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If I Stopped Haunting You
If I Stopped Haunting You | Colby Wilkens
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An enemies to lovers romance with a spooky twist where two feuding writers end up on a writers retreat together at a haunted castle in Scotland It's been months since horror author Penelope Skinner threw a book at Neil Storm. But he was so infuriating, with his sparkling green eyes and his bestselling horror novels that claimed to break Native stereotypes. And now she’s a publishing pariah and hasn’t been able to write a word since. So when her friend invites her on a too-good-to-be-true writers retreat in a supposedly haunted Scottish castle, she seizes the opportunity. Of course, some things really are too good to be true. Neil wants nothing less than to be trapped in a castle with the frustratingly adorable woman who threw a book at him. She drew blood! Worse still, she unleashed a serious case of self-doubt! Neil is terrified to write another bestselling “book without a soul,” as Pen called it. All Neil wants is to find inspiration, while completely avoiding her. But as the retreat begins, Pen and Neil are stunned to find themselves trapped in a real-life ghost story. Even more horrifying, they’re stuck together and a truly shocking (extremely hot) almost-kiss has left them rethinking their feelings, and... maybe they shouldn’t have been enemies at all? But if they can’t stop the ghosts pursuing them, they may never have the chance to find out. Full of spooky chills and even more sexy thrills, If I Stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkens is the funny, fast-paced romp romance readers have been waiting for!
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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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Well that's a definitive nope on this book by a white author falsely claiming Indigenous heritage!

https://nypost.com/2024/10/21/us-news/author-colby-wilkens-says-shes-native-amer...

Clare-Dragonfly Whether or not she‘s really descended from the right man by that name, claiming Indigenous identity based on a single great-great-grandparent seems awfully disingenuous unless he and his descendants maintained close ties to his Indigenous group. (edited) 4w
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Clare-Dragonfly yeah definitely! 3w
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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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Oh dear, this American author has named a Scottish character Fanny, obviously not realizing that fanny is like vulgar slang for vagina there! Oops...I am reading an ARC, maybe it's fixed in the final book.

Otherwise I am enjoying these two enemies / rival Indigenous authors and soon to be lovers and their spooky writing retreat 👻

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sebrittainclark
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Panpan

2/5

Penelope Skinner hates Neil Storm (for reasons that were never clear to me), so when they both end up in a haunted castle they find that proximity and a mystery can change the way they see each other.

There were a lot of storylines in this novel, and it left me confused on what was really going on. I enjoyed the ghost story, and wished there had been more focus on that storyline; though, I felt the ending of it was a little unsatisfying.

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sebrittainclark
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ebook: If I Stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkens
audiobook: Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

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sebrittainclark
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Pen wondered how drunk she must have been when she accepted this invitation, because it was a disaster in the making.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

ShyBookOwl 😅 2mo
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