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COVER RE-REVEAL Title: Dirty Talking Rival Author: Pippa Grant Genre: Romantic Comedy Trope: Friends to Enemies to Lovers Cover Design: Najla Qamber Release Date: June 27, 2019

REVIEW

  Master Baker by Pippa Grant

 High school friends reconnect after ten years apart. Both feel the other caused the separation and loss of friendship…but both would like to be friends again…if they can bury their hurt feelings and make the effort to reconnect.

 What I liked:

* The small town feeling

* Annika’s dedication to her mother, sister, and her mother’s dream to own and run a bakery

* The mother’s grief over losing her eyesight

* Grady’s love of family, and the way he sweet talks his baking in the making

* The idea of the bakery war to increase income for both owners

* The baseball games

* The supporting characters and how they added to the story

* Sue – the goat & Long Beak Silver – the parrot

* That Annika had a dream and pursued it, even if it meant leaving Grady behind

* That there was growth and maturation in both lead characters by the end of the book – they began to communicate and shared their feelings rather than reliving and reverting to the way they probably behaved when in high school

 What I didn’t like:

* Who and what I was meant not to like

* The emphasis on “war” between to nearby towns without ever really knowing if or what the reason  was behind the discord

 Thank you to the author for the ARC – This is my honest review.

 3-4 Stars

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  Despite growing up in rival towns, Grady Rock and I were high school best friends. But now? Now, he’s my biggest enemy. My dirty-talking, master-baking, grudge-holding, hot-as-sin enemy. All I wanted was to help my mom run her bakery after a family emergency left her unable to do it herself. Never mind that I can’t bake. Or that I never wanted to move home again. Or that this is the hardest thing I’ve ever done and I could use a friend right now. All Grady freaking Rock cares about now is that I’m his competition. It’s town against town. Bakery against bakery. Old friend against old friend. Until Grady finds out why I’m back home. And suddenly, Mr. Get Out of My Way is more like the boy I knew in high school. But older. Wiser. And infinitely more irresistible. I resisted his charm in high school for the sake of my future. But if I give in to it now, am I sleeping with the enemy?   Dirty Talking Rival is a deliciously fun friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy featuring a smooth-talking baker, the one who got away, and a goat with more matchmaking tendencies than a nosy old grandpa. It stands alone with no cheating or cliffhangers.     GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174618607 ��   PURCHASE LINKS   US: https://amzn.to/2X1f2vS UK: https://amzn.to/2RtC9sQ CA: https://amzn.to/2IA37Mz AU: https://amzn.to/2RtCpYQ Universal: https://bit.ly/3P4OOSZ   Free in Kindle Unlimited   Also available in audio Amazon: https://bit.ly/3Pc9CYU Audible: https://bit.ly/3qy7Ir0  

  AUTHOR BIO

  Pippa Grant is a USA Today Bestselling author who writes romantic comedies that will make tears run down your leg. When she's not reading, writing or sleeping, she's being crowned employee of the month as a stay-at-home mom and housewife trying to prepare her adorable demon spawn to be productive members of society, all the while fantasizing about long walks on the beach with hot chocolate chip cookies.     AUTHOR LINKS   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pippagrantromance Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ThePipsquad Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ReadPippa Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/pippagrant BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/pippa-grant Website: http://www.pippagrant.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/pippa.grant Verve Romance: https://ververomance.com/app/PippaGrant TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pippagrant

[dargeereads]

Title: Finding the Road to Us Series: The Wilder Brothers #6

Author: Carrie Ann Ryan

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Jilted Love/MMF/Friends to Lovers

Cover Design: Sweet N Spicy

Photographer: Wander Aguiar

Release Date: December 11, 2023

It all started with a jilted bride.... more information to come on Elliot, Sidney....and Trace's book soon!

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Carrie Ann Ryan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary, paranormal, and young adult romance. Her works include the Montgomery Ink, Redwood Pack, Fractured Connections, and Elements of Five series, which have sold over 3.0 million books worldwide. She started writing while in graduate school for her advanced degree in chemistry and hasn’t stopped since. Carrie Ann has written over seventy-five novels and novellas with more in the works. When she’s not losing herself in her emotional and action-packed worlds, she’s reading as much as she can while wrangling her clowder of cats who have more followers than she does.

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[deoidesign]

Just a reminder, I have a patreon!!!

I've been working on actually making stuff to post more often for the lower tiers, and have been consistently doing so!

I post at least a few sketches and drawings every month for the $1 and up patrons

and I've been working on episodes and sharing some updates with my $5 and up patrons

And I have a merch club for $15 a month, but there's still some $10 slots left! I design and send usually a postcard and some stickers to my patrons every month, but sometimes I'll do some experimental stuff; last month I did foil prints, for instance, and a few months before I made magnets!

