brody from other children, but he hadn’t been able to let go of the idea that if they had tried hard enough, if Jessie had tried hard enough, they could teach Brody to do everything like other kids.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;He only wished his eyes had been this open ten years ago. He would have done things differently. He could have—would have—saved his marriage.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2781972156&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/685468971220463158/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-home-to-stay.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/685468971220463158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/685468971220463158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-home-to-stay.html' title='Review: Home to Stay'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-8690071399446531927</id><published>2019-08-03T17:09:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:09:29.149-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: The Sidelined Wife</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37940756&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;The Sidelined Wife&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1516023856l/37940756._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37940756&quot;&gt;The Sidelined Wife&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8573223&quot;&gt;Jennifer Peel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2811985669&quot;&gt;4 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Liked it!&lt;br /&gt;==================&lt;br /&gt;I liked the reading.&lt;br /&gt;Our heroine is an ordinary woman who sees her world collapse when she discovers her husband&#39;s cheating with a much younger woman.&lt;br /&gt;Her family is very traditional and has very funny scenes with her grandmother and mother.&lt;br /&gt;We can feel the torment and confusion our heroine is going through. She finds herself discarded by a younger model and begins to doubt herself as a woman and as a person.&lt;br /&gt;I liked the hero, he was in a hurry she moves on and overcome the end of her marriage, but she took her time.&lt;br /&gt;The ex-husband lost after all. He was a selfish idiot.&lt;br /&gt;She has gained a happier new life, an ideal partner and a happier son.&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s never too late to be happy and start over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;He shuffled the box in his hands, using both now to hold it. “I didn’t mean for us to turn out this way.” “I think you mean you never meant to get caught.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“You should have asked yourself that when you decided to forget you were a married man.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Even knowing that my husband—I mean ex-husband, I needed to remember that—was having a baby with another woman.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Neil left me for a twenty-five-year-old waitress and, not only that, he believed her when she said she was on the pill. The man who only wanted one child, whose mind I could never change on the subject, would be a new father in several weeks.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Neil hadn’t been to Sunday dinner in months, but this week it was official. I was single, and my siblings were happily married.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;So not only was I now divorced, I also felt like the plain-Jane of the family. Divorce had a way of sucking the self-esteem right out of you.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Neil’s one-night stand turned into a full-blown relationship. He blamed it all on Roxie; she wouldn’t let him be. She threatened and bribed him. He couldn’t say no. Those were all excuses. I had believed his lies of it being a one-night stand. I even tried to work it&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Then, to nail that point home, Neil altogether quit touching me. Later he said it was because he felt guilty about the affair and he was afraid he might transmit an STD to me.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;When he told me about Roxie, the thought of him touching me made me physically ill.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2811985669&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/8690071399446531927/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-sidelined-wife.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/8690071399446531927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/8690071399446531927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-sidelined-wife.html' title='Review: The Sidelined Wife'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-3510404975726344745</id><published>2019-08-03T17:09:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:09:20.408-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Rejeitada pelo CEO</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45992687&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Rejeitada pelo CEO&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1558543763l/45992687._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45992687&quot;&gt;Rejeitada pelo CEO&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15553219&quot;&gt;Aline Pádua&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2849865401&quot;&gt;2 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 ⭐⭐ - Meh!&lt;br /&gt;============&lt;br /&gt;Relação aberta onde ambos transam com outras pessoas. Não tem cenas descritiva com outras pessoas, mas é mencionado. Ela até menciona ter que mandar lavar os lençóis pq na noite anterior ele transou com outras na cama. E no aniversário dele tem programado uma festinha tipo orgia com outras mulheres... ela é assistente e planejou tudo. Achei meio nojento! Até ela se apaixonar... Nem achei tantas qualidades assim, para ela ou ele se apaixonar. Dois destrambelhados. Fiquei desapontada! Gosto muito da autora.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Cael estava sentado no meio da enorme cama de seu quarto, completamente nu, dentre os lençóis de cor cinza. Que por sinal, chegaram da lavanderia no dia de hoje. Já que ele havia os usado em algum dia da semana passada com outra ou até mesmo, outras. As vezes apenas me indagava do porquê me sujeitava a tal situação.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ele saía com outras e isso não me incomodava. Fazia o mesmo, e por um longo tempo, fora completamente normal.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Além de que estar próxima a Cael, apenas como sua assistente, quando assistia mulheres saírem do apartamento, doía. Percebi mais claramente, quando precisei trazer uma papelada urgente, e o encontrei rindo junto a outra, na mesa de jantar. Na mesa em que me fodemos na noite anterior.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Por um longo tempo, iludi-me que aquele sorriso me pertencia. Porém, era apenas o jeito Cael de conseguir o que queria ou fingir certa intimidade.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2849865401&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/3510404975726344745/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-rejeitada-pelo-ceo.