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Review: In The Unlikely Event, L. J. Shen

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"Romance masterpiece" - Kylie Scott, New York Times bestselling author


From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author L.J. Shen comes a new, contemporary romance with heart-wrenching twists and laugh-out-loud moments.

In The Unlikely Event is available now!

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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?
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REVIEW

I hadn't known what to expect from ITUE. People said it was very different from what L J Shen usually but I honestly don't think it was all that different. The thing that felt most different was the setting... and all the fun bits. But this book is a combo of all the best L. J. Shen traits... it has the musician feel from Midnight Blue which to this day is still one of my favs; it has an epic, crazy love which all LJ Shen books have; it had an amazing, unexpected plot; epic, crazy and fun side characters; it had so much angst, way more than I had been expecting from a book people were saying was an holiday read and more on the romcom side... okay, yes it had very funny bits, specially the note's section at the end of most chapters but girl this book was a rollercoaster of emotions, you got angst from every direction you looked and ooh I loved it but it sure put me through the ringer.

Imagine L J Shen sprinkling a lit bit of all her best traits and talents into a pot, and saying OOPS when she almost put the whole bottle of ANGST. Yup, that's a pretty accurate picture. 

You also get two amazing new characters that will steal your heart and take you on an epicly crazy ride of emotions. These two fell in love in 24h and although there has never been a more insta love plot than this... I loved it and I was rooting for these two even before they met. Leigh made their love feel genuine, feel real and this is the kind of insta love story I don't mind reading because I felt it, I felt everything but most of all I understood from the get-go how these two fit and were made for each other... and well that's something not many authors can do when writing a insta love book.

Nothing about Mal and Rory is easy. Their journey was insane and full of lies, deceit and unlucky moments but also full of lucky, magical ones. I loved these two, they were the definition of angst and soulmates. In the Unlikely Event was a beautiful second chance romance that will break and heal you  and these two and their journey will stay with for a long time.

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Narrated by: Shane East, Muffy Newton and Savannah Peachwood
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Excerpt

When I finally come face to face with the street artist standing on the side of the pavement, his guitar case open and full of rolled-up notes and change, I understand why his grandfather told me I’d recognize him with the self-assurance of an avid believer.
I’ve never seen someone like him before.
He is beautiful, true, but that’s not what stands out to me. He is radiant.
It’s like his presence has a presence. He sucks the air out of everything in his vicinity, making it impossible not to look at him. Malachy is tailor-made for a huge, colossal heartbreak. Everything about him—his tattered jeans, filthy boots, white shirt, and leather jacket that was broken in decades ago—screams trouble. He looks like a seventies heartthrob. An icon. A Terry Richardson muse. Bruce Springsteen pre-fame.
His voice is like honey and warm spices. It lulls me into a place in my mind I’ve never been before, even though it’s far from beautiful. It is gruff, throaty, and smoky. When someone bumps my shoulder to get closer to him, I snap out of my reverie and realize what I’m listening to.
“One” by U2.
The coincidence is strange. I try to tell myself it’s nothing. This is Ireland. U2 is a national treasure.
His eyes are squeezed shut as he sings. It’s like no one exists other than him and his guitar. Something warm rushes through my skin, like a heat wave, and I shudder in delight.
Warmth.
I always thought there was something melancholy about street performers—the way people walk past them, ignoring their music, their art, their passion. But this guy, he’s the one doing the ignoring. The tables have turned. He’s got the crowd eating from the palm of his hand. Every woman here is under a thick, sweet spell. He’s got that Harry Styles quality that makes girls want to bed him and older women want to adopt him. The men are a cross between impatient, annoyed, and jealous. You can see it in the way they tap their feet, check their watches, nudge their wives and girlfriends to move it.
The song ends, and Malachy Doherty cracks his eyes open and stares directly at me, like he knew I’d be here. Like he watched me watching him through closed eyes. Disoriented—and for some reason wanting to do something, anything—I throw a bill into his guitar case and look away, realizing to my horror that I threw the fifty euros his grandpa gave me. Everyone around me murmurs and whistles. They think it was intentional. I can feel my face flaming red. I bet he thinks I want to sleep with him.
Do I? Probably. But should he know that? Hell no.

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About LJ Shen
L.J. Shen is a USA Today, Washington Post and Amazon #1 best-selling author of contemporary, New Adult and YA romance. Her books have been sold to nineteen different countries.
She lives in California with her husband, son, cat and eccentric fashion choices, and enjoys good wine, bad reality TV shows and catching sun rays with her lazy cat.


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