Há em mim uma mistura de pecado e desejo pronta para te levar ao delírio…

I'd like to take this time to thank Chloe Liese for gifting us the autistic rep we deserve and the hot bisexuals making out in a bookstore scene that we NEEDED

Rating:5/5

Book Blurb:

The TikTok sensation, now with new exclusive content! Opposites attract in this heartfelt, modern marriage-of-convenience romance about finding love—and home—in the most unlikely of places.

Rooney Sullivan is sunshine incarnate and the antithesis of quiet, reserved Axel. He’s been able to hide his attraction to her until a party game gets out of hand and ends in an unexpected kiss. Months later, Rooney’s staying just next door to him for a cozy A-frame getaway and temptingly within reach.

Axel, the eldest Bergman brother, is a gorgeous grump and Rooney’s longtime crush. Their kiss was an accident, and months later, so is stumbling into him at the Bergman family’s property. Rooney’s sure her feelings are unrequited, thanks to the distance Axel keeps, so she keeps her attraction to herself.

But when Axel and Rooney unexpectedly find their paths—and problems—converging, marriage proves the perfect solution. At least, until they face a new dilemma: a marriage of convenience that’s inconveniently become a love match, after all.

Review:

Opposites attract in this sweet and heart warming story that involves a marriage-of-convenience, a mischievous stray kitten and dog, some meddling family members, and a cozy getaway. Rooney Sullivan is the opposite of Axel Bergman, she's sunshine and he's quiet and brooding, she's extroverted and he's reserved, and yet both of them have been harboring a crush on one another since they first met but have been hiding it from one another. Rooney has been going through a rough patch with her health and leaving law school, she needs a quiet getaway so when her best friend offers her to stay in her boyfriend's cabin that was supposed to be empty Rooney takes her up on it... except it is very much not empty. Axel is the eldest Bergman brother and he's used to keeping his troubles from his family and with his A-frame getaway needing repairs and him being strapped for money, he refuses to ask his family for help... there is however a solution. Axel's uncle left him an inheritance, but the only way to access it is if Axel is married. When Rooney appears in front of Axel needing to use the A-frame he offers her to stay in his house instead, and Rooney hearing about Axel's problem offers to be his wife for one year.... yet both Axel and Rooney's feelings for each other is getting harder and harder to hide as they live together and begin to act like the marriage is real. Can they tell each other their feelings and finally make this marriage real? Or was it just a fake one all along? This was such a cute story and I adored Rooney and Axel's love story. They are both so in love with each other and want to help the other as much as possible and it was just so sweet. It was another great Bergman brother book and I look forward to reading the next one!

*Thanks Netgalley and Berkley Publishing Group, Berkley for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

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With You Forever by Chloe Liese

5 Stars

TW: Chronic Illness flare-up

Representation: Chronic illness, Autism

Bergman Brothers Series

Axel has been attracted to Rooney and desperately trying to hide it until suddenly she kisses him in the middle of a charades game. Now he can’t seem to avoid her and she has ruined his ability to paint which is a problem because right now he could use the money his paintings generate. 

Rooney has a crush on her best friend’s brother-in-law: the grumpy and aloof Axel Bergman. deciding to kiss him and expose her crush was a spur of the moment decision and he has effectively disappeared ever since. Rooney is struggling with a flare-up of her chronic illness and needs to get away for a little while. Axel needs to get married to access his inheritance; they decide to help each other out. This marriage of convenience is full of messy emotions and becomes increasingly complicated. 

I enjoyed this addition to the series: it had a modern day marriage of convenience full of longing and pining, forced proximity, and representation of adults with autism and chronic illnesses who are successful and find love and happiness with each other. 

the 'what if you played it a little risky' post literally Changed my life but i cant fujkign find it in my blog because its. a tiktok screenshot

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

"life doesnt get better, you just get stronger" does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not being 11-17 anymore. positive thinking helps but it doesnt fix whatevers going on at 15, you have to brute force through that one raw

Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.

All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.

the youtube "stop drawing like this" community doesn't want you to know this but you can shade however you want forever btw. it doesn't have to make sense in fact you should actively be pissing people off with how inaccurate your light source is

A MINHA PELE REAGE, NO CORPO INVADE UM DESEJO LOUCO QUANDO PENSO EM VOCÊ, EU ME PERMITO AS MAIS LOUCAS FANTASIAS, MAS A MINHA PREFERIDA É TE VIVER

Punks

oh shit rpg maker xp is completely free to own this week on steam??

This is so awesome

I want everybody who’s calling Ken a Trophy Husband to know that he’s actually a Trophy Boyfriend, because when Ruth Handler invented Ken in the 1960s, she was adamant that he would never marry her and instead be her “handsome steady”, so that Barbie remained a figure of independence for the little girls and was never put in the position of housewife.

Her house is hers. She bought it and furnished it with money she made in her own job. In STEM, in politics, in healthcare, in fashion, in academy, in customer service. Her credit card is in her name (women in the US couldn’t have their own regardless of marital status until 1974). And it’s all pink and fashionable because femininity and badassness aren’t mutually exclusive. No matter who you are, you can be anything.

That’s why Barbie’s slogan is “you can be anything”. Teaching these ideals to little girls is why Barbie was created. Empowering women and empowering femininity is the original meaning of the Barbie doll. It’s not that you have to be all this to be a woman, but if you are all or some of this, you too are awesome.

And somehow pop culture deliberately changed that narrative. Sexualised, bimbofied, and villainised her, when she actually isn’t responsible for the impossible beauty standards — people are, she’s just a stylised, not-to-scale toy like most others.

Men are frothing because he’s just Ken and I guess they were expecting her to be just Barbie, but that’s exactly what Ken is. Canonically. A badass woman’s himbo boyfriend.

This movie has the potential to radically change the way we collectively see Barbie into what Ruth Handler originally intended, I’m so very excited

Chloe Liese's romances never cease to fill me with such joy and completely brighten my day. Her books are truly something special.