In the Unlikely Event by L.J. Shen

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Title: In the Unlikely Event
Author: L.J. Shen
Published by: Indie
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 338
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Find it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon
My rating:

Blurb:

From #1 Amazon Bestseller L.J. Shen comes a new, star-crossed lovers romance about loss, love, and meeting The One when you are too young to know how to keep them.
Sometimes you meet people who are out of this world, so you make them a part of yours.
A one-night stand born from vengeance in a foreign land. An explosive chemistry neither of us could deny. We signed a contract on the back of a Boar’s Head Pub napkin that said if we ever met again, we would drop everything and be together. Eight years and thousands of miles later, he’s here. In New York. And he’s America’s music obsession. The intangible Irish poet who brings record executives to their knees. The blizzard in my perfect, unshaken snow globe. Last time we spoke, he was a beggar with no intention of becoming a king. But a king he became, and now I’m his servant. I’m not the same broken princess Malachy Doherty put back together with his callused hands. I have a career I love. A boyfriend I adore. An apartment, a roommate, a life. I changed. He changed, too. But Mal kept the napkin. Question is, will I keep my word?

Favorite Quote:

She still refuses to look at me. If nothing else, her shame is evidence that she has a soul. That’s good. Souls are rolling, organic, never-dying things. Bodies are born and die and decay in between.

This book was so fucking delicious! But also, tragic and borderline ridiculous. And I loved every word. I mean, the chocolate bar? You can’t make this stuff up, er, well, I guess you can. It made me feel happy, sad, intrigued, angry, betrayed, loved, passion and destroyed just to name a few. The mom was, ugh, I don’t want to like her. And Summer? Hell no, deal breaker for me. Personally I wouldn’t have taken Mal back but Rory is either a better person than me or a weaker one. I still don’t know which one yet.