Who are your bookish crushes and what songs are they?

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If the bookish community can agree on one thing, it’s that they set high ass expectations. So high, that I’ve fell in love with the same man just in different fonts every time I’ve read a book. Let’s break it down.

Now we’ve got two categories. The ones I want and the ones I just can’t stop thinking about. There’s a difference. If you’re a really bookish worm, you’ll figure it out.

First up, Fox Thornton. Okay. I’m sure everyone crushes on him, right? It’s the first rom-com I picked up after a long time so Tessa Bailey had all the rights in the world to make me crumble. A player who falls for his best friend but let’s others perception of him pull him back? Sign me up. I want to be a Hannah Bellinger. Although I also had the hots for Brendan Taggart, everyone likes it a little rough around the edges. Everything about that man was written with the most delicate yet firm details. From his looks, to the building of his personality from It Happened Once Summer, nothing beats a pending love interest like seeing snippets in the first book only to see it come full circle in the second. Tessa Bailey ate and left no crumbs. Chase Atlantic – Friends is the most perfect song for the whole book. Listen to it then we’ll discuss.

Aaron Blackford. My goodness me. I never understand why it takes me decades to pick up a hyped book. When I found out it was to be made into a movie? Stop. Someone combusted and it was not Aaron or Lina. I was begging for an office romance after reading this. Stoic, grump MMC’s never fail to hit the spot. I don’t care how many times I’ve read about grumpy men; I still want one. Wow. The lines he delivered, the insults he took from Lina just because he wanted to keep a connection is everything my fragile heart wants and more. No word of a lie, after reading The Spanish Love Deception, it made me want to move to New York more than ever. It’s always been a career goal to leave the UK and permanently reside in NY but this book just cemented that belief even more. I’ll bump into you soon Blackford. Parachute – Kiss Me Slowly. Listen to the ending. It explains Lina like a lover writes a sweet love note.

Okay next. Angelo and Rapheal Visconti. I’m not picking one. They’re both exactly what I want in a mafia man. With the right ratio of lover boy to made man, it sets my expectations so high that I tell myself ‘being delulu is the solulu’. Starting a war for love? Shut the front door. Or my front door…. Did I mention Angelo and Raphael were like 10+ years older than their girls? Melted. I melted before it anything steamy even started. I can’t get a man to pass me a tissue let alone unalive two men just for disrespecting purposes. The Visconti’s have me in a chokehold. Gabe’s story hasn’t even reached surface level yet but trust me when I say it will be the best. Finding a song for this was difficult but for some reason it’s giving Meek Mill – All Eyes on You ­vibes.

Right, right who else has been on my mind? Hmmm. Dante Russo. My goodness me I knew I always had a thing for the Italian and God did Ana Haung really make me lose my mind. Why does this post sound like I have a fetish for walking talking red flags? I don’t. Actually, when I mention the next one, you’re going to think otherwise. It’s not the rich billionaire mindset but it’s the grand gestures that got me. Tell me you can’t express your feelings without telling me you can’t express your feelings. Vivian (ahem my name) got this man booking out venues, breaking ex’s noses, on his literal knees all whilst saying ‘You’re my wife’ to his arranged wife. Dead. I’m dead. The song? I got you. Plaza – All Mine. Read that one scene and get back to me.

Ryle Kincaid. Hear me out. I liked Mr. Neurosurgeon, ‘the most capable hands in Boston’ Ryle Kincaid. I loved Mr. ‘I’m on my knees for you’ Kincaid. I salivated over the first half of the book Ryle until he did something like, I don’t know,  let’s say mistreat Lily Bloom but up until then? My man was perfection. Ever since the movie snippets have been all over my social media, I cannot stop picturing Ryle as Justin Baldoni whilst re-reading it which is both a good thing and bad thing. Good thing because hello are you blind? Bad thing because he’s married with kids but that’s okay. That’s fine. I’ll admire from a far. He wore a goddamn onesie in the book. Cheep and cheerful. Just how I like it. But then I started to love Atlas more because you know – actually just read the book. The song is so tricky for this because there are like 100 emotions throughout the book but initially, I was like Sickick – Infected. Trust me. It works.

I believe those are all my most wanted crushes. I have others that make an appearance in my mind from time to time like; Declan Kane, Callahan Kane, Jack Hawthorne and Kai Young. Fantastic book boyfriends but we’re comparing them to the best of the best here. Let’s not do anymore disrespect. Haven’t given the others much thought but Kia Young and Isabella Valencia? Yeah, no brainer. Shameless – Camilla Cabello, Puh-lease. Don’t @ me.

See what I mean? Same men but in different fonts. Let me know who your bookish boyfriends are. I need to do a post on who my favourite bookish girls are but it’s going to be a lengthy one guys – I’m going to relate to a lot of them which sadly I do a lot. I’m off to binge on some more behind the scenes of a movie I’ve gone on about way to long – like 3 posts to long.

Sue me.

Until next time, consider Vivian out like a light because tomorrow is rest today before my usual hobby of reading some tattered, coffee stained, paper pages whilst job hunting. Pray for me.

Mwah.

Vivian.

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