The Author's Voice: A Reflection on Penn's Writing Style and World-Building

One thing that stands out about Penn's writing is their ability to include thought-provoking themes and character development within their stories. Like I appreciate the inclusion of Noah from Credence, staying at Dylan, Jared, Trent, and Tate's house, which adds a new layer of complexity to the narrative. This character's presence may not be a potential love interest, but it's undeniable that readers would enjoy seeing this dynamic play out.

Falling for You, Part Two: A Review

I've just finished reading Falling Boys, and I think it's safe to say that I'll give it four stars. Overall, I found this story to be enjoyable, with a focus on the romance at its center. The author's style has evolved, and while some readers may find their previous work more engaging, I appreciated the cohesion and clarity of this narrative. One aspect that stood out was the inclusion of an author's note, which provided insight into Penn's personal experiences writing Credence and Arrows. This added a unique layer to the story, as it felt like they were drawing from their own life.

A Coherent Plot

While some readers may find certain aspects of the plot confusing or unclear, I found Falling Boys to be well-structured and engaging. The inclusion of a "story within a story" – such as the tale of Green Street Reeves – added depth to the narrative without overwhelming the reader. However, there were moments where the pacing felt slightly uneven, particularly in the resolution of the conflict involving Reeves and the marauders.

The Romance: A Quiet yet Satisfying Focus

One aspect that I appreciated about Falling Boys was its quiet focus on romance. While some readers may find group scenes or other tropes to be off-putting, this narrative avoided those pitfalls altogether. Instead, it concentrated on the emotional journeys of its characters, particularly Arrow and her siblings as they navigate their relationships with Jax and Juliet. This approach allowed for a more intimate exploration of the plot, making it feel both personal and satisfying.

Supporting Characters: A Newfound Appreciation

I was delighted to see the supporting cast receive increased attention in this narrative. The way that Hero is treated at the end of the story felt genuinely earned, providing a sense of closure and resolution that was satisfying to witness. This focus on character development added weight to the overall narrative, making it feel more substantial and engaging.

A Preview for the Next Book

As I finished reading Falling Boys, I caught a glimpse of what's to come in the next installment. The preview left me excited, eager to learn more about this world and its characters. While some readers may find the cliffhanger endings to be frustrating, I appreciated the way that Penn managed to balance closure with the need for further exploration.

The Author's Note: A Window into Penn's Past

Penn's author's note was a fascinating addition to the narrative, providing insight into their personal experiences writing Credence and Arrows. This glimpse into their past added depth to the story, making it feel more grounded in reality. It's clear that Penn drew from their own life when crafting this tale, infusing it with a sense of authenticity that resonated deeply.

A Review of Their Style

In contrast to other authors, Penn's style feels distinct and recognizable. While some readers may find certain aspects of their writing to be off-putting, I appreciated the quiet focus on romance that defined Falling Boys. This narrative avoided group scenes or other tropes, instead concentrating on the emotional journeys of its characters.

A Vlog for Comparison

I recently re-watched my Credence vlog, and while it was enjoyable in a different way, I couldn't help but feel that this experience was more low-key. Penn's writing style is distinct, and while some readers may find it appealing, others may not. For me, the quiet focus on romance and character development made Falling Boys a compelling read.

A Message to Readers

If you're still reading this article, I hope you'll consider diving into Falling Boys for yourself. While it may not be the most jaw-dropping narrative, its quiet focus on romance and character development made for an engaging read. If you're not interested in group scenes or other tropes, then Falling Boys might be the perfect story for you.

The Future of Penn's Writing

As I conclude this review, I'm excited to see what the future holds for Penn's writing. With Falling Boys as a precursor, I have high hopes that their next installment will continue to evolve and refine their style. While some readers may find certain aspects of their writing off-putting, I believe that Penn has the potential to create something truly special.