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/3510404975726344745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/3510404975726344745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-rejeitada-pelo-ceo.html' title='Review: Rejeitada pelo CEO'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-6076484486929913820</id><published>2019-08-03T17:09:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:09:09.962-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: For Keeps</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42749755&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;For Keeps&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1541915430l/42749755._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42749755&quot;&gt;For Keeps&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14129266&quot;&gt;Tiffany Patterson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2874243759&quot;&gt;2 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 ⭐⭐ - Meh!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I started reading on May 16, 2019 and I just finished it yesterday! &lt;br /&gt;It was painful, but I finished. &lt;br /&gt;I had even forgotten it was on my Kindle. &lt;br /&gt;I only noticed that when I went to check the books I had on the KU.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Come for daddy,” I crooned into her neck.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“You like watching daddy fuck you?”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2874243759&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/6076484486929913820/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-for-keeps.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/6076484486929913820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/6076484486929913820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-for-keeps.html' title='Review: For Keeps'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-3296494260792207519</id><published>2019-08-03T17:08:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:08:53.473-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Marchese&#39;s Forgotten Bride</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7576490&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Marchese&#39;s Forgotten Bride&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348953793l/7576490._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7576490&quot;&gt;Marchese&#39;s Forgotten Bride&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/81218&quot;&gt;Michelle Reid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2121048519&quot;&gt;2 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 ⭐⭐ - Meh!&lt;br /&gt;================&lt;br /&gt;Aliança de amor&lt;br /&gt;Michelle Reid&lt;br /&gt;Marchese&#39;s Forgotten Bride&lt;br /&gt;Coleção Paixão, N° 174&lt;br /&gt;Editora Harlequin , 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Como Sandro ousara zombar do amor que eles acabaram de compartilhar? Como permitiu que ele a humilhasse dessa maneira?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2121048519&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/3296494260792207519/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-marcheses-forgotten-bride.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/3296494260792207519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/3296494260792207519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-marcheses-forgotten-bride.html' title='Review: Marchese&#39;s Forgotten Bride'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-2069099136860154292</id><published>2019-08-03T17:08:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:08:44.284-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Príncipe da Vingança</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36477206&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Príncipe da Vingança&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1508972721l/36477206._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36477206&quot;&gt;Príncipe da Vingança&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13548322&quot;&gt;Lani Queiroz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2858575075&quot;&gt;2 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 ⭐⭐ - Meh!&lt;br /&gt;===========&lt;br /&gt;Essa Zeroina não tem orgulho algum... credo! Que nojo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Sim, não podia negar que ser o primeiro homem a experimentar as delícias daquele corpo me dava certa satisfação, mas não podia deixar de sentir ódio por aquela putinha ter iludido meu pobre irmão e ter lhe negado o prazer de seu corpo.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Não importava se o corpo era virgem, eu não podia esquecer quem era aquela vadiazinha e por que a procurei. Ela pagaria por tudo que fez a Damien&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Eu a desgastei. Seria assim até que eu me cansasse dela, porque isso fatalmente aconteceria, foderia muitas vezes antes de destruí-la.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você gosta disso, não é? Você ama ser minha putinha.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Então, como se sente agora, sabendo que foi apenas uma puta que eu usei só para o meu prazer?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Apesar do corpo virgem, você já era uma prostituta na alma.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Então, tudo foi uma espécie de vingança&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Havia zilhões de fotos dele ao lado de mulheres lindas, atrizes, cantoras, modelos. A mídia o retratava como um príncipe playboy&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;É óbvio que jamais me casaria com você em circunstâncias normais — debochei. — Farei esse sacrifício pelo meu filho.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Creio que agora entendeu quem está no comando aqui, caríssima. Menos de duas horas depois de nos reencontrarmos, olhe só para você...&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Fui invadida pela vergonha enquanto ele me olhava de cima a baixo com uma expressão de desprezo nos olhos negros.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Como ousa me perguntar isso? Você foi o único com quem... com quem... — Fez sexo quente, duro, suado, como uma cadela no cio? — ele completou jocoso.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A tripulação espera ver uma princesa do meu lado, não uma puta que se deixa ser fodida contra um armário, gritando a plenos pulmões — declarou entre dentes.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Pela sua aparência desgrenhada, imagino que já tenha aberto as pernas para ele em pleno voo. Uma puta.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você, para mim, é apenas um corpo gostoso que quero foder até tirar isso do meu sistema.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você pode voltar para seu quarto agora. — Consegui manter meu tom neutro assim que voltei para o quarto.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Durante a sua ausência, Francesca, a filha mais nova do conde, cercou-me. Trocou um olhar cúmplice com sua mãe e logo fomos deixados a sós. No ano passado, comi a vadiazinha algumas vezes.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Abri um sorriso charmoso para Francesca. Havíamos feito sexo pela última vez há mais de três meses, mas a garota ainda flertava abertamente comigo em qualquer lugar que nos encontrávamos.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;No último ano, transei com muitas mulheres.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Os homens tendem a dizer qualquer coisa quando estão dentro de um corpo quente e gostoso, Júlia.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Leon beijando Francesca Rugieri como se sua vida dependesse disso. Ele a tinha presa contra a parede. O vestido minúsculo dela levantado de forma indecente. Suas pernas o envolvendo. — Oh! Meu Deus! — Minha voz saiu num soluço, estrangulada. Meu peito doía absurdamente.