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Excerpt:

I wrapped my arms around her body, lifted her off the ground, and kissed her lips.

She was warm, and soft, and tasted like peppermint and honey. I bit back a groan.

God, she felt good. Great. Celestial. Heavenly. I may have surprised her, but she responded immediately, enthusiastically, twisting her arms around my neck, opening her mouth and welcoming the invasion of mine.

It wasn’t enough.

It was a crumb, and I was starving. Desire—to tighten my hold, devour, take, keep, cherish, to never let her go—obscured thought and sight, and I slipped a hand under her shirt to touch the silky skin of her back, sliding my fingers upward until they rested under her bra strap.

Mona lifted her chin, breaking our mouths apart, and I kissed the point of it, the elegant line of her jaw, the tender spot beneath her ear, the hot skin where Mona’s graceful neck met the slope of her shoulder. I was so hungry for her, I couldn’t stop myself from tasting every exposed inch.

“Abram,” she said, her voice a breathless, disbelieving whisper, followed by a little laugh. Her fingers flexed at the back of my neck, pressing me closer. Every part of my body hummed and vibrated, unable to contain the immensity of now, of this divine feeling.

“You’re here,” she said, her soft voice full of wonder and happiness, soothing the ravenous panic holding me hostage for the past six days. It had been a peculiar kind of madness, not being able to reach her while pretending all was fine, pretending she didn’t occupy my mind every second of the day. But receding now, it left a new kind of turmoil and urgency in its wake.

We had no time.

No, I corrected myself, We have time. We have the rest of our lives.

“I need your fu—your phone number.” I spoke gruffly against her neck, squeezing my eyes shut and breathing her in, again and again, the heat and sweetness of Mona.

I’d missed her, and that was a gross understatement. I’d been speeding toward this moment for days and being with her now felt like the aftermath of a head-on collision. Stupefied, frantic, but determined to enjoy every shared second remaining. My hands were shaking.

We have time. Calm down. Calm down.

Mona laughed lightly, the sound melodic, beautiful, and she pressed a kiss under my ear. “Why didn’t you just ask Leo? Or send me an email?”

Leo.

I worked to keep the darkness of my thoughts from showing on my face as I leaned away, letting her slide to the ground but unwilling to release her fully, fisting my unsteady hands into her T-shirt. “I couldn’t find an email for you anywhere, and neither could Marie. She tried calling your department for me. They told her all media requests had to go through the PR department at the university and it would take two weeks to a month for a response.”

“Ah, that’s true. My email is on lockdown, otherwise it gets out of hand.” She nodded contritely. “But what about Leo?”

“Leo.” I forced my jaw to relax and I lowered my voice but couldn’t completely disguise the intensity of my wrath. “Leo wouldn’t give me your number.”

Mona’s hand moved to my face, her palm pressed against my cheek, the pads of her fingers softly stroking my beard. “What? Are you serious?”

“Yes,” I ground out. “He said he was doing me a favor. So I flew to LA.”

“You flew to LA?” I felt her body tense, and the moment realization dawned, her beautiful eyes growing impossibly large as they moved over my face. “You must be so tired and—but I wasn’t in LA, I was—”

“Here. Yes. I found that out yesterday when I stopped by your department at Caltech and they told me you weren’t due back until Friday,” I rushed to explain, multitasking, using the time to devour the sight of her, soak and submerge in the reality of being here with her.

Calm down. We. Have. Time.

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Penny Reid is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Selling Author of the Winston Brothers, Knitting in the City, Rugby, and Hypothesis series. She used to spend her days writing federal grant proposals as a biomedical researcher, but now she just writes books. She’s also a full time mom to three diminutive adults, wife, daughter, knitter, crocheter, sewer, general crafter, and thought ninja.

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Saturday, April 20, 2019

Review: Time by Penny Reid

Time by Penny Reid
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I received a copy of this via the author in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to Penny and team for providing me the opportunity to review the entire series. This was released on April 15, 2019. I was on vacation with my family in Washington D.C. when this popped up on my Kindle and I immediately dropped everything else I was reading to read this instead. I wasn't disappointed.

This is the final installment of The Laws of Physics series, fans of Mona and Abram will not be disappointed. I really feel like they got the ending they needed. The heavy topics that needed to be disclosed and discussed between them before they could really and truly move forward with their relationship were finally put out into the open. I also give Marie and Gabby lots of kudos for making some of those conversations happen. Also Marie is my favorite character from Knitting in the City and she is a great big sister.

