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The Denial Game: (Landry Love Series #2) Paperback – April 8, 2021
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Amy Alves Books (April 8, 2021) Language
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416 pages ISBN-10
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5.25 x 1.04 x 8 inches
4.6 out of 5 stars
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Book two of this series, The Denial Game, overlaps in the same time period as the Experiment, book one in the Landry Love series, and so we get to see what happens between Taylor Shaw, a high school teacher and football coach, and Lauren Spengler. I just loved Lauren’s strength and passion to teach, and also her self-worth and ability to reflect honestly on her toxic relationship with her family. It was very painful for her, but I admire her so much for being true to herself, and walking away from a family fortune and becoming what the family expected. She still participated on the board and several projects for this multi-media conglomerate, but it was on her terms. I just loved how at ease she was in her own skin, how down to earth, and how she uprooted her life to start a new one in the same town as her bestie, Emma, who fell in love with Jess, the guy next door, who happens to be friends with Taylor. This is my opinion could easily be read first and then you can dive into the Experiment, book one, because you will just love this small town and want to read them all. I just love, love, love Amy’s writing and the witty, flirty banter between Lauren and Taylor. Love how he was smitten from day one, and all the clever ways he came up with just to be near her. I laughed out loud over and over, and loved how they started out as friends then became more. Both have emotional baggage and this book became quite angsty at times. She eventually confided in him of her family’s control, and while I admired her independence and how she tried to protect him, he never really knew the extent of their toxicity until she had to make the greatest sacrifice of all. Just wish they could have recorded her dad’s conversations and exposed him earlier, but good wins out over evil every time, and our girl got him good in the end! Lauren and Taylor were truly two kindred spirits who got each other and loved each other deeply. I loved all their pranks, and how devoted they were to educating our youth. Our world needs good teachers like them. Love how Taylor came to terms with a past horrific experience and learned how to forgive him self, move on, and count his blessings. Both Lauren and Taylor was so deserving of love and I routed for them the entire time. I love all of the interconnected characters in this town and how they bring it to life, and I’m looking forward to more love connections in this series. Hoping Jess’ doctor brother, Garrett finds love too!
Taylor is the football coach of Landry high school and he's huge! He was in college when he was in a car accident that changed his football future as well as his then girlfriend's life. Now 10 years later he's looking for love. Lauren is new to Landry. Leaving a demanding position at her family's multi million dollar business she is a new teacher at Landry High. And her class happens to be next to Taylor's. They have an interesting introduction at the high school one night and the two of them become fast friends. Taylor is very interested in his new friend but Lauren says she is sworn off relationships right now. And it's all because of her very controlling father who wants her back in the family business. Can these two really start seeing each other and keep it quiet or will the town gossips find out and Lauren's father find out and do all he can to ruin it? So good! I am so invested in this wonderful series! Great characters! Must read series for sure! Enjoy!
I usually tend to lean more towards the dark nitty gritty stories but I thought I would take a chance with a sweet small town romance and I was not dissapointed.. I loooved this book.. totally blew all my expectations sky high.. if your looking for a good wholesome Romcom with a little angst than this is the book for you.. I laughed my but off throughout the entire book.. I have to say the "I flick the eye that has the audacity to wink at me" is my new favorite line from a book.. just a well written great funny read..
Its a slow burn friends-to-lovers, but maybe a little too drawn out. Taylor and Lauren finally admit they're in love at around 60% and what seemed like a year of her living in Landry. I thought I was near the end but realized I still had almost half of the book to go. Then Lauren takes care of her family issues but its still not over. She spends so much time trying to win Taylor back and for what? Even he admits it's not necessary saying, "Can we be done with the winning me over part? She won me a year ago, and a re-match is unnecessary." Maybe I missed something, but why didn't Taylor just take her back? This story started out strong but I was ready for it to be over well before the end.
I am making my way through Amy's books and was convinced nothing could top my love for The Experiment, Jess and Emma. But I was wrong. The Denial Game took that thought, soaked it in kerosene, and lit it on fire. Probably proceeded to roast marshmallows with it too. I loved Lauren, but I was obsessed with Taylor. He is the perfect grumbly, best friend alpha male all wrapped up with his broad shoulders, killer body and panty wetting smile. Like, I swear. Read the book and then let's discuss Chapter 54. It's currently 31 degrees out and I am going to go for a walk without a coat, because I am hot and sweaty and this book did me in. So if you're cold, and want to warm yourself up a bit, pick up The Denial Game. *fans self*
I. LOVED. EVERY. SINGLE. MINUTE. of this friends to lovers romance... it's EVERYTHING! It makes you laugh so hard you almost pee your pants throughout this book. Lauren & Taylor are FIRE together. Right away I completely fell in love with these two! The push and pull between them is agonizingly intense, yet delicious. The chemistry and banter between them gives me warm fuzzies and, oh my goodness, was I surprised in the best way by the steam between them! Phew!
I loved it. Lauren is setting up her classroom for the first day of her new job in a new school when she hears strange noises and gets ready to defend herself.
Great book. The chemistry was off the charts. I was annoyed with the h at some points but it all worked out in the end.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great read!
Another triumph! I enjoyed this just as much as the first book in the series. I def need to find me a Taylor.
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We can be friends, coworkers. Nothing more. I need a fresh start and a better vetting process for boyfriends.
I kick-start my new life in small-town Landry with a teaching job and a self-imposed dating ban. For the foreseeable future, my life is all about school supplies and celibacy.
But the devastatingly attractive high school football coach who makes me laugh and steals my dry erase markers is hard to ignore.