It also gets you access to private channels in my discord server, where I ask for patron input on things like the merch or drawings, and where I sometimes stream while working :)

Buuuut also, even if you don't want any of this stuff, it's a great way to support me directly if you like my work! I'm still on hiatus so I'm not making any money from work at the moment, but I'm working hard and my patreon enables me at least to buy my groceries!

Here's the link one more time, no pressure of course but I need to promote my patreon more so people actually know it exists haha

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

I was tagged by @mariedemedicis to post 9 books I'm looking forward to reading in 2025.

Masquerade in Lodi by Lois McMaster Bujold. This came out in 2020, but somehow I managed to miss it until reading a newer novella in the Penric and Desdemona series that briefly mentioned it. Downloaded to my kindle app, but haven't had a chance to read it yet.

Penric and the Bandit by Lois McMaster Bujold. The actual most recent P&D book, again it's been downloaded with no time to read it. I did finally catch up to Demon Daughter last month, so hopefully these last two will be read in January!

The Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch. A spin-off of the Rivers of London series, set in 1920s NYC. I usually wait for the paperback, but I think this one may be digital only, at least for a long while. But Winter's Gifts was excellent fun to e-read, so I'll get to this one soon.

Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch. The actual next book in the seies, the hardcover is coming out in July, no idea when the US paperback will be, so this might not be a 2025 book for me. Still, I'm looking forward to it!

Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik. A short story collection, including works set in the Temeraire and Scholomance series, and also one in her upcoming new series, I'm sure this will be great, hopefully I'll read it before the end of summer.

The Summer War by Naomi Novik. First in a new fantasy series, coming out in September, it looks really interesting.

Wild Cards: Sleeper Straddle by various authors. Croyd Crenson, the Sleeper, has been one of my favorite Wild Cards characters since he was created by (the late great) Roger Zelazny in the first WC book. Looking forward to a book focused on his character, though I'm still waiting to find it in cheap used hardcover (as just about all my new series WC purchases have been). That usually shows up on Thriftbooks within a year of release, so hopefully after February!

Wild Cards: House Rules by various authors. From the description and the authors involved, this looks like it may combine the British Isles vibe of Knaves Over Queens and Three Kings with the time travel and alternate history (AH AU?) shenanigans of Low Chicago, one of my faves of the recent books in the series. This might not be a 2025 book for me (depending on how soon I can find a cheap used copy), but it's definitely on my list.

Wild Cards: Sins of the Father by Melinda M. Snodgrass and Michael Komarck. This one is a graphic novel, and I'm well behind on the Wild Cards GNs (last one I read was like 10 years ago), but I enjoy Snodgrass's writing, the story here should cover some long-running plot danglers, and Komarck's art is always gorgeous, so I'm interested in seeing how they work together in a comic book format. To buy when my budget allows.

Tagging @bidonica, @nanshe-of-nina, @ashenmotive, @norabombay, @child-of-hurin - and anyone else who wants to do it, consider yourself tagged!

edit: omg, how could I forget, of course I'm also super looking forward to Sunrise on the Reaping. March 18th can't come fast enough...

[squarebracket-trickster]

Sorry guys, rant incoming. I considered deleting this but I put too much effort in.

"girlboss" "girl dinner" "girl math" "boy math" "gen z are making fun of us for wearing x" "here's how to dress like gen z:" "girlies" "girl's night" "boy's night" "me and the boys" "90s kid"

"I don't feel like an adult" "I'm 34 and I can tell you, I still don't feel like an adult either." "My parents seemed like real adults when they were my age." "I still feel like a teenager."

Maybe you'd feel more like an adult if you started calling yourself one. Maybe you'd feel more like an adult if you stopped trying to dress like a teenager. Maybe you should move your bed out from the wall and get a wallet. Maybe find a calendar app that works for you.

You are an adult. Even if you live with your parents. Even if you do part-time shift work at minimum wage. Even if you haven't graduated college. Even if you are single. These are adult things to do. Because you are doing them. And you are an adult. Start treating yourself like an adult. Fake it 'till you make it if you have to.

In other, writing-related, news:

That trend on TikTok of 20-40 something women authors (and writers yet to be published) promoting their books like,

"Omg! I can't believe I've sold X number of copies!! I never thought I would!" "Ahhhh imagine publishing your book and all your dreams come true and now you get to meet famous authors and work with big names in the industry!!" "Would you read a book where [proceeds to list a bunch of oversaturated tropes that tell me nothing about the actual plot]?"