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você venceu, Leon — disse baixinho e as lágrimas desceram pela sua face. — Você não quer meu amor. Eu realmente o odeio agora. Cansei disso. Pensei que você já tinha me humilhado o bastante, mas vejo que não. — Inalou o ar bruscamente, seu corpo todo trêmulo. — Eu. Odeio. Você.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ah, só mais uma coisa. Em meu país, o Brasil, as pessoas recebem melhor seus convidados. As mulheres não são umas putas despeitadas e desprezíveis.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A esposa e a filha do Marquês. Você fodeu com elas? — Ele empalideceu. Oh! Deus! Era verdade. Meu coração afundou. — Você me traiu com elas?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Estive com muitas mulheres quando estávamos longe.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Você estava beijando aquela vadia! Estava entre as pernas dela.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2858575075&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/2069099136860154292/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-principe-da-vinganca.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/2069099136860154292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/2069099136860154292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-principe-da-vinganca.html' title='Review: Príncipe da Vingança'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-7647911184165735942</id><published>2019-08-03T17:08:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:08:30.885-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Pieces of a Broken Heart</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45464491&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Pieces of a Broken Heart&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1557875010l/45464491._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45464491&quot;&gt;Pieces of a Broken Heart&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16471198&quot;&gt;Samantha Conley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2866726025&quot;&gt;3 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK decent reads&lt;br /&gt;======================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;jsShowSpoiler spoilerAction&quot; href=&quot;https://www.blogger.com/null&quot;&gt;(view spoiler)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;spoilerContainer&quot; style=&quot;display: none;&quot;&gt;[Her fucking buddy is her brother-in-law. Brother of her late husband. I thought it was strange and I did not like it. Yuck! &lt;a class=&quot;jsHideSpoiler spoilerAction&quot; href=&quot;https://www.blogger.com/null&quot;&gt;(hide spoiler)&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Danielle, it’s only two years. The day of graduation I will be here to pick you up and take you back to Nashville with me.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“How could I forget you? You’re my forever girl. I’ll always find my way home to you.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Yeah, he’d never have fucked you in the bathroom if he’d known you&amp;nbsp;were married,” slurs Mark Orr, my bass player, and friend, as he staggers into a nearby table,&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Look, it concerns the label with all the negative press you’ve been getting here lately. Normally it’s any press is good press but since it came out that the woman involved was married it’s tarnishing your shine, so to speak,” he explains.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Country music fans like their stars to be wholesome, good old boys. Not a home wrecker.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Home?” I sputter. I’ve avoided the place for the last fourteen years.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Danielle. Lord, I haven’t thought about her in years.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I made a decision that changed the course of my life. One that didn’t include blue-green eyes and a sultry smile.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“People actually&amp;nbsp;want to stay here?” I ask, disbelief dripping from my words. “Not everyone wants to run off the second they can, Zach,” she replies, her voice ripe with disapproval. “Some people&amp;nbsp;want to remain close to their families.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“I’ve been busy.” “Too damn busy to even visit your parents? Come home for Christmas? Is that too damn much to ask?”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The girl I loved and promised to come back for, taking her hopes and dreams with me. And left in the cold without a word later on.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Zach, you haven’t given a shit about anything that goes on with the town for over a decade.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Exactly. You’re so self-absorbed that you don’t care about anything else.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Why would you and Mom babysit?” “Do you think just because you abandoned Danielle that we did? That girl meant a lot to us, still does.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“I didn’t forget, I couldn’t. But when I left, things changed, I changed.” “But did it make you a better man?”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“He left and never came back.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Why suddenly do you care where she is? It’s not like you gave a damn before.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“When you’re not acting like a complete and utter jackass, I will be. But how you treated Dani? I’m gonna be on her side.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;But, man, the way you left her and then didn’t say a word was cold-hearted as hell.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Maybe I took the easy way out.” “There is no fucking&amp;nbsp;maybe. You at least owed her a damn phone call or something.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Dude, I may not have seen you but a handful of times when I’ve come up to Nashville, but I’ve seen your interviews and what they write in the magazines. You come off as an arrogant, know it all whose shit doesn’t stink. If this is how you get treated regularly, I can see how it all went to your head.” “Tell me how you really feel,” I mutter.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“That asshole has some&amp;nbsp;nerve showing his face here.” “It’s his home too, Jessa.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“You can take your damn apology and shove it up your ass.” Her chair scrapes loudly across the floor when she stands. “Goodbye, Zach.” &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“But she’s meant for bigger things,” I argue. “Her talent is wasted here.” “According to who? You? Who made you the one to make that decision?” Dad bites out. “You lost that right when you left her and never came back.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Did she wait until I came back to town to start dating? Is she rubbing in my face what I lost when I left town? Did she have to pick such a damn good-looking guy?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“But you’ll boink your brother-in-law.” “That’s complicated, and it’s also over. We agreed that we need to quit using each other like that.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2866726025&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/7647911184165735942/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-pieces-of-broken-heart.