This is the Love by Numbers Duet – The only two books in the internationally bestselling series that need to be read in order. Nineteen: Your life can change in the blink of an eye. How you adapt to these changes is what defines you. Jake Fox is an aspiring actor who has found little success. He is also a typical, cliche, bad boy, who ‘loves them and leaves them’ without love ever coming into the … without love ever coming into the equation.
Emma Campbell is finding her way in life, struggling with memories from her past, an apathetic mother, and the choices ahead of her. Can she keep focused on the light when life keeps surrounding her in darkness?
Polar opposites, will love be the thread that binds them or will circumstances beyond their control, tear them apart?
Twenty-One:
Fate kept placing Emma Campbell and Jake Fox in each other’s paths.
Fate also kept putting overwhelming obstacles in their way.
What fate didn’t realize is that Jake and Emma share a connection that is stronger than circumstance.
An intense bond that threatens everything they thought they knew about themselves, one that is only made stronger by a perfect day.
A perfect day where they both surrendered to the force of their feelings for one another.
A perfect day that ended in darkness and tragedy.
Jake is missing.
Emma is lost.
Lost in grief; lost in hopelessness.
Will fate finally grant them a chance to be together or will it tear them apart?
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Loved this book
Loved this book. Just about done reading the whole series!!!!!!!!!
These books were easy reads and I enjoyed the series!
A beautiful duet
I absolutely loved the story of Emma and Jake. Their relationship emerges from the ashes of a disastrous event, one which would have finished off lesser characters.
Emma is such a strong character, a survivor. Life throws some pretty difficult stuff her way, and she deals with it with such tenacity and grace. Jake, former playboy, is absolutely smitten with her and completely changes his life around in order to have her in it.
The first book, Nineteen, finishes on a cliffhanger and I’m so glad I had TwentyOne lined up ready to dive straight into. I couldn’t have stood to wait to find out what happened.
The duet takes you through a whole range of emotions; so much so, I was heartbroken, distraught and elated within the space of a few pages.
A perfect, wonderful pair of books I’m so glad I read.
Wonderful series touching on so many different subject matters rape, amputees, cancer, homosexuality, grief, teacher student relationships
Overall, I enjoyed this story. It’s unfortunate that I’m unable to give it a higher rating.
The author makes a point to mention at the beginning of the book that it’s written in British English containing euphemisms and slang, stating to keep in mind that these words are not misspelled. Spelling wasn’t my issue.
There were just too many grammatical errors and too many words that were misused, completely omitted or transposed. This was a HUGE distraction that had nothing to do with the British English. An editor is desperately needed for this duet.
As stated previously, I enjoyed the story. With better editing, I would have likely given a higher rating.
Not a bad story, but language was rough. Used the F word way too much!
I loved this book!
Told in alternating and overlapping POV, it is the story of Jake an aspiring actor and complete man-whore and Emma who is determined to be strong and must overcome some immense tragedies in her young life.
I loved all of the British slang throughout. An emotional story but told with touches of humor.
“Music and books have always been my solace and my friend. Who can ever feel unloved or lonely when there’s a whole world of undiscovered journeys to take, hidden in the pages of a book or the chords of a song?”
The character development was amazing and I grew to care about want to know more about all of my new friends.
“Beautiful is the wrong word for him, addictive would be better, as once you take a single look, you cannot tear your eyes away.”
I was immediately grabbed by this story and couldn’t put it down. Lots of surprising twists and turns in the book, but none as surprising as the wild ending! Oh My! I needed to start book 2 immediately and with this duet it is right there at the turn of a page!!
“Let me carry your scarred heart in mine” another kiss above the swell of my breast “Let me take care of it until the scars fade” another kiss to the other side of my breast, “Then once it is stronger than it ever has been before”, a kiss to my ribs, “Let me keep it there, safe, protected, cherished, adored.”
I love how this story is so unpredictable! I was kept on my toes always unable to guess what might happen next or how a character might react.
-5 Stars!-
I had forgotten how beautifully written this story is, this is our first encounter with the Fox family, and the debut by this author. We get a little look at each of the brothers while watching the chemistry between Emma and Jake flare. Luckily here you get both parts of the story so no need to worry about the cliffhanger!!!
I loved watching Jake, our resident playboy, just starting out in his acting career, brought to his knees by the fresh innocence of Emma, down to earth, straightforward sweet and sassy. He didn’t see her coming, and wasn’t prepared for the things she would make him feel.
Obviously the path never runs smooth with these things, warning: there is a traumatic experience that affects them both on the night they meet, and sends them spiralling in different directions.
The writing is incredible as always, the only negative is that sometimes the dual POV gets a little repetitive – not that it put me off.
I absolutely loved this story, the connection between the main characters, but also the friendships between both Emma and Liam, and Jake and Harry, and the family bonds within the Fox clan. I am so glad I get to dive straight into the next part after that cliff hanger!
I love Jake and Emma, I don’t want to spoil this story so I would say just dive in, there’s heaps of love, lust and romance in this book, but also the focus on the bonds of friendships and family are still strong. The quality of the writing is amazing as always with ES Carter, she sweeps you along and you feel like these characters are your friends as you go through every emotion with them.
The dual POV and the depth of the secondary characters keep things moving at a swift pace, we see more of Emma’s strength and resilience come through in this book. She seems to have come out of her shell and found her place in the world.
I loved it, and would recommend it to any lover of contemporary romance, or quality writing.
The book was wonderful until I reached the end and realized that it was not a stand alone novel . It is one of three books. I absolutely hate when the author does not inform the readers that the book is part of a series,
This was a very good book. Ended happy