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99 Percent Mine: A Novel
Written by Sally Thorne
Narrated by Jayme Mattler
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- Jan 29, 2019
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- 9780062682161
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Readers and critics alike raved over USA Today bestselling author Sally Thorne's smash hit debut novel, The Hating Game—which sold in over 20 countries. Now she's back with an unforgettable romantic comedy about a twin sister and brother struggling over an inheritance—and the sexy best friend who comes between them.
Crush: a strong and often short-lived infatuation, particularly for someone beyond your reach…
… If Darcy Barrett hadn't met her dream man when she was eight years old, the rest of the male population wouldn't be such a let-down. No one measures up to Tom Valeska, aka the best man on Earth, not in looks, brain or heart. Even worse is the knowledge that her twin brother Jamie saw him first, and claimed him forever as his best friend.
Tom's off limits and loyal to her brother, 99%. One percent of Tom has had to be enough for Darcy, and her adoration has been sustained by his shy kindness. And if she's honest, his tight t-shirts.
Now Darcy's got three months left to get her life together, before her twin insists on selling the tumble-down cottage they inherited from their grandmother. By night, she's working in a seedy bar, shooting down lame pickups from bikers. By day, she's sewing underwear for her best friend and wasting her award-winning photography skills on website shots of pens and novelty mugs. She's enjoying living the messy life, and a glass of wine or ten… until that one night, when she finds a six-foot-six perfect package on her porch.
Tom's here, he's bearing power tools—and he's single for the first time in a decade.
As a house flipper extraordinaire, Tom has been dispatched by Jamie to give the cottage a drastic facelift that will result in a ton of cash. Darcy doesn't appreciate Tom's unsentimental approach to knocking down walls, and he really, really doesn't approve of her current burnout boyfriend. They can't be in the same room together without sparks flying— and it's not the faulty wiring. One bedroom wall separates them at night, and even that's looking flimsy.
Will Tom ever see Darcy as anything other than a little-sister obstacle to get around? And can she stand up to her most formidable opponent—her twin? This time around, she's determined to make Tom Valeska 99 percent hers, and he's never managed to say no to her yet…
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99 Percent Mine: A Novel
Written by Sally Thorne
Narrated by Jayme Mattler
Description
Readers and critics alike raved over USA Today bestselling author Sally Thorne's smash hit debut novel, The Hating Game—which sold in over 20 countries. Now she's back with an unforgettable romantic comedy about a twin sister and brother struggling over an inheritance—and the sexy best friend who comes between them.
Crush: a strong and often short-lived infatuation, particularly for someone beyond your reach…
… If Darcy Barrett hadn't met her dream man when she was eight years old, the rest of the male population wouldn't be such a let-down. No one measures up to Tom Valeska, aka the best man on Earth, not in looks, brain or heart. Even worse is the knowledge that her twin brother Jamie saw him first, and claimed him forever as his best friend.
Tom's off limits and loyal to her brother, 99%. One percent of Tom has had to be enough for Darcy, and her adoration has been sustained by his shy kindness. And if she's honest, his tight t-shirts.
Now Darcy's got three months left to get her life together, before her twin insists on selling the tumble-down cottage they inherited from their grandmother. By night, she's working in a seedy bar, shooting down lame pickups from bikers. By day, she's sewing underwear for her best friend and wasting her award-winning photography skills on website shots of pens and novelty mugs. She's enjoying living the messy life, and a glass of wine or ten… until that one night, when she finds a six-foot-six perfect package on her porch.
Tom's here, he's bearing power tools—and he's single for the first time in a decade.
As a house flipper extraordinaire, Tom has been dispatched by Jamie to give the cottage a drastic facelift that will result in a ton of cash. Darcy doesn't appreciate Tom's unsentimental approach to knocking down walls, and he really, really doesn't approve of her current burnout boyfriend. They can't be in the same room together without sparks flying— and it's not the faulty wiring. One bedroom wall separates them at night, and even that's looking flimsy.