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/7647911184165735942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/7647911184165735942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-pieces-of-broken-heart.html' title='Review: Pieces of a Broken Heart'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-5843133156679294886</id><published>2019-08-03T17:08:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:08:16.232-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: The Sheikh&#39;s Secret Baby</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29882246&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;The Sheikh&#39;s Secret Baby&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1460387894l/29882246._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29882246&quot;&gt;The Sheikh&#39;s Secret Baby&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1160213&quot;&gt;Clare   Connelly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1664662788&quot;&gt;2 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 ⭐⭐ - Meh!&lt;br /&gt;=================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Why had she come? His marriage was only a week away. The last person on Earth he should be seeing was Abigail McClean. She belonged in his past.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;When he’d told her that he was a powerful ruler with a fiancé and a life earmarked for him in which Abigail McClean could have no part.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Did you come here because of my wedding?” “What?” She shook her head distractedly. “No. I didn’t even know that was this week until … until I arrived.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“You told me we could never see one another again,” she said, her voice soft. “And yet you are here,” he retorted, to stop himself from remembering how hollow it had felt to say those words. “Not by choice, believe me.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“You’re getting married.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“And when I am married, I will be faithful to my wife. But I am no one’s husband yet.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;It was, possibly, the most hurtful and hateful thing he could have said. Abi felt the pain of the past all over again.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“You lied from the beginning. I fell in love with you and you always knew … you always knew we’d never be more than we were.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Do I get you, Abi? Would two hundred thousand dollars buy me your company?”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;She was crying. Sobbing now quite freely. Her eyes were squeezed shut but tears were rolling out of them swiftly.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Stay tonight. Stay with me.” “Here?” She demanded, dashing her tears away. “In the room for palace whores?”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ki’s heart turned over in his chest. The money had been for this. Their son. A momentary shard of guilt punctured his heart. He had blackmailed the woman he had once loved into his bed so that she could pay for lifesaving surgery.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Marriage to you will be far less acceptable to my people. You will be despised for having taken the place of a woman many have long-regarded as the rightful partner to my throne. The fact you kept the child from Delani will make you hated. Your life in these ways will be difficult. Then again, it is no worse than you deserve.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1664662788&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/5843133156679294886/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-sheikhs-secret-baby.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/5843133156679294886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/5843133156679294886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-sheikhs-secret-baby.html' title='Review: The Sheikh&#39;s Secret Baby'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-2099755084518113469</id><published>2019-08-03T17:08:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:08:04.155-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: The Pickup</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37844655&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;The Pickup&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1547126082l/37844655._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37844655&quot;&gt;The Pickup&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15969086&quot;&gt;Nikki Ash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2888188424&quot;&gt;3 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK decent reads&lt;br /&gt;======================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2706387135?book_show_action=true&amp;amp;from_review_page=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Great Review Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“No, I mean what do you want in order for me to sign over my rights? How much? You’re right, I don’t want to be a dad.” My heart breaks when he says this.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“It’s all over social media! Do you not understand how bad this looks? And I’m your fiancée! A phone call to let me know would’ve been nice.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“I don’t want or need your money, and if you don’t want to be this baby’s father then I don’t want you to be. If you want a paternity test, fine. I know he’s yours. Now both of you…get out.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;After I was told I needed to settle down, figuring I had nothing to lose, I called up Celeste and agreed to go through with our pact. At least with her, I knew what I was getting myself into. A business arrangement. We dated for a couple months and then announced our engagement. Celeste let the lease on her apartment go and moved in with me once I purchased a place in Lower Manhattan near the stadium—and directly above Killian.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Celeste wanted to make sure we were both on the same page. She told me she didn’t want to have kids and I agreed.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“She probably wants to trap you.” “Did you not see her in the hospital? She can barely stand to be in the same room as me.” “Then she’s doing it for the money,” Celeste states. “I don’t think so,” I say honestly. “She said she doesn’t want my money.” “There you go being all naïve once again.” “I’m not being naïve,” I argue.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Yeah, okay, Nick. We both know you think with your heart. It won’t be long until you’ve ditched me to play house with your baby mamma.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“All I want to do is find out if that little boy is my son.” “And what if he is, Nick? What then? What will that mean for us?” “I’m not breaking off our engagement,” I tell her.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Celeste was right in that regard. The tabloids and gossip rags are all talking, and none of it is projecting me in a positive light.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Celeste may think I’m going to end up with Olivia, but she’s wrong. Olivia chose to walk away that morning after. She’s one of the reasons I agreed to the pact with Celeste in the first place. No emotions.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;If he’s filed because he wants to be a dad, I’m going to have to share my son…our son with him—as well as with his soon-to-be wife. