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Cute enough, but the ending felt a bit lacking

Bien reçu mais trace de stylo sur la couverture

Virginia

Commenté en France le 15 décembre 2019

J'ai reçu le livre avec deux autres livres commandés au bout de 2 jours, ce qui est TOP !
Par contre, voir sur la couverture des traces de stylos ça la fou mal, surtout que c'est un cadeau...

Une seconde chance facon slow burn

Belly

Commenté en France le 2 avril 2019

J'avais beaucoup aimé la première romance de l'auteure, The Hating Game, c'est comme ça que 99 Percent Mine s'est retrouvé dans ma PAL.

Ici on est sur un mélange de romances "slow burn" et "seconde chance". On suit les aventures de Darcy, une jeune femme pétillante et un peu extravagante qui a un coeur malade (pour de vrai), un frère jumeau complètement à l'opposé d'elle et un ami d'enfance, Tom, qu'elle idolâtre.

Sous sa répartie et son assurance se cache une femme hésitante, sur la réserve. Elle a du mal à se projeter dans l'avenir et compare chaque homme passant dans sa vie à Tom, l'homme parfait de son point de vue.

Ce dernier a été engagé pour rénover et vendre la maison de la défunte grand-mère des jumeaux, conformément à son testament. Mais avec Darcy sur site, il va mener de front son chantier et sa non-relation avec cette dernière. Le pauvre ne sait pas dans quoi il a mis les pieds…

Cette comédie romantique mise sur la tension et les non-dits entre Darcy et Tom. Ils se taquinent, se chamaillent, s'apprivoisent en quelque sorte. Ils ont toujours eu des sentiments l'un pour l'autre mais la vie a fait qu'ils n'auront pas eu l'audace de les avouer plus tôt. Ils ont là une seconde chance, à eux de savoir s'ils veulent risquer leur amitié pour plus.

J'ai passé un bon moment avec ces deux-là, même si parfois j'avais envie de leur hurler dessus. L'auteure nous laisse parfois trop longtemps avec les dilemmes de Darcy, ces passages m'ont paru longs parfois.

En bref, une comédie romantique qui casse un peu les codes du genre, une seconde chance façon slow burn pour un couple imparfait qui s'est longtemps cherché. J'espère que, comme moi, vous craquerez pour le personnage haut en couleurs de Darcy (et un peu pour Tom aussi !).

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I'll read anything Sally Thorne writes :)))

Claire

Commenté en France le 30 mars 2019

Do not go into this book expecting a second The Hating Game. It's far from it. The characters are completely different. The plot is different. The romance is different. What is still the same is the writing style, though the beginning was a little messy. I still enjoyed it a lot and i'm probably a bit generous with my rating but Sally Thorne wrote my favorite book and i can't give this second book a low rating. I think she put the bar so high with THG that her readers will always compare everything she writes to this book and i don't think it's fair.

I really liked the romance. Darcy was a bit annoying but the girl has flaws, like everyone. Shocker.

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Cat

Worth the wait

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 29 janvier 2019

I was lucky enough to get my hands on an advanced copy of this treat, and I can promise that it’s worth the wait.

If you’re a fan of Sally’s debut novel, The Hating Game, then you’ve likely been waiting with bated breath for her second novel. If you haven’t read The Hating Game, read 99 Percent Mine and then go grab it. I’m going to try not to compare the two, as they’re different books with different feels, but if you loved THG, you won’t be disappointed at all by this follow-up.

Darcy Barrett is our heroine and she is not a Mary Sue. She’s feisty, flighty and spoiled. She makes bad decisions and doesn’t always treat people the way she should. Bottom line: she’s flawed, but she’s also real. And likeable. And you’re with her every step of the way. Her current life situation? Stuck in town for the first time in a while after spending her early 20’s bouncing around the globe. Also in town? Tom Valeska – childhood pal, lifelong crush and her twin brother’s best friend.