Conclusion

Falling Boys was a charming narrative that provided a welcome respite from the stresses of everyday life. With its focus on romance and character development, this story felt both intimate and satisfying. As I look forward to Penn's next project, I'm eager to see how their writing style continues to evolve and refine itself.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello welcome back to my channel i hope y'all are having a good day whenever you've decided to click on this video today's saturday for me i just got done with lunch and uh picking up my wedding dress it finally came in i'm getting married later this year and i'm hyped for it what i'm even more hyped for what is more immediate is my vlog of false boys which is what we're doing today i am really hyped to finally read this book i say finally it did come out i think like early last week but i am hyped to read it i've seen a lot of mixed reviews on goodreads from my friends some people have given this five stars some people have given it two stars i'm excited to see where i no pun intended fall i've had some kind of like mixed luck with penelope's work in the past year or so credence was kind of like borderline for me i ended up rating that one really highly i think if i reread it now i wouldn't love it and then any release after that has been unfortunately like two or three stars for me like i just have not had the best luck with their most recent releases but i'm ready to be proved wrong and or i'm ready to be surprised and excited and i'm hoping that this book really delivers so i have already started that's why i am in my car telling you about it 12 in i initially was feeling like not great about it but then the way this last chapter ended i think it's like the second chapter of the book i am feeling a little bit hopeful so the story is about our two main characters arrow a girl from kind of the wrong side of the tracks and our hero hawkin aka hawk trent he is the son of jackson and juliet aka kc from the fall away series so a lot has happened in the little bit that i've read of this book so far we have arrow who i believe is a drug runner from like the wrong side of the tracks and she is trying to collect money at the very start of the story and she unfortunately kind of fumbles the bag in a literal sense and is forced to go to kind of like the good part of town and steal from people i think is kind of like the thought behind it we actually aren't following her as she's going on this mission she knows that she needs to get the money and then we switch to hawke's point of view we have hawk who is trying to just like protect his family and protect his town and just get through some i think he recently graduated high school he's going off to college this year or this next year i think it's like the summer time and whenever arrow comes into this like kind of bar slash hangout space for all of the rich kids of shelburne falls he has to kind of like fight off arrow because she is like collecting money from hawks cousin dylan i want to say her name is something like that and arrow is trying to be like a little bit rough and tumble with some of the people in the establishment because she's not from the side of the tracks and hawk is like what the like you can't come in here and try to like beat people's asses to collect money for like drugs or burner phones because i think she like has burner phones that she sells these kids but hawk ends up having to kind of like chase her down because she leaves the bar after not being able to obtain the money she needs to like pay back the person that she gets the drugs i i don't really know her part in things i'm pretty sure she's just a runner but there's a sort of like altercation that ends up taking place this arrow ends up going to the houses of the trench and like stealing something from them like an heirloom that doesn't really like have any monetary value and so hawk ends up like chasing her to this lake i want to say something like that when some goes down basically hawk ends up trying to save arrow from getting arrested by the cops because he knows that she can't really afford to do this like he's probably going to get off easy she wouldn't so he ends up trying to help her she ends up sort of bungling it but he i think like destroys a cop car there's just a lot that's gone down in this past chapter i honestly can't remember the fine details because my short term memory is pretty at the moment but i was a little concerned when i first started this book because i didn't really like the darker tone that it was taking something about the follow away series i like is that it is a bully romance series but it does have this sort of like a lightheartedness but even tone like it's not super dark it's not super light it just is it is like very much based in reality i feel like and i feel like a lot of penelope's work lately has been very dark and very overly long and there's a lot of plot not a lot of romance so i'm hoping that this book doesn't really fall into that trap printed we've had no romance yet which kind of makes sense we're only 12 in but i don't feel like it's overly dark i feel like it's giving a little bit of a throwback to the follow away series because there was like street racing and stuff in that series so it's not like it was devoid of plot or like risky so this one definitely has some elements of that and i'm hoping that it kind of stays in that sort of like middle ground middle course situation like i don't want it to be super dark i just i mean i can handle it i just like don't think that that's the most exciting thing ever it's like you can't i was gonna say that you can't make every book dark but i mean i guess if that's your thing whatever but i just i don't i don't like that that's the direction that things have been taking lately and i feel like this one is hopefully gonna be less dark anyway i feel like i've been rambling for a hot minute i keep having cars pass me by and i have to like stop for a second before i can keep filming so i feel like this has not been super super glued together and like you know like brain brainwave coherent i can't talk today i am gonna go i'm gonna go home i'm gonna keep reading this book i'm gonna keep you posted i'm gonna give you my thought by thought feelings just like i did for credence i feel like i should do this for every penelope release but honestly if this one doesn't go super well i don't know how much pen i'm gonna be reading in the future you can only be let down so many times but i'll i'll be back with more thoughts trying to get the the buffalo sauce on my shirt out of frame i'm 20 into false boys boys it's such a weird title to say out loud things are heating up not in a sexual manner but in the sense that the plot is carrying on in a direction that i'm actually enjoying i think i don't speak too soon but i think that i'm enjoying it ero and hawk i think i was trying to say previously are in this sort of situation where hawk has kind of compromised arrow he has stolen some of the d-r-u-g-s i honestly don't know how the like demonetization works when you're talking about stuff like this but i'm gonna say goods from now on how about that let's do that he ends up taking some of the goods that arrow had in the back of her car that she stole it wasn't her car she stole someone's car during this whole like trying to get away sort of situation he ends up getting rid of a lot of these goods and arrow can't go back empty-handed right like she's gonna get completely messed up if she goes back like she's not gonna have a good time and then neither is hawk also pissed off the police so they're kind of out looking for him i think so they're both kind of a bad situation and they kind of have to team up i don't think that era wants to team up she ends up going to her mom's house where her two siblings are and she's trying to like get money or like get resources from there in that process she has like kind of an altercation with the stepfather and instead of getting herself into deeper hawk is there for some reason i guess he like followed her to that house saves her again for like the second time takes her to this like lair or back to the lair i can't remember the order of things hawk has access to this and this is where he's going to hide arrow they have to like team up together i guess or he's trying to convince her that they should team up and it's interesting we are getting some like connections between this series and the first series and we're also kind of understanding character dynamics between the s not siblings but i guess the cousins and stuff of the children of the fall away series and in some ways i'm enjoying that in some ways i'm not i feel like it's a little bit heavy-handed at times and it can kind of like bog down some of the plot and or i don't have to be consistently thinking in my head okay wait is it important to know that these relationships are the way that they are at this point is it just like something that's supposed to entertain me is this something i'm supposed to be absorbing like i don't know is it fan service some of these things i'm not able to work out myself but i am liking the way that our main characters are characterized like i just like their personalities quite a bit hawk is we find out a virgin and he has not had sex with like any of the people at his school and they kind of give him for that which i think is an interesting uh take he's also very very intelligent and he seems to have