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Beauty and the Mustache: A Philosophical Romance (Knitting in the City Book 4) by [Reid, Penny]

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This is a full-length novel, can be read as a standalone, and is the fourth book in the 'Knitting in the City' series.

There are three things you need to know about Ashley Winston: 1) She has six brothers and they all have beards, 2) She is a reader, and 3) She knows how to knit.

Former beauty queen, Ashley Winston’s preferred coping strategy is escapism. She escaped her Tennessee small town, loathsome father, and six brothers eight years ago. Now she escapes life daily via her Amazon kindle one-click addiction. However, when a family tragedy forces her to return home, Ashley can’t escape the notice of Drew Runous— local Game Warden, bear wrestler, philosopher, and everyone’s favorite guy. Drew’s irksome philosophizing in particular makes Ashley want to run for the skyscrapers, especially since he can’t seem to keep his exasperating opinions— or his soulful poetry, steadfast support, and delightful hands— to himself. Pretty soon the girl who wanted nothing more than the escape of the big city finds she’s lost her heart in small town Tennessee.

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"This might be my new favorite book. 5 stars!"

-Carey Heywood, New York Times and USA Today Best Selling Author

"6++ stars!! Do yourself a favor and buy this book as soon as it becomes available. It was amazing, and I feel richer for having read it. A true treasure I will keep close to my heart. I loved it."

-Belle Aurora, USA Today Best Selling Author

"This books is an "all the stars possible and more" book for me. I loved it. I love all Penny's books, but I loved this in a way that I didn't expect. It's beautiful. It's unique. It's special. This is Penny's best writing to date."

-Daisy Prescott, USA Today Best Selling Author

"Funny, sweet, swooooony and teary! The writing was great, but at times... it would simply take my breath away."

-Maryse's Book Blog

"5+ stars! Penny Reid infuses new life into romance with a story that's sexy, smart and full of feeling. One of my favorites this year!"

-Vilma's Book Blog

"5 beautiful stars. In the style that I have come to expect and love, Penny has written a story full of depth, emotion and her trademark humor. Her words were lovely to read and still resonate with me 2 weeks later."

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"5++ stars! I really loved this book, it gripped my from the first to the last page."

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About the Author

Penny Reid lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband, three kids, and an inordinate amount of yarn. She used to spend her days writing federal grant proposals as a biomedical researcher, but now she just writes books.
You can find out more about Penny and sign up to receive exclusive books, stories, and excerpts of upcoming novels here: pennyreid.ninja

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File Size: 638 KB
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Publisher: Cipher-Naught (August 28, 2014)
Publication Date: August 28, 2014
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Language: English
ASIN: B00MRQJ5M4
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Dusky Path

The Good: This book was free

August 7, 2017

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

There are spoilers, be warned.

The Good: This book was free. There's good poetry in it. It's located in the best place on earth, Great Smoky Mountains in TN.

The Bad: Oh, where to begin: 1) It's completely from the Heroine's POV so you never know what the Hero is thinking - and reading the epilogue of his thoughts, makes him seem stalker-ish and weird. 2) Her mom is dying through 60% of the story, having dealt with hospice more than once in my life I can tell you there is nothing romantic or sexual or fun about it. 3) Ashley leaves her family for EIGHT years and never once asked about her brothers. This is absurd, who never asks about their family? unless they're some kind of abusive monsters, I can't imagine never asking about them, much less never visiting. 4) Everyone just accepts Drew's relationship with their mom like it's completely normal for a man 20 years younger to become best friends with his sister's fake husband's real wife. You're confused? exactly that. And, although logistically I understand the reasons for the power of attorney being given to him, who doesn't get angry when their parent doesn't trust them enough to handle their medical / financial issues? The Winston family is way too accepting. 5) Her friends, I don't like them at all. Who brings a vibrator to a woman whose mama is dying? They have no boundaries and I'm a big fan of boundaries.

The Ugly - The Brothers. I wanted to read this book because I love the idea of lots of brothers but they're weird. All six of them still live with their mama, even though they're grown men. They have a "masturbation" schedule. Yes, you read that right, a masturbation schedule in a house with their mama. Ew. Do they not have their own bedrooms? Why don't they lock their bathroom door? Has their mama never accidentally walked in on them like the sister does? It's just weird and gross. And only one of them has hurt feelings that the sister never visited or called or wrote? I don't know any real person who would just accept that without some hurt feelings. And not a one of them tried to tear down the hospital that their mama was in when they knew she was sick but since they were denied entry they just went about their business. It's like they're all idiots until the sister comes homes.

