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Coryat's Crudities: Selections

Thomas Coryate and Philip S. Palmer

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The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryate's five-month tour of Western Europe culminated...

Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle

Sophie Duncan

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Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of...

The Vineyard at the End of the World: Maverick Winemakers and the Rebirth of Malbec

Ian Mount

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As wine connoisseurs know, Argentine wine was once famously bad. The grapes were overwatered,...

Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Wrecking Ball (Hard to Love, #1) in Books

Jan 11, 2021

This starts with Camilla in court (i think?) as she is told she has lost everything she owns after her dead husband started a ponzi scheme that lost a lot of people a lot of money. She is public enemy number one and nobody wants to hire her so she ends up living with her parents and going through agencies in the hopes of finding a job. She's finally offered one looking after a young boy who has a celebrity uncle and must live with them for the duration of the contract. Sparks fly between Cam and Calvin from the start but as they grow closer, animosity turns to attraction.

I actually really enjoyed this. It was definitely a slow burn romance but you could see there was a spark there from pretty early on. Probably from when Cal turned up at her evening job asking her to take the nanny job and wanting to drive her home afterwards since it was so late. That there put him down as being a gentleman in my books and I was smitten. I devoured it from that point on, willing them to finally do something about their attraction.

Of course, there's the dilemma that tears our couple apart and even I was getting emotional at that part. Geez, they were so good together and something like that was going to end up tearing them apart. All came right in the end, though, thank God, or I would be an emotional wreck right now.

I may have to read the next book in the series because it focuses on Cam's best friend and apparent man-hater, Amber, so that should be fun.