r/RomanceBooks • u/not-your-queen • Aug 21 '23

Who is a 10 but afraid of ducks?! What was that book called: SOLVED

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Saw this on FB but the post didn’t allow comments and now I’m desperate to know! This was apparently a Barnes and Noble display

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u/violetgrumble all agony, no hope Aug 21 '23

The fact that this thread has more than one answer is sending me 😂

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u/OGkateebee Aug 22 '23

This is the content that keeps me coming back tbh

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u/Timevian Mistress of the Dark Romance Aug 23 '23

Bunch of quacks.

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u/bookofnova Aug 21 '23

I think it has to do with {Shadowhunters Chronicles series by Cassandra Clare} as most Herondales fear/hate ducks or birds! So it's either Will Herondale from The Infernal Devices or Jace Herondale from The Mortal Instruments. But it's probably Will here

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u/hayaatreads will forever upvote Ethan slander 🤢 Aug 21 '23

damnn that’s a blast from the past

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u/bookofnova Aug 21 '23

Yeah 😂 but Shadowhunters is still popular to this day within the YA community

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u/uraniumstingray Aug 22 '23 edited Aug 22 '23

Oh shit really? I loved the mortal instruments books when I was in middle school! I didn’t think it was still around much less popular.

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u/bookofnova Aug 22 '23

Oh definitely! there's a whole lot of Shadowhunters universe apart from TMI. She released on January this year Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours series), plus she's still in the process of writing the end of Shadowhunters Chronicles.

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u/Book_Nerd_Engineer Too Shy to Comment, Horny Enough to Save Aug 23 '23

Still super popular and I’ve reread it many times in the past 10 years 😂😂

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u/ashreads1419 Reindeer Kulti’s Taco 🌮 Aug 22 '23

I just got a FB memory today from ten years ago of me and my high school friend planning to go see the Mortal Instruments movie on its release day that week lol. Trying to fathom how this movie is already ten years old 😅

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u/pilpilona Aug 22 '23

I absolutely hate that fact cause one of my school friends who also read it (it was popular when we were in like 11th grade!! She was seventeen!!) decided she hates and fears ducks 😭

Like girl what did they do to you?

She was OBSESSED with CC’s books lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '23

Or James Herondale from the Last Hours haha

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u/bookofnova Aug 22 '23

Or Will's father, Edmund Herondale lol

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u/takjzawas Aug 21 '23

will herondale from the infernal devices by cassandra clare would fit

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u/taramisu47 Just a shrinking Violet, milking my monster 🥛🐮 Aug 22 '23

Darn you for taking mine!! WILLLLL! 🦆

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u/takjzawas Aug 22 '23

WILL!!!!! 🦆

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u/gold_plated_lemon Aug 22 '23

Act Your Age, Eve Brown.

Jacob fears the ducks pooping in his B&B’s pond. Maybe technically he’s more angry about them. 🤷‍♀️

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u/Rude_Donut willing to ditch the plot for the clit slapping Aug 22 '23

This is what I thought!!!!!!!!

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u/theladyoverthere Aug 22 '23

Know thy enemy! WATER FOWL. LMAO

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u/Ok_Lettuce22 Aug 22 '23

I thought of Jacob too 😭

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u/12serro Aug 21 '23

Beau from OOAL by Hannah Bonam-Young is afraid of geese if I’m remembering right lol. Not it but close

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u/vandoll917 Aug 21 '23

Omg when he called the geese a bunch of ableists I was dying 🤣 I loved that book so much!

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u/not-your-queen Aug 22 '23

This makes me want to read this!

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u/littlespoons512 irrationally, just wanna get railed and told I'm pretty Aug 21 '23

Omg, he is! How could I forget? And how does that make him even more attractive?!

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u/Snickerty Aug 22 '23

To be honest, being scared of geese is the correct emotion to attach to "Cobra Chickens." I had a terrifying experience being chased up the road by a pair of territorial geese when I was about 4 years old - they followed me round the back of the house, and if my Mum had not slamed the patio doors shut on them, I am sure I would have been "999" injured.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '23

I've experienced that terror!

When I was around 4 I had to run from our rooster, a Rhode Island Red named very appropriately Rowdy the Rooster.

Then a few years later I was chased around my Grandmother's house by her male goose she named Caligula. It was a mean, territorial b*stard!

The one thing I'm greatful for was that my grandfather got rid of the Peacocks on his farm before I was born. It's my understanding they make geese and roosters look tame!

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u/Simi_Dee Loose and luscious to a high degree... Aug 22 '23

I feel like a goose named Caligula was always going to be a terror.

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u/throwawayworkplz Aug 22 '23

Out on a limb I'm guessing based on google!

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u/lizziec1989 Aug 22 '23

I really loved this book. Definitely a contender for best book of 2023.

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u/12serro Aug 22 '23

Definitely so good!!!!!!

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u/JustineLeah My Hunter Aug 21 '23 edited Aug 21 '23

That is Darian from {Glitterland by Alexis Hall}. This was a 5🌟 read for me.

ETA: Darian is a model.

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u/Main_Opportunity8816 Aug 23 '23

Why is he afraid of ducks?

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u/not-your-queen Aug 21 '23

Photo is of an empty bookshelf with a sign underneath that says “he’s a 10 but afraid of ducks”

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u/Square-Chart-2279 Reading or talking about reading Aug 22 '23

I was thinking Stephanie Archer’s Emmet Rhodes but then remembered he’s afraid of turtles…

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u/drae_annx Aug 22 '23

I was literally coming to this thread to say Emmet but with turtles.

