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- 06-29-24
Book 2 is by far my favorite!!
I really enjoyed this series!!! My only complaint is that I had to search the own list of books that the author wrote to find books 2 and book 3 available too (How it needs to be) I wish it was grouped together!!!!
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- Lisa X
- 01-28-24
Love Brick!
I love love loved this one!!! I had planned not to read this one just because I didn’t really care for the first book I felt it was very open ended and a lot of questions were not answered. Saw there was gonna be a fourth book and so I decided to give the second book a try. I’m so glad I did I loved Brick! He really is afraid and doesn’t want anything to do with the humans. But some thing keeps drawing him back to Trinity. The emotions of him coming off the page. How he didn’t know what was going on, how confused he was wjth these feelings. It was very well written.
Loved when he complemented her and he said, “ you smell like pancake batter and bacon grease. “
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“I like bacon. “
How sweet is that! He was trying and didnt even realize it.
I also want to mention Tucker. He is a delight to have added to the story. He made me smile and Brick’s heart melt a bit on more than one occasion.
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