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Cover reveal & Launch Giveaway: GUESSING GAME - DAY 3

3/11/2016

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Thanks again for the amazing response and your wonderful comments!!!! I was giggling inanely as I read them. Don't know about you, but I had lots of fun with the guessing games!

Just like on DAY 1, it was so great to find some many great guesses!

Congrats to the winners once again!

So, the DAY 2 answers:

I'll start with the third question, where the consensus of opinion was A: 'lace caps'. Oh, yes, we love our universally acknowledged JAFF truths, and one of them is that Elizabeth's hair is too beautiful and glints too prettily to be covered with caps, so Mr Darcy would much rather she never wore them. Rather than expanding on the conversation between Elizabeth, Mr Darcy and Mrs Gardiner, I thought you might like to see an earlier fragment that leads up to it: 

'His words came in a rush, disjointed and barely comprehensible between burning kisses, but he continued to intersperse them nonetheless – not that Elizabeth could have wished him to do otherwise. “Why do you imagine… that I took myself away… for hours on end… and two nights in a row?”
She drew back then.
“Why?” she asked, searching his eyes.
“Because I could not bear to be near you and not come to you, and I could not come to you when you were so clearly against me. Because in the midst of the harshest reproaches flying between us I could not tell if what I wanted most was to throttle you or kiss you.”
Her warm laughter rang between them.
“Oh, I would say kiss me. Definitely kiss me, if those were the only options.”
“Not the only options. Not by a fair margin,” he playfully growled back, and did kiss her again, not needing further prompting.
Their breaths came in ragged gasps when they stopped for air, still clinging to each other.
“Should you not go? You will be late,” she offered eventually, when she discovered she could speak.
“Go? I am not going anywhere!”
“Foolish man,” she tenderly admonished. “You must. Your uncle is expecting you.”
“What I must do,” he said showering her face and head with a much tamer smattering of little kisses, “is have a word with that girl of yours, Sarah, and bribe her into throwing all these godawful caps away. Whoever has devised them? The devil’s own invention, I call it. I love your hair. Why must you cover it?”'



The second question: Napkin? Fork? Spoon? I LOVED your comments about how Lizzy might or might not want to inflict the most damage :D

I guess this would make:

The fork - the weapon of choice
The napkin - the sensible alternative
The spoon - the middle ground

In the end it was C: a spoon, but only because they were having soup at the time. The context was that, halfway through their disagreement:

'Her husband dabbed his lips.
“If you must.”
What she must do is set the spoon down before it left a dent into her palm, Elizabeth thought grimly, and did so. Quietly. Lydia would have let it fall into the bowl with a loud clatter. Then she was far worse than Lydia, for she had the strongest urge to throw it across the table or, better still, at him. She resisted it. Just as she resisted giving her husband the upbraiding he richly deserved in the presence of the two blank-faced footmen who served their dinner. She wondered in passing if they were so well trained as to remain blank-faced, were they to hear what she had to say.'



Which leaves the question 'What did Colonel Fitzwilliam find?' 

Gentle and ever so decorous ladies, I hope you won't be too shocked to hear it was C - a frilly chemise: 

'He sought to rearrange the pillows, only to discover a frilly chemise tucked between the top mattress and the headboard. He tugged at the frothy garment till it was displayed to its full length and glory, to his cousin’s acute mortification.
“Well, then,” Fitzwilliam grinned as he tucked it back where he had found it, “a pity this is not Miss Elizabeth’s bedchamber, otherwise I would have gladly offered you the token.”
A pillow flung forcefully at his head was Darcy’s prompt response to the remark, and a low growl followed:
“Hold your tongue, will you, and just go to bed!”'



Would you still like to play? 

For the third and last day of the GUESSING GAME, I'll keep it short (but not exactly sweet ;) ):

DAY 3 - WHODUNIT?

Rita Deodato ('From Pemberley to Milton') said the funniest thing when she was reading the ARC for 'Mr Bennet's Dutiful Daughter':

"This can’t get any worse, can it? Who am I kidding, this is Joana Starnes, of course it can get worse!"

So, what do you think?

Who throws the biggest spanner in the works? Is it:
a. Mr Wickham?
b. Lady Catherine?
c. Mrs Bennet?


and 

At what point in the book does it happen?
a. 50%?
b. 70%?
c. 90%?



Hope you had fun with the GUESSING GAMEs! The Day 3 good guesses will be entered into the Rafflecopter, just like the others, but I think this time I should keep the answers under wraps, so that I don't give the game away much too soon. I hope you'll enjoy reading the whole story. See you tomorrow for the Cover Reveal at:

Babblings of a Bookworm
Diary of an Eccentric
From Pemberley to Milton
Just Jane 1813
More Agreeably Engaged
My Jane Austen Book Club
My Kids Led Me Back to P&P
Obsessed with Mr Darcy
and
So Little Time


Huge thanks again, Ceri, Anna, Rita, Janet, Maria Grazia, Tamara, Mira and Candy for kindly co-hosting the cover reveal, and especially to you, Claudine, for everything!  
18 Comments
Lynn Bischoff
3/11/2016 04:09:11 pm

I believe the villan will be Lady Catherine -b, and that her attack will come at 70% -b of the way through the book. At that point you might have lulled us into thinking everything is going to be okay and then wham.