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“My dreams are finally coming true.” She looks at me with a watery smile, and before I even know what’s happening, her mouth crashes into mine. I back up quickly, confused. “What are you doing?” “Kissing my fiancé,” she says, hurt evident in her tone. “Since when?” I ask.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Do you not understand how bad this all looks, Nick? You’re going to be raising another woman’s baby.” “No…I’m going to be raising my baby.” “That you had while engaged to me!” “No,” I repeat. “He was created before us. He was born while engaged to you.” “Everything is about to be destroyed.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“You’re my fiancée.” “Exactly! So can we maybe…try for real?” She gets up from the bed and approaches&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Letting go of my cock, I feel a sense of relief for about a minute, until it hits me that I just got off to the visual of Olivia, the mother of my son, the woman who isn’t my fiancée. And with that thought comes the sobering realization that this engagement isn’t going to last.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;What I’d like to know is what your baby daddy is doing here and not at home with his fiancée.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;All my life I watched my mom and dad live in a fairytale. I imagined one day I would have that. Instead, I’m a single mom with a baby by a man who’s engaged to another woman.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“He’s a freaking pro football player who’s engaged to a gorgeous, successful supermodel. I bet they jet off on his days off to the Caribbean or some shit. Nick probably lives an extravagant, over-the-top life while I prefer mine to be more…low key. Sure, right now he says he wants to be a better parent to Reed than his were to him, but that’s only because Reed is like a shiny new toy. Once Nick gets bored of playing dad, I’ll be the one who is left to pick up the pieces of our son’s heart when I have to explain to him why his father doesn’t want him.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2888188424&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/2099755084518113469/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-pickup.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/2099755084518113469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/2099755084518113469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-pickup.html' title='Review: The Pickup'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-6974050947633982713</id><published>2019-08-03T17:07:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:07:49.234-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: On the Surface</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42301901&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;On the Surface&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1558782651l/42301901._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42301901&quot;&gt;On the Surface&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15969086&quot;&gt;Nikki Ash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2889529335&quot;&gt;4 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Liked it!&lt;br /&gt;==================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I don’t even realize I’m full-on crying until Nick swipes a falling tear with his thumb. “Celeste, I know this is what you want, but trust me when I say, being famous isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Everybody is so damn fake.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;According to my mom, he was a member of some biker gang and went by the name of Snake—really classy, huh? He met my mom while passing through town.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“I’m not kissing and telling,” I say, “but I have two words for you: pierced dick.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2889529335&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/6974050947633982713/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-on-surface.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/6974050947633982713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/6974050947633982713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-on-surface.html' title='Review: On the Surface'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-304906139939750401</id><published>2019-08-03T17:07:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:07:14.681-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Stoned</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31067193&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Stoned&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1468343746l/31067193._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31067193&quot;&gt;Stoned&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9500789&quot;&gt;Mandi Beck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2032962680&quot;&gt;4 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Liked it!&lt;br /&gt;==================&lt;br /&gt;Wow!&lt;br /&gt;The author&#39;s writing is very good and hooks the reader from start to finish.&lt;br /&gt;I would never forgive our Zero! &lt;br /&gt;What happened to Zeroine was unforgivable. &lt;br /&gt;I am a bitch who holds a grudge and would never take him back.&lt;br /&gt;But it was a good story and I enjoyed it a lot.&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m anxious to know what happens to the other members of the band!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&lt;br /&gt;P&lt;br /&gt;O&lt;br /&gt;I&lt;br /&gt;L&lt;br /&gt;E&lt;br /&gt;R&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“You got what you wanted, Stone. You’re single and free to do whatever and whoever you want without having to worry about sneaking around. Don’t keep her waiting—she looks like a sure thing.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Stone is going home . . . to Willow,” Judge informs them.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Why the fuck wouldn’t she be? She’s pissed at me, but it’s Wills. She’ll be there.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“What? Why the fuck are you all staring at me?” I bellow. “Always fucking watching me. I’m sick of it.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Bro, she left more than eight months ago, dropped her keys off at the studio with Addy, and none of us have talked to her since. We even hired a PI who can’t find Willow,” he says carefully. “Have you heard from her at all? Has there been new news from the guy Addy hired?”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“She didn’t just ‘quit’ you, Stone. You pushed too fucking far and forced her out,” he spits out.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I just want to get inside, get my hands on Willow, and get out from under the prying eyes of Dane so that I can find my stash and pop an Oxy, maybe two, and just chill with my girl.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Don’t treat me like I’m a kid. I’m a grown ass man. A fucking rock star! I fuck who I want, I drink what I want, and I do whatever fucking shit I want.” My voice rises louder and louder until I’m yelling, veins bulging in my neck, and still, Lawson looks unfazed.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Willow is smart and she’s put up with your shit for a long time now. Longer than you realize. You put her through hell, Stone. I won’t help you do that again.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;It’s not just the drugs either. It’s the cheating too. Don’t think she didn’t know about that shit. She blamed that on the drugs, and I know it had to be because a sober Stone would never dick around on his girl.