#the undermining of twyla and frank

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Title: The Undermining of Twyla and Frank | Author: Megan Bannen | Publisher: Orbit (2024)

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THEY'RE IDIOTS!

IDIOTS!

I LOVE THEM!

(actually they're very capable tanrian Marshalls. But they are SO OBVIOUS!)

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Rating: 4/5

Book Blurb:

From the author of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy comes a heartwarming fantasy with a best friends-to-lovers rom com twist set in the delightful demigod and donut-filled world of Tanria.

The entire town of Eternity was shocked when widowed, middle-aged Twyla Banneker partnered up with her neighbor and best friend, Frank Ellis, to join the Tanrian Marshals. Eight years later, Twyla’s rewarding career patrolling the strange land of Tanria remains a welcome change from the domestic grind of mom life, despite the misgivings of her grown children.

Fortunately (or unfortunately) a recent decrease in on-the-job peril has made Twyla and Frank's job a lot safer ... and a lot less exciting. So when they discover the body of one of their fellow marshals near an enormous footprint—and Frank finds himself the inadvertent foster dad to a baby dragon—they are grateful to be back in action. Soon, the friends wind up ensnared in a nefarious plot that goes far deeper than any lucrative Tanrian mineshaft. But as danger closes in and Twyla and Frank's investigation becomes more complicated, so does their easy friendship. And Twyla starts to realize that her true soul mate might be the person who has lived next door all along...

Review:

A sweet story about two best friends who might finally take the greatest leap of all and confess their love for one another... that is if they can survive raising a baby dragon, bombs, and someone trying to kill them. Twyla Banneker and Frank Ellis are two middle-aged, single grandparents who became the town Marshals together. They've been partners for over 8 years, best friends, and neighbors. Yet things are beginning to change as they make a strange discovery and Frank inadvertently becomes the foster dad to a baby dragon and a new man comes in town ready to sweep Twyla off her feet. The only problem is that Twyla is beginning to realize that despite being widowed and now dating a new man... she doesn't feel the way about any of them the way she feels when she is with Frank... and Frank just so happens to have eyes only for her. Yet if they do enter into a relationship what would that mean for their friendship... and can Twyla finally take the leap and open her heart up to romance again? This was actually a really sweet and charming romance featuring two protagonists who were in their 50s. I loved how supportive and sweet the friendship between Frank and Twyla was, they truly had one another's backs and were so perfect together. It's a sweet cozy little read and I would definitely recommend it!

Release Date: July 2, 2024

Publication/Blog: Ash and Books (ash-and-books.tumblr.com)

*Thanks Netgalley and Orbit Books | Orbit for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

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The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy & The Undermining of Twyla & Frank- Megan Bannen

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July 2024

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I'm 200 pages in, why must I be haunted by slow plot AND A LOVE TRIANGLE please no its my least favorite trope in romances 😭😭😭

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I’m so excited for Duckers & Rosie being partners in the next book. I can see them having a lot of fun and definitely getting into all sorts of trouble. Although just having read the synopsis for the next book, I’m not sure how much Duckers screentime we’re gonna get after all.

I ended up enjoying Twyla & Franks book way more than I thought - so I’m pretty optimistic about Rosie’s book. Also I’m hoping we get a Duckers book cause I love him dearly - and maybe Megan Baben was setting that up with his -breaking up with Zeddie arc- in this book.

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For context, the scene is a wedding, Horatio is an owl, Bassie is a (crying) rabbit.

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The Undermining of Twyla and Frank - ARC Review

Hello, everyone! Today I’m reviewing The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen. I enjoyed Bannen’s first book in this series, The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy. So, I have been looking forward to reading this new installment for quite some time. The Undermining of Twyla and Frank is available now wherever you get your books! Continue reading The Undermining of Twyla and Frank –…

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The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen - ARC Review!

The entire town of Eternity was shocked when widowed, middle-aged Twyla Banneker partnered up with her neighbor and best friend, Frank Ellis, to join the Tanrian Marshals. Eight years later, Twyla and Frank are still patrolling the dangerous land of Tanria, the former prison of the Old Gods. Twyla might look like a small town mom who brings cheesy potatoes to funerals and whips up a batch of…

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Hart and Mercy from Megan Bannen’s “The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy”!

This book was such a cute read and I’m excited to work on The Undermining of Twyla and Frank next— especially because there’s supposed to be EVEN MORE Duckers??? My heart and JOY?

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His kids are coming for a two-week visit on Wisdomsday, and my daughter is already at Wade’s house. I’m more worried about you. I hate the idea of leaving you all alone.”

“But that’s what I want—time to myself in my own place on my own terms. I literally dumped a great guy to get it.”

A memory arose like a ghost in Twyla’s mind, not of a single moment but of many bound together, of a thousand times in her life when she would have given anything to check into a clean hotel room for one night and order room service and lie there on the bed and do absolutely nothing. Some people dreamed of travel and vacations, but in those days, Twyla had no aspirations of that kind. She wanted only to live and breathe in a room with no one else in it for a few hours.

Now that she had her house (mostly) to herself—when it didn’t have a hole in the roof or smoke and water damage—she appreciated the value of living on her own terms even more. She leaned across the bench and gave Duckers a hug.