like a pretty big protective streak without being like an alpha hole as ms sarah j mass would say and then we also have arrow who very quickly picked up on the fact that hawk gifted his cousin a watch for christmas and that it has a tracker on it so you can definitely tell that there is some maybe not similarity between the two characters but they definitely like have common ground and like kind of understand each other a little bit at the very least they they obviously very very much care about their families hawk um for sure and then also arrow like going back for her siblings and like seeing them and promising them that like oh like i'll take you back to school shopping or whatever so this is definitely like a very plot heavy story i think because i am assuming it's only going to take place over the span of this week where they're trying to kind of like figure out how to get away with stuff that they've done i mean i say stuff get away with neither of them going to jail good so far i guess i don't know if we're gonna get as much relationship development as i want but we're already kind of heading in a direction that i'm enjoying i feel like whenever i was reading just six venom there was too much of an enemies-to-lover situation going on there for it to really work and in this case it's not feeling like that and i can definitely already see how like the sexual tension is going to be building i guess i don't know i like kind of want them to get together and not much has happened so far so i think that bodes well for me enjoying this book so all right before the cats kick my ass for not feeding them right at nine o'clock i thought i'd update you i'm like 35 and and you know what i do think the romance in this is like a little bit better than other ones that i've been reading lately from pen i'm getting a hint of the romance at 35 and that's all i'm really asking for so i feel like i'm understanding the plot even more i was trying to explain it last time in the time before and it just like wasn't really working so essentially arrow and hawk are working together to bring down arrows boss she has a couple of people like above her there's a guy named hugo who is basically telling arrow hey if you don't get money for me if you don't get this money that you owe us back we're going to basically sell you sell your body which is not cool the goal is to take down hugo's boss who is in charge of some sort of like drug crime syndicate thing called green something green line i think the reason that hawk has a personal connection to this we learn is because his parents fostered kids and one of the foster kids ended up passing away from like being on the drugs that greenline were you know selling to people so he doesn't want to see the stuff on the streets anymore aaron wants to be able to protect her family and also not have to deal with these people coming after her for money so yeah they're teaming up and it's not without frustration and attention on the parts of erin hawk like they're not excited to have to team up together but i think they have formed this like begrudging alliance at this point and i'm liking it arrow kind of lets hawk know that you know if she had a different kind of life she would want to be an astronomer or something like that and hawke basically complements her skills and being able to like keep herself alive and support herself and support her her family and he really like admires the fact that she's done so much even though like you know she might be a little bit of a criminal like she is doing what she has to do to take care of her family and i think that hawk can really respect that given the way that his dad was brought up i'm still enjoying the story i'm still liking it it doesn't feel like a penn book though i think is really how i'm feeling it's kind of reminding me and i i know it's like kind of a weird comparison there's this like ally martinez series fighting silence i think is one of them there's like three boxers or whatever like boxing brothers for some reason it's giving me that energy like that sort of storytelling and i'm i'm actually connecting with it which is cool i think that the romance here is a little bit slower burn and it is a little bit more intentional and i'm appreciating that i'm invested in story line and that's awesome because i'll be honest like the past few books i just have not been invested in the storyline i think it was like the last book in the devil's night series interest sex venom they just didn't this shouldn't work for me because i didn't care about the plots but this one i'm actually kind of carrying so compassion for i guess fictional characters or something i don't know honestly nothing is more of a dead giveaway that a book is written by someone who is not a man when we have the hero in a story saying things like what you're like a 34c right just by looking at her boobs come on even if you have a very intimate knowledge of anatomy of someone who has breasts i just feel like that's a touch farfetch'd am i thinking too much into this but i just feel like this happens a strange amount in romance novel and i just i don't underst i don't understand the point i guess in this context it was supposed to show that like actually does have interest in sex kind of maybe but i i'm i'm vibing okay i'm vibing with this book i didn't think that i would but i'm still vibing with it it just feels real to me and i like the conversations it's very 3.57 to me you know we're having some like moral conversations some conversations about like what life is supposed to be and i like that hawk is a little bit more introspective and different than a lot of heroes that i've been reading recently so yeah i like it i think part of it too is that like comparing this to credence or was it nightfall i don't know i just feel like there wasn't a whole lot of sensitivity in the man and i'm not saying every man has to be sensitive but like i would like to understand what's going on in their mind and i feel like sometimes when you write a hero who is so aggressive it can be hard to understand them as people and in this one i'm understanding the characters so 10 out of 10. it's the next day i'm 50 in i got 50 percent of the way through this book last night i honestly kept sneaking chapters so i'm more like 60 percent um it's rare that i am reading a book and i need to stop at a certain benchmark and i just like want to continue to read even with good books i don't tend to have that problem very often but with this book for some reason i'm having that problem and i'm actually happy about it like i am enjoying this book it is entertaining and the plot is slowing down and we're getting more emphasis on the romance which i think is why i'm so interested and intrigued i think i mentioned it earlier but hawke is characterized as a i don't want to say uptight virgin i think that's how a lot of people in the reviews kind of see him he is such an interesting character though and i'm so glad that we have this i don't say representation but we have this kind of hero in a story because i think it's really rare um oftentimes especially in like a college or high school setting we have like a bully romance or we have a guy who's like the ladies man jock kind of character and even if he's not like that i've just never read a character like this before in a in a romance and i'm really enjoying it and it feels very authentic to the age demographic not to like pull out gen z studies but there are a lot of people in gen z who are waiting to have sex and who i don't know there's just a lot of young people in general regardless of generation who don't end up having sex in high school and i think that it's nice to see a hero who questions things and like wants his first time to be special and wants to really care about who he's with and who thinks about the after i think that's really like what has been bogging him down in particular is like what happens after i have sex with this person like you know date them forever do i have to make promises it's not that he's scared of commitment but he just you know he he has a lot weighing on this decision i'm gonna get off my soapbox for a second but we've definitely seen a lot of that in this like 30 to 50 range the plot has slowed down and we're getting more interactions between hawk and arrow beyond just like this begrudging sort of oh we have to work together thing just love the way that arrow is able to pick up on hawks insecurities and how she doesn't pick on them she understands them and she thinks that he's a really good man i i think it's really charming so there have been some scenes where arrow has like initiated touching without the not without the promise of sex but without the possibility of sex and i think that this has been putting hawk at ease he gets to kind of like explore in a way that's you know very healthy and without expectation and it's been like surprisingly steamy even though there has not been any like real sexual moments there they've kind of like touched on each other's bodies but you know nothing has really been done and i like it i think it's great i think the characters understand each other and i don't want to ramble too much but like it's a good time i'm having fun and i really want to see what happens next i do want to see them get together this feels so contrasted from tristix venom that book i didn't enjoy the plot and i felt like there was a lot of steam but i didn't feel any attachment to the vulnerabilities or the