Taylor Shaw has the whole town under his spell, and he’s determined to win me over, too. Drooling over his chiseled chest as he runs practice drills and fantasizing about inappropriate trysts under the bleachers will only lead down a path of temptation—one I am determined to avoid.
So, I tell him we can be friends and coworkers. Nothing more.
Because the truth is, my family ruins every relationship I ever have, and I won’t risk subjecting Taylor to their constant manipulations.
But "just friends” is harder than it sounds.
And celibacy might be downright impossible.
The LANDRY LOVE SERIES is a set of interconnected, standalone, small-town romance novels.
Book One: The Experiment (Jess & Emma) Book Two: The Denial Game (Taylor & Lauren) Book Three: The Forever Plan (Evan & Willa) Book Four: The Love Words (Hayden & Chloe) Book Five: The Surprise Seduction (Garrett & Aria)
Amy Alves is a romance-obsessed reader and author of hot, heartfelt small town romance.
In all of her books, you'll find heat, humor, witty banter, and a happily-ever-after.
When Amy is not reading or writing the steamy books her heart craves, she is usually hanging out at home with her incredible hubby and two crazy cute kids. She'll likely be wearing fuzzy socks, sipping wine, devouring sushi, watching Gilmore Girls, and completely avoiding her laundry pile.
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Since we inhabit a world of limited resources, our daily lives are full of zero-sum interactions where one party walks away with a prize while another leaves the table empty-handed; games with winners and losers. If you and I want the same spouse, the game is on. If you and I want the same job, the game is on. If you want to argue against this way of seeing the world, the game is on. There is no denying it, even when you do.
The following is a slightly edited extract from Hanzi Freinacht’s book ‘Nordic Ideology: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book Two’ . This is the second book in a series on metamodern thought, a work of popular philosophy that investigates the nature of psychological development and its political implications.
Yet, many of us frequently fall victim to what I call “ game denial ”: the inability to perceive, or a negligence of, the logical and behavioral rules that regulate human relations. Game denial is when you ignore or “wish away” certain uncomfortable truths regarding human relations and how reality works. Or simply when you deny the realities of life and forcefully impose your own “ought” upon what “is”.
In a subtle sense, your crime is against truth itself. And when the truth has been sacrificed for a few candy bars worth of emotional reward—people start dying as the consequences of your false assumptions begin to manifest. And from there on you are stuck with defending your lala-land from actuality, making things even worse.
Game denial is, to this day, rampant. And its victims are not necessarily dead; it has victims in all walks of life, all scarred by unsustainable and unrealistic social relations, expectations and moralistic impositions of “what ought to be” upon what “actually is”. Crimes against actuality are crimes against humanity, against all life on our planet.
Since game denial often “sounds nice”, it may be more convenient to defend in a public debate (because you can easily take the moral high ground), but in actual reality, in a given context, it tends to have negative or otherwise unsustainable consequences. You pretend that the world works by rules which it does not.
Game denial can show up in so many ways because life is always open to interpretation and reinterpretation. And of course, there is not one “set” game in life in which “God” crowns the winners. But the fact that life has ambiguity is a mixed blessing: It means we can make more favorable interpretations and save our positive self-images, but it also means the leeway to deny obvious competitions and conflicting interests is huge. And because there are such strong psychological forces driving us towards game denial, we all partake in it. [i]
It is difficult to overestimate just how powerful these inner pressures are. For instance, if we all of our life have felt oppressed and hurt in soft and sensitive places by norms that dictate how a “beautiful and feminine” woman should be, how compelling and satisfying does it not seem to make up a way to disqualify that game altogether, branding it as false, immoral and ultimately unreal? If we are bad at sports, how good does it not feel to be rid of all anxieties about our physical inferiority by denying that game?
Game denial means to hate the game and try to eradicate it . It can take the form of liberal political correctness or, in its extreme form, crude communism. But the game won’t go away. You can’t eradicate it with a “let’s all be friends”. What about me and that other person who wants the same spouse, but only one can get her by winning her heart? Whether or not we have friendly relations with one another, there is a game with a winner and a loser—this is true even in polyamorous relations. It is bound to happen everywhere in samsara (as Eastern traditions have named the worldly realm of suffering), all the time.
Recent research has revealed an evolutionary struggle even between the pregnant mother and her fetus—the growing child’s evolutionary interests are somewhat different from those of the mother (who may increase the chances of spreading her genes by having more children, and hence not be too drained by this particular fetus). No matter how profoundly symbiotic and loving a relationship, there is always an inescapable element of struggle. A game.
To try to eradicate the game is only a form of individual or collective repression, and it will always produce pathological results—namely oppression. Whatever game you want to repress—like capitalism—this can only be done by activating a grosser level of game—like the game for political totalitarian power . Communist states repressed the mechanisms of “games for profit” by playing a much crueler game for political power.
But oppression is not the worst part of game denial. Oppression can be toppled; evil reigns can end. No, the worst part is that denying the existence of the game means that the game cannot be described, taught and learned. The game is hidden away, made taboo. Hence, game denial is in the service of the privileged elite, making the game less fair by serving those who already know the rules and deceiving those who do not. They’ll never know what hit them.
Let’s take some examples of prevalent game denial. This list may insult a lot of readers and offend moral convictions. Brace yourself.
You get the picture. I suppose a lot of this sounds familiar?
It’s not always easy to tell game denial apart from more legitimate forms of idealism. A rule of thumb, however, is that game denial very often arrives in the company of her twisted little sister: moralism —being subtly (or not so subtly) judgmental and self-righteous.
The alliance between game denial and moralism works in cunning ways. They help each other staying in the background, so that neither has to come out in the light and get busted in all their obviousness. For instance, in academia and critical
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