Tom has been hired to renovate the twin’s Grandmother’s cottage and he’s using the job to kickstart his own business. Between dealing with a new crew and having to play peace-keeper between the twins, Tom’s learning that being the boss isn’t easy. Throw in The Darcy Problem and it makes for a novel filled with delicious slow-burn URST.

For me, the standout in this book is the writing style. I love everything about the way Sally writes. A perfect example is this line about Tom’s hair: “The texture is like a romance novel that’s fallen into the bath, then dried: vaguely sexual crinkle waves with the occasional curled edge and dog-ear.” She just has a way with words that is somehow at the same time both laconic and indulgent.

What I also like about this book is its contemporary spin on romance. Much like The Hating Game, it nails that thirst for something deeper than alpha male and breathy heroine. Yes, we all love certain tropes in romance novels, but I want my characters to be modern, fleshed out people who aren’t facsimiles of ‘perfect’. I don’t want anti-feminist male love-interests who stalk and bully and I don’t want heroines who are insipid and revolve around the males in their life. If you’re on the same page, get on the hype train for 99 Percent Mine, then go pick up The Hating Game.

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Miss N

Not as good as I hoped

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 29 janvier 2019

I am a HUGE fan of Sally’s first book (The Hating Game). I must have reread it about 10 times, so I knew I had to read this as soon as it came out.

Sally has such a distinctive writing style, which I love. Unfortunately, though, this storyline didn’t have quite the same appeal for me as THG, and it was hard not to compare the two. The slow burn enemies to lovers vibe was, for me, what made THG so amazing... the will they/won’t they storyline, and slow realisation by Lucy that she loves Josh. In 99, Darcy is pretty much obsessed with Tom from the start, which meant I wasn’t as excited to see where the story was going. Darcy was a bit annoying (a bit spoiled, very flighty, in your face, not entirely believable as a human being), Tom was a bit blah, and Jamie was just horrible to Darcy at so many points (couldn’t really see why she adored him so much). Patty the dog was kind of pointless. The romance felt a bit... over the top? And Darcy was frustratingly clueless as to how Tom felt about her (they would basically admit how they felt/nearly kiss, then the next time they spoke it was like it never happened, and she’d be talking about his ex Megan again, or saying he’d never want to be with someone like her. Weird.) If I knew her in real life, she’d drive me crazy. I just wanted a better concept and more likeable, realistic, fleshed out characters. I really wanted to love it, but I think I set myself up for a fail by wanting another amazing enemies to lovers...

I’m so sorry, Sally - I still love you and will read your next book. This one just wasn’t for me!!

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Simone Bhalla

Great read!

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 3 février 2019

So many people start the review of this book by comparing it to the previous book of this amazing author “THG”, but I won’t because even though “THG” is so precious to me this book deserves its own pure review.

It took me a bit time to get into it but then it was a great read!

Darcey was such a strong and independent chick and it seemed like she always got what she wanted but did she?

It was such an inner battle that Darcey had to go or rather hide from for so many years.
It was a story of two people who knew each other so well, were so close but yet so far apart from so many reasons.

It hurt to see how often Darcey was trying to build herself up just to be often pushed back not only due to her own doings but so many times due to her twin brother’s cruel words.

I loved Tom he was like a gentle giant with so much love to give yet with such a need of love for himself. He was full of self doubt and just wanted to find place to belong with people he loved and wanted to be loved by.

Those two were so similar even though they looked and behaved so differently. It was such a joy to see them digging more and more of theirs relationship up from all the dirt it was covered under from such a long time.

Both of them were struggling with their own demons since childhood one with a health condition another with a family situation. While reading you discover that not only those two were fighting with self doubt and the want to be accepted and included. As much as I couldn’t stand Darcey’s twin brother the more I read the more I understood of him as well.

It was a battle between the twins and poor Tom was in between those two and it was hard to choose the sides to make it work for the little bubble those 3 were living in.

It was a lovely book which touches so many feeling inside you while reading it. Sally has such a beautiful, funny and sexy way with words I absolutely adore her and her writing. You just need to experience it and then just adore it because it’s definitely worth it and so much more!

