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13/6/2019 0 Comments

Review: Our Stop

Our Stop by Laura Jane Williams
Page length: 400 pages
Genre: Romance, Romantic Comedy
Publication Date: 13 June 2019
Publisher: Avon
Source: ARC via NetGalley
 
Stars:  4.5 out of 5
 
Link: AMAZON (UK)

 
ABOUT OUR STOP
 
Nadia gets the 07.30 train every morning without fail. Well, except if she oversleeps or wakes up at her friend Emma’s after too much wine.
 
Daniel really does get the 07.30 train every morning, which is easy because he hasn’t been able to sleep properly since his Dad died.
 
One morning, Nadia’s eye catches sight of a post in the daily paper:
 
To the cute girl with the coffee stains on her dress. I’m the guy who’s always standing near the doors… Drink sometime?
 
So begins a not-quite-romance of near-misses, true love, and the power of the written word.
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My Review:

Such a lovely idea. I love reading the missed connections in the newspaper!
Nadia is recovering from and awful relationship with Awful Ben, when it seems someone on her train has the hots for her. A lovely web spun from nearly-meets, nearly-crashes and lots of nearly-at-the-wrong-times. As the book hurtled towards the end, I found myself wholly engaged in Nadia and Daniel's story, not to mention what was going on with best friend Emma.
 
VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
 
Thank you so much the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a complimentary electronic copy in return for an honest review. 
 
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10/5/2019 0 Comments

Review: The Flatshare

The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
Page length: 336 pages
Genre: Romance, Romantic Comedy
Publication Date: 10 April 2019
Publisher: Quercus
Source: ARC via NetGalley
 
Stars:  5 out of 5
 
Link: AMAZON (UK)

 
ABOUT THE FLATSHARE
 
Tiffy and Leon share a flat
Tiffy and Leon share a bed
Tiffy and Leon have never met...
 
Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time.
 
But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven't met yet, they're about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rulebook out the window...

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My Review:

About to be homeless Tiffy is desperate for a cheap place. Is sharing a flat with Leon the answer to her prayers? It's an unorthodox idea – Tiffy has the flat evenings and weekends, Leon has it daytimes.
 
An absolutely brilliant book. I was expecting a will-they or won't-they storyline but there was so much more. Gerty the no-nonsense barrister and Tiffy's strange writers and colleagues. And Leon's brother. All the characters were so real and have stayed with me for days.
 
The ending nearly had me in tears.
 
VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
 
Thank you so much the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a complimentary electronic copy in return for an honest review. 
 
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19/12/2018 0 Comments

Review: Don't You Forget About Me

Don’t You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane
Genre: Romance/Romantic Comedy
Length: 368 pages
Publication Date: 1 January 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins
Source: ARC via NetGalley
 
Stars:  4.5 out of 5

 
Link: AMAZON (UK)

 
ABOUT DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME
 
You always remember your first love. Don’t you…?
 
It began with four words.
 
‘I love your laugh. x’
 
But that was twelve years ago. It really began the day Georgina was fired from The Worst Restaurant in Sheffield (© Tripadvisor) and found The Worst Boyfriend in the World (© Georgina’s best friends) in bed with someone else.
 
So when her new boss, Lucas McCarthy, turns out to be the boy who wrote those words to her all that time ago, it feels like the start of something.
 
The only problem?
He doesn’t seem to remember Georgina – at all…

My Review:

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The first chapter is Georgina, aged 15, trying to comprehend Wuthering Heights and navigate her feelings for the quiet and unpopular Lucas McCarthy. Fast-forward to modern day and Georgina (and her life) could be described as a 'hot mess' - bad job, worse boyfriend, and then neither! It took me a few chapters to get into the story but once I was hooked, I was truly reeled in, and finished the rest of the book in a day. The story was heart-breaking, funny, sentimental and left me in tears.  
 
VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
 
Thank you so much the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a complimentary electronic copy in return for an honest review. 
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12/9/2018 0 Comments

Review: All That Was Lost

All That Was Lost by Alison May
Genre: Romance/Saga
Length: 244 pages
Publication Date: 6 September 2018
Publisher: Legend Press
Source: ARC via NetGalley
 
Stars:  4.5 out of 5
 
Link: AMAZON (UK)

ABOUT ALL THAT WAS LOST:
 
In 1967 Patience Bickersleigh is a teenager who discovers a talent for telling people what they want to hear. Fifty years later she is Patrice Leigh, a nationally celebrated medium. But cracks are forming in the carefully constructed barriers that keep her real history at bay.
 
Leo is the journalist hired to write Patrice’s biography. Struggling to reconcile the demands of his family, his grief for his lost son, and his need to understand his own background, Leo becomes more and more frustrated at Patrice's refusal to open up.
 
Because behind closed doors, Patrice is hiding more than one secret. And it seems that now, her past is finally catching up with her.

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My Review:

The book starts brilliantly. The concept is great – as I tucked in to the first chapter I was delighted that the story lives up to the novel idea. It's a beautiful story that flicks between current day and Pat's teenage years in the sixties.  As Pat's story becomes clear it's clear to see how she became the grand Patrice Leigh, and her role in supporting people who seek out a medium. Much my reading was spent thinking is she or isn't she (the real thing)?. Interwoven with Leo and Louise's lives respectively, the pain of grief and losing a loved one is heartfelt. When the loose ends came together at the end, I wanted to reread the book again straight away.
 
VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
 
Thank you so much the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a complimentary electronic copy in return for an honest review. 

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3/8/2018 0 Comments

Review: The Plus One

The Plus One by Sophia Money-Coutts
 
Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Romantic Comedy
Page Length: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 9 August 2018
Publisher: HQ
 
Stars:  4 out of 5
 

Link: AMAZON (UK)
 
ABOUT THE PLUS ONE
 
The Plus One [n] informal a person who accompanies an invited person to a wedding or a reminder of being single, alone and absolutely plus none
 
Polly’s not looking for ‘the one’, just the plus one…
 
Polly Spencer is fine. She’s single, turning thirty and only managed to have sex twice last year (both times with a Swedish banker called Fred), but seriously, she’s fine. Even if she’s still stuck at Posh! magazine writing about royal babies and the chances of finding a plus one to her best friend’s summer wedding are looking worryingly slim.
 
But it’s a New Year, a new leaf and all that. Polly’s determined that over the next 365 days she’ll remember to shave her legs, drink less wine and generally get her s**t together. Her latest piece is on the infamous Jasper, Marquess of Milton, undoubtedly neither a plus one nor ‘the one’. She’s heard the stories, there’s no way she’ll succumb to his charms…
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My Review:

I started to read this at the beginning of a 200km journey from Kampala to Hoima squished between two locals on a matatu taxibus. Unfortunately early on a sentence caught the eye of my new travel neighbour: 'Can men just Uber at – I looked at my phone – 2.54a.m. after a blow job, having not returned the favour and think it's acceptable?'  Although I couldn't be sure my fellow passenger had read the sentence, it was enough to make my cheeks blush and read something less risqué for the rest of the journey.
 
This is the third book I've read this summer concerning weddings, and in particular the impromptu engagements of best friends, so there was a presumptive here-we-go-again… but I was very pleasantly surprised.
 
Jasper "Jaz" Marquess of Milton, is a cad, but when he turns on the charm and gives more than just a hint of vulnerability one can't help falling for the charismatic rogue. What possibly could go wrong? Everything it seems!
 
The will-they won't-they romance merry-go-round was kept grounded by the news that Polly's mother has breast cancer. Polly tries to juggle a new love life, her mother's health, her maid of honour duties, and her insufferable place of work.
 
The writing was fresh and the story was absorbing. The dialogue was contemporary and the descriptive narrative was engaging –when Polly goes to interview Jasper in the country, I felt like a fly-on-the-wall at the family dinner. The modern dating was realistic as were the sex scenes to the point of awkward and yet not a truism in sight.
 
I happily say I Do to The Plus One.
 
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
 
Thank you so much the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a complimentary electronic copy in return for an honest review.

 
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