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What is the favorite book you remember as a child?
Lauren: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. My dad gave me a copy he found in the bargain bin for $1 when I was 11 years old and we were on a family vacation at the beach. He wrote on the inside cover about how it was one of his favorite series at my age. It was the first time I think I remember someone treating me so selflessly. He knew I didn’t like to go to the beach much (I always got sunburned, curse of the redhead with porcelain skin) and that I’d be much happier reading. That I liked books. After that, he made it a habit to pick up books he would think I like, and write inscriptions on the inside. About how I reminded him of a certain character or describing some of the locations in the books if he’d traveled there. He gave me my first copy of Pride & Prejudice, and sent me books when I lived far away through the mail. I have a whole shelf of ‘Daddy books’ in my library. And the first one was The Hobbit. I read it, loved it, and read the rest of the series. My dad and I went to see every movie on opening night. Just the two of us. And those memories, that part of my life, it’s incredibly precious to me. So The Hobbit is my favorite, but only because it was the first book in a very long tradition of showing love and care through words with someone very dear to my heart.
What are you reading right now?
Abbie: I just finished reading Girls of Storm & Shadow, the sequel to Girls of Paper & Fire and it was a fantastic YA fantasy full of diverse characters!
E-Reader or print? and why?
Abbie: Both! And you can't forget audiobooks! I think whatever way a person consumes stories is valid. I really love paperbacks, to feel the pages in my hands, but it's not always feasible to carry a physical book, so I typically read on phone apps. I will say, I tend to read e-books faster than paper, but I enjoy consuming them in any form!
Least favorite book you've read this year?
Abbie: Ugh. Alright, no shade to the Outlander family out there, but I really did not enjoy Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon. The novel took about five years to be released, and it is super long. I put off reading it because I knew how thick it was. I finally sucked it up and read it a few weeks ago and found myself asking why so often that I couldn't really enjoy it as much as I wanted to. At this point, I'm only reading the series to see what happens. I'm too invested at this point!
When do you do most of your reading?
Abbie: First thing in the morning! I live along with my pups, so I don't have a family that I have to help prepare for the day. I work my day job from home, so I get up at 5 AM, brew a pot of coffee, and read until my workday begins. It's a ritual that I need, otherwise my day doesn't quite get off to the right start.
Favorite place to read?
Lauren: In bed. I’m about to renovate a room in my house that I use as my library and office, and I think by the time I’m finished with the room my favorite place will be in there. But, at this particular stage of my life, my bedroom is the only place where I can have a measure of peace required to actually sit down and read and be comfortable and not distracted. The joys of having a toddler! LOL!
Do you loan your books?
Lauren: Only to Abbie. I mean, I would loan more books but I honestly don’t have a lot of friends or family who read the same things that I do. Even my husband and I read in really different genres so I don’t actually have a ton of people to lend books to. But I mean, I trust Abbie implicitly and she’s always really respectful of my books. So, there’s been several times we go to each others houses and basically just like… shop for our next reads on each other’s shelves. LOL!
How do you keep your books organized?
Lauren: Organized? What’s that? You mean you don’t have them in random stacks all over the place that make sense to you and only you and for absolutely no reason at all? … I think that answers that question. *hides eyes*
What would make you not finish a book?
Abbie: Problematic content. It's very rare that I will DNF a book. As an author, I know how I feel when someone doesn't read my work all of the way through. But if there are triggering topics that I wasn't warned about, if the characters do something problematic and I can't understand the reasoning, or if the story feels like it's in any way derogatory toward marginalized people, I just cannot finish it.
Keep books or give them away?
Lauren: I hoard books like it’s my mission in life. It’s a problem. In fact, I read somewhere that if you have 1,000 books in a room it is considered a library? I’m not sure if that’s true… but if it is… I am dangerously close to printing my own library of Lauren cards. LOL! I can’t get rid of any of them, and I keep getting more and more from family and just… I even have multiples of the same books… it’s a real problem. LOL!
A deadly showdown with a murderous outlaw ripped Bonnie away from the relative peace and ragtag family she’d built at the end of Guns & Smoke. In the thrilling next chapter in The Fool’s Adventure series, we finally get the answer to the biggest question: What happened to Bonnie?
After three years of fighting to get her back, literally, Jesse James finds her in the most unlikely of places-- New Orleans high society. With the help of his rival-turned-friend Will Ellis, and a sassy staff member, Jesse’s tasked with infiltrating the house of the man he believes was responsible for killing his parents in order to get her back. Jesse’s biggest challenge yet will be learning to fight for Bonnie in a way he never expected before: by fitting in.
Mired in high society politics and scheming, Bonnie is at the epicenter of one of the most ruthless gangs in the world. Years trapped in a gilded cage of wealth and lies has irrevocably changed her from a crass outlaw into a southern debutante. Gone is the dangerous glint in her eyes, replaced with suspicion when the devilishly handsome street fighter named Montana suddenly joins her father’s staff.
Can Jesse remind Bonnie of who she really is in time to keep her from giving her heart and hand away or will he discover that the wild, beautiful outlaw he fell in love with is truly gone?
“Stop staring at me like that.” I shut the stall door and retrieved my cigarette case to still my twitching fingers. It was smeared with blood, my hands sticky as it dried in thick streaks over my knuckles and palms. If it weren’t for Jesse, I’d have gone back to my apartment. Taken a cold shower. Cold enough to make me feel something again.
I couldn’t stop staring at my hands. The crimson faded into dark rust, settled into the lines of my skin, like a system of rivers. Everything brought me back to the fucking river and the bridge across it.
“Let’s get you cleaned up.” His voice was gruff. I shook my head as he started toward the back house. Seb would be waiting up for me, with dark circles under his disappointment-laced eyes. Just the thought of him seeing me like this, the things he would say . . . my chest tightened uncomfortably. Until I couldn't breathe.
“I can’t—” I said, the words strangled from between my lips, tortured. Jesse seemed to understand, and he changed direction, leading me toward the kitchen instead. My feet were clumsier than they’d been earlier tonight, my exhaustion catching up with me all at once. Jesse glanced at me from the corner of his eye, brows furrowed in concern.
Not that I deserved it.
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