Kooks for your Kindle?-Lots of real, unexaggerated supporting characters, and Jill is fortunate to have a lawyer for a best friend, considering the events unfolding here. The other locals are colourful without being over the top. Garrett could easily have been bland (he’s quite vanilla and very considerate to elderly ladies), but luckily he has an edge and makes an attractive leading man, fortuitously blessed with patience and good timing in an emergency.
The Bella-Swan-Pathetically-Self-Sacrificing-Factor– Jill is reasonably strong, even when things take a turn for the dangerous. However, she may be a little gullible and naive for believing the evidence when she left Garrett the year before. I’d usually struggle to empathise with someone so virtuous, but she has enough pluck to be interesting.
Painting a picture for your paperback?– The author creates a homely southern town, with a strong community of good God-fearin’ folk. It’s very wholesome and a nice change from some of the harsher frothy reads out there. Some of the local cuisine is featured, with some yummy looking recipes included at the end, although I fear anyone imbibing that much sugar in their sweet tea on a regular basis may fall into a sugar coma or be the size of a house.
Nookie for your Nook?– So clean in content and language that not only could you recommend it to the M.I.L, but maybe even your great-granny.
Evaluation of your eBook?– A couple of almost extraneous kindle name-drops might be explained by the fact that the book seems to be self published on Amazon, I’m not sure how it works, but if it enables more reasonably priced easy reads like this, then great. Overall a nice page-turner, with some life-threatening excitement towards the end. The dialogue is more good-natured than snappy, but it fits the events happening in a period of bereavement and mystery. I felt it would have been best read in the shade on a sunny day with an icy drink, but don’t let that stop you if your circumstances differ. It’s a warm and fuzzy book that effectively conveys the type of southern community that will rally around when tragedy strikes.
Frothy Ranking: 3/5 cocktails.
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This adorable, fun book is by a relatively new author who seems to alternate between contemporary light reading (such as this) and historical bodice rippers. Sadie is reluctantly talked into spending the summer by Lake Michigan with her eccentric aunt and two adult cousins to recuperate from a nasty divorce. Instead of