It reeks of infantilization. If you didn't believe anyone would want to read your book, why should I? You made it on the NYT bestseller list! Stop acting like a mega-fan who got to meet a celebrity. You are their peer! "Would you read a book--" What if I wouldn't? Why does it matter to you what I think of your book? And for the love of god stop hiding behind tropes you know are already popular. "Here is my book: This is what it is about." Have some goddamn confidence.

It is fine to mention in passing "this idea was really far-fetched so I didn't know if it would appeal" or "I was struggling with self-esteem when I wrote this". It's fine to fan a little bit. It's fine to discuss the tropes in your book. But why are you building your brand as an author off of your inferiority complex? You are using your poor self-esteem as a marketing tactic to seem "humble" and "relatable" but it's coming across as unprofessional and desperate for reassurance. You are an adult. You are competent. The more you act like it the more you will believe it.

And of course, I haven't seen a man promote his book this way...

On another note, do any of the 20-40 something women writers who do "write with me" videos on TikTok actually enjoy writing or are they just doing it for the aesthetic?

They all have gorgeous minimalism writing spaces full of white and pink and a macbook beneath a window. Their makeup is done and they are conventionally pretty to start with. But their entire video is just them talking about how little progress they made, how many pages they deleted, how often they got distracted, how frustrated they are. And like, yeah. We all have those days. But what about the good lines you can't wait to share? The days when the words just flow? The cool stuff you learned while researching? Why don't you ever make videos about that?

Is this some other attempt to seem "relatable" by only talking about the "bad" side of writing? Because again, it's coming across as lacking confidence at best and, at worst, that you don't actually know how to write. And that is not the brand you want as an author.

Again, its always women. Why must women market their self-esteem issues in order to sell their art? Why must we be perpetually awestruck children (girlies, book girls) in over our heads?

[incorrect-riordanverse]

im so mad that this is a side blog account and not a main account. i started this blog when i was still relatively new to tumblr and i think i was… like. fourteen years old or something. i never thought i would continue for this long, and i never knew so many people would like the content i put out here (i have over 9k followers which is literally mind-blowing, like wow….).

because this isnt a main account, i cant respond to replies left on my posts, i cant really reply to anyone unless i reblog !! i cant even follow people with this blog, it just comes up as my main blog (which is not pjo-related… rip my failed attempts at organising my fandoms to different blogs). so my avenues of interaction with a lot of you are seriously impeded.

so i just want to say i am so thankful for all of you, i read every single person’s tags who reblog my stuff, i read all of your replies and every time im crying screaming rolling around on the ground in agony over the fact i CANT REPLY!!

i know my posts are super inconsistent these days, im glad so many are still here! i think i may change some of my content eventually (never gonna get rid of the incorrect quote stuff, i’ll just be adding some other things like pjo headcanons or analyses or something), just to spice some stuff up on here.

[funforahermit]

i am once again terrified that one day a celebrity i really care about will turn out to have done horrible things

[mcrmadness]

Youtube keeps putting so much Harry Potter related videos to my recommended. Any official ones are easy to click off, but what I do not comperehend is that how there can still be so many Youtubers out there who keep creating so many videos about HP. The videos often focus on buying official products, and it's just... don't people really know what JKR has become, or is it that they just simply don't care?

Occasionally I have seen HP themed videos from my favourite youtubers too, them mentioning stuff, but I genuinely think they just are not aware, and I don't know how to make them aware. Usually the comment sections on any video ever are already toxic enough and if you go there with any "woke shit", you will get nothing but messages after messages of people being assholes towards you just because you dared to mention that this is in a way supporting a person who is not very nice anymore. Could be that the creators themselves would take such comments well, but other people? Especially in my country, I already get hate from people for speaking in my dialect because they think I'm an immigrant, or that I must be a very young kid on the internet. I have faced both racist and 'and your age was..?' type of comments just for commenting something normal. I can't even imagine what kind of a shitshow it would become if I went there and said that hey, you're low-key supporting a transphobe even if you didn't mean to do so.

Today my youtube recommended has exploded again. So. fucking. much. HP. content. I always click them away and choose the "not interested" or "don't recommend this channel to me", and it works for a little while, and soon they will be back again. Or there will be other HP themed videos, from youtubers whose whole channel is dedicated to HP videos. And we get back to my original question: are they not aware, or don't they just care?

[things-methinks]

Talking to [leftist/socialist/progressive/whatever] white people as a brown girl is always an experience

[elle-smells]

I blame the wave of #girlboss feminism (mostly adopted by white women) in the 2010s for erasing media literacy and like... just basic thinking and making everyone hate disney princesses with their "terrible messages" for little girls. like. were people even watching the movies?

[dargeereads]

Title: Three to Get Ready

Series: Hughes #3

Author: Skye Warren

Publisher: Dangerous Press

Genre: Billionaire Romance

Release Date: February 16, 2023

BLURB

There’s a ticking time bomb in Finn Hughes's head.

