Thread:Fearless Diva/@comment-3452092-20171222192243/@comment-3452092-20171227062027

Yeah, I get that they have to keep it grounded in reality (even though clearly there are fantastical things that happen in present day as well (Endless Summer, It Lives In the Woods, The Huanting of Braidwood Manor, and Hero all being present day and seemingly in the same timeline/reality/universe/etc), so they certainly could get away with it if they wanted to. I get why they don't. If gives people not into that a chance to pretend they aren't real here).

Yep, mini book while working on book 3 would be awesome. The brand as a "tattoo" would totally work. I would just love a more of those easter eggs at the least, because this is the one most connected to that story.

Okay, yeah, I can totally see that. He does seem to be seeing a need for careful with everything that is going on. I think maybe as long as Bertrand doesn't know, he will feel that need, but if Bertrand finds out (and more so if he approves), I think Maxwell will be ready to tell everyone. I love your ideas for Olivia and Bertrands reactions. That would be awesome.

Oh! Flashback through Bertrand's eyes. That would be fun.

#LoveHacks is probably still my least favorite story. I don't see myself replaying Red Carpet Diaries or Home for the Holidays after I finish them, but I think I still like them better than #LoveHacks and yes, the inability to be official with our love interest until the very, very end was definitely part of it.

I'm not sure how things would go for coding, but I think it's totally possible to have relationship nuetral things. They seem to have managed in The Freshman / The Sophomore.

No, I don't currently think Madeleine will be evil, just super annoying. I don't like her character and not in a good "she makes a good villain" way. I'm a fan of Charmed and I tell people that one of the villians, the Seer, is a villian "I love to hate" while another villian, Barbas, is a villain I just hate. She is very well done, in my opinion, and even as much as I hate her character, I enjoy having her threre, because of how well done she is. I just want him to go away, because he annoys me and he's overdone. That reaction is pretty much how I feel about Madeleine. The limited time Olivia was actually an antagonist and not a potential ally/friend, I thought she worked well there. I was thrilled to get the chance to make points with her, but if we hadn't I could totally have been good with her as a villain instead.

Honestly, I think Rules of Engagement: Newlyweds takes place before The Royal Romance, Book 1 or at least before Book 2. Think about it, Rules of Engagement has to take place before it, because it's during that in which Leo steps down from line of succession. I think that was the previous social season, although I'm not one hundred percent sure, that he became engaged to Medeleine. So, that happened and the next summer, he meets Katie from Rules of Engagement and falls for her, gets the courage to make the decision to step down and leave all that behind. This sets up things for the events of The Royal Romance, Maxwell, Drake, and Traiq, knowing Liam is going to be choosing a bride thanks to his brother's actions that he probably won't love and that the whole thing is going to be a media circus, take him to New York just before the next season starts. Assuming the happens during the winter (due to the snow in Olivia's home which could just be due to the high of her home seeing as they also had ripe apples which could mean spring or even early summer . . . oh! I bet the social season is the beginning of summer, end of spring there and Leo, finding himself engaged to Madeleine and wondering if he really could go through with all this decided to run away, so maybe even closer to the start of Rules of Engagement). . . or not, but six months at max. If you go with the last theory in there, maybe really close on end, so throw in the time frame between books 1 and 2 (a month? Or was it more) plus the amount of time spent on the tour (they totally could have made a stop during the tour with that jet we are going to get to use soon) It really gives us plenty of time to get to a full year that we need. Moving on...

Yeah, that makes sense. I've heard of things that have been confused for cancer, though it's probably specific types, so who knows, maybe someone is even killing him slowly. But yeah, someone could be making him weaker so he dies faster (or dies at all . . . maybe without help it would have been curable).

Madeleine would make sense if say, she's killed at her wedding, maybe if she's killed before then, but definitely not if things have already been called off, because she steps back down to lesser noble. Tariq would make sense if they get to see him and someone kills him before they can talk to him or at least before he can talk to the press. Otherwise, not really. Adelaide could make sence seeing as she has a higher rank than her daughter on par with Olivia, but I rather hope it's not Adalaide or Traiq (here I am assuming that you are going to be right when we really have no idea, but I like the idea storywise, so I'm going with it).

That could also be fun to see the MC missing and have more time spent in the point of view of other characters. I would enjoy that.

Yeah, that was annoying. I have since decided that they name I picked was his middle name (and like wise for his brother) and that formally they use their first names and when introduced to their brother's love, they don't know her well enough yet, so they use their first name instead of the more informal middle name. . . and, yes, it totally falls apart if you look at it close at all, but it works enough that I can pretend, so Leo Jonathan is older brother to Liam Stirling or William (since "Liam" can actually be a nickname for William . . . apparently) depending on which book I'm in. Actually, it's probably William Stirling for the prior version of Liam, but you get the point. I refuse to bow to their decision to not let you keep the name you chose (and probably not the look, but I've only played Rules of Engagement: Newlyweds with the bartender so far. I'm going to change that soon, but haven't started yet.)