Badly Explain Your Favorite Books

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Let’s talk about anything bookish!

 

How do you explain your favorite books to someone who hasn’t read them yet? Do you go into great detail about the plot, the characters the conflict? Or you just tell them that the book is good and to read the blurb?

Well, someone on my online book club OSRBC (Old School Romance Book Club) asked everyone to badly explain their favorite books. I joined in and I had so much fun writing them. Which brings me to the topic of this blog post. I will be sharing 10 of my favorite books and will badly explain the plot! I will do my very best not to share spoilers (unlike what I did at the book club), but I will probably spoil some of them so be warned!

I will also be hiding the book titles with spoiler tags so you can guess what they are! I hope this will be a fun exercise for everyone!

 

Historical Romance

Woman writer starts snooping in a seedy part of London and rescues a man using an umbrella! The man apparently owns a gambling establishment and doesn’t want anything to do with her. Woman writer wants to finish her research and befriends the women in his employ. There is a ball plus a Cinderella moment. Her book finally gets published and is quoted in another book by another famous author!

Can you guess the title?

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Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas[/spoiler]

 

Attention London, daughter and niece of famous demimonde is looking for a protector! Young demimonde doesn’t want to find a protector and finds that she is attracted to their new stable master – someone she didn’t hire herself! Stablemaster is attracted to young demimonde and acts like a 5-year-old (I hate you and I’ll push your buttons). They spend time together and become friends. Stablemaster reveals he is working for the home office and is on a mission – young demimonde was the prime suspect. But the boss and stable master decide she is innocent and they change their plans. Evil villain intros himself. Secrets revealed. Then the hero says “we can’t be together, you’re too good for me.”

Can you guess the title?

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Secret Ways by Kat Martin[/spoiler]

 

Disgraced Knight is summoned back by his king to guide the princess to her fiance in exchange for his title and lands back. Disgraced Knight and Princess travel alone through the forest while being attacked by rebels. Disgraced Knight and Princess fall in love but Knight has to take her to her evil fiance to make peace between the two warring countries.

Can you guess the title?

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His Forbidden Touch by Shelly Thacker[/spoiler]

 

A widowed lady approaches rich dude to pay for her scoundrel brother’s gambling debts. Dude says “sure, if you be my mistress.” Lady agrees to terms. They meet for boinking and fall in love. Dude breaks up with her to “save” her from dude’s evil half-brother who killed his fiance years ago. Dude has been plotting revenge to half-brother and his friends. Also, Dude realizes that he loves the Lady but lies to her and says “lady, I’m bored with you. Scram!”

Can you guess the title?

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My Fair Mistress by Tracy Anne Warren[/spoiler]

 

Contemporary/Paranormal Romance

Vampire Huntress meets a Vampire hitman at a bar and ends up getting trained to be the bait! There is a love/hate relationship between the two, but they end up falling in love. Vampire Huntress gets involved in a high profile case about missing girls and ends up breaking up with her vampire lover to save his life.

Can you guess the title?

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Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost[/spoiler]

 

Young college girl is in love with her best friends brother. She mistakes a bartender for the player bartender and proposes the bartender teach her the ways of romance. College girl falls in love with the bartender but is still confused about her love for her best friend’s brother.

Can you guess the title?

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Foreplay by Sophie Jordan[/spoiler]

 

Hero leads a team of elite mercenaries and a bounty is out for his life. His ex-girlfriend heads a group of skilled lady assassins gives him a tip. Both of them don’t trust each other but sexytimes abound until something in the mercenary heroes past surfaces and a battle ensues!

Can you guess the title?

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Midnight Action by Elle Kennedy[/spoiler]

 

Young Adult

Titanic in space! A high-tech ship crashlands on an uninhabited planet with only two survivors! These two survivors have a hate/love relationship going until they start falling for each other… and start seeing things!

Can you guess the title?

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These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner[/spoiler]

 

Hacker living in a satellite outside Earth sends a message to the real princess of the moon. Hacker and rogue friend of the princess get stranded in the satellite and end up crashing into the desert where the rogue loses his eyesight and the hacker gets kidnapped! There is a plague and the hacker finds out a secret about her own life!

Can you guess the title?

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Cress by Marissa Meyer[/spoiler]

Six antiheroes band together to break into a secure place to steal something very important. The antiheroes don’t really trust each other but they have to work together, each of them having their own personal agenda. They finally infiltrate the secure place, but how to get out?

Can you guess the title?

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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo[/spoiler]

 

How many book titles did you guess?

Wasn’t this a fun experience? Do you badly explain your favorite books?

 

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