{"id":524,"date":"2018-09-23T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T18:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twobooksinashelf.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2018-09-23T15:57:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T18:57:06","slug":"lancamento-dating-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twobooksinashelf.com\/index.php\/lancamento-dating-the-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lan\u00e7amento – Dating the Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Para comemorar o lan\u00e7amento de Dating the Enemy, n\u00f3s temos um trecho do livro para voc\u00ea e em breve teremos nossa resenha. Boa leitura!<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

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To celebrate the release of Dating the Enemy we have an excerpt for you today and soon we’ll have our review available. Happy Reading!<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\u201cSo?\u201d His head lowered toward mine. \u201cHave you fallen in love with me yet?\u201d
\nA single-noted laugh escaped from me. \u201cNo. Sorry to burst your bubble.\u201d
\n\u201cYou know it\u2019s only a matter of time.\u201d
\n\u201cBefore our three months are up and, lo and behold, I haven\u2019t fallen madly in love with you?\u201d I said. \u201cYeah, I know that.\u201d
\nHe held out my glass of cider, scooting closer. \u201cAm I really that offensive?\u201d
\n\u201cTaken as a whole, no, you\u2019re not. But taking this whole set-up into account, along with your beliefs that love is for weak-minded ninnies, then yes. You really are so offensive.\u201d
\nA half smile emerged. \u201cWhat do your readers think about this whole thing?\u201d
\n\u201cMy readers definitely don\u2019t want me falling for you,\u201d I answered.
\n\u201cBut your readers love romance, and some handsome, roguish fellow taking your hand in a park while you\u2019re dressed in a white dress is the definition of romance.\u201d Right then, Brooks\u2019s hand covered mine where it was resting on the blanket.
\nInstead of stiffening or whipping away, I found myself relaxing under his touch. The camera\u2019s presence screamed at me from the corner of my eye.
\n\u201cMy readers believe in finding the one.\u201d My hand slipped from beneath his. \u201cNot the one who takes your hand and pretends to like you so he gets the promotion.\u201d
\n\u201cWho says I couldn\u2019t be your one?\u201d
\nI laughed. \u201cEven I don\u2019t need to run the numbers to know that has about a one-in-an-impossible chance of happening.\u201d
\nBrooks slid his glasses onto his head, his eyes unapologetic in their stare. \u201cYou and me? You couldn\u2019t see it?\u201d
\n\u201cNot even a little.\u201d I had to look away. \u201cWhen it\u2019s right, you know it. You feel it.\u201d
\nBrooks\u2019s head shook before he took a drink of his cider. \u201cI admit, it\u2019s a nice idea. But don\u2019t you feel it inside? The realization that it\u2019s just not true?\u201d He stared out at the park and the people in it.
\nI gazed with him, trying to ignore that pit opening up in my stomach. \u201cI\u2019d rather spend my life chasing a dream than swallowing a cruel reality.\u201d
\n\u201cYou\u2019d rather spend your life lying to yourself than being honest?\u201d Brooks asked.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t think any of what I believe is a lie. Soul mates, unconditional love, happy endings\u2014it\u2019s all real.\u201d
\n\u201cFairy tales,\u201d he muttered under his breath. \u201cSo explain why a marriage dissolves after twenty years because of fifteen minutes of indiscretion.\u201d
\nReaching for my glass, I answered, \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t have if he kept it in his pants.\u201d
\nHe blew out a sharp breath. \u201cNo, that\u2019s like saying twenty years, our kids, our house, our finances, everything is worth less than that fifteen minutes of fucking.\u201d His arms threw out, his tone rather impassioned. \u201cThat\u2019s not unconditional love. That\u2019s the very conditional kind.\u201d
\n\u201cYou\u2019re right. It is the conditional kind. On the part of the one who engaged in the fifteen minutes of extra marital . . .\u201d I just caught the cameraman\u2019s hands flailing before I said, \u201cScrewing. That was one-sided unconditional love, and that never works in a relationship.\u201d
\nOne of his brows rose. \u201cThat\u2019s a convenient explanation. But I\u2019ll stick to my beliefs that all of that unconditional love junk is worth its weight in bullshit.\u201d
\nI shot the cameraman an apologetic look\u2014so much for keeping this date in the PG realm. \u201cThen how do you explain the couples it has worked for? The ones who live a long, happy, committed relationship together.\u201d
\n\u201cI call it a case of two determined people willing to overlook each other\u2019s weaknesses and not be hell-bent on changing or fixing the other, who\u2019ve figured out a way to laugh at themselves, forgive easily\u2014not to mention often\u2014perfect the fine balance of selflessness and selfish, and on top of that, won the relationship lottery.\u201d Brooks clinked his glass against mine before finishing what was left of his cider. \u201cThat\u2019s how I explain that.\u201d
\nI blinked at him. \u201cWow. Don\u2019t hold back or anything.\u201d
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About the author<\/h2>\n
Nicole Williams is the New York Times and USATODAY bestselling author of contemporary and young adult romance, including the Crash and Lost & Found series. Her books have been published by HarperTeen and Simon & Schuster in both domestic and foreign markets, while she continues to self-publish additional titles. She is working on a new YA series with Crown Books (a division of Random House) as well. She loves romance, from the sweet to the steamy, and writes stories about characters in search of their happily even after. She grew up surrounded by books and plans on writing until the day she dies, even if it\u2019s just for her own personal enjoyment. She still buys paperbacks because she\u2019s all nostalgic like that, but her kindle never goes neglected for too long. When not writing, she spends her time with her husband and daughter, and whatever time\u2019s left over she\u2019s forced to fit too many hobbies into too little time.Nicole is represented by Jane Dystel, of Dystel and Goderich Literary Agency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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