The Hopeless Romantics Book Blog is pleased to be part of the Blog Tour for Monica Murphy's "Thinking About You (Forever Yours #2)."
Amazon.com: https://amzn.to/2SFLCgJ
Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/2RtbjDB
Synopsis:
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.
Review: Jo
Towards the end of last year, I had not been reading as much as I usually do, however the moment I began "Thinking About You", my reading mojo returned and I read this book in only a few days. I can always rely on a Monica Murphy novel to get me back on track. I had been patiently waiting for Cannon and Susanna's book since finishing "You Promised Me Forever." The couple had piqued my interest and I had a feeling that their romance was going to be something special. I wasn't disappointed. I loved so many things about Cannon and Susanna's story. It was a love that was both sweet and fun but also hot and steamy in parts. It was everything that I had hoped it would be.
"No one makes me tingle with just a kiss like you do, Cannon Whittaker."
Cannon and Susanna were both so easy to love characters. Cannon reminded me of a big teddy bear, all cute and lovable. He was also so lovely with Susanna, I had a big grin on my face with how sweet he was with his girl. Susanna was a caring and loving girl who just seemed to be so perfectly matched with Cannon.. I enjoyed that Susanna was British, giving the story a little twist and also adding a bit of a challenge to the couple's growing relationship It was so heartwarming to see this adorable pair together.
"I'm a different man with Susanna by my side. There's so much still to learn and do,
but I know without a doubt that she's the woman for me."
"Thinking About You" was an easy to read standalone romance that was filled with sweetness and light. I enjoyed every minute of being in Canon and Susanna's world. I was sad when it ended. It gets ❤️❤️❤️❤️ from me.
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.
Connect with Monica:
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1YUl0Vm
Website: http://monicamurphyauthor.com
Mailing List:: http://bit.ly/IW5U0y
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