Yeah good idea. I did ask for this one to be changed to just “February reads” but it didn’t happen obviously, so better to keep it as book club and number as you’ve suggested.Very admin-y posts but going forward will we just have the thread titles as “Book Club #2” etc? I’m guessing it’s not helpful for the mods to have to edit it monthly. I don’t think the thread moves so fast that someone coming in wouldn’t be able to see what the current book is?
I finished First Lie Wins the other day. I enjoyed the start but I'm never a fan of books that are a bit far fetched with the stuff happening within them, it's so unrealistic that it loses my attention.
He's the real hero of the story. Lucca just turns up, this guy seems to everywhere and anywhere all at once putting every intelligence agency to shame as a one man band with a computer.
If you get to part 2 its all sort of present day and any previous periods are in italics. I did enjoy it but its nothing like its described. Its more character driven (which I enjoy) but I imagine if youve picked this up thinking its a thriller which I did youd be disappointed.I started Hot Springs Drive, about 20% in and it’s really not at all what I expected it to be from the blurb and marketing
With that said, I am quite enjoying it. Although finding it quite jarring that it keeps jumping between time periods with no prior warning. Like (one example) someone is walking towards a room to do something, then in the next sentence is somewhere else altogether, and it doesn’t make sense until the earlier event (and its outcome) are referenced.
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This is a very fair comment. Although I think it’s quite a lazy plot thing a lot of authors use - it’s not my main character/narrator so I don’t need to fully explain how this tech whiz is doing what they’re doing, I can just say it’s happened and my main character accepts it and writes it off as the super tech guy dealt with it, I don’t really need to know how. And yes it does always seem to be a tech guy…
I did still like the book though
Sorry to say this isn't true. It's the exact same.I recently learnt there are two endings of Beach Read! The US had a diff one to the UK/Aus/International English market.
it ends in a proposal in the US version apparently!
Oh really? I am kind of glad about that. I think that ending would be a bit more predictable. I was just going by tiktoks (so you know, not the most reliable!) and old reddit threads I saw when I googled (https://www.reddit.com/r/RomanceBooks/comments/i1vfdl/beach_read_different_endings_spoilers/)Sorry to say this isn't true. It's the exact same.
The proposal is in a special newsletter Emily sent to her subscribers.
Huh, I read an ARC for the US version and it didn't include the proposal. Wonder if it's something that got added to the US version afterwards then?Oh really? I am kind of glad about that. I think that ending would be a bit more predictable. I was just going by tiktoks (so you know, not the most reliable!) and old reddit threads I saw when I googled (https://www.reddit.com/r/RomanceBooks/comments/i1vfdl/beach_read_different_endings_spoilers/)
Ha! Another cliche! I mean I love a happy ever after. But we don’t need it allHuh, I read an ARC for the US version and it didn't include the proposal. Wonder if it's something that got added to the US version afterwards then?
And the newsletter one I meant is called Layover and it's now in the bonus content and I'm apparently insane cause it doesn't include a proposal but a pregnancy reveal
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