{"id":25043,"date":"2019-12-31T08:28:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T13:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=25043"},"modified":"2022-10-11T16:58:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:58:38","slug":"review-love-lettering-by-kate-clayborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/31\/review-love-lettering-by-kate-clayborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2764\ufe0f Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-25043\" data-postid=\"25043\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-25043 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_bbbcac8 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner gutter-narrow col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_49667e8 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_7036296 rounded drop-shadow customBorderRad_top image-center auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/love-lettering-kate-clayborn-scaled.jpg?w=640\" title=\"Review \u2764\ufe0f Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn\" alt=\"Review \u2764\ufe0f Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn\">\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_a1982ef customBorderRad_bottom repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Meg Mackworth\u2019s hand-lettering skill has made her famous as the Planner of Park Slope, designing custom journals for her New York City clientele. She has another skill too: reading signs that other people miss. Knowing the upcoming marriage of Reid Sutherland and his polished fianc\u00e9e was doomed to fail is one thing, but weaving a secret word of warning into their wedding program is another. Meg may have thought no one would spot it, but she hadn\u2019t counted on sharp-eyed, pattern-obsessed Reid.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">A year later, Reid has tracked Meg down to find out how she knew that his meticulously planned future was about to implode. But with a looming deadline and a bad case of creative block, Meg doesn\u2019t have time for Reid\u2019s questions\u2014unless he can help her find her missing inspiration. As they gradually open up to each other, both try to ignore a deepening connection between them. But the signs are there\u2014irresistible, indisputable, urging Meg to heed the messages Reid is sending her, before it\u2019s too late . . .\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-2 tb_23787e9 last\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_2d1ea91  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16466 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/3-hearts.jpg?resize=135%2C44\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Jan 1, 2020<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Sensual<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Kensington<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $9.99<\/p><hr \/><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My first Clayborn book and while it turned out to be a decent story it took a bit to hook me in. I usually don\u2019t give books longer than a couple chapters, but I soldiered through.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What through me off about this book? The heroine. <strong>Meg Mackworth<\/strong> is a hand-lettering artist. Yep, I guess it\u2019s a thing and could see where people with money would get custom journals, invitations, etc. She\u2019s got a ton of baggage, including putting secret messages into some of her work\u2026 sometimes. She\u2019s also super horrible at dealing with confrontation. She\u2019s almost a bit of an unreliable narrator, holding parts of herself back from the reader as much as the people around her. It\u2019s quite genius from a writing prospective, but not so much from the reader one. Since this story is told completely from her point of view it gets a little more frustrating.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Which left me in the lurch when it came to the hero, <strong>Reid<\/strong>. He\u2019s a math guy, a math genius to be honest. With a knack for picking out patterns and issues in a numbers world, he stumbles upon Meg\u2019s secret and confronts her about it. Since the hidden message was in his wedding program, the wedding that got cancelled. This hero was different, in a big way. He\u2019s not over the top, very understated\u2026 outside of the heroine constantly describing him as hot. Even though there are also a million descriptions of what he wears, I honestly could never form a picture of Reid in my head. Just realized that, and as a reader who likes to be fully involved in my imagining not picturing the hero is not a good thing. Final thought on Reid, not alpha, more beta, and often awkward.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plot itself is one-part romance, two parts women\u2019s fiction. The heroine has a lot of growth and different challenges she must face to reach the end goal. There\u2019s a bit of an enemies to lover\u2019s trope at the start, but that quickly evolves. Also, this story is a slow burn, not sure how I keep selecting books with the slowest developing romances, but I do. As for the letters and lettering parts of the story\u2026 I found them boring. Sorry, but I am not interested in how letters are made or how to draw them. It\u2019s not a fascinating topic for me.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overall, I eventually became invested in Meg, seeing her growth and watching her relationship with Reid turn into a fledgling friendship to love. That\u2019s what kept me turning the pages, though part of the journey made me wanted to skim parts. If you really enjoy <strong>Kristen Higgins<\/strong> or <strong>Susan Wiggs<\/strong> this book might be the one for you.