Thursday, January 10, 2019

Release+Review-Thinking of You-Monica Murphy



What happens when you meet the girl of your dreams and she lives halfway across the world?

Thinking About You, a standalone contemporary romance in the Forever Series by New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy is live!

One minute I’m minding my own business at a party and the next I meet this woman who blows my mind. She’s beautiful. Smart. Funny. A little shy. I’m immediately drawn to her. We make an instant connection.

The problem?
Lady Susanna Sumner lives in London.
I live in California
I play professional football.

She works part-time at an art gallery and lives off her family’s money.

Her family is nobility. I come from a single mom who always scraped to get by.

Susanna and I should have nothing in common. But when we’re together, it’s…
Electric.
What are we supposed to do? Can we really make this work? I can’t give up my career. And I can’t ask her to move to California for me. All I know is, I want her in my life.
Desperately.

A standalone, contemporary romance




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Our Review:
Are you ready for some Cannon? Thinking About You is book two in the Forever Yours series by Monica Murphy. Book one was all for Mandy and Jordan, but book two shows us how Cannon is living. I always liked Cannon in her earlier books so it was nice to actually get to see a story from his point of view. Furthermore, it was great to see him as an adult and with someone who could really teach him some things. The plot of this book intersects with book one. The book starts in England, where Jordan and Cannon go to play an exhibition game of football. If you read book one, then you know that Mandy meets Jordan there. We actually even get to see Cannon and Lady Susanna there. This story shows us about them. About how they met and how their relations go. I liked Susanna. She is prim and proper, but she is also down to earth. She doesn’t let the wealth and nobility of her family get to her head. She is sensible and loyal. Then you have Cannon. He is the opposite of Susanna. He is loud, brash, and sometimes rude. He is an alpha male to the core. That is what I love most about him. The heat between these two is explosive. They each find each other attractive so they fall into bed, but they didn’t expect what came after. The addictiveness of finding someone who can help fill those missing pieces in your life, even if for a short while. That made the heat even hotter. The writing style of this book is good. The pace of the story is steady. I liked the characters and how we were able to read from both point of views. I even liked the little mini plot in the story. It helped progress the main plot, but also gave us something else to focus on. The only thing about this book is I didn’t feel there was enough conflict. I needed just a bit more. Overall, this was a great story. I am glad Cannon finally got his book. I liked getting a glimpse of Mandy and Jordan from an outsiders point of view. I also liked how the author showed how these teens grew up. You would only know that if you read the first series, but for me that made it great. I would recommend this book to others and cannot wait for the next book. Ratings: Plot: 5/5 Characters: 5/5 Heat: 5/5 Writing Style: 5/5 Overall: 5/5




Excerpt:

“I’m thinking about how beautiful you are,” I answer Susanna truthfully. She really is stunning, in that classic, elegant way some women are. She’s just very…refined? Is that the right word? Her cheekbones and jaw are sharp, her nose is straight, her blue eyes are extra bright and her full lips are the color of a classic red rose.
Her cheeks are the color of pink roses, thanks to the compliment I just gave her.
“Thank you. That’s very sweet of you to say,” she murmurs, casting her gaze downward for a brief moment before she lifts her head. “I can’t believe we’re here. Together.”
“Why do you say that?” I feel the same way, but want to hear her reasoning first before I make any confessions.
“You’re not my type,” she blurts, covering her mouth after the words escape for a brief moment before slowly dropping her hand. “Not that there’s anything wrong with you.”
I raise an eyebrow. “Gee, thanks.”
Her cheeks turn redder. “Oh goodness, I’m not trying to insult you, I just—I’m making a mess of this, and I apologize. What I meant to say is…” She takes a deep breath, exhaling loudly before she continues. “You’re not the type of man I normally date, but there’s something good to be said in that.”
She’s not the type I normally go for either, that’s for damn sure.  She’s too prim, too proper, too sweet. “Like what?”
“There’s nothing wrong with trying something a little different sometimes. Clearly who I’ve been dating in the past hasn’t worked, since I’m still single,” she says with a self-depreciating laugh.
“I thought Dickie was your ex-boyfriend,” I point out with a wince. That is the damn worst name on the planet, I swear.
“Oh, it was never too serious with Dickie.” She waves a hand. Laughs again. “That was a long time ago, though.”
“How long?”
“I don’t know. Six months? Nine?” She tilts her head, as if she’s quietly counting back the months. “Eight months, actually. During the winter. He told me I was a bright light on a cold, dreary day once. That was nice.”
For some godforsaken reason, jealousy rises within me, making me clench my fists in my lap. “I guess he’s a goddamned poet.”
I would never think to say something like that to a woman. I’m not one to say a bunch of flowery nonsense to get between a woman’s legs. I’m a little more direct.
She seems startled by my response. “Oh, he wasn’t a poet. Not at all. That was probably the nicest thing he ever said to me while we dated.”
Huh. Well, I guess that makes me feel a little better, but not much.
And why the hell do I care what her ex-boyfriend said to her? This is a one-shot deal. I’ll take her to dinner, hopefully kiss her a little bit in the back of an Uber, maybe even feel her up a little bit too, and then we’re done. I’ll play my game tomorrow, we’ll win because that’s what we do, and then head back home.
End of story.
The server returns to the table with our drinks, making an elaborate show of popping the cork on the bottle of Veuve Clicquot before pouring us each a glass. I didn’t want any champagne, but when Susanna lifts her glass toward me in a toast, I grab mine and clink our glasses together.
“To new friends,” she says, smiling prettily.
“New friends,” I agree, downing most of the champagne in one swallow.




About Monica:
Monica Murphy is the New York Times, USA Today and #1 international bestselling author of the One Week Girlfriend series, the Billionaire Bachelors and The Rules series. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and has sold over one million copies worldwide. She is both self-published and published by Random House/Bantam and Harper Collins/Avon. She writes new adult, young adult and contemporary romance.
She is a wife and a mother of three who lives in central California on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere along with their one dog and too many cats. A self-confessed workaholic, when she's not writing, she's reading or hanging out with her husband and kids. She's a firm believer in happy endings, though she will admit to putting her characters through angst-filled moments before they finally get that hard won HEA.

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