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S05.02: Romance Novel Beginnings: Starting With a Bang!

Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

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The Duke Buys a Bride by Sophie Jordan

I truly mean setting in the sense that like oh shit We are somewhere like I think of white out by Adrian Anders. The five things that we need a character to be in order for us to want to watch them in a movie And it's uh they need to be sympathetic. They need to be threatened, likable and powerful or some combination of thosethose things In Sophie Jordan's The Duke buys a bride,. Marcus the fifth Duke of ottemberi woke with a startled jolt face down in horseshit Right So like they say don't start a book with a character waking up No, I mean Sophie Jordan just blew that directly out of the water right?

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