This particular installment is focused on the characters and the development of their relationship and both of them as individuals. This is not the angst ridden romance that some expected, but I'm OK with that. This was a much more realistic portrayal of a relationship where things are pretty good most of the time, but you still have to work through things all of the time to get your relationship to work. We don't all live in a fairytale, and neither do our characters. They both have baggage and they have to work thought it to make their relationship work for them. Penny tackles a ton of issues in this book and as always they are well written, respectful of the content, and well researched. Some of the issues discussed are sexual harassment of men by women, sexual harassment and assault of women by men, women having to work harder in science and math professions because they are women, neglectful parents and loved ones, dealing with your feelings, and I'm sure I'm missing some because this little book packed quite the punch.

If you have enjoyed the previous installments I recommend this one. I love Penny's books and that is no secret. I love that we get cameo's from characters from the other books. I'm still holding out that Penny will give us Allyn and Poe's stories at some point in the future.

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Monday, April 15, 2019

Release Blitz: Time by Penny Reid

"Utterly addictive, fascinating, hilarious, and absolutely electric chemistry!"

-- Samantha Young, New York Times Bestselling Author

New York Times bestselling author Penny Reid’s The Laws of Physics Trilogy is complete with TIME!

A (brokenhearted) physicist.

Now an infamous (who is LITERALLY EVERYWHERE!! UGH!) musician.

The worst has already happened.

Just when she thinks things can't get any more confusing, Abram returns . . . What happens next? Only TIME will tell.

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Continue the series with SPACE!

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Friday, March 15, 2019

Review: Space by Penny Reid

Space by Penny Reid
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I received an arc of this via the Author in exchange for an honest review. This was released on March 11, 2019. Check out my blog tour post for an excerpt and all of the purchase links.

I love Mona and Abram together. I also love that we get to see Kaitlyn from the Elements of Chemistry and I really like how she has grown since finding her passion in music. She is a great friend to Abram and so much like Mona that she sees through the hot mess of Mona's emotions.

Mona and Abram have been apart for 2 years since they spent a week together. Mona still feels guilty about not telling him the truth, and she hasn't been able to move on. They are forced to spend time in the same house during Mona's winter getaway because her brother Leo invited all of his musician friends to their mountain house to write music. Abram is not happy to be snowed in with Mona after realizing she deceived him. Mona wants to clear the air, however Abram gives her the cold shoulder. Mona of course shuts down because she doesn't know what to do with her feelings which makes Abram rage all the more. The entire time they are drawn to each other like magnets and can't deny the attraction they feel for each other. When Abram challenges her to be honest, Mona is finally able to tell her side of what happened that week. Abram lets his wall of anger down and lets himself get to know the real Mona.

Like Motion, this ends on a cliffhanger, but you knew that going in. I'm anxiously awaiting the final installment of this series. I love the main characters and I really like where their story is headed. I know there are more challenges that they will face, but I'm hopeful that all will workout for them in the end. I was surprised to get alternating perspectives, but it really gave the book something extra. As always Penny doesn't disappoint.

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Blog Tour: Space by Penny Reid

Space, the second book in the all-new Laws of Physics Trilogy from Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Penny Reid, is available now!

One week.

Private cabin.

Famous physicist.

Still an unrepentant slacker.

What’s the worst that could happen?

Mona’s meticulously planned allotment of relaxation is thrown into chaos by the unscheduled appearance of her older brother’s band of friends, including the one person she'd hoped to never face again. Abram still makes her feel entirely too much, which is one of the reasons she disappeared after their one week together. But now, trapped on a mountain of snow and things unspoken, Mona will have to find a way to coexist with Abram, chaos and all.

Laws of Physics is the second trilogy in the Hypothesis series; Laws of Physics parts 1 (MOTION) & 2 (SPACE) end with a cliffhanger.

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Excerpt:

“Hi—hello,” she said, stepping forward but not out of the way, drawing my attention.

She was still staring at me, her face still pale, but her eyes had turned searching instead of stunned.

“I—” She stopped herself, swallowing, her gaze dropping to the front of my coat, a cute little frown furrowing her eyebrows. In the next moment, she was pulling off the glove of her right hand. Abruptly, she shoved the ungloved fingers toward me, returning her eyes to mine. “I’m Mona.”

I suppressed my disbelief at her small action before it could break my outward mask of calm. I wasn’t calm. Just to be clear, I was the opposite of calm.

The fact that she was introducing herself to me now meant that she thought I was too stupid to figure out her lies over the last two-and-a-half-fucking years. She was arguably one of the smartest people in the world, after all. To her, people like me must seem like housebroken pets. So it shouldn’t have surprised me. But it did. The tension and tightness around my ribs reappeared, squeezing uncomfortably.

