You Said I Was Your Favorite (Lancaster Prep 5) by Monica Murphy-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date October 19, 2023

Daisy Albright. Incredibly beautiful. Painfully shy.

Nobody in our class pays attention to the groundskeeper’s daughter and I think she likes it that way. Moving through the halls like a ghost, wandering across campus unnoticed. Am I the only one who actually sees her? Little Miss Daisy sitting in the front of the classroom, always the model student. Little Miss Daisy reading her romance books with the cute covers and hot content inside…

I’m considered the reckless Lancaster so when I get in trouble on the first day of school, my punishment is having to work in the headmaster’s office every day, stuck with Daisy. Staring at her pretty face, hearing her sweet voice, making her laugh.

The more I get to know her, the more obsessed I become. And I think she feels the same way.

The problem? She’s not part of my crowd. Daisy is the scholarship kid and no one approves of us together. Not my friends, not my parents and not her father. But I don’t care what anyone thinks. I’m going after what I want.

I’m going to make Little Miss Daisy mine.

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REVIEW:YOU SAID I WAS YOUR FAVORITE is the fifth instalment in Monica Murphy’s contemporary, young-new adult LANCASTER PREP romance series. This is eighteen year old, Archibald ‘Arch’ Lancaster, and Daisy Albright’s story line. YOU SAID I WAS YOUR FAVORITE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told by dual first person perspectives (Daisy and Arch) YOU SAID I WAS YOUR FAVORITE follows the building romance and relationship between our story couple. Arch Lancaster is the rich boy, heir apparent, and his family owns the prestigious and private high school Lancaster Prep but Arch never expected to find himself falling for the school groundskeeper’s daughter Daisy Albright but when forced to work together, Arch refuses to acknowledge his attraction and treats our heroine with intentional hurt. Daisy never expected to find herself the target of the school bully, not only does Arch treat her with disdain but his ex girlfriend is about to lay claim to our story line hero but Arch’s attitude quickly turns when he realizes that his verbal attacks have caused Daisy so much emotional pain and hurt. Working together softens the lines between our story line couple but their parents are determined to keep the couple apart. What ensues is the building but trepidatious relationship between Daisy and Arch, and the potential fall-out when Arch Lancaster and Daisy Albright are pulled apart by the people in their lives.

The world building continues to focus on the Lancaster family but we see a darker and snobbier attitude with the current parental units. Appearances and bloodlines are to be respected, and Daisy is deemed not good enough for our story line hero.

The relationship between Daisy and Arch begins as a bully romance. Archibald Lancaster treats Daisy with unbridled hatred, and words said in anger threaten the mental health of our story line heroine. Daisy will be targeted not only by Arch but by his former girlfriend who refuses to let go. Days together peal back the layers of hurt, and our couple find themselves falling in love against their parent’s wishes. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The secondary and supporting characters include several staff members and teachers; Daisy’s father Ralph Albright; Arch’s best friend JJ, and his ex girlfriend Cadence.

YOU SAID I WAS YOUR FAVORITE is a story of opposites: power and control, money and struggle, working class and upper class, discrimination and jealousy. There are the requisite young adult trope formulas: mean girls, bullies, faux friends, controlling adults, and threats to emotional health. The thought provoking premise is heart breaking and emotional; the romance is seductive; the characters are determined, dynamic and spirited.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Things I Wanted To Say
A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime
Birthday Kisses 2.5
Promises WE Meant to Keep
I’ll Always Be With You

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Reviewed by Sandy

Monica Murphy is the New York Times, USA Today and #1 international bestselling author of the One Week Girlfriend series, the Billionaire Bachelors and The Rules series. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and has sold over one million copies worldwide. She is both self-published and published by Random House/Bantam and Harper Collins/Avon. She writes new adult, young adult and contemporary romance.

She is a wife and a mother of three who lives in central California on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere along with their one dog and too many cats. A self-confessed workaholic, when she’s not writing, she’s reading or hanging out with her husband and kids. She’s a firm believer in happy endings, though she will admit to putting her characters through angst-filled moments before they finally get that hard won HEA.

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