#The Launch Date

[beckysbook5]

First Lines Friday!

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page. Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to…

[mydarlinginej]

read my full review of the launch date by annabelle slator here.

What if the secret to finding true love on a dating app was meeting them IRL first?

In this witty and fun rom-com debut from Annabelle Slator, rival coworkers become reluctant daters after they’re forced to work together on a brand-new dating app in hopes of winning a promotion—perfect for fans of Sally Thorne’s The Hating Game.

Grace Hastings’s dream job at the popular “true love” dating app, Fate, has turned into a nightmare. Her boss is a leech, her career is stagnating, and her fiancé has just brutally dumped her. Her hope for finding her own love story is waning, and she feels like a fraud for promoting a concept she no longer believes in. When the company’s CEO offers her an opportunity to earn a big promotion, she resolves to fight her imposter syndrome to show she deserves a seat at the table.

The opportunity? To launch a brand-new app focusing on IRL dating and genuine connection.

The problem? She must develop and test-drive a series of “first dates” with the other person gunning for the job: notorious socialite playboy and Grace’s biggest work rival, Eric Bancroft.

During their disastrous hikes, dangerous cooking classes, and steamy yoga sessions, they begin to realize their stark differences may just be surface level and Eric might just be the perfect person to challenge Grace’s perceptions of love, dating culture, and self-worth.

my review:

Honestly I was hesitant to read this one if only because the romances that I’ve read with somewhat similar premises (workplace rivals-to-lovers) did not end well for me…But thankfully that was not the case here! The Launch Date was a refreshing and bright workplace romance with off-the-charts chemistry and tension that’ll have you begging for more.

Grace Hastings finds herself in an impossible situation; she’s still not back in the dating scene after breaking up with her long-term boyfriend, her boss expects her to drop everything at her command, and now she’s found out she’ll have to compete for the promotion of her dreams. The only issue? Eric Bancroft, her work rival who brutally turned her down a year ago, is the other person up for the position. They’re going to have to get over their differences as they work together to test-drive dates for the new app one of them will be in charge of…and maybe finally give into the tension that’s between them.

Again, I didn’t have super high expectations for this book because the other workplace romances that I’ve read tend to be super trope-y and are clearly geared toward a certain audience with the references. The Launch Date certainly made its way past my prejudices and thank god for that honestly. I had so much fun with this book and can’t wait to reread it! I’m very excited to read more from this author as well.

read my full review here:

[fanaticloser]

I need a tag that says “Fake dating but one of them thinks it’s real and the one who knows it’s fake actually falls for them and there’s angst but they end up together in the end”

[cnl0400]

The new dating feature... What to expect?

(Apart from disapointment, of course)

Disclaimer: I only bought this because I had a lot of Google Play points, so I could shave a looooooooooot of the total price, but my condolences to anyone who doesn't live in the US because it's a lot more expensive in another regions... Including mine, of course

Disclaimer 2: I'm not telling you what to do with your money, this Is my personal opinion. If you are planning in buying this, do whatever idc, but since a lot of people are having doubts, I felt that I might as well tell everyone what Is this about.

So yeah... Since they announced the new feature, I knew It either would cost real money, It just sounded too good to be true, but I didn't expect to cost $29.99? Almost $37 in my country currency, a total scam, really.

But to be fair to them, this Is a bundle that comes with 300 DP, and considering the price of 280 DP, it's almost like you get the ticket for "free", right?? At least that's how Solmare probably thought It would look like, but the reality Is that the common player will see this bundle and just think that this ticket cost 30 fucking dollars (just look at the comments of Twitter and the tag Right now). In my opinion, just separate the DP and the ticket, and have the bundle as an special offert If you want. Remember that selling stuff Is also about framing... Most players that were planning on buying this might not be planning on buying the DP (like myself, I don't buy DP unless it's on special offerts) so the only thing people like that will think Is that "why this ticket costs that much?"

But what you get in the actual event, you might ask? The trailer was vague as hell in my opinion, and that's an instant red flag in my radar, especially for that spicy art that came with it

For a ticket date you get:

A 1min call

A 10min storyline (not fully voiced, apart from certain lines in the las part of the storyline)

A Majolish background with the date art

The event starts with you calling you boy of preference (in this case, I choose Mammon) to invite him to a date, the call ends and you get a 10min storyline. The premise of the Mammon's date Is that MC has won tickets to Phantom Park, and then Mammon & MC get involved to a game of tag to win a price. Then couple shennigans happen, blah blah blah.