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;He looks good. Healthy. Not like the last time I saw him. It pains me a little to think that my leaving was good for him, when being there and supporting him, dealing with his constant shit wasn’t.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;You name it and Stone had been addicted. Drugs, women, alcohol. If he could get high off it, he would.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Oh yeah? When was that? Back when I would already have my cock out and down your throat because I was too high to give a fuck about anything but my own pleasure? Certainly not about the fact that my girlfriend was waiting for me. Maybe even in the hall. Back when, even with your mouth full of my come, I still wouldn’t remember your name, or care? Is that the ‘used to be’ you mean . . . Melissa?” “It’s Megan,” she hisses, dumfounded and more than a little pissed.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Didn’t matter that half the time I was so God damn high I would have bet money that it was Willow I was fucking only to come down from that nirvana and realize it wasn’t. No, I didn’t wonder shit. I was well aware of all my shortcomings.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Maybe I should’ve taken her up on the offer of pussy. I haven’t had any since Wills left me. Haven’t wanted to look at another woman, let alone fuck one. The irony isn’t lost on me. I couldn’t keep my dick in my pants when I had a good woman in my bed, now that she’s gone, she’s all I want. It’s every fucking sad song ever written.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;She was right to leave me. Fuck, I threw her away. My muse, my heart. Threw her away without a care.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Lyric. My daughter’s name is Lyric,” she says, irritated. “And what would’ve been the point, Stone? You never used to answer any of my calls anyway. Just saved myself the headache and didn’t bother. I’ve learned not to depend on you. It was the hardest lesson of my life, but it finally stuck, so . . .”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Are you telling me that you are working two fucking jobs, with a baby at home, when you have access to millions of dollars?”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“You spent the last few months that we were together reminding me that it was you doing all the work. Your name they were screaming in sold-out arenas, and that I was just along for the ride. Another groupie,” she spits.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I can say nothing, just stare at her in disbelief. What had I done to her? What had I done to us?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Stone may have been the greatest love of my life, but he wouldn’t be the last.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I never wanted to be that guy again. Because of her. If it weren’t for Willow, I’d be that guy in a second. I loved being high.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Why are you back, Stone? Why now? I have a man who doesn&#39;t cheat on me or go and get high and leave me in a strange city because he’s so coked up he forgot that I was at the hotel waiting for him,” I say bitterly.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I don&#39;t want to be the girl that they whisper about in pity or laugh at when they think she can&#39;t hear. I want to be the woman that I&#39;ve become since I&#39;ve left him.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Listening to him, while trying to block him out, the memories taking me back to a bar down the street from the posh hotel that I had just been evicted from by the man whom I’ve loved all of my adult life. An innocent, kind smile and an offer of a drink and an ear. I tear at my hair as I recall waking up in a strange motel room, alone and . . . naked from the waist down with a head leaden and fogged. To jackknifing to a sitting position and scrambling to find my pants, finally finding them and shoving my legs into them as I run to escape.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Drugged and raped. I had been drugged and raped a block away from my hotel while my boyfriend laid inside, high, drunk, and most likely with another woman, maybe even a harem of women. Drugged and raped . . . drugged . . . and . . . raped . . .&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I remember nothing from that night. Not a single fucking thing. Only waking up on the floor, clothes still on from the night before, a strange woman in the bed and no Willow. I had no clue what time it was or what day.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The only thing stopping me from tossing it back and letting the smooth heat of it burn as it goes down is the thought of what Willow must have gone through. What she’s been going through.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“I threw her out, Law. I kicked her out of our room with nothing. What kind of man does that, huh? What kind of man kicks the woman he loves out with some random bitch standing next to him?”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“If I hadn’t been high, Willow wouldn’t have been roofied and fucking raped.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“I consider myself lucky in the sense that I can’t remember any of the horrible things he did to me. To my body. I woke up damaged but have no memory of what happened to make me that way. It’s tragic and life changing, even without becoming pregnant. But to think that he’s out there raping women . . . I feel sick.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;That’s something I can’t get past. All the lying and cheating. It haunts me. Niggles at me whenever I feel myself weakening toward him.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“And before that night we hadn’t slept together in more than four months,” I remind him. “What? It was that long?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“My heart doesn’t beat in rhythm when you’re not around. I need you, to be me. I’m your rhythm, and you’re for damn sure mine.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2032962680&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/304906139939750401/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-stoned.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/304906139939750401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/304906139939750401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-stoned.html' title='Review: Stoned'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-6605615280877011260</id><published>2019-08-03T17:06:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:06:40.003-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Sugar</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36196689&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Sugar&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1504787942l/36196689._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36196689&quot;&gt;Sugar&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9500789&quot;&gt;Mandi Beck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2891945973&quot;&gt;3 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK decent reads&lt;br /&gt;======================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;After the house band plays another set, blondie sidles over, slipping onto my lap with ease, pressing her body into me. I should probably tell her she doesn&#39;t have to work so hard at it. I&#39;m gonna fuck her regardless.