I really wanted to like this story but I don't

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June 8, 2016

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2.5 stars -- I'm a fan of the Knitting series and enjoyed the first two but this one was a bust for me. The dialogue was fun and that kept me reading but the hero is too strange for my taste and I just didn't feel the chemistry between H/h at all. In fact there was so little communication between the two that it became extremely irritating. The family dynamics were entertaining but not enough to carry this story --there really wasn't much of a plot -- and it wasn't long before I was skimming and skipping pages at a time. Like some other reviewers I also was frustrated by the fact that the hero was passive and didn't fight for the heroine and that she had to make all the running for the "HEA" -- which made that HEA unconvincing. Made the whole thing disappointing. This story worked as a stand-alone novel but I would give it a miss.

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Romance at its best! Come for the beards stay for the epic romance!

August 28, 2014

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Penny Reid is a genius. I honestly do not know how it is possible that after each book of hers that I read I think "This one is my favorite" then I read her latest and I'm like "Nope, THIS is my favorite". I think this is my favorite of hers by far. : ) I can not begin to adequately describe how very much I fell in love with Drew, Ashley, all of the 6 bearded Winstons.

The genius that is Penny's series is that while yes, they are all part of a series and there is a cohesion about her books that makes it clear that we are indeed reading a (fantastic) series and yet every book is different. NSH brought us Sir Handsome Mc HotPants and the adorable Janie, FWoB we have Freaking Nico and Elizabeth's boy band love, in Love Hacked we have Alex with the voice and Sandra with her ZING and now we have poetry writing Drew that will melt your butter and Ashley that will melt your heart.

Drew is probably the most swoon worthy male lead I've read in a while and deserves to be up there with the ranks of Mr. Darcy, Jaime Fraser, and Captain Wentworth. "Sugar, I'd be honored to catch you anytime you'd like to fall." "Since I first laid eyes on you and felt sorry for every beautiful thing that was made no longer resplendent, nullified by your being." I could go on and on. His poems and the epilogue!!! Drew's words are so beyond beautiful, just swoon.

This truly is a romance novel and I seriously think it's Penny's best. There are scenes that are laugh out loud funny and zany, the hot sexy times, like the rest of the Knitting in the City books, but this time around we have an added layer of emotional depth and real honest to god romance. This book is just plain beautiful and I can not recommend it enough.

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December 17, 2017

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This is the only book by this author that I have read and I was surprised that it had such high reviews. I am from the Pacific Northwest and generally enjoy books written about the South and all of it's differences in customs and people. I guess the Smoky Mountains is not my idea of the South as this was pretty much about hillbillies and not very romantic in my opinion. It was a very slow read for me and I had to put it aside to read other books before finishing it. All of the poetry and knitting didn't seem to fit in to this scenario. It was funny in places but just didn't hold my interest.

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Deborah Smagala

So, so good. Another great book by Penny Reid

I loved this book. I laughed out loud through the first chapter and many times thereafter even though the family was going through a bad situation.Read more

Published 5 days ago

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Emotional and laugh out loud funny!

This is the first book by Penny Reid that I have read but I have to say it won’t be the last. I laughed out loud and I cried ugly tears. It really hit home with the loss.Read more

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Jennifer E. Owen

Silly, Sweet, Hot, and Immersive

I'm hooked! This is my first Penny Reid book and I'm just utterly hooked. The Winston brothers are adorable, the women are sassy and competent and fend just fine for themselves,...Read more

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Romance Novels are not my favorite genre. I do think this story is written ...

In fairness, I should say that first, Romance Novels are not my favorite genre. I do think this story is written or would be of more interest to twenty-something females.Read more

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Carolyn Brubaker

A gentle giant with the heart of a poet. What's not to love?

I was shocked to see so many negative reviews connected t this book Seriously? This might be my favorite Penny Reid book and Drew is definitely my favorite hero.Read more

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Beautifully trimmed mustache

Damn. This book was so stealthy. It snuck upon me, took me hostage and fed me pies until I became pliant. But to be honest, I surrendered happily...Read more

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Sandra J.

Four Stars

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Angie

Definite must read!!

This book sucked me in and I had a hard time putting it down. Loved Ashley, her brothers, her friends and Drew!Read more

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Jane Erickson

Great Words

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