actual relationship of the core it was like oh this is muddy and like cool but like that's it this book feels beyond that and i appreciate that so definitely different but it's something that i am really appreciating okay two relatively big things have happened we do have our first sexual encounter between hawk and arrow it was nice it was very nice it was steamy i was into it i just it's one of those things where i can like understand why people wouldn't like it and can anticipate like the criticisms and critiques because there is like jealousy at play and whatever but they're freshly out of high school you know like that's gonna be something that is relevant they go to this pool party what's interesting to me is that hawk is like totally nugget really sorry what's interesting to me is that hawk is willing to like be seen around town even though they're technically running from the law it doesn't make a whole lot of sense but they end up going to this pool party that his cousin kate is hosting to kind of like protect her own identity arrow ends up wearing like a bikini and stuff and he's like oh she's so sexy there's this like situation where hawk is talking to his ex-girlfriend and aaron's like oh go ahead like you can have sex with her it's fine hawks look upset by this so he kind of tells her after the fact like oh yeah like i definitely had some like relations with this woman even though he didn't there's this kind of like steamy altercation that happens between hakanero and he has himself a little feast if you will i just like that they both obviously like each other what is wacky to me is that we have hawk tell arrow the story at one point in the story and it's like this sort of legend i guess of this man who was kind of like a warrior or a watcher or something like that who's into this woman and i don't exactly remember all of the details of the story it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense but he tells her the story and it involves the like hideout the tunnels that they're kind of like uh chilling in for most of the book and then we have a pov chapter from the creeper i don't know what his name is but he's like with his friend deacon and he's talking about talk and it's like yeah like i know that he knows that we've been checking in on him but he can't find us or i don't who are these people and how are they playing i don't understand i don't understand the relevance of this i'm sure it will i don't know maybe they're going to help maybe they're going to help hawk and arrow get away with whatever's happening anyway um also it's not green line it's green street that they're trying to run from i don't know how street racing drag racing it's neither of those things regular racing i guess leads to neck tattoos what the arrows in dylan's car dylan is hawk's cousin and she's doing her final race and uh some goes down on the middle of the race track and all of the green street dudes aka arrows foster brothers are like you have to come with us it's time to come home a hawk ends up getting a green street tattoo and is now like arrows keeper like that's the way to keep her safe what what is going on just finished up one of my sunday rituals which is enjoying mcdonald's in the parking lot of a bank because it's sunday the bank's not open i'm liking it still are we surprised or reshocked i'm shocked i don't remember what i last told you i do however know that there have been a multitude of sex scenes and some weird plot things going on i think actually the last thing i said was that they had sex or they had like some sort of sexual encounter and that there was like a weird story that we were told now the weird story is kind of taking root as part of the plot and there's been some penetrative moments if you will i'm actually enjoying the sex scenes i feel like they're not overdone there have been quite a few back to back but i feel like it makes sense given the context of like what the characters are like going through and it's like i don't say a good way for them to bond but it kind of is okay i'm liking it they can do what they want what i'm not 100 sold on though is like where the plot's going so we had this like story that we were told about the marauders and we know apparently that they're real people and i i'm sort of unsure of like what's going to go down but apparently that's going to be the conflict of the book now and not this whole green street thing i guess ever since hawk gets a tattoo and you know puts hidden cameras in the bad guy's lair like you know he's in jail whatever like it's done doesn't really make much sense and also i find it a little bit too convenient that hawke's parents fostered kids and so now they have connection with cps and can take arrows siblings and i do appreciate the efforts that penelope douglas is going to to make the parents of the story like a part of the story as fanservice but also like i feel like one of the critiques of the following series is that the parents are not very involved um i mean i guess they're involved more so than some other new adult series but in this series in particular we do have a lot more parental involvement which i do like and it does i feel like lend an air of authenticity to the story i mean how often are kids able to just like run around unsupervised i don't know maybe your upbringing was different but like some of the that kids in these books get up to i'm just like my parents would have been pissed you know like that would not have that would not fly and then this series like i like that the kids are given freedom but like their parents are very involved in their lives and um i like the relationships too between some of the other characters like the side characters dylan and aero are kind of becoming friends and sharing clothes and stuff and i really like that i think it's really easy to have like the character from the wrong side of the tracks be completely shunned and that's just like not the case here which i am really enjoying like i'm glad about that like i said i don't know that i'm loving where the plot's going but i also don't know that i care so much because at this point i'm like almost 90 into this book which is just nutty to me i think i'll be kind of happy no matter how it ends i mean unless something just drastically bad happens like i think i think i'm gonna like the ending also so sweet moment we find out that hawk is also into astronomy he takes her to an observatory or something like that i don't remember but dylan lets arrow know that that's like one of hawk's interests and you're just like that's having common the plot thickens the plot's both good and bad the marauders thing didn't really like come to be the like in my opinion culmination of the plot is when they end up having to run from hugo and the gang because he's still trying to like collect money and or arrow and so there's the scene on the train tracks where everybody's standing there and when hugo says whoever is left on the tracks as the train comes like whoever stays up there the longest before you know jumping into the river below gets to keep arrow kind of silly whatever um she ends up staying up there the longest and so i guess she gets to keep herself whatever something like that uh so everybody goes home everything's like kind of okay also i didn't realize that reeves is a cop i guess i just have no reading comprehension skills so he's a cop but he's also working with green street i suppose is he working with green street or is he just i don't know i don't really care it doesn't really matter the big scheme of things i'm sure i'll figure it out next time i read this book but an interesting development is that we keep getting hints that the twins kade and hunter who are matic and fallon's kids don't get along very well and so kade is kind of just like his dad he's into a lot of trouble he's definitely like kind of a douche and then hunter is kind of like the more quiet type and he didn't do so well at the high school that everybody goes to so he went to or he's going to a private school instead when everybody like gets back from the train tracks and goes to stay at kade's house overnight we know that like someone maybe broke into the house because maddox's laptop is not where it normally is and then they find the laptop safe in a safe and so everybody's like oh it must have been hunter hunter must have come and put the laptop away and like you know saved his family or some i don't even know what's on the laptop because like matic is the mayor now it's a stand-up guys like what do they even have on him i don't really know but it's just interesting that like hunter is kind of like player in this world and i'm hoping that his book is next i honestly don't know but he seems very intriguing and he seems like he could be similar to hawk i actually like hawk i don't know man i just think he's great i'm like desperate to know more about the dynamic between kade and hunter and i really have to give props to penelope douglas in contrast to some other authors who have tried to do the same like second generation stories thing because i feel like the parents that we'd like you know grew to love in their in their stories tend to not be very good in like the spin-off series in the second generation books they end up having to be shitty parents so that our characters have backstory or i mean honestly that's it that's like usually what happens and in this story it seems like any conflict or any interesting traits of the characters are