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;This isn&#39;t the kind of girl you bring home to your mama, but she is the kind of girl you fuck the hell out of and then maybe watch as your friends do the same. It takes all kinds. I don&#39;t discriminate. I love ‘em all. And then I leave ‘em.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Beau, could you please stop sleeping with waitresses?”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Soon for what? We’re not together. But even if we were, I’d expect you to welcome her the way you did Jenny.” She takes a step back and shakes her head. “She was like a daughter to me. There will never be anybody able to fill her shoes.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“I want to fuck you right here in this river, with nothing but the stars in the sky and the moon shining down on us to witness you coming apart in my arms as I take you over and over again.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I just had sex with Beau McCrae, my client, outside, in a river, without a condom&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I’m standing rigid, staring straight ahead but not actually seeing anything. All of a sudden I’m hyper aware of Beau standing next to me with his hand in mine while people remember the life he had with their golden girl. To everyone who knows Beau, he belongs to Jenny. His mama, all these people standing here with tears in their eyes and sadness marring their faces that just moments ago were beaming with happiness and pride. Then there’s me. The fill-in. The imposter.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Pussy is pussy, Addy girl. If I didn&#39;t get it from you, I would&#39;ve just got it from someone else,” I say snidely. Each word a physical blow to both of us.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I told you earlier that Jenny brought out the worst in me. Made me be someone I didn’t always like. With you it’s just the opposite. I wanna be a better man when I’m around you. Not just for you but for me too.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Let me be the one. I promise to always do the watermelon crawl, take you to church, swim in the river by the light of the moon, and to always walk the line.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2891945973&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/6605615280877011260/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-sugar.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/6605615280877011260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/6605615280877011260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-sugar.html' title='Review: Sugar'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-2183543007644595516</id><published>2019-08-03T17:06:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:06:26.461-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: The Sheik&#39;s Missing Mistress</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46138104&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;The Sheik&#39;s Missing Mistress&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1559569259l/46138104._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46138104&quot;&gt;The Sheik&#39;s Missing Mistress&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17950080&quot;&gt;Erin Snihur&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2889586342&quot;&gt;2 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 ⭐⭐ - Meh!&lt;br /&gt;===========&lt;br /&gt;I wasted my time with this reading.&lt;br /&gt;The sheikh already engaged to be married when he meets our heroine. He has been promised since childhood. His fiancée is a princess and they need the alliance between the two reigns.&lt;br /&gt;He knows all this and even so begins a relationship with our heroine. She does not suspect anything and gives her virginity to him. She is too dumb to live! LOL!&lt;br /&gt;He continues with the pretense until she discovers and flees. &lt;br /&gt;He&#39;s still married for a year until he can solve the whole mess. &lt;br /&gt;She accepts him back and ends the mess.&lt;br /&gt;The princess is a lesbian and he was faithful during that year.&lt;br /&gt;All very TSTL and waste of time.&lt;br /&gt;Duh! Meh!       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2889586342&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/2183543007644595516/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-sheiks-missing-mistress.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/2183543007644595516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/2183543007644595516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-sheiks-missing-mistress.html' title='Review: The Sheik&#39;s Missing Mistress'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-511113732291216211</id><published>2019-08-03T17:06:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:06:09.101-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Southern Comfort</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27828644&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Southern Comfort&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1447512898l/27828644._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27828644&quot;&gt;Southern Comfort&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1270670&quot;&gt;Ciana Stone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1842094693&quot;&gt;4 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Liked it!&lt;br /&gt;====================&lt;br /&gt;I recommend reading in order, otherwise you will not understand the storyline that is developing throughout each book.       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1842094693&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/511113732291216211/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-southern-comfort.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/511113732291216211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/511113732291216211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-southern-comfort.html' title='Review: Southern Comfort'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-1277568600970179005</id><published>2019-08-03T17:05:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:05:54.561-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Unbreak My Heart</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27170149&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Unbreak My Heart&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1456693331l/27170149._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27170149&quot;&gt;Unbreak My Heart&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7067882&quot;&gt;Nicole Jacquelyn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1708528090&quot;&gt;2 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 ⭐⭐ - Meh!&lt;br /&gt;==============&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;cruel asshole abusive Selfish jerk douchecanoe&quot; hero + doormat heroine = WTF moment!&lt;br /&gt;------------&lt;br /&gt;portuguese and english&lt;br /&gt;------------&lt;br /&gt;O herói é absolutamente odioso, ele deixa os ogros da Diana Palmer se sentindo amadores! Gente, o que é isso? Cruel, abusivo psicologicamente, um verdadeiro monstro e ainda usa a heroína como empregada doméstica e babá... é um horror só. Eu passei o livro todo esperando ela tomar uma dose de realidade e partir pra outra. Amar uma pessoa não justifica deitar e deixar ela chutar você até você não ter mais forças para reagir. Abuso psicológico e emocional levado ao extremo. Terminei a leitura exausta e não entendendo como ela ainda ficou com o suposto herói. Nem sei como classificar este livro. Recomendo tomar seu remédio para pressão arterial antes de ler.