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Landra<\/em><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_eb0616c customBorderRad repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2SEYaaH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/love-lettering\/id1470632216?mt=11&amp;app=itunes&amp;at=11l88k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">iBooks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/love-lettering-kate-clayborn\/1131407378?ean=9781496725189#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">B&amp;N<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/love-lettering-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Kobo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Kate_Clayborn_Love_Lettering?id=_H6WDwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Google Play<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            \t    <\/div>\n\t    <!-- \/row_inner -->\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/module_row -->\n\t<\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Mackworth\u2019s hand-lettering skill has made her famous as the Planner of Park Slope, designing custom journals for her New York City clientele. 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She has another skill too: reading signs that other people miss. Knowing the upcoming marriage of Reid Sutherland and his polished fianc\u00e9e was doomed to fail is one thing, but weaving a secret word of warning into their wedding program is another. Meg may have thought no one would spot it, but she hadn\u2019t counted on sharp-eyed, pattern-obsessed Reid.<br \/><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>A year later, Reid has tracked Meg down to find out how she knew that his meticulously planned future was about to implode. But with a looming deadline and a bad case of creative block, Meg doesn\u2019t have time for Reid\u2019s questions\u2014unless he can help her find her missing inspiration. As they gradually open up to each other, both try to ignore a deepening connection between them. But the signs are there\u2014irresistible, indisputable, urging Meg to heed the messages Reid is sending her, before it\u2019s too late . . .\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/3-hearts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Jan 1, 2020<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Sensual<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Kensington<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $9.99<\/p><hr \/><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My first Clayborn book and while it turned out to be a decent story it took a bit to hook me in. I usually don\u2019t give books longer than a couple chapters, but I soldiered through.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What through me off about this book? The heroine. <strong>Meg Mackworth<\/strong> is a hand-lettering artist. Yep, I guess it\u2019s a thing and could see where people with money would get custom journals, invitations, etc. She\u2019s got a ton of baggage, including putting secret messages into some of her work\u2026 sometimes. She\u2019s also super horrible at dealing with confrontation. She\u2019s almost a bit of an unreliable narrator, holding parts of herself back from the reader as much as the people around her. It\u2019s quite genius from a writing prospective, but not so much from the reader one. Since this story is told completely from her point of view it gets a little more frustrating.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Which left me in the lurch when it came to the hero, <strong>Reid<\/strong>. He\u2019s a math guy, a math genius to be honest. With a knack for picking out patterns and issues in a numbers world, he stumbles upon Meg\u2019s secret and confronts her about it. Since the hidden message was in his wedding program, the wedding that got cancelled. This hero was different, in a big way. He\u2019s not over the top, very understated\u2026 outside of the heroine constantly describing him as hot. Even though there are also a million descriptions of what he wears, I honestly could never form a picture of Reid in my head. Just realized that, and as a reader who likes to be fully involved in my imagining not picturing the hero is not a good thing. Final thought on Reid, not alpha, more beta, and often awkward.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plot itself is one-part romance, two parts women\u2019s fiction. The heroine has a lot of growth and different challenges she must face to reach the end goal. There\u2019s a bit of an enemies to lover\u2019s trope at the start, but that quickly evolves. Also, this story is a slow burn, not sure how I keep selecting books with the slowest developing romances, but I do. As for the letters and lettering parts of the story\u2026 I found them boring. Sorry, but I am not interested in how letters are made or how to draw them. It\u2019s not a fascinating topic for me.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overall, I eventually became invested in Meg, seeing her growth and watching her relationship with Reid turn into a fledgling friendship to love. That\u2019s what kept me turning the pages, though part of the journey made me wanted to skim parts. If you really enjoy <strong>Kristen Higgins<\/strong> or <strong>Susan Wiggs<\/strong> this book might be the one for you.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Landra<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2SEYaaH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/love-lettering\/id1470632216?mt=11&amp;app=itunes&amp;at=11l88k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/love-lettering-kate-clayborn\/1131407378?ean=9781496725189#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&amp;N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/love-lettering-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Kate_Clayborn_Love_Lettering?id=_H6WDwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}