I want to meet Sally Thorne and to crawl inside her head and make a little nest in there, picking though the shiny thoughts in her brain and examining them and making little suncatchers out of them. She writes heroines who are these intriguing, charismatic, glorious, deeply weird, wonderful women and I want to be best friends with all of them.
I started reading 99 Percent Mine after work on a Thursday afternoon and I didn't put it down until 1 a.m. when I'd turned the last page, which of course meant I woke up Friday morning suffering terribly from a book hangover. Normally that would mean morning-me cussing out last-night-me for her terrible decisions, but this book was so good I'm not even mad. This book hit me so hard and so deeply that even the next day I can tell you that it was at exactly the 25% mark that my heart first cracked, and at exactly the 50% mark that it broke all the way open and I knew I'd be keeping Darcy and Tom forever in a little box in my heart (along with lots of candy and marshmallows, of course.) (They can live in a little box right next to the one Lucy and Josh from The Hating Game live in with their Smurfs and matchbox cars.)
Darcy is smudgy panda girl make-up and leather pants, cuss words and a bitchy bartender on the outside, but inside she's overly sweet wine, colored marshmallows, and a broken heart. She's such a contradiction of hard and soft, tough and sweet, and her vulnerability is so real and raw. She isn't taking proper care of herself and she clearly has some issues she needs to work through. Through this whole book I wanted to hug her close and also yell at everyone to take better care of her; which, actually, she'd probably appreciate the hug and tell me to piss off and that she can take care of herself.
Tom is amazing and I love Darcy's fanciful imaginings of him as some sort of cross between a sled dog and a tiger, haha. I wish that the reader got more of a look into his POV, but since the book is told in the first person present tense from Darcy's POV we only get what she observes (and a few clues that the reader can read into that Darcy notes but then doesn't read into for her own reasons, usually self-preservation).
I even love the side characters. Darcy's twin Jamie is a giant jerk, but I even come to like him in the last few chapters and he gets his own special corner where he's allowed to come vacation in Darcy and Tom's box in my heart. Truly is cute and I'd love to see a novella or short story about her. The guys on Tom's crew and Darcy's coworker at the bar Holly and especially Tom's little chihuahua Peppermint Patty and the deceased but still very present grandma Loretta all made an impact on me.
I had really high hopes for 99 Percent Mine, especially since The Hating Game is one of my favorite books, so I was kind of scared to read it because there's no way it could meet to high expectations... Wrong, so wrong. This is my favorite book I've read all year. It's so very different from The Hating Game, but the essence or spirit or style - maybe it's the Sally Thorne of it - is still there and I adore it. Don't ask me which book I like better, because I'm not sure I can choose.
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4 SWEET FRIENDS-TO-LOVERS STARS!
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne was one of my favorite reads of 2018. When the news that Sally was writing a new book came out, I was over the moon! I pre-ordered the paperback and put my heart out there to try and receive an early copy. Low in behold the universe loves me and heard my prayers because I got it!! 💃🏼. I squealed like a pig in the mud. I digress, let's get to the matter at hand.At first I was put off by some of low reviews, shocked actually. Then I started the book and I'm not going to lie, it began a bit slow. I had a hard time liking the heroine, Darcy but as I started reading and getting deeper into the story I found myself not being able to stop. I was on the edge every step of the way!I was swooning over Tom Valeska. He is this quiet, timid, and brooding brute of a man. A construction worker. His own boss, always ready to help his family, the Barret twins. His relationship with Darcy was stranded. He's always had feelings for her but Jamie always seemed to have all his attention since they were kids. Darcy on the other hand felt like a burden because of her heart condition. She loved Tom from afar, never realizing Tom loved her back.Darcy struggles to find herself and her identity away from her twin brother. After the death of their grandmother, Lorretta, Darcy and Jamie are left a cottage which she stipulates in her will that it must be renovated. She and Jaime have different views on how they want things to go. Darcy has so many memories at the cottage that it's so hard for her to let it go... And with Tom being the contractor you can imagine the sparks are flying! The attraction and chemistry between him and Darcy was so intense. It was just a lot of pent up feelings and the build up was so frustrating.99 Percent Mine was nothing like THG. It was so different yet still good. Slow burn with a mix of friends-to-lovers/best-friend's sister all rolled up into one. I loved it! I loved the angst. Those moments where Darcy felt lost, hurt part of my soul. Though I really would have loved to get inside Tom's head and there were times I wanted to slap Jamie, I truly enjoyed this book and I seriously couldn't put it down. It's one of those books I say you take a risk on and don't let others opinions about it influence you. Go in blind, head first... You may just be surprised!
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