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99 PERCENT MINE by Sally Thorne
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: 29th January 2019
Crush: a strong and often short-lived infatuation, particularly for someone beyond your reach…
Darcy Barrett has undertaken a global survey of men. She’s travelled the world, and can categorically say that no one measures up to Tom Valeska, whose only flaw is that Darcy’s twin brother Jamie saw him first and claimed him forever as his best friend. Despite Darcy’s best efforts, Tom’s off limits and loyal to her brother, 99%. That’s the problem with finding her dream man at age eight and peaking in her photography career at age twenty—ever since, she’s had to learn to settle for good enough.
When Darcy and Jamie inherit a tumble-down cottage from their grandmother, they’re left with strict instructions to bring it back to its former glory and sell the property. Darcy plans to be in an aisle seat halfway across the ocean as soon as the renovations start, but before she can cut and run, she finds a familiar face on her porch: house-flipper extraordinaire Tom’s arrived, he’s bearing power tools, and he’s single for the first time in almost a decade.
Suddenly Darcy’s considering sticking around to make sure her twin doesn’t ruin the cottage’s inherent magic with his penchant for grey and chrome. She’s definitely not staying because of her new business partner’s tight t-shirts, or that perfect face that’s inspiring her to pick up her camera again. Soon sparks are flying—and it’s not the faulty wiring. It turns out one percent of Tom’s heart might not be enough for Darcy anymore. This time around, she’s switching things up. She’s going to make Tom Valeska 99 percent hers.
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★4 STARS★
Darcy Barrett has wanted Tom Valeska from the moment she laid eyes on him. Even at eight years old she felt a protective-kinship toward him, but being slow of the mark he was “claimed” by her twin brother Jaime, and Darcy found herself relegated into the role of “best friend’s sister”.
I think I met my ideal man when I was eight, and no one else has ever measured up.
That said, they had their moments over the years, but just when they are on the cusp of developing a different type of relationship Darcy does what becomes a recurring theme in her life and runs away. She justifies her flaw of never settling in one place for too long as her being a free spirit. She’s wonderfully quirky, with a dizzying train of thought, and it’s obvious a life of conformity is not for her.
Being somewhat estranged, and it’s their grandmother’s passing that forces the twins to establish an open line communication. Meddling from beyond the grave, their grandmother instructs them to renovate her home in order to sell it in to receive their full inheritance. Darcy will be damned if she allow her brother to take over renovations turning it into a charmless yuppie’s wet dream, so she decides her time is best served “helping”.
Any reservations she has about staying fly out of the window when she learns that *the* Tom Valeska is in charge of the project. Her grandmother’s house means as much to him as it does her, but it isn’t nostalgia that reaffirms her decision to stick around. Tom Valeska deserves his name to be said in full at all times. His role has been that of peacekeeper and fixer but for the first time he takes a risk on doing something for himself, whether it be the project in hand, or wrangling the handful that is Darcy.
“No one else is kissing you anymore,” he tells me in a conversational hush, not breaking our contact. “Your mouth is mine.”
I had real life butterflies reading this book. The slow burn teamed with Sally’s ability of engaging the reader in the intimacies of the characters are just two reasons why I’m quickly becoming addicted to with her novels. Add to that her signature humour, and my need to read all things Sally Thorne show no signs of abating.
About the Author:
Sally Thorne is the USA Today bestselling author of the office rom-com The Hating Game (2016). It is her debut novel that has sold in over twenty-five countries and is being made into a major motion picture, to be directed by Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion and The Simpsons Movie director David Mirkin.
The Hating Game was named in the top 20 romance novels of 2016 by the Washington Post and was a top ten finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards romance category. It has been cited as a book that has reinvigorated the romantic comedy genre.
Sally’s much anticipated second novel, 99 Percent Mine, is being released in January 2019 by William Morrow Books and is available for preorder. She is currently beginning the first draft of her third book.
Sally Thorne lives in Canberra, Australia and spends her days writing, reading, drinking cups of tea and obeying the every whim of Delia the Pug and her paint Quarter Horse, Louie. She lives with her husband in a house filled with vintage toys, too many cushions and a haunted dollhouse.
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