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Janet T link
3/11/2016 04:17:09 pm

Rita has it! It is you, Joana Starnes, and you do have a way of raising the bar' for angst! I know I do not need to read right now, but I am going to have a terrible time not reading as soon as this book is released! I'm hooked. The guessing game is fun too! :)

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Janet T link
3/11/2016 04:23:58 pm

Forgot to leave my guesses and they most definitely are wild guesses. I have no clue! Here goes.
#1 I'm going with Mrs. Bennet and 90% of the way through!??? No idea! lol

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Monica P link
3/11/2016 04:21:18 pm

I also think it will be Lady Catherine at 70 percent. I hope it isn't 90 percent! That is too close to the end for my poor nerves! haha

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KateB
3/11/2016 04:30:44 pm

I know it will be repetitive, but I'll go with Lady Catherine and 70% as well. 50% would be too early for Joana, wouldn't it? ;)

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Melanie
3/11/2016 04:57:14 pm

Total guesses--but C and B?

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Anji
3/11/2016 05:32:06 pm

I just love Rita's comment! I think we all realise that you love to ramp up the angst just when we think it can't go any higher, Joana. So with that in mind, here's my attempts at today's questions. Well, guesses would be more like it, but with a little bit of what passes for logic with me thrown in for good measure.

A. Wickham, because....it's Wickham after all, and he loves nothing better than to throw spanners into any works he can find.

B. 50% is too early, I think for Rita to make that sort of remark and 90% too late for you to wrap it all up into a satisfactory conclusion.

Hope all this makes sense!

Looking forward to the reveal tomorrow, but I'm working and won't have any wi-fi. I'll check in over breakfast and on my phone during my lunch break though just to see what's going on. I am all anticipation!


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Rita Deodato
4/11/2016 09:28:54 am

I was prepared for the angst Anji, this was after all a Joana Starnes book, but still she surprised me with the length and strength of it. When I thought it could not not possibly get worst, it did. And when I though that was the end of it, it wasn't :))) I just loved it :)

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Deborah
3/11/2016 06:05:49 pm

I sm going to say c) Mrs. Bennet as she is very good at causing strife...maybe she arrives at their abode and at b) 70% because that is about the right spot to cause a major problem and still have time to satisfactorily work it out without rushing.

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Glynis
3/11/2016 06:43:09 pm

I have to say I think I will be Mrs Bennet and I will go with 50% as I am hoping that the last 50% is Darcy and Elizabeth happily in love ❤. Wishful thinking?

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Ginna
3/11/2016 10:12:47 pm

I'm thinking that it will be Wickham. And it will be at 70%, because, yeah, you're Joana Starnes.

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Claudine Pepe link
3/11/2016 10:59:34 pm

Those were funny questions, Joana. Poor Rita... I am glad she made it to the end!

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Rita Deodato link
4/11/2016 09:16:24 am

Well, the truth is you never seize to amaze me Joana!
At a certain point I honestly believed you could not go any further with the angst, but you did!! I could not stop reading, I had to get to the end of it!! Have I mentioned how much I love these angst books?! :)

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Joana Starnes
4/11/2016 03:01:53 pm

HUGE THANKS, EVERYONE, FOR 3 FABULOUS DAYS!!!

I never thought I'd spend the last 3 days before a book launch giggling inanely rather than biting my nails all the way to the knuckles, and it's all thanks to you, you wonderful people!!!!!!

Thanks for all your guesses, and I'm looking forward to sending you the mystery prize that's not a mystery any more if you had a peek at the cover reveal posts on the blogs of the fabulous people who joined the cover reveal. If you haven't heard yet, it's an exclusive fragment from 'Mr Bennet's Dutiful Daughter', that takes you further along than the usual Amazon sample. I hope you'll like it, and thanks again for the wonderful time!!!

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Michele
4/11/2016 03:26:41 pm

My guess is:
c. Mrs Bennet
b. 70%

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Christin link
4/11/2016 06:35:57 pm

Oh I'm gonna join the mayority and say b) Lady C. She is too curious and likes to get involved way too much. As to how far in the book... hm... I'll say 70%.
Also I cannot wait for the release. Elizabeth and Darcy married early on in a Joana Starnes book... I think she'll let them suffer still. She always does.

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Angela Withrow link
4/11/2016 07:13:56 pm

I'm going to say Mrs. Bennet and 50%, then Wickham at 70%! They must both have their share! Haha

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KateB
4/11/2016 07:31:20 pm

And Lady Catherine at 90%. That' sounds like Joana. ;)

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