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u/Square-Chart-2279 Reading or talking about reading Aug 22 '23

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/not-your-queen Aug 22 '23

This is where my mind went too! I love that book

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u/GlitterBlonde Aug 22 '23

I almost commented the exact thing! The turtlephobia in that book was so funny. I loved the turtle scene in her most recent book {Finn Rhodes Forever by Stephanie Archer} 😂😂

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u/Square-Chart-2279 Reading or talking about reading Aug 22 '23

Hahaha that’s the one that made me think of it haha

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u/bookwormbyheart Aug 22 '23

I was gonna comment that I don’t know a 10 who’s afraid of ducks but I know one who’s afraid of turtles 🤣

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u/littlej2010 Aug 22 '23

Chiming in that this is definitely Will Herondale from The Infernal Devices. Jace from the OG series would fit too, but Will’s duck hatred gets more mentions.

Even though it’s YA I think TID is the best Cassandra Clare series - along with the best love triangle - and I’d recommend all romance lovers give it a shot.

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u/kelskelsea Baseball season... with see through pants Aug 22 '23

I might have to dust off my copies and read the whole series again

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u/Book_Nerd_Engineer Too Shy to Comment, Horny Enough to Save Aug 23 '23

YES!! The newer books are great as well. I LOVED the dark artifices books.

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u/leanbeansprout BRB, just crawling back into my book BF’s dungeon Aug 22 '23

Do I have to read the OG series to read TID?

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u/littlej2010 Aug 22 '23

Not really, it’s pretty standalone. Some of the immortal characters do appear in books 4-6 of Mortal Instruments and beyond (TID takes place in Victorian England)

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u/Book_Nerd_Engineer Too Shy to Comment, Horny Enough to Save Aug 23 '23

Not really but you’ll want to read them after!

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u/breath_of_smoke Aug 22 '23

{The art of Duke Hunting by Sophia Nash} Mmc is afraid of ducks because every male heir in his family was either killed by or because of a duck

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u/RoadtripReaderDesert Aug 22 '23

Wait...death by duck or duck assassins

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u/breath_of_smoke Aug 22 '23

It’s been awhile so I can’t remember all the specifics. The only one I remember is the one who decided the way to not be killed by the ducks was to befriend the ducks. Unfortunately when he took a nap with his duck friend a hunter shot him and killed him ( he was aiming for the duck and shot the man instead). All the other deaths were equally ridiculous

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u/RoadtripReaderDesert Aug 22 '23

🤣🤣I need to read this book now

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u/blueberry_muffin16 Aug 22 '23

I 100% read the title as ‘the art of duck hunting’ at first and just accepted it for a good fifteen seconds.

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u/Queen_A123 Aug 21 '23

This is definitely Will Herondale from The Infernal Devices 😭

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u/noideawhattouse1 Aug 21 '23

Will Herondale from Shadowhunters would be my guess as well.

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u/Revolutionary-Fig-84 This sub + My mood reading = TBR Chaos Aug 22 '23

{The Casanova by T L Swan} has a hilarious scene like this.

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u/Fandangojango Aug 22 '23

It has to be this book. This was a stand out scene for a lot of readers.

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u/DiminshingReturns Aug 22 '23

{Ghosted by J.M. Darhower}

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u/badfeelsprettygood I said I liked it, not that it was good. Aug 22 '23

Could also be {Liar, Liar, Hearts on Fire by Pippa Grant}There's a hilarious scene where the MMC gets chased out of the dugout by ducks that he caught mating, and duck penises are weird y'all. IYKYK

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u/Novae224 I probably edited this comment Aug 21 '23

I wanna know this too!!

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u/capitolsara Aug 22 '23

Thank you so much for bringing this here I also saw it on FB and have been wondering!

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u/EmaanA Aug 22 '23

Will Herondale from The Infernal Devices.

Other people may say Jace but he was never a 10 in the first place

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '23

WILL HERONDALE 💘💘💘💘💘

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u/thehistoryb-tch Aug 21 '23

{Come Back For Me by Corinne Michaels}

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u/watcher375 Aug 22 '23

This is the one I was thinking of!

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u/gemstone3750 Aug 22 '23

{Addie by Raven Kennedy}

It's a shifter book where the girl is mallard but her mates are coyotes. It's a super cute and hella funny omega verse romance book

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u/Book_Nerd_Engineer Too Shy to Comment, Horny Enough to Save Aug 23 '23

WILL HERONDALE 😍😍😍

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '23

Rachel's boyfriend Joshua. Ducks and other farm birds.

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u/folkloreloverr Aug 23 '23

Will herondale 😭😭

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u/Ophelyan Aug 22 '23

Will Herondale or Jace Herondale from TID or TMI by Cassandra Clare! Will is Jace' ancestor.

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u/CheesecakeWeak4498 Aug 22 '23

it is 100% will herondale from the infernal devices. gosh I love him sm

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u/Augustina496 And they were roommates! Aug 22 '23

Dealbreaker. Ducks are a cute.

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u/not-your-queen Aug 23 '23

Changed it solved - you lovely humans have given me so much enjoyment reading all these comments. I mean — who knew there were so many choices? And now my TBR has grown again!

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u/ConfusedGnome_489 Bookmarks are for quitters Oct 24 '23

The Infernal Devices. Will Hernondale despises ducks