That means he has to prepare everyone. Eva. The baby. The company, which is in an uproar after the announcement. He needs to get them ready. Because when the curse hits, it will be too late to say goodbye.

Welcome to the Midnight Dynasty... The warring Morelli and Constantine families have enough bad blood to fill an ocean, and their brand new stories will be told by your favorite dangerous romance authors.

WARNING: This book is intended for readers eighteen years old and over. It contains material that some readers could find disturbing. Enter at your own risk...

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Skye Warren is the New York Times bestselling author of contemporary romance such as the Chicago Underground series. Her books have been featured in Jezebel, Buzzfeed, USA Today Happily Ever After, Glamour, and Elle Magazine. She makes her home in Texas with her loving family, two sweet dogs, and one evil cat.

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[hoeruno]

Dom Casmurro, Machado de Assis (Chapter CXLV) // Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto (Chapter 571)

[ice-sculptures]

OH OKAY SLEEPOVER TIME. umm. would u rather.....have bucktaylor endgame and for buck and eddie's friendship slowly drift apart.... OR for buck to die in eddie's arms and taylor is never heard from again. sorry love u

hey spencer you are evil for both of these BUT the mere idea of buck and eddie's friendship slowly drifting apart is fr my worst nightmare so give me the dramatic death scene any day!! i'd readily take one of them dying and haunting the other one for life shaunajackie style if the alternative is the two of them becoming strangers. and if it's ANYTHING like the shooting or the well collapse i just know that ryan & oliver would kill it and i would eat every second of it up 🙏🏼

it's a sleepover!!

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

it's like earlier this year here in australia, some fucking idiots guys thought it'd be funny to drop off several kilo's worth of tins of soup..... all of which were several years out of date.... to food banks around sydney that are currently being used by everyone in the cost of living crisis. they were fined like 70k for dropping off that purposely expired food.

[silverislander]

i'm getting a lot of tiktok content for junk journalling and i just find it really funny how the really obvious influencer videos are just like. not really junk journalling. because they're not using garbage, they're using scrapbooking materials that they bought from some online store that Look vaguely used. aesthetically pleasing garbage. and them trying to influence me to buy it does absolutely fuck all for me as a result

[awakefor48hours]

Shows you should save physically immediately + addition I recommend reading

Over the Garden Wall -- It's being pulled from HBO Max on August 31 and knowing HBO, there's a chance it'll be pulled sooner. *I have now made a Google Drive of all the episodes of OTGW. Please, please, please, PLEASE, save these on a physical device.

The Owl House -- Disney has tried to bury this show many times (giving it a weird release schedule, cutting the budget, etc) and has even cancelled the show. Also, Disney+ is going to nuke their catalogue soon and I doubt TOH will survive*I have now also saved all the episodes of TOH. Click here for the posts with all of the episodes

Amphibia -- I know less about the behind the scenes BS than TOH but Amphibia was screwed over by Disney mainly by poor promotion. Also since one of the protagonist is openly bisexual*, like TOH, I really can't imagine this would survive.*Amphibia has also been saved. Go here for the post with all the episodes.

Steven Universe -- Cartoon Network cancelled Steven Universe and gave it a weird release schedule, it has also just been pulled from HBO Max.

Gravity Falls -- Once again, Disney+ is going to nuke their catalogue at some point in the future and between Wendy being canonically bi, Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland being in a relationship, and Alex Hirsch (being the amazing man that he is) constantly calling Disney out on their BS, I imagine that Disney would be more than willing to nuke Gravity Falls. *I’ve also saved Gravity Falls now go to the main post here to see all the episodes.

and most importantly

Every single show, book, game, fanfiction, movie, etc you've ever loved

We now know that at any moment's notice, streaming services can and will just nuke their catalogue without hesitation. If it's digital, it can be removed and there's a likely chance you'll never see it again.

So, please take some time to save anything you love on an external device. It could be a box set (it can be official or fan-made one), a USB, or anything.

If you have a physical copy of something, it's yours forever and no one can take that away from you.

*Edit because I’ve seen some confusion about this. Read this again, it’s “one of the protagonists” not “the protagonist.” Sasha is the one who’s bi, Anne’s sexuality hasn’t been confirmed.

Also in addition to this, people have reblogged this to say Steven Universe is still on HBO. Since I don’t have HBO, I’ve been going off of what people have been saying and I’ve seen it mentioned that HBO was taking off SU. You should still save it though.

*Edit 2 if any of the links here don’t work, check the original post as I might’ve changed/updated them. If that still doesn’t work, send me an ask or DM I’ll give them to you.