WWW Wednesday 28th July 2021

I’ve been having an absolutely horrendous month, in the reading department and just in general. I am doing my best to power through it, even though I feel terribly rusty, so let’s begin.

WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Taking On A World Of Books (previously hosted by A Daily Rhythm). If you decide to join in just answer these three questions: What are you reading now? What did you read recently? What will you read next? And then comment and leave a link to your post there. Then you can go and check out what everyone else is reading!

Currently Reading:

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she’s even better at getting away with murder.

Every year, she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she’s avoided drawing attention to herself—but as she’s preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus. Determined to keep her enemies close, Scarlett insinuates herself into the investigation and charms the woman in charge, Dr. Mina Pierce. Everything’s going according to her master plan… until she loses control with her latest victim, putting her secret life at risk of exposure.

Meanwhile, Gorman student Carly Schiller is just trying to survive her freshman year. Finally free of her emotionally abusive father, all Carly wants is to focus on her studies and fade into the background. Her new roommate has other ideas. Allison Hadley is cool and confident—everything Carly wishes she could be—and the two girls quickly form an intense friendship. So when Allison is sexually assaulted at a party, Carly becomes obsessed with making the attacker pay… and turning her fantasies about revenge into a reality.

I actually picked the book up once at the start of the year and I was not really into it, but now I am very invested in what is happening — the twist was amazing.

Recently Read:

Take A Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits—someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom.

When brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it’s an obvious sign: PhD student Dani and ex-rugby player Zaf are destined to sleep together. But before she can explain that fact, a video of the heroic rescue goes viral. Now half the internet is shipping #DrRugbae—and Zaf is begging Dani to play along. Turns out, his sports charity for kids could really use the publicity. Lying to help children? Who on earth would refuse?

Dani’s plan is simple: fake a relationship in public, seduce Zaf behind the scenes. The trouble is, grumpy Zaf’s secretly a hopeless romantic—and he’s determined to corrupt Dani’s stone-cold realism. Before long, he’s tackling her fears into the dirt. But the former sports star has issues of his own, and the walls around his heart are as thick as his… um, thighs.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

I was quite upset about the fact that I hadn’t read anything all of July, so I decided to try rereading a romance novel I enjoyed and, as you can see, it worked. This book is delightful — the conflicts don’t feel forced and falsified and Zaf and Dani really have a lot of chemistry with each other. The family dynamics in this book also feel very real.

Reading Next:

I’ve been meaning to check out The Bride Test by Helen Hoang, but I am not sure if I’ll still feel romance-y when I’m done with They Never Learn, so everything is back up in the air.

Take care!