Will Tom ever see Darcy as anything other than a little-sister obstacle to get around? And can she stand up to her most formidable opponent—her twin? This time around, she's determined to make Tom Valeska 99 percent hers, and he's never managed to say no to her yet…
- Publisher:
- HarperAudio
- Released:
- Jan 29, 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780062682161
- Format:
- Audiobook
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...I LOVED the pieces, but not the overall picture...
...now, let me explain.
Darcy Barrett was a force to be reckoned with, a take no prisoners, kick-a** ex (sorta) photographer and sometimes bartender that can certainly handle herself, but needs that one-on-one contact (friendly or otherwise) to fulfill her hunger. Sounds more sexual than it was meant, but then again...there was THAT angle too. Anywho...she's a strong female lead to be proud of, and while I'd like to wash her mouth/mind out with soap (sorry, but she's a bit too crass for my taste...and yes, I'd say the same if it was the male lead with the mouth), she definitely keeps things interesting.
Tom Valeska...perfect man specimen, if ever there was, that has the looks, the modesty, the balanced ambition, correct priorities...and if you think it's a "too good to be true" situation, it is, but only on the most minimum of levels. He's known Darcy and her twin brother (Jamie) since childhood, been the benefactor of their generosity (whether he wanted it or not) day in and day out, and been harboring feelings for one of them just...as...long. That's A LOT of tension to build up, and despite the fact that someone else made an appearance on his arm for some length of time, some flames can't be doused...only FED. He's a sweetheart that puts way too much pressure on himself, but memorable.
Here's the catch...they're both great, and their connection palpable, but the pieces set to connect them from point A to point B...I wasn't as sold on. For me, the drama of "should they, shouldn't they" was drawn out, I didn't quite buy the twin connection/fight nor did I particularly care for Jamie, and the grand finale wasn't as grand as I was hoping. I've been told (or rather saw online) that the final print includes an epilogue that the ARC does not...perhaps that solves my last "issue". In the end, while I wanted to be blown away, I was simply entertained. Grant it, that's not a bad thing, but it also left me wanting. Cie la vie...while it wasn't my all time favorite, it just may be yours, so do GO OUT AND GET IN THE PAGES of your own copy, just make sure you're adult age because yeah, there's words, and fantasies, and situations that are more than blush worthy.
**ARC received for review
The good stuff:
Thorne managed to create a story that was entirely different in tone, voice, humor, and characterizations. There were no similarities to The Hating Game and I loved that. In all respects, it could have been an entirely different author. For me, that is a big compliment. There are many accomplished authors who are great with that, but so often I see regularly releasing writers whose books exude a similar tone and quite often a familiar diction, where the writing becomes rote and tiresome. Or, it's that I get bored with the similarities between books.
The not-so-good:
In some ways, it was the tone, as well as the push/pull between the main characters that made it a rather odd romance for me. I wasn't particularly fond of how the heroine was characterized and I tried really hard to see past her sometimes brusque and aggressively assertive nature. It was mentioned that she looked and acted different from when she was as old as 18, but I never fully understood why. Was it regret or that her teenage crush was with someone else for the past eight years? I also didn't feel a true connection between the two. I was told about some of their childhood and various moments in between, but those weren't enough to convince me of their current attraction.
The overall:
99 Percent Mine was a decent sophomore effort. It wasn't a standout nor will it necessarily be memorable, but it was compelling enough to keep me reading and entertained.
What on earth did I just read?
This book was a solid one star until the last few pages where I was like "Okay let's make it 1.5"
I don't even understand what this jumbled up mess was supposed to be. Like, is it supposed to be a romance? A comedy? A nothing? Hell if I know.
So 99 Percent Mine is about this girl called Darcy, her twin called Jamie and their childhood friend called Tom.
Basically, Darcy and Jamie got in a fight a while ago and basically fucked their relationship, but they inherited this house from their grandma and they have to renovate it then sell it. And that's where Tom comes in, he's starting his own construction company and they're his first solo project.