&lt;br /&gt;--------------&lt;br /&gt;The hero is absolutely odious, he let the ogres of Diana Palmer feeling amateurs! Guys, what is this? Cruel, abusive psychologically, a real monster and still using heroine as a maid and nanny ... is an absolute horror. I spent the whole book waiting for her to take a dose of reality and move on. Love a person doesn&#39;t justify lie down and let him kick you until you no longer have the strength to react. Psychological and emotional abuse taken to the extreme. I finished reading exhausted and don&#39;t understand how she stayed with the supposed hero. I don&#39;t know how to rate this book. I recommend taking your blood pressure medicine before reading.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----------------&lt;br /&gt;PS: I was all the time waiting for him to get another girlfriend and kick the ass of heroine out when he no longer needed her domestic services.&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Highlight:&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I’d ignored the way Kate had watched me with sad eyes as I’d monopolized her friend’s time and completely disregarded her hurt feelings. I’d never liked Kate that way, and I hadn’t seen anything wrong with going after her new friend.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;My wife was the most beautiful woman I’d ever known, and it wasn’t just her looks. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I practically lived with Rachel while Shane was gone—she hated being alone—but the moment her husband stepped foot on American soil, I was persona non grata again.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“You knew I wouldn’t fuck you sober, so you waited until I was shit-housed and got what you wanted.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“I didn’t want you then, I don’t want you now,” I said, watching detachedly...&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“You were a lousy fuck, Kate. I won’t be back for seconds.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I didn’t want her. Even if she hadn’t been my wife’s best friend and tied to me with more threads than a fucking spiderweb, I still wouldn’t have wanted her. She wasn’t my type. I liked women who were slender, who took the time to make sure they looked good no matter what they were doing. I wasn’t into women with rounded bodies who wore sweats and yoga pants like it was their uniform.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I didn’t want her, and she wasn’t mine.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The worst mistake I’d ever made in my entire life.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I didn’t want a child with her. God, I didn’t want any more children period.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The fear that I wouldn’t love Kate’s child the way I loved the others. The fear that I’d feel nothing.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I wasn’t going to pretend that I thought she was interesting or sexy or fun. That wouldn’t be fair to her, and frankly, it would just fuck things up worse than they already were.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“You and me are never going to happen, Kate. Okay? I’m not sure what you’re thinking, if you thought we’d just be one big happy family or something, but we won’t. You’re not Rachel. You’re just not, and you’re nice, but I don’t feel that way about you.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I hated that Rachel was gone. I hated that I still reached for her sometimes,&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Kate just kept coming back.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1708528090&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/1277568600970179005/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-unbreak-my-heart.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/1277568600970179005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/1277568600970179005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-unbreak-my-heart.html' title='Review: Unbreak My Heart'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-1076213549691604067</id><published>2019-08-03T17:04:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:04:59.152-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Minha Escolha é Você</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36628891&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Minha Escolha é Você&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1511174560l/36628891._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36628891&quot;&gt;Minha Escolha é Você&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17346242&quot;&gt;Priscila Tigre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2913955682&quot;&gt;4 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Liked it!&lt;br /&gt;==================&lt;br /&gt;Minha amiga Simone indicou e gostei muito. Foi minha primeira leitura dessa autora. Recomendo!       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2913955682&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/1076213549691604067/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-minha-escolha-e-voce.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/1076213549691604067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/1076213549691604067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-minha-escolha-e-voce.html' title='Review: Minha Escolha é Você'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670732541990153915.post-6940165946730480098</id><published>2019-08-03T17:04:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2019-08-03T17:05:21.586-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Review: Gone Girl</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15704161&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Gone Girl&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1339602312l/15704161._SX98_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15704161&quot;&gt;Gone Girl&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2383&quot;&gt;Gillian Flynn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rating: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2916233052&quot;&gt;3 of 5 stars&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK decent reads.&lt;br /&gt;======================&lt;br /&gt;If I were Amy I&#39;d let the cheater grow old on death row. And I&#39;d have some tequilas somewhere in the Caribbean. Or would come to Brazil, after all all lunatics are hiding here.&lt;br /&gt;But both are toxic and will live the rest of their lives sleeping with one eye open.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;========================&lt;br /&gt;As for the movie, the actor that was chosen is the perfect cheater. LOL!       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2916233052&quot;&gt;View all my reviews&lt;/a&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/feeds/6940165946730480098/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-gone-girl.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/6940165946730480098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8670732541990153915/posts/default/6940165946730480098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bookwhorebr.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-gone-girl.html' title='Review: Gone Girl'/><author><name>Lu Bielefeld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03446705380833319126</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//3.bp.blogspot.com/-YOvmXyKJZ1c/XSaH6gkQ_8I/AAAAAAAAcWA/juoSd-BJ9_QnQFO46djTvHKsBh3pfccXgCK4BGAYYCw/s220/avatar%2Bniver.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>