not so much because they had shitty parents but just you know a circumstance of growing up like having kate and hunter be sort of like not best friends i think is something that's normal and it happens despite your upbringing despite how great your parents could be sometimes you just don't get along with your siblings so i don't know why i decided to like go on that tangent but it's something i've been thinking about as i've been reading these books i feel like the parents are really great they obviously still have flaws and stuff but i think that like i appreciate the inclusion another thing that i didn't mention is that noah from credence is staying at dylan and jared trent and tate's house we keep getting told that like he is not a potential love interest but like i would love to see it i don't know it'd be a pretty big age gap so i don't really think that's gonna happen but like birthday girl part two i would be here for it okay i just finished falls boys i think i'm gonna give it four stars i really enjoyed this i feel like we're returning back to i don't want to say the old pen i feel like authors evolve and their styles change but i feel like this story felt a lot more coherent i felt like the romance was definitely at the center of it and i'm excited to learn more about this world to see the plots continue and just see what happens there is a preview for the next book in the end of this one and i think i'm going to read it soon i also really enjoyed the author's note at the end it's just so interesting seeing where authors come from when they're writing a certain story and it seems like ken's story is pretty similar to arrows and so um they're definitely writing from experience and i thought that that was uh pretty nice and i feel like you can feel it in the writing i will say like the ending was a little bit weird in that i i say that it didn't feel complete but i guess it doesn't feel complete because the plot is going to carry on over like the course of the story but i don't feel like we got a very satisfying ending to the whole like greed street reeves situation i really need to go back and reread at the beginning of this book because i don't feel like i really fully understand green street and i also don't fully understand the whole like marauders and like town story i guess you could say penn really likes to do this thing where they include like a story within a story or you know like devil's night like that was a whole thing something that happened in the past but like comes back up and that's definitely here it's like town history coming into play in the plotline of the book like we do kind of get to meet one of the marauders is that what they're called i don't i don't really know we get to meet someone who ends up saving arrow in a situation like pulling her back through the mirror so she doesn't get caught by reeves but i don't know the plot just didn't feel totally complete in that regard but again it makes sense because the series is going to continue but in other ways i feel like the plot wrapped up in a way that i was satisfied with i was really happy to see that arrow siblings ended up staying with jax and juliet i am really excited for her to finish out her high school career and get to kind of decide her future for herself and not have to be consistently stressed and worried about you know taking care of other people i i really liked that and i really liked the support that hero gets at the end of the story it felt really nice and it felt like something that could really i guess happen in real life you know a lot of new adult stories can be kind of farfetched but i really appreciated how this one ended and no no it was just a really fun time i liked i liked the romance at the center of it i liked um kind of everything about it and for me like the marker of a good ku story is whether or not i would purchase it in paperback and i certainly anticipate picking up a copy of this one for myself so i thought it was a whole lot of fun i'm excited to reread it and i'm excited for the next book in the series i don't know why you'd be watching this if you haven't read the book but like read the book if you haven't it's good i i had a really good time with it and i'm really glad that i got the opportunity to vlog it i went back and watched my credence vlog recently and i feel like that one was so much more entertaining than this one but you know what like this is just a book that didn't have a lot of like jaw-dropping moments but i appreciated kind of like the quietness of the romance i mean it was still passionate and steamy but it wasn't um group scene e which i think is actually a complaint that a lot of people have had recently about some of penn's books but this one didn't have any group scenes if that's something that you're not into so anyway uh that's kind of it i had a good time i hope that maybe you enjoyed this in some way i love you so much and until next sunday youhello welcome back to my channel i hope y'all are having a good day whenever you've decided to click on this video today's saturday for me i just got done with lunch and uh picking up my wedding dress it finally came in i'm getting married later this year and i'm hyped for it what i'm even more hyped for what is more immediate is my vlog of false boys which is what we're doing today i am really hyped to finally read this book i say finally it did come out i think like early last week but i am hyped to read it i've seen a lot of mixed reviews on goodreads from my friends some people have given this five stars some people have given it two stars i'm excited to see where i no pun intended fall i've had some kind of like mixed luck with penelope's work in the past year or so credence was kind of like borderline for me i ended up rating that one really highly i think if i reread it now i wouldn't love it and then any release after that has been unfortunately like two or three stars for me like i just have not had the best luck with their most recent releases but i'm ready to be proved wrong and or i'm ready to be surprised and excited and i'm hoping that this book really delivers so i have already started that's why i am in my car telling you about it 12 in i initially was feeling like not great about it but then the way this last chapter ended i think it's like the second chapter of the book i am feeling a little bit hopeful so the story is about our two main characters arrow a girl from kind of the wrong side of the tracks and our hero hawkin aka hawk trent he is the son of jackson and juliet aka kc from the fall away series so a lot has happened in the little bit that i've read of this book so far we have arrow who i believe is a drug runner from like the wrong side of the tracks and she is trying to collect money at the very start of the story and she unfortunately kind of fumbles the bag in a literal sense and is forced to go to kind of like the good part of town and steal from people i think is kind of like the thought behind it we actually aren't following her as she's going on this mission she knows that she needs to get the money and then we switch to hawke's point of view we have hawk who is trying to just like protect his family and protect his town and just get through some i think he recently graduated high school he's going off to college this year or this next year i think it's like the summer time and whenever arrow comes into this like kind of bar slash hangout space for all of the rich kids of shelburne falls he has to kind of like fight off arrow because she is like collecting money from hawks cousin dylan i want to say her name is something like that and arrow is trying to be like a little bit rough and tumble with some of the people in the establishment because she's not from the side of the tracks and hawk is like what the like you can't come in here and try to like beat people's asses to collect money for like drugs or burner phones because i think she like has burner phones that she sells these kids but hawk ends up having to kind of like chase her down because she leaves the bar after not being able to obtain the money she needs to like pay back the person that she gets the drugs i i don't really know her part in things i'm pretty sure she's just a runner but there's a sort of like altercation that ends up taking place this arrow ends up going to the houses of the trench and like stealing something from them like an heirloom that doesn't really like have any monetary value and so hawk ends up like chasing her to this lake i want to say something like that when some goes down basically hawk ends up trying to save arrow from getting arrested by the cops because he knows that she can't really afford to do this like he's probably going to get off easy she wouldn't so he ends up trying to help her she ends up sort of bungling it but he i think like destroys a cop car there's just a lot that's gone down in this past chapter i honestly can't remember the fine details because my short term memory is pretty at the moment but i was a little concerned when i first started this book because i didn't really like the darker tone that it was taking something about the follow away series i like is that it is a bully romance series but it does have this sort of like a lightheartedness but even tone like it's not super dark it's not super light it just is it is like very much based in reality i feel like and i feel like a lot of penelope's work lately has been very dark and very overly long and there's a lot