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Date read: November 3, 2019
Winston Brothers
0.5. Beauty and the Mustache
1. Truth or Beard
2. Grin and Beard It
3. Beard Science
4. Beard in Mind
4.5. Beard in Hiding
5. Dr. Strange Beard
6. Beard with Me
7. Beard Necessities - Paperback | Kindle
Penny Reid
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
Billy Winston’s family is going to see him happy and in love if it’s the last thing they do.Thoughts on Beard Necessities: Holy wow. Billy and Scarlet/Claire's romance has been building over six books. We've seen their budding romance, their hopelessness, their despair, their moments of longing, and a million and one things working to keep them apart (most of those million and one things being caused by the two of them getting in the way of their own happiness).
No one deserves a happily-ever-after quite as much as the second oldest Winston brother and his lady love, Claire McClure (aka Scarlet St. Claire). Cruelty and circumstance tore them apart almost twenty years ago. Secrecy and bitterness kept them separated.
But you know who's tired of their separation and stubbornness? Everyone. Especially Billy Winston’s family. And now they're going to do something about it.
Well-meaning interference means the star-crossed lovers can’t stop tripping over each other in the hills of Tuscany, the catacombs of Rome, and the waterways of Venice. Billy and Claire find themselves thrown together and at the mercy of the Winston siblings’ shenanigans.
But will their forced proximity bring them together? Or push them even further apart?
This second-chance romance brings back the entire Winston gang, playing cupid in one last story of love, hi-jinks, and family collusion.
To say I've been pining for them to finally find their way together would be an understatement.
I NEEDED it. Heck, at this point, the entire Winston family and all the assorted significant others needed it.
But it was Billy and Claire who needed it most of all.
They're both caught in memories (sometimes flawed, sometimes misunderstood, sometimes cautiously hopeful) of the things that happened to bring them to this point in their relationship. There's a point where Claire has to face the fact that she made the best decision she could have made at the time with the information she had at hand and that...honestly, that kind of hurt. They both had so much they had to work through and work out between them and they were both making decisions with only part of the truth at their disposal.
Yeah, they had a lot to figure out.
Fortunately for them, the scheming Winston family isn't about to let two of their favorite people wallow in their own sadness for too long. And when the Winstons set down to make something work, they don't stop until it's running on all cylinders.
(Although, both Billy and Claire unintentionally did their best to trip up their well meaning plans a few times along the way. What do you expect those with these two, though? They really are their own worst enemies when it comes to their romance. Until they finally figure things out, that is.)
I'm going to be sad to say goodbye (for now!) to Green Valley and the Winstons and Cletus's crazy schemes, but this series went out on such a high note I'm insanely satisfied at the same time. This family made my heart happy and I'm so so SO pleased with the journey they took me on when I picked up that first book.
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Excerpt
Strolling to the desk, I set down the milk and cookies, crossed my arms and turned to face my brother. “You’re pointing out that Scarlet and I will see each other during various family functions.”
“Correct.”
“And, therefore,” I continued reasonably, “I need to be nice to her.” I knew that already, and tonight—after watching her face crumple and feeling a part of my soul shrivel at the sight—I’d finally accepted it. I would be nice. I would be so damn nice. I’d be a saint.
But then Cletus said, “No, Billy. Not nice. Nice is for tea parties and doctor’s visits. You need to woo her.”
I blinked once. “Woo her.”
“That’s right. You need to woo the pants off her, hopefully literally, and then make that woman yours. Permanently. Once and for all. Put a ring on it. Woo is where it’s at. Jenn still has the centerpieces from our wedding if you’d like to borrow them.” During this enlightening monologue, he’d moseyed over and picked up the glass of milk and a cookie, dunked the cookie into the milk, and then took a bite just as he’d finished his listings of delusions.
“That’s never going to happen.”
“Why not? Those centerpieces are lovely. You don’t know your color scheme yet. Ask Scarlet before you decide.”
I ground my teeth. “Scarlet and I are never going to happen, Cletus.”
He shook his head firmly. “I’m disappointed in your lack of ambition, Billy. I thought we’d be on the same page. But I see now, I’m going to have to take a tough love approach.”
“Cletus—”
“I’m going to give you one chance,” he said, then pushed the rest of the cookie in his mouth and spoke around it as he continued, “One more chance is all you get. I’ve waited long enough for this and you know my feelings on delayed gratification.”
“Pardon?”
“It’s overrated.” He took a gulp of milk and picked up another cookie.
“No, Cletus. One chance on what?”
“I’m giving you one chance. One.” He pointed the cookie at me. “Tomorrow, you’re going to go find her, apologize to her for whatever that kerflufflefuck was I walked in on. Tell her you were suffering from temporary insanity, hopped up on illicit drugs, abducted by asshole probing aliens, whatever. I’m giving you one chance to make this right, and if you don’t take it, you are not going to like what happens next.”
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Meet Penny Reid:
Penny Reid is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Selling Author of the Winston Brothers, Knitting in the City, Rugby, and Hypothesis series. She used to spend her days writing federal grant proposals as a biomedical researcher, but now she just writes books. She’s also a full time mom to three diminutive adults, wife, daughter, knitter, crocheter, sewer, general crafter, and thought ninja.
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