Dropping my attention to her bare hand, I pressed my lips into a tighter line, dismissing the way my pulse jumped at the sight of her wrist, the olive tone of her skin under the yellow string lights overhead. Glaring at her outstretched offering, I considered telling her to go to hell.

I considered it, but I wouldn’t.

I didn’t trust myself to speak, that was reason number one.

The other reason was harder to explain, or use as a justification, or admit to myself. Staring at her hand, I braced against a sudden flare of hunger. She might consider me a lower life-form, but that didn’t change the fact that I wanted to touch her. I wanted to touch her more than I wanted to tell her to go to hell, and that was fucking pitiful.

But there it was.

Acting on the compulsion, I lifted my right hand and tugged off the ski glove, sliding my warm palm against her much colder one. Her hand felt good in my hand, the right weight, the right size, the right texture, and I inhaled freezing air.

Mona also seemed to suck in a slow but expansive breath as our hands touched, held. This brought my eyes back to hers in time to see her lashes flutter. Pink colored her previously pale cheeks. The sound of the wailing wind, the sting of the air and frost momentarily melted away, leaving just her, her soft skin warming against mine, her beautiful face filling my vision.

So beautiful.

She really was. She was stunning. I hated that she was still so beautiful to me.

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Motion

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Time

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Monday, March 11, 2019

Release Blitz: Space by Penny Reid

Space, the second book in the all-new Laws of Physics Trilogy from Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Penny Reid, is available now!

One week.

Private cabin.

Famous physicist.

Still an unrepentant slacker.

What’s the worst that could happen?

Laws of Physics is the second trilogy in the Hypothesis series; Laws of Physics parts 1 (MOTION) & 2 (SPACE) end with a cliffhanger.

Download your copy today!

AppleBooks: https://apple.co/2WOXsrj

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Start the series today!

Motion

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Pre-order the highly anticipated conclusion today!

Time

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Meet Penny Reid:

but now she just writes books. She’s also a full time mom to three diminutive adults, wife, daughter, knitter, crocheter, sewer, general crafter, and thought ninja.

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Thursday, February 14, 2019

Blog Tour: Motion by Penny Reid

Motion by Penny Reid
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was provided an advanced copy of this book by the author in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this. It is fast paced, funny, and while it ends on a cliffhanger I don't feel like it was incomplete. I can't get the next book fast enough. I love that we get to see some old favorite characters from the Knitting in the City series. I'm also not mad about the cliffhanger because I knew it was coming and because this is a serial series and that comes with the territory.

If you've read Neanderthal Seeks Human, the main character reminds me alot of Janie. Mona is brilliant and a bit socially awkward. Her parents are famous, and her upbringing wasn't exactly conventional. Mona loves science and physics, and she likes things in her life to be predictable or controlled. She doesn't like surprises. Her twin, Lisa is the exact opposite. Lisa is an unpredictable, socialite who is always causing some sort of trouble. When Lisa gets into some real trouble, Mona has to step in and help her sister out. Mona agrees to be Lisa until Lisa can get home.

Enter Abram, Mona's polar opposite. Abram has agreed to babysit Lisa until an adult can supervise her actions and keep her out of trouble. He is a friend of Lisa and Mona's brother. He is a musician, he's carefree, and kind of lacks direction; all the things Mona is not. He sparks emotions in Mona that she isn't interested in but can't deny, especially because Abram doesn't know her true identity. They have such amazing chemistry and their banter was excellent. I love that while they are frustrated with each other, Abram is patient with her and willing to wait and doesn't push. Mona (acting as Lisa) begins to open up

Can we also talk about how amazing it is the Penny actually discusses some tough topics in this book? Aside from the great romance and characters, she tackles the issue of consent both from the male perspective and the female perspective. This is so often glossed over in books and in conversation in general. I'm hoping we get into more of this in the next 2 installments because it is important.

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Space

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Time

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Amazon Worldwide: http://mybook.to/TimePR

Google Play: http://bit.ly/2Sm1Zmu

Amazon Paperback: https://amzn.to/2WSQbXe

Meet Penny Reid:

Penny Reid is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Selling Author of the Winston Brothers, Knitting in the City, Rugby, and Hypothesis series. She used to spend her days writing federal grant proposals as a biomedical researcher, but now she just writes books. She’s also a full time mom to three diminutive adults, wife, daughter, knitter, crocheter, sewer, general crafter, and thought ninja.

Connect with Penny:

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