Darcy has been making questionable decisions her whole life, and has basically been on the run since she was 18.
Tom was the perfect boy next door that did everything right and bla bla bla.
Jamie was the twin who got everything right (well it depends on how you'd define right but oh well)
This book felt like a first draft rather than an actually published one.
The writing was horrible and confusing, the dialogues were cringe worthy and made me wanna hit my head against a wall; hell I got second hand embarrassment just by reading them, the characters were weird and not in a good way.
They talked, behaved and even thought like 16 y.o rather than 26 y.o grown ups!
Darcy was obnoxious , childish, annoying and straight up horrible. I HATED being in her mind, I HATED reading from her PoV, and I just overall hated her.
It really annoyed me how desperate she was in front of Tom and ho she kept throwing herself at him in the most cringy ways possible.
One of the worst things about this book was how despite the whole book being told exclusively from Darcy's point of view, we get parts where Darcy is just describing how Tom is feeling or how he's thinking, and I'm like "um... excuse me but fuck no."
Tom was somewhat annoying, somewhat gullible somewhat I wanted to smack his head on a wall. It's like the author worked so hard on making him "perfect" she fucked the character up entirely.
Jamie was no better than his twin sister, he was annoying (I see a pattern here), judgmental, only cared about money, selfish...etc. Yet he was portrayed in a way that made him seem like he could do no wrong. I hated him and his holier than thou attitude.
One more thing I loathed was the romance, it was a big fat no from me.
Tom and Darcy are not the match made in heaven the author wanted to represent. Hell they weren't even an okay match. Their relationship was toxic, they had a lot of non-discussed issues that they didn't even talk through before jumping straight into having sex like the wild animals they are.
I never wanted two characters to not be together as much as I wanted those two apart. It was just wrong, there was no dynamic, chemistry or anything of the sort, just annoying sexual tension.
I HATED how possessive Darcy was of Tom; heck both twins were. They treated him like an object that could only belong to one of them rather than a fucking human being with his own thoughts and emotion. Not only that, but fucking Tom did not seem to mind it in the slightest!
One more thing that just made me wanna throw the book across the room (and I would have if I wasn't reading the ebook) ,and this is a pet peeve of mine, was how the characters NEVER discussed their issues, they never talked things through. A lot of the issues in this books could've been fixed -I shit you not- with one fucking conversation between the main characters.
I just kept yelling at the book all the time because of that. Heck I even considered DNFing many times.
All in all this was not for me, it was horrible, annoying, made me wanna pull my hair out and I do not recommend it.
Now that that's out of the way, the book.
I liked it okay, I guess. There were a couple of moments of real emotion and vulnerability that got me a bit misty-eyed. Generally, though, I found both Darcy and Tom insufferable in their own ways. Both were incredibly self-pitying, though with different ways of "coping" (because let's be honest, here, neither of them were coping so much as denying and burying). Jamie—Darcy's twin—was also a piece of work, but was thankfully an off-screen presence for most of the book. The only character I really liked was Megan and the most we got of her was a phone conversation.
Oh, and why is it that as soon as renovations started on the house, Darcy seemingly stopped going to work? I think there was one (maybe two) passing mentions of a bartending shift and she went back a couple of times to take pictures of the bikers, but she didn't seem to be working so much as swanning in when the mood struck, which only added to my dislike of her.
By the end, this felt like it wanted to be a much longer book with more character development (of both the central and supporting cast) and plot, but was ruthlessly pared down to what either the author or editor deemed essential, leaving characters like Truly and Holly undeveloped and plot threads like Darcy's encounter with Keith at work unexplored. (This latter bugged me a lot. There was kind of a big deal made of it when it happened, but then Darcy returned to work and everything was just fine and normal? I don't buy it. There would be repercussions. But, since we never actually saw Darcy at work again, only heard about it in passing, the whole thing with Keith was like Chekov's gun going un-fired. It was annoying and frustrating.)
All that is to say that I was disappointed. doubly-so because I loved The Hating Game so much.