“I have so much respect for you.””

— The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen

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Discarded Good Reads TBR

1/11/24

I was gonna leave this till New Years 25, but decided to do it early. Yes it's November, but I have over 600+ in my good reads tbr and would rather get it sorted sooner rather then later. Some of these books and been on my list for years. So long I didn't even remember I had a good reads account. So lets go!

Can I Steal You for a Second

The Lady Upstairs

Silverglass

Night Tide

Off The Record

Dearly Departed

Melt With You

Her Countess to Cherish

Two Winters

Never Ever Getting Back Together

Mistakes Were Made

The Fiance Farce

Victories Greater Than Death

Fake It

The Hellion's Waltz

Payback's a Witch

Cool for the Summer

In The Event of Love

Something Borrowed

In Her Shoes

The Fault In Our Stars

Bridget Jones Diary

The Devil Wears Prada

Confessions of a Shopahoplic

The Help (As you can see from the last few listings, I went through a time were I wanted to read the books of some of the movies I loved but I've just lost interest in doing this. Doesn't help that the people who wanted to read them with me didn't end up reading them either.)

Good In Bed

A Lady's Guide to Scandal (turns out this book was a sequel)

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

If I Stopped Haunting You

I Hope This Doesn't Find You

Funny Story

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

The Ballad Of Never After

A Curse For True Love (Iykyk)

Safe Haven (An Aussie Book, I'm wanting to read Chai Time of Cinnamon Gardens, and if I like this book I'll try the other one)

Wrong Text, Right Love

Spellbound in the Stacks

That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved A Demon

Girls Weekend

Parties

Redeeming 6

Saving 6

Keeping 13

Binding 13

Not In Love

Taming 7

Hate Mail

To Woo And To Wed

Haunt Your Heart Out

Otherworldly

Truly, Madly, Deeply

Make The Season Bright

I Feed Her To The Beast Series

Tangled Up In You

Werewolf's Guide to Seducing A Vampire

King of Sloth (Kings Of Sin Series as a whole)

Ready or Not

Kilt Trip

Dead To The World

Dead of Night

Dead Weight

Dead Wrong

A Thousand Broken Pieces

She Who Rose From Ashes

Rebel Belle

Sinner's Anonymous Series

Pretty Little Liar's (I loved the tv show but I dont feel like reading the books anymore)

Peculiar Tastes Series

Children of Blood And Bone

We Used To Live Here

Shatter Me

A Sweet Sting of Salt

My Darling Dreadful Thing

The Summer of Broken Rules

Morrighan (The Remnant Chronicles)

Beasts of Gatamora Series

Dungeons and Drama

Rewitched

The Cottage Around the Corner

A Hunger Like No Other

Crimson Debt

Scream For Us

The Binding

The Betrayals

The Undermining of Twyla and Frank

The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam

A Rival Most Vial

The Volcano Girls

Vampire Girl

The Christmas Appeal

The Pairing

By Any Other Name

Small Miracles

Hum

YouthJuice (I DNFed this. Dunno why its in the TBR list on GR. Boring as all hell)

My Best Friends Exorcism

The Raag of Rta

Silent Sister

The Price Guide to the Occult

Never Fall for a Dragon

The Gathering Dark

Mortal Skin

At Least You Have Your Health

After The Forest

Fit To Do

Natural Beauty

The Glow

All Night Pharmacy

Guillotine

The Vanishing at Castle Moreau

Slasher Girls and Monster Boys

In The Dream House

The Dark Within Us

The Vampires Melody

The Invocations

Such Sharp Teeth

The Ones Who Come Back Hungry

Indian Burial Ground

Castle of the Cursed

Diavola

Haunt Sweet Home

The Dangerous Ones

Fang Fiction

So Let Them Burn

The Woods All Black

We Shall Be Monsters (Turns out I had two books under this name from two different authors)

The Botanical Daughter

Red In Tooth And Claw

Such Lovely Skin

Incidents Around The House

The House Of Last Resort

I Accidently Summoned A Demon Boyfriend

Together We Burn

Even Though I Knew The End

The Monsters We Defy

The Magpie Lord

Mortal Follies

The Dead Romantics

A lot of the books I got rid of in the older tabs were contemporary genre, and there's not a whole lot of contemporary books I like. At least as a whole. There are exceptions but mainly, I find the genre boring. I feel like if it's contemporary, it has to be something really gripping or deranged for me to stay entertained. Murder mysteries and thrillers that are particularly messed up (I loved Butcher & Blackbird), Dark Romance (Adored Haunting Adeline and everything else I've read so far from H.D. Carlton.)

(Also just side note, a lot of the older books listed in my list reminded me of bi erasure and how its alive and well. Bi characters are always listed as lesbian. It's so stupid. Anyway, rant over.)

Books I found that I forgot about (That sound amazing!!)

Spice Road

Off With Their Heads

Dragonfruit

The Lunar Chronicles (I always forget about this series but it looks really awesome, and really want to give it a go)

The Heir of The Beast (I keep missing being able to read this.)

I now have 490 on my list, I may go through it again. Cause there's still a lot on the list. If I go through it again, I'll edit this post. If you've read any of these books, and you think I should reconsider, please let me know!., , ..0 (Greetings from my cat apparently)

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