of plot not a lot of romance so i'm hoping that this book doesn't really fall into that trap printed we've had no romance yet which kind of makes sense we're only 12 in but i don't feel like it's overly dark i feel like it's giving a little bit of a throwback to the follow away series because there was like street racing and stuff in that series so it's not like it was devoid of plot or like risky so this one definitely has some elements of that and i'm hoping that it kind of stays in that sort of like middle ground middle course situation like i don't want it to be super dark i just i mean i can handle it i just like don't think that that's the most exciting thing ever it's like you can't i was gonna say that you can't make every book dark but i mean i guess if that's your thing whatever but i just i don't i don't like that that's the direction that things have been taking lately and i feel like this one is hopefully gonna be less dark anyway i feel like i've been rambling for a hot minute i keep having cars pass me by and i have to like stop for a second before i can keep filming so i feel like this has not been super super glued together and like you know like brain brainwave coherent i can't talk today i am gonna go i'm gonna go home i'm gonna keep reading this book i'm gonna keep you posted i'm gonna give you my thought by thought feelings just like i did for credence i feel like i should do this for every penelope release but honestly if this one doesn't go super well i don't know how much pen i'm gonna be reading in the future you can only be let down so many times but i'll i'll be back with more thoughts trying to get the the buffalo sauce on my shirt out of frame i'm 20 into false boys boys it's such a weird title to say out loud things are heating up not in a sexual manner but in the sense that the plot is carrying on in a direction that i'm actually enjoying i think i don't speak too soon but i think that i'm enjoying it ero and hawk i think i was trying to say previously are in this sort of situation where hawk has kind of compromised arrow he has stolen some of the d-r-u-g-s i honestly don't know how the like demonetization works when you're talking about stuff like this but i'm gonna say goods from now on how about that let's do that he ends up taking some of the goods that arrow had in the back of her car that she stole it wasn't her car she stole someone's car during this whole like trying to get away sort of situation he ends up getting rid of a lot of these goods and arrow can't go back empty-handed right like she's gonna get completely messed up if she goes back like she's not gonna have a good time and then neither is hawk also pissed off the police so they're kind of out looking for him i think so they're both kind of a bad situation and they kind of have to team up i don't think that era wants to team up she ends up going to her mom's house where her two siblings are and she's trying to like get money or like get resources from there in that process she has like kind of an altercation with the stepfather and instead of getting herself into deeper hawk is there for some reason i guess he like followed her to that house saves her again for like the second time takes her to this like lair or back to the lair i can't remember the order of things hawk has access to this and this is where he's going to hide arrow they have to like team up together i guess or he's trying to convince her that they should team up and it's interesting we are getting some like connections between this series and the first series and we're also kind of understanding character dynamics between the s not siblings but i guess the cousins and stuff of the children of the fall away series and in some ways i'm enjoying that in some ways i'm not i feel like it's a little bit heavy-handed at times and it can kind of like bog down some of the plot and or i don't have to be consistently thinking in my head okay wait is it important to know that these relationships are the way that they are at this point is it just like something that's supposed to entertain me is this something i'm supposed to be absorbing like i don't know is it fan service some of these things i'm not able to work out myself but i am liking the way that our main characters are characterized like i just like their personalities quite a bit hawk is we find out a virgin and he has not had sex with like any of the people at his school and they kind of give him for that which i think is an interesting uh take he's also very very intelligent and he seems to have like a pretty big protective streak without being like an alpha hole as ms sarah j mass would say and then we also have arrow who very quickly picked up on the fact that hawk gifted his cousin a watch for christmas and that it has a tracker on it so you can definitely tell that there is some maybe not similarity between the two characters but they definitely like have common ground and like kind of understand each other a little bit at the very least they they obviously very very much care about their families hawk um for sure and then also arrow like going back for her siblings and like seeing them and promising them that like oh like i'll take you back to school shopping or whatever so this is definitely like a very plot heavy story i think because i am assuming it's only going to take place over the span of this week where they're trying to kind of like figure out how to get away with stuff that they've done i mean i say stuff get away with neither of them going to jail good so far i guess i don't know if we're gonna get as much relationship development as i want but we're already kind of heading in a direction that i'm enjoying i feel like whenever i was reading just six venom there was too much of an enemies-to-lover situation going on there for it to really work and in this case it's not feeling like that and i can definitely already see how like the sexual tension is going to be building i guess i don't know i like kind of want them to get together and not much has happened so far so i think that bodes well for me enjoying this book so all right before the cats kick my ass for not feeding them right at nine o'clock i thought i'd update you i'm like 35 and and you know what i do think the romance in this is like a little bit better than other ones that i've been reading lately from pen i'm getting a hint of the romance at 35 and that's all i'm really asking for so i feel like i'm understanding the plot even more i was trying to explain it last time in the time before and it just like wasn't really working so essentially arrow and hawk are working together to bring down arrows boss she has a couple of people like above her there's a guy named hugo who is basically telling arrow hey if you don't get money for me if you don't get this money that you owe us back we're going to basically sell you sell your body which is not cool the goal is to take down hugo's boss who is in charge of some sort of like drug crime syndicate thing called green something green line i think the reason that hawk has a personal connection to this we learn is because his parents fostered kids and one of the foster kids ended up passing away from like being on the drugs that greenline were you know selling to people so he doesn't want to see the stuff on the streets anymore aaron wants to be able to protect her family and also not have to deal with these people coming after her for money so yeah they're teaming up and it's not without frustration and attention on the parts of erin hawk like they're not excited to have to team up together but i think they have formed this like begrudging alliance at this point and i'm liking it arrow kind of lets hawk know that you know if she had a different kind of life she would want to be an astronomer or something like that and hawke basically complements her skills and being able to like keep herself alive and support herself and support her her family and he really like admires the fact that she's done so much even though like you know she might be a little bit of a criminal like she is doing what she has to do to take care of her family and i think that hawk can really respect that given the way that his dad was brought up i'm still enjoying the story i'm still liking it it doesn't feel like a penn book though i think is really how i'm feeling it's kind of reminding me and i i know it's like kind of a weird comparison there's this like ally martinez series fighting silence i think is one of them there's like three boxers or whatever like boxing brothers for some reason it's giving me that energy like that sort of storytelling and i'm i'm actually connecting with it which is cool i think that the romance here is a little bit slower burn and it is a little bit more intentional and i'm appreciating that i'm invested in story line and that's awesome because i'll be honest like the past few books i just have not been invested in the storyline i think it was like the last book in the devil's night series interest sex venom they just didn't this shouldn't work for me because i didn't care about the plots but this one i'm actually kind of carrying so compassion for i guess fictional characters or something i don't know honestly nothing is more of a dead giveaway that a book is written by someone who is not a man when we have the hero in a story saying things like what you're like a 34c right just by looking at her boobs come on even if you have a very intimate knowledge of anatomy