I could say so much more about this book but I will rather just recommend it to be read by others -because it is a magic which each of us should be surrounded by even if only for a couple of hours! Gorgeous book by an amazing author!!

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liv cunningham

99% mine •review•

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 15 mai 2022

99% mine •review•

ugh not another rom com where i envisioned henry cavill as the main man 😭😏😩

Darcy is a wild, free & wavering spirit in love since childhood with Tom, her twins best friend. Darcy uses travel and humour and coming off as a strong, confident woman to evade all problems and fears (i can relate girl!).

i LOVE a childhood friend to lovers trope.. a weakness of mine 🥲 but i wasn’t expecting to love Tom so much.. he is your Mr. Nice Guy (not the biggest fan but i loved it in this case) and has the purest heart and a dirty mind 😉

Darcy & Tom are legit crazy for each other, borderline obsessive. i didn’t pick up on much chemistry between the two besides this, (not like the hating game!!) but their banter was amazing

Sally Thorne has a very unique writing style- eccentric and flirtatious. i think a huge reason i enjoyed it so much was how it was written, her words bringing me vividly into the moment with the characters. i had such intense images and ideas of what was occurring, where the characters were in time and space & what they were doing.. where some romantic books i struggle to even picture what the characters look like 🤷🏼‍♀️

Thorne wrote from the chaotic place that was Darcy’s head and it was really unique- i mean this was just an all around weird book.

some of the times their relationship was just straight up annoying!! other than that, i related to Darcy.. a lot actually 😆 always running away from our problems on a flight somewhere!

i liked the underlying concept of ‘you only have one life, so there’s no need / time to be perfect’ we put so much pressure on ourselves to be perfect but at what cost?! 😩

🤍slow burn & a lil steamy 🌶
🤍childhood friend —> lovers
🤍banter & sass for days!

★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5

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Nilondoner

I. LOVE. THIS.

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 14 février 2019

Sally could write the shopping list and I would lap it up. Nobody writes chemistry and sexual tension like she does. Her love interests are my favourite. I really couldn't pick between Tom and Joshua. But I know that saucy, sexy and impulsive to the point of recklessness Darcy felt real in a way that as much as I liked Lucinda she didn't. What the hell am I going to do until her next one?

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Anika May

A fun romance, but a slight let down after The Hating Game.

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 2 avril 2021

This book went straight onto my TBR after I heard about its release, mainly because The Hating Game is one of my favourite romance books ever.

Sally Thorne’s humour is ever-present in this novel, and there were many laugh out loud moments that I liked. The dialogue between the characters was engaging, a great blend of intelligence and levity.

The protagonist, Darcy, is very intense. She’s nothing like the characters from The Hating Game, she’s brass, quick-witted, over-confident and intimidating when she wants to me. Although it put me off in parts, I did occasionally like this quality in her. She’s independent, even if she has absolutely no control over her emotions and is in need of a good hug.

Tom, her crush, is basically the dream man. He doesn’t want to be seen as perfect, but he kind of is. Open-minded, secure, romantic, humble, hard-working, generous, loving, kind and funny. By the way he’s described in the novel, he doesn’t sound real. His relationship with the Barrett family is a little confusing, he’s like their pet, but also their child, but also their slave.

There were a few cringe moments in this novel, and at times Darcy would frustrate me. While I would self-combust in many of the situations Darcy was in, her reaction to them just made me laugh. Her charming side shone through in the beginning, and the sweet moments between Darcy and Tom are what made the story great.

However, the problem for me was the sluggishness. I had to push myself to keep reading and the romance side took way too long to get going. The dynamic between Darcy and Tom just seemed plain weird until they actually got together. She was almost harassing him and there were a few eye rolls from me when reading.

There were some parts that were hard to follow. I didn’t think the bond between the twins made much sense, it was a little all over the place. The story was so slow in the beginning and then ended in 20 pages. You began with this strong set of characters, with the story being narrated by Darcy, and then it all goes downhill.

While I did enjoy the romantic bits and I made me laugh, this did fall flat for me. In comparison to The Hating Game which I can read over and over, I can’t see myself picking this up again.