"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?
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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.
My review:
OMG this book! I couldn't put it down! What I really loved that the book was written in not just Mal's and Rory's POVs but we could read a lot of character's thoughts too, which was unique. We could read for example a cow's or a chocolate bar's thoughts too. :D These jokes aside, it was really good to see what the other characters thought in this story. It was really good.
Don't let the little things in life bother you.
It's a second chance romance. Rory and Mal were so young when they first met. I think it was love at first sight. But they had different life, they lived in different continent. I understood why Rory didn't want to stay in Ireland and why she thought a relationship between her and Mal couldn't work.
Life is too short to get caught up in the small things.
They met again 8 years later. I loved them more in these chapters, they changed a lot, but something happened with Mal. His secrets and his behavior made the story more interesting. I couldn't stop reading because I wanted to know more about his past, why he became so heartless and why was he so mad at Rory.
Old flames burn you all the same.
I loved reading about how he stopped with his revenge, how he and his feelings changed again.
Find what you love and let it kill you.
First he didn't say anyhing about his past because of his revenge, later he didn't know how to tell her what happened with him, he didn't want to hurt Rory. Honestly I was angry with him because he kept Rory in the dark for so long, but these secrets made the story so interesting, I couldn't stay mad at him.
Loving someone is willingly accepting that they can destroy you.
In the Unlikely Event was a romantic, funny, angsty and sexy story. I liked the character's connection, I think Rory and Mal was a perfect couple, soul mates.
But love comes in different sizes and shapes, and it's not always the full range of positive feelings you imagine when you think about it.
There were a few hot scenes in the book, which I really liked (ok, maybe I didn't like the scene with the chocolate bar...). I liked the characters, the plot and the author's style despite the fact that this book was different from her other books.
I loved it! And I love the cover! Go grab it! 5*
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Véleményem:
Úr Isten, azt a könyvet le se tudtam tenni. Ami nagyon tetszett, hogy nemcsak a két főszereplő Rory és Mal nézőpontjából ismerhettük meg a történetet, hogy még jó pár szereplő gondolatait is olvashattuk, ami különlegessé tette a könyvet. Sőt még egy tehén és egy csoki "gondolatait" is megismehettük! :D Na jó, ezeket a poénokat leszámítva tényleg jó volt olvasni, hogy a mellékszereplők mit éreztek, gondoltak egy egy szituációban.
Rory és Mal még fiatal volt, mikor először találkoztak. Úgy gondolom szerelem volt első látásra, de teljesen más életet éltek, teljesen más kontinensen éltek. Megértem Rory miért nem maradt és miért gondolta úg, hogy nem működne egy távkapcsolat közte és Mal között.
8 év után találkoztak újra. Személy szerint én ezeket, a jelenben játszódó fejezeteket jobban szerettem. Mindketten sokat változtak, felnőttek. Az eltelt évek alatt viszont történt valami Mal-lal, ami miatt sokszor undok módon bánt Rory-val, és láthatóan mérges volt rá. Az, hogy mi történt vele, mi a titka, és úgy összességében a viselkedése tette igazán izgalmassá a könyvet. Emiatt le se tudtam tenni a könyvet, mert tudni akartam mi történt a múltban, és miért viselkedik úgy ahogy.
De amit igazán szerettem olvasni, az az volt, hogyan változtak meg Mal érzelmei, hogyan adta fel a bosszúját.
Mal először azért titkolózott mert bosszút akart állni, később mikor felszínre kerültek a régi gyengéd érzelmek, nem akarta bántani Rory-t, nem tudta hogyan tálalja mindazt, ami a múltban történt.
Őszintén szólva én mérges voltam rá, mert nagyon sokáig nem mondta el az igazságot Rory-nak, de mivel a titkok tették izgalmassá a történetet, nem tudtam sokáig haragudni rá.
Összességében tetszett a történet, azt mondanám, hogy ez egy jó romantikus, vicces, szexi sztori. Szerettem olvasni a főhősök kapcsolatáról, szerintem tökéletesek voltak együtt, igazi lélektársak.
Néhány forró jelenettel is találkozhatunk a könyvben, amik tetszettek (többnyire... pl a csokis jelenet nem annyira...) Szerettem a karaktereket, a cselekményt és a stílust is, annak ellenére, hogy ez a könyv azért egy kicsit eltért az írónő eddigi könyveitől. 5*
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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