I have found a new author that can blow me away with amusing banter and hilarious characters! I had so much fun reading this book and there were numerous times that I cackled out loud!
Title: By a Thread
Author: Lucy Score
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: April 23rd 2020
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Dominic was staring at me like he couldn’t decide whether to chop me into pieces or pull my hair and French kiss me.
Dominic
I got her fired. Okay, so I’d had a bad day and took it out on a bystander in a pizza shop. But there’s nothing innocent about Ally Morales. She proves that her first day of her new job… in my office… after being hired by my mother.
So maybe her colorful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality brightens up the magazine’s offices that have felt like a prison for the past year. Maybe I like that she argues with me in front of the editorial staff. And maybe my after-hours fantasies are haunted by those brown eyes and that sharp tongue.
But that doesn’t mean that I’m going to be the next Russo man to take advantage of his position. I might be a second-generation asshole, but I am not my father.
She’s working herself to death at half a dozen dead-end jobs for some secret reason she doesn’t feel like sharing with me. And I’m going to fix it all. Don’t accuse me of caring. She’s nothing more than a puzzle to be solved. If I can get her to quit, I can finally peel away all those layers. Then I can go back to salvaging the family name and forget all about the dancing, beer-slinging brunette.
Ally
Ha. Hold my beer, Grumpy Grump Face.
Author’s Note: A steamy, swoony workplace romantic comedy with a grumpy boss hero determined to save the day and a plucky heroine who is starting to wonder if there might actually be a beating heart just beneath her boss’s sexy vests.
Dominic
I got her fired. Okay, so I’d had a bad day and took it out on a bystander in a pizza shop. But there’s nothing innocent about Ally Morales. She proves that her first day of her new job… in my office… after being hired by my mother.
So maybe her colorful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality brightens up the magazine’s offices that have felt like a prison for the past year. Maybe I like that she argues with me in front of the editorial staff. And maybe my after-hours fantasies are haunted by those brown eyes and that sharp tongue.
But that doesn’t mean that I’m going to be the next Russo man to take advantage of his position. I might be a second-generation asshole, but I am not my father.
She’s working herself to death at half a dozen dead-end jobs for some secret reason she doesn’t feel like sharing with me. And I’m going to fix it all. Don’t accuse me of caring. She’s nothing more than a puzzle to be solved. If I can get her to quit, I can finally peel away all those layers. Then I can go back to salvaging the family name and forget all about the dancing, beer-slinging brunette.
Ally
Ha. Hold my beer, Grumpy Grump Face.
Author’s Note: A steamy, swoony workplace romantic comedy with a grumpy boss hero determined to save the day and a plucky heroine who is starting to wonder if there might actually be a beating heart just beneath her boss’s sexy vests.
It has been I while since I have picked up a book that had me laughing so hard! By A Thread was packed with amusing banter, flirty moments and so many swoony moments! There was some vulnerability, trust issues and stubbornness behind the characters too. Altogether, these characters were meant to be, but I could see it would be along road for the both of them.
Ally and Domincs first encounter had me laughing hard at the banter and the silly things they did to irk one another. Then it carried into Dom’s workplace when Ally started there. They really got under one another’s skin and the attraction continued to grow.
Ally and Domincs first encounter had me laughing hard at the banter and the silly things they did to irk one another. Then it carried into Dom’s workplace when Ally started there. They really got under one another’s skin and the attraction continued to grow.
Ally was a private person and kept all her issues to herself. I liked that she was willing to take on so much responsibility for the one person that she loved, despite the sacrifices she had to make. Dominic had no desire to settle down and was determined not to follow in his father’s footsteps, so he tended to keep people at a distance. He had been hurt so many times during his life and found it hard to trust people and let them into his heart. I also liked that both characters were older and I loved that about them as I could relate to them and could understand the problems that they were dealing with.
I have thoroughly enjoyed my first book by Lucy Thread and I know it was just the beginning! She pulled me into an easy going read and a world I enjoyed. All characters had their individual quirks, but that made me love the more. Even most of the secondary characters left some sort of impact on me. Dom’s grand gestures made me swoon too! It was truly a wonderful read.
I have thoroughly enjoyed my first book by Lucy Thread and I know it was just the beginning! She pulled me into an easy going read and a world I enjoyed. All characters had their individual quirks, but that made me love the more. Even most of the secondary characters left some sort of impact on me. Dom’s grand gestures made me swoon too! It was truly a wonderful read.
I have a few swoons foe you. The middle two actually go together. The banter was hilarious!
Two tables down, Charming was glaring at me while pulling up a chair next to the Linus guy I’d met in Dalessandra’s office this morning. I returned his withering stare with a phony smile and a finger-wiggling wave.
“Girl, you are the bravest person I have ever met,” Gola whispered without moving her lips.
“Your vagina must be made out of steel,” Ruth guessed.
“Aren’t they all?”
Kindle Page 67
I didn’t trust smilers.
She stuck her tongue out at me.
Ever so casually, I raised my hand and rubbed at my eye with my middle finger.
She was definitely smirking now.
“Excuse me a minute,” I said, interrupting an editor. “Do you mind typing just a little quieter? It sounds like you’re trying to stab your way through the table.”
Everyone turned to stare open-mouthed at Ally.
She looked up. Smiled. And I suddenly couldn’t wait to see what she’d do next.
“So sorry,” she offered sweetly.
I was disappointed.
Momentarily.
As soon as the table returned to their debate whether peach or rose was a better background, Ally mashed her keyboard in an obnoxious crescendo.
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“Would someone see about getting Sausage Fingers here a quieter way to take notes next time?” I said to the room in general.
There were actual audible intakes of breath.
“And if someone could see about getting Charming here a nicer personality that he could try on for meetings, that would be great,” she shot back.
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“Honey, I don’t know what that was about,” the bartender said, staring after the men. “But Vest Guy looks like he can’t decide if he wants to spank you or devour you.”
I blinked. “So I’m not imagining it?”
“That was a code nuclear. If I had lady parts and took him to bed, I’d be concerned about my vagina spontaneously exploding.”
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Lucy grew up in rural Pennsylvania with a lot of time on her hands and a big imagination. She was the oldest of three in a literary household. Dinners were often spent in silence while family members had their noses buried in books. A passion for writing took hold at five when she taught her brother to write his name on the bathroom door.
She started writing (on paper) in the second grade, first about pilgrims on the Mayflower and over the years graduated to essays, articles, blogs, and finally books.
Before becoming a full-time writer, Lucy pretended to be a normal adult by holding down jobs that included event planner, bartender, newspaper lackey, and yoga instructor.
Lucy and Mr. Lucy, enjoy spending time with their ten nieces and nephews and are determined to learn to sail so they can live on a sailboat in the Caribbean someday.
She started writing (on paper) in the second grade, first about pilgrims on the Mayflower and over the years graduated to essays, articles, blogs, and finally books.
Before becoming a full-time writer, Lucy pretended to be a normal adult by holding down jobs that included event planner, bartender, newspaper lackey, and yoga instructor.
Lucy and Mr. Lucy, enjoy spending time with their ten nieces and nephews and are determined to learn to sail so they can live on a sailboat in the Caribbean someday.
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