The Story Is... Not bad? I found It rather cute actually, it's romantic and at least they make It explicit that Mammon & MC aré actually dating, but again, this could very well have been in a Devilgram, it's not worth the 30 dollars Solmare expects you to pay tbh. Just tip your favorite fanfic author and call It a day

The last segment Is the one they show in the tráiler, with Mammon getting out of the shower

In this scene, some lines are voiced, and tbh, If the actual story was like this, It almost miiiight be worth It (not the full price, but at least something). But as now? Save your money people, I wouldn't really recommend It.

The only way I would recommend buying It it's If you're already planning on buying the 280 DP offert, or you have a lot of coupons/GPP so you don't pay full price lol, but If you like Lucifer (or Asmo) just do yourself a favor and buy the ASMR. At least, that's what I think

[atla-what-is-this-site]

Voltron: Okay so Keith and Lance have this dramatic, emotional conversation while watching the sunset

Me: And then what??

Voltron: Lance and Allura go on a date :)

Me: ?????

[ladysherreeamore]

If you stop looking at the outside distractions from adjacents, you would've noticed Nic and Luke were telling us they were together all along

This was posted May 21st in Brazil. She knows everyone was shipping them wondering if they were dating and we analyze everything, yet she decided to post a photo of them that looks like a date with a polaroid of them on her phone 😏 she knew what she was doing! No woman would put a polaroid on their phone of their coworker or platonic friend, we would only do this if we are romantically involved. She definitely wouldn't do this if she was dating someone else, and she wouldn't be so flirty, touchy, or basically sitting on Luke's lap for the world to see it. Her PR team wouldn't be able to tell her to do this and no boyfriend would alIow it. I don't see see her being disrespectful to a relationship like this. I'm not sure what the jakolas see but I can't believe she would do all of this while dating someone else, it's like saying she cheated in front of Jake's face and he didn't care and I don't believe that.

[softkeychains]

Have some bunnies while waiting for the comic!

[the-architect-of-ferrari]

Does Charles saying he would want carlos to cook “good” burgers for his ideal Christmas and only trusts his cooking out of all the drivers mean that their burger date finally happened?? They’ve been talking about Charles going to try Carlos’s burgers for years, did it finally happen and they gatekept it from us??

[mymanchrissturniolo]

˗ˏˋ “best friend” with chris sturniolo ´ˎ˗

summary: y/n and chris has been dating for a year now and they haven’t announced on social media that they’re dating but only their friends know they’re dating so on social media they only say that they’re “best friend”

warning: none

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y/n: spent a day with my bestfriend ;))

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christophersturniolo: had so much fun 😎🖤

y/n: same !!

madifilipowicz: next u & i need to hang out soon

y/n: yessssss i missed u so much

madisonbeer: fav duo

y/n: we love you🫰🏻

nicolassturniolo: cuteee

matthew.sturniolo: 📷📷📷

sturnfan1: “bestfriend” 🫣🤭

sturnfan2: ARE YALL DATING PLSSS ANSWERRRR

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christophersturniolo: party night with y/n

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y/n: my feet hurts still

christophersturniolo: do u want me to carry u again ??

nicolassturniolo: holding her heels how sweet 🥹

christophersturniolo: 😁😁

matthew.sturniolo: 💃🕺

matthew.sturniolo: hope yall had fun

christophersturniolo: we did thank you 🫂

nathandoe8: soo you never hold my shoes for me…

christophersturniolo: nate 😭😭

y/n: LMFAO

sturnfan35: nate is jealous 😂

madisonbeer: aw these pics are cute i’m in love

christophersturniolo: ikr i love them too

sturnfan30: adorable

sturnfan6: i want to know if they’re dating or not 😭😭

sturnfan91: SAMEE

[leclercskiesahead]

“my new baby” he’s down so bad

[askmeanjudge]

[dnpbeats]

[whispers] what if this mukbang is tour info and a hard launch?

listen in the first mukbang we got dan placing his hand on phil's thigh, the only logical progression is that this mukbang will contain them kissing. third mukbang? posted to onlyfans <3

[perhaps-in-anotherdream]

[CN] Li Zeyan’s Upcoming Top-up SP

“The sweetness I desire is at your fingertips.”

“All those summers we have missed have come to see you.”

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[lale-txt]

i knew Soft Launch reached the right audience when the comments about the wlw dating being deeply relatable piled up lmao

[tequiilasunriise]

When Steph and Cass get married they don’t take the last name Brown (Daddy Issues™️) or Cain (Daddy Issues Prime™️) or even Wayne (Steph absolutely REFUSES to become a Wayne nosirree), but a secret fourth thing (Gordan).

[neetols]

pic from my manu. will be adding these photocards to the shop which will launch third week of June for international customers 🫡