of someone who has breasts i just feel like that's a touch farfetch'd am i thinking too much into this but i just feel like this happens a strange amount in romance novel and i just i don't underst i don't understand the point i guess in this context it was supposed to show that like actually does have interest in sex kind of maybe but i i'm i'm vibing okay i'm vibing with this book i didn't think that i would but i'm still vibing with it it just feels real to me and i like the conversations it's very 3.57 to me you know we're having some like moral conversations some conversations about like what life is supposed to be and i like that hawk is a little bit more introspective and different than a lot of heroes that i've been reading recently so yeah i like it i think part of it too is that like comparing this to credence or was it nightfall i don't know i just feel like there wasn't a whole lot of sensitivity in the man and i'm not saying every man has to be sensitive but like i would like to understand what's going on in their mind and i feel like sometimes when you write a hero who is so aggressive it can be hard to understand them as people and in this one i'm understanding the characters so 10 out of 10. it's the next day i'm 50 in i got 50 percent of the way through this book last night i honestly kept sneaking chapters so i'm more like 60 percent um it's rare that i am reading a book and i need to stop at a certain benchmark and i just like want to continue to read even with good books i don't tend to have that problem very often but with this book for some reason i'm having that problem and i'm actually happy about it like i am enjoying this book it is entertaining and the plot is slowing down and we're getting more emphasis on the romance which i think is why i'm so interested and intrigued i think i mentioned it earlier but hawke is characterized as a i don't want to say uptight virgin i think that's how a lot of people in the reviews kind of see him he is such an interesting character though and i'm so glad that we have this i don't say representation but we have this kind of hero in a story because i think it's really rare um oftentimes especially in like a college or high school setting we have like a bully romance or we have a guy who's like the ladies man jock kind of character and even if he's not like that i've just never read a character like this before in a in a romance and i'm really enjoying it and it feels very authentic to the age demographic not to like pull out gen z studies but there are a lot of people in gen z who are waiting to have sex and who i don't know there's just a lot of young people in general regardless of generation who don't end up having sex in high school and i think that it's nice to see a hero who questions things and like wants his first time to be special and wants to really care about who he's with and who thinks about the after i think that's really like what has been bogging him down in particular is like what happens after i have sex with this person like you know date them forever do i have to make promises it's not that he's scared of commitment but he just you know he he has a lot weighing on this decision i'm gonna get off my soapbox for a second but we've definitely seen a lot of that in this like 30 to 50 range the plot has slowed down and we're getting more interactions between hawk and arrow beyond just like this begrudging sort of oh we have to work together thing just love the way that arrow is able to pick up on hawks insecurities and how she doesn't pick on them she understands them and she thinks that he's a really good man i i think it's really charming so there have been some scenes where arrow has like initiated touching without the not without the promise of sex but without the possibility of sex and i think that this has been putting hawk at ease he gets to kind of like explore in a way that's you know very healthy and without expectation and it's been like surprisingly steamy even though there has not been any like real sexual moments there they've kind of like touched on each other's bodies but you know nothing has really been done and i like it i think it's great i think the characters understand each other and i don't want to ramble too much but like it's a good time i'm having fun and i really want to see what happens next i do want to see them get together this feels so contrasted from tristix venom that book i didn't enjoy the plot and i felt like there was a lot of steam but i didn't feel any attachment to the vulnerabilities or the actual relationship of the core it was like oh this is muddy and like cool but like that's it this book feels beyond that and i appreciate that so definitely different but it's something that i am really appreciating okay two relatively big things have happened we do have our first sexual encounter between hawk and arrow it was nice it was very nice it was steamy i was into it i just it's one of those things where i can like understand why people wouldn't like it and can anticipate like the criticisms and critiques because there is like jealousy at play and whatever but they're freshly out of high school you know like that's gonna be something that is relevant they go to this pool party what's interesting to me is that hawk is like totally nugget really sorry what's interesting to me is that hawk is willing to like be seen around town even though they're technically running from the law it doesn't make a whole lot of sense but they end up going to this pool party that his cousin kate is hosting to kind of like protect her own identity arrow ends up wearing like a bikini and stuff and he's like oh she's so sexy there's this like situation where hawk is talking to his ex-girlfriend and aaron's like oh go ahead like you can have sex with her it's fine hawks look upset by this so he kind of tells her after the fact like oh yeah like i definitely had some like relations with this woman even though he didn't there's this kind of like steamy altercation that happens between hakanero and he has himself a little feast if you will i just like that they both obviously like each other what is wacky to me is that we have hawk tell arrow the story at one point in the story and it's like this sort of legend i guess of this man who was kind of like a warrior or a watcher or something like that who's into this woman and i don't exactly remember all of the details of the story it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense but he tells her the story and it involves the like hideout the tunnels that they're kind of like uh chilling in for most of the book and then we have a pov chapter from the creeper i don't know what his name is but he's like with his friend deacon and he's talking about talk and it's like yeah like i know that he knows that we've been checking in on him but he can't find us or i don't who are these people and how are they playing i don't understand i don't understand the relevance of this i'm sure it will i don't know maybe they're going to help maybe they're going to help hawk and arrow get away with whatever's happening anyway um also it's not green line it's green street that they're trying to run from i don't know how street racing drag racing it's neither of those things regular racing i guess leads to neck tattoos what the arrows in dylan's car dylan is hawk's cousin and she's doing her final race and uh some goes down on the middle of the race track and all of the green street dudes aka arrows foster brothers are like you have to come with us it's time to come home a hawk ends up getting a green street tattoo and is now like arrows keeper like that's the way to keep her safe what what is going on just finished up one of my sunday rituals which is enjoying mcdonald's in the parking lot of a bank because it's sunday the bank's not open i'm liking it still are we surprised or reshocked i'm shocked i don't remember what i last told you i do however know that there have been a multitude of sex scenes and some weird plot things going on i think actually the last thing i said was that they had sex or they had like some sort of sexual encounter and that there was like a weird story that we were told now the weird story is kind of taking root as part of the plot and there's been some penetrative moments if you will i'm actually enjoying the sex scenes i feel like they're not overdone there have been quite a few back to back but i feel like it makes sense given the context of like what the characters are like going through and it's like i don't say a good way for them to bond but it kind of is okay i'm liking it they can do what they want what i'm not 100 sold on though is like where the plot's going so we had this like story that we were told about the marauders and we know apparently that they're real people and i i'm sort of unsure of like what's going to go down but apparently that's going to be the conflict of the book now and not this whole green street thing i guess ever since hawk gets a tattoo and you know puts hidden cameras in the bad guy's lair like you know he's in jail whatever like it's done doesn't really make much sense and also i find it a little bit too convenient that hawke's parents fostered kids and so now they have connection with cps and can take arrows siblings and i do appreciate the efforts that penelope douglas is going to to make the parents of the story like a part of the story as fanservice but also like i feel like one of the critiques of the following series is that the parents are not very involved um i mean i guess they're involved more so than some other new adult series but in this series in particular we do have a lot more parental involvement which i do like and it does i feel like lend an air of authenticity to the story i mean how often are kids able to just like run around unsupervised i don't know maybe your upbringing was different but like some of the that kids in these books get up to i'm just like my parents would have been pissed you know like that would not have that would not fly and then this series like i like that the kids are given freedom but like their parents are very involved in their lives and um i like the relationships too between some of the other characters like the side characters dylan and aero are kind of becoming friends and sharing clothes and stuff and i really like that i think it's really easy to have like the character from the wrong side of the tracks be completely shunned and that's just like not the case here which i am really enjoying like i'm glad about that like i said i don't know that i'm loving where the plot's going but i also don't know that i care so much because at this point i'm like almost 90 into this book which is just nutty to me i think i'll be kind of happy no matter how it ends i mean unless something just drastically bad happens like i think i think i'm gonna like the ending also so sweet moment we find out that hawk is also into astronomy he takes her to an observatory or something like that i don't remember but dylan lets arrow know that that's like one of hawk's interests and you're just like that's having common the plot thickens the plot's both good and bad the marauders thing didn't really like come to be the like in my opinion culmination of the plot is when they end up having to run from hugo and the gang because he's still trying to like collect money and or arrow and so there's the scene on the train tracks where everybody's standing there and when hugo says whoever is left on the tracks as the train comes like whoever stays up there the longest before you know jumping into the river below gets to keep arrow kind of silly whatever um she ends up staying up there the longest and so i guess she gets to keep herself whatever something like that uh so everybody goes home everything's like kind of okay also i didn't realize that reeves is a cop i guess i just have no reading comprehension skills so he's a cop but he's also working with green street i suppose is he working with green street or is he just i don't know i don't really care it doesn't really matter the big scheme of things i'm sure i'll figure it out next time i read this book but an interesting development is that we keep getting hints that the twins kade and hunter who are matic and fallon's kids don't get along very well and so kade is kind of just like his dad he's into a lot of trouble he's definitely like kind of a douche and then hunter is kind of like the more quiet type and he didn't do so well at the high school that everybody goes to so he went to or he's going to a private school instead when everybody like gets back from the train tracks and goes to stay at kade's house overnight we know that like someone maybe broke into the house because maddox's laptop is not where it normally is and then they find the laptop safe in a safe and so everybody's like oh it must have been hunter hunter must have come and put the laptop away and like you know saved his family or some i don't even know what's on the laptop because like matic is the mayor now it's a stand-up guys like what do they even have on him i don't really know but it's just interesting that like hunter is kind of like player in this world and i'm hoping that his book is next i honestly don't know but he seems very intriguing and he seems like he could be similar to hawk i actually like hawk i don't know man i just think he's great i'm like desperate to know more about the dynamic between kade and hunter and i really have to give props to penelope douglas in contrast to some other authors who have tried to do the same like second generation stories thing because i feel like the parents that we'd like you know grew to love in their in their stories tend to not be very good in like the spin-off series in the second generation books they end up having to be shitty parents so that our characters have backstory or i mean honestly that's it that's like usually what happens and in this story it seems like any conflict or any interesting traits of the characters are not so much because they had shitty parents but just you know a circumstance of growing up like having kate and hunter be sort of like not best friends i think is something that's normal and it happens despite your upbringing despite how great your parents could be sometimes you just don't get along with your siblings so i don't know why i decided to like go on that tangent but it's something i've been thinking about as i've been reading these books i feel like the parents are really great they obviously still have flaws and stuff but i think that like i appreciate the inclusion another thing that i didn't mention is that noah from credence is staying at dylan and jared trent and tate's house we keep getting told that like he is not a potential love interest but like i would love to see it i don't know it'd be a pretty big age gap so i don't really think that's gonna happen but like birthday girl part two i would be here for it okay i just finished falls boys i think i'm gonna give it four stars i really enjoyed this i feel like we're returning back to i don't want to say the old pen i feel like authors evolve and their styles change but i feel like this story felt a lot more coherent i felt like the romance was definitely at the center of it and i'm excited to learn more about this world to see the plots continue and just see what happens there is a preview for the next book in the end of this one and i think i'm going to read it soon i also really enjoyed the author's note at the end it's just so interesting seeing where authors come from when they're writing a certain story and it seems like ken's story is pretty similar to arrows and so um they're definitely writing from experience and i thought that that was uh pretty nice and i feel like you can feel it in the writing i will say like the ending was a little bit weird in that i i say that it didn't feel complete but i guess it doesn't feel complete because the plot is going to carry on over like the course of the story but i don't feel like we got a very satisfying ending to the whole like greed street reeves situation i really need to go back and reread at the beginning of this book because i don't feel like i really fully understand green street and i also don't fully understand the whole like marauders and like town story i guess you could say penn really likes to do this thing where they include like a story within a story or you know like devil's night like that was a whole thing something that happened in the past but like comes back up and that's definitely here it's like town history coming into play in the plotline of the book like we do kind of get to meet one of the marauders is that what they're called i don't i don't really know we get to meet someone who ends up saving arrow in a situation like pulling her back through the mirror so she doesn't get caught by reeves but i don't know the plot just didn't feel totally complete in that regard but again it makes sense because the series is going to continue but in other ways i feel like the plot wrapped up in a way that i was satisfied with i was really happy to see that arrow siblings ended up staying with jax and juliet i am really excited for her to finish out her high school career and get to kind of decide her future for herself and not have to be consistently stressed and worried about you know taking care of other people i i really liked that and i really liked the support that hero gets at the end of the story it felt really nice and it felt like something that could really i guess happen in real life you know a lot of new adult stories can be kind of farfetched but i really appreciated how this one ended and no no it was just a really fun time i liked i liked the romance at the center of it i liked um kind of everything about it and for me like the marker of a good ku story is whether or not i would purchase it in paperback and i certainly anticipate picking up a copy of this one for myself so i thought it was a whole lot of fun i'm excited to reread it and i'm excited for the next book in the series i don't know why you'd be watching this if you haven't read the book but like read the book if you haven't it's good i i had a really good time with it and i'm really glad that i got the opportunity to vlog it i went back and watched my credence vlog recently and i feel like that one was so much more entertaining than this one but you know what like this is just a book that didn't have a lot of like jaw-dropping moments but i appreciated kind of like the quietness of the romance i mean it was still passionate and steamy but it wasn't um group scene e which i think is actually a complaint that a lot of people have had recently about some of penn's books but this one didn't have any group scenes if that's something that you're not into so anyway uh that's kind of it i had a good time i hope that maybe you enjoyed this in some way i love you so much and until next sunday you\n"