Title: Almost Just Friends
Author: Jill Shalvis
ISBN: 9781472269584
© 2020 Jill Shalvis
Piper Manning’s about as tough as they come, she’s had to be. She raised her siblings and they’ve thankfully flown the coop.
All she has to do is finish fixing up the lake house her grandparents left her, sell it, and then she’s free.
When a huge storm hits, she runs into a tall, dark and brooding stranger, Camden Reid. There’s a spark there, one that shocks
her. Surprising her further, her sister and brother return, each of them holding their own secrets. The smart move would be for
Piper to ignore them all but Cam unleashes emotions deep inside of her that she can’t deny, making her yearn for something she
doesn’t understand. And her siblings…well, they need each other.
Only when the secrets come out, it changes everything Piper thinks she knows about her family, herself…and Cam. With the
chance of a new life she craves within her grasp, can she find a way to let go and embrace it?
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Finished reading on 16-1-25
p.77
[ He was shoving his phone in a pocket when he heard something, a crinkling sound, like maybe there was a rodent riffling
around in the pantry. After that last storm, he wouldn't be surprised if an entire colony had moved in. Moving silently to the
pantry door, he accessed the flashlight on his phone and ... yanked it open.
Not a rodent.
Piper. She was sitting on a five-gallon container of cat food, inhaling a family-sized bag of cheese-puffs and -shock- writing in
her journal. Not as jumpy as Winnie, not even close, his badass sister merely lifted her gaze, casual as you please, and her
brows went up.
"My alone time is for your safety," she said around a mouthful of cheese puffs. ]
This is one of the scenes that made me laugh out loud. Piper is anal about writing in her journals. She just needs to put her
thoughts and wants into lists and such. Her friend and colleague, Jenna, makes fun of her in the very first chapter of the book
because of it. They’re sitting in a bar where a surprise party for her birthday is taking place. A birthday she’d rather forget.
P. 3
[ You know one day those eyeballs are going to fall right out of your head, right?”
Ignoring this, Piper went back to what she’d been doing before being so rudely interrupted by all the love. Making a list. She
was big on bullet journaling. She’d had to be. Making notes and lists had saved her life more than once. And yes, she knew she
could do it all on a notes app on her phone instead, but her brain wasn’t wired that way. Nope, she had to do everything the hard
way and write that shit down by hand like in the Dark Ages. ]
This paragraph immediately made clear to me what kind of person Piper is: a bit grumpy, not liking to be the center of attention,
and a bit on the sarcastic side. I love that.
This is definitely a feel-good-romance novel in which there are no casualties and everyone is happy and in a loving relationship
at the end. It was an easy and fun read, but I don’t think I would read it again, so this book will be released into the wild for
others to enjoy.
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