"Romance masterpiece" - Kylie Scott, New York
Times bestselling author
From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author L.J. Shen
comes a new, contemporary romance with heart-wrenching twists and
laugh-out-loud moments.
In The Unlikely Event is available now!
Sometimes you meet people who are out of this world, so you
make them a part of yours.
A one-night stand born from vengeance in a foreign land.
An explosive chemistry neither of us could deny.
We signed a contract on the back of a Boar’s Head Pub napkin
that said if we ever met again, we would drop everything and be together.
Eight years and thousands of miles later, he’s here.
In New York.
And he’s America’s music obsession.
The intangible Irish poet who brings record executives to
their knees.
The blizzard in my perfect, unshaken snow globe.
Last time we spoke, he was a beggar with no intention of
becoming a king.
But a king he became, and now I’m his servant.
I’m not the same broken princess Malachy Doherty put back
together with his callused hands.
I have a career I love.
A boyfriend I adore.
An apartment, a roommate, a life.
I changed. He changed, too.
But Mal kept the napkin.
Question is, will I keep my word?
Johnaka's Review
“Slow blink, 5 stars”
Excuse me while I try to put my thoughts together on In the Unlikely Event. I can’t even explain to you what I read, only that I absolutely approve. Who knew a napkin could change your life? Mal and Rory that’s who. Two broken souls who found solace in each other. L.J knocked this one out of the park. It contains all the angst, just a little differently than her other books. Add in the fact Mal is Irish and yeah…I’m sold, say no more.
I don’t know how to write a review for In the Unlikely Event. I don’t want to tell you anything because its one of those stories you just need to read for yourself. You need to experience every little thing in the story to fully grasp it. And when you do and you finish you will also be at a loss for words. I cannot wait to see if L.J. gives us some more Mal and Rory in the future.
Plot-5/5 Characters-5/5 Heat-5/5 Writing style-5/5 Overall-5/5
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Excerpt
When I finally come face to face with the street artist
standing on the side of the pavement, his guitar case open and full of
rolled-up notes and change, I understand why his grandfather told me I’d
recognize him with the self-assurance of an avid believer.
I’ve never seen someone like him before.
He is beautiful, true, but that’s not what stands out to me.
He is radiant.
It’s like his presence has a presence. He sucks the air out
of everything in his vicinity, making it impossible not to look at him. Malachy
is tailor-made for a huge, colossal heartbreak. Everything about him—his
tattered jeans, filthy boots, white shirt, and leather jacket that was broken in
decades ago—screams trouble. He looks like a seventies heartthrob. An icon. A
Terry Richardson muse. Bruce Springsteen pre-fame.
His voice is like honey and warm spices. It lulls me into a
place in my mind I’ve never been before, even though it’s far from beautiful.
It is gruff, throaty, and smoky. When someone bumps my shoulder to get closer
to him, I snap out of my reverie and realize what I’m listening to.
“One” by U2.
The coincidence is strange. I try to tell myself it’s
nothing. This is Ireland. U2 is a national treasure.
His eyes are squeezed shut as he sings. It’s like no one
exists other than him and his guitar. Something warm rushes through my skin,
like a heat wave, and I shudder in delight.
Warmth.
I always thought there was something melancholy about street
performers—the way people walk past them, ignoring their music, their art,
their passion. But this guy, he’s the one doing the ignoring. The tables have
turned. He’s got the crowd eating from the palm of his hand. Every woman here
is under a thick, sweet spell. He’s got that Harry Styles quality that makes
girls want to bed him and older women want to adopt him. The men are a cross
between impatient, annoyed, and jealous. You can see it in the way they tap
their feet, check their watches, nudge their wives and girlfriends to move it.
The song ends, and Malachy Doherty cracks his eyes open and
stares directly at me, like he knew I’d be here. Like he watched me watching him
through closed eyes. Disoriented—and for some reason wanting to do something, anything—I
throw a bill into his guitar case and look away, realizing to my horror that I
threw the fifty euros his grandpa gave me. Everyone around me murmurs and
whistles. They think it was intentional. I can feel my face flaming red. I bet
he thinks I want to sleep with him.
Do I? Probably. But should he know that? Hell no.
About LJ Shen
L.J. Shen is a USA Today, Washington Post and Amazon #1
best-selling author of contemporary, New Adult and YA romance. Her books have
been sold to nineteen different countries.
She lives in California with her husband, son, cat and
eccentric fashion choices, and enjoys good wine, bad reality TV shows and
catching sun rays with her lazy cat.
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