A Week of Fun Stuff ❤️🪄

 

    I'm traveling this week and wanted something fun and easy to listen to on the plane. Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory rocked it. Because it was a romance, I was looking for the formula to be followed. I found an excellent description of this on the website DIYMFA: https://diymfa.com/writing/structure-romance-writing/

    Here is an abbreviated version of their list that compares the Hero's Journey to The Structure of Romance:  

    I love a list!!

• Call to Adventure/Meet Cute
• Refusal of the Call/Rejection of the Relationship
• Acceptance of the Quest/Giving the Relationship a Chance
• Trials and Temptations/Three Dates
• Midpoint Crisis/I-need-you-but-I-can't-have-you
• The Road Back/Pulling Back Together
• The Fall
• The Sacrifice
• Declaration
• Denouement/The HEA (Happily Ever After)

    Let me say that Party of Two has it all, plus some steamy bits. Guillory's heroine isn't rescued but does face some unaddressed hurts from her past. Also, she loves cake and fries. It made me hungry. 

    This book is the fifth in a series, but it stands alone.

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    Patricia Wrede's best-known books are the Dealing With Dragons series--so good and funny. Several years ago, maybe ten, she wrote two epistolary novels with Caroline Steremere about two friends, Cecelia and Kate, coming of age and discovering their abilities. The story takes place in England in the early 1800s (think Jane Austin) in a world where magic is real, but not everyone has the ability. The Mislaid Magician, or Ten Years After, is a revisit to these now-married-with-families friends as they try to solve the mystery of a missing magician. The manners and expectations are reminiscent of Pride and Prejudice with well-meaning but overbearing relatives. It is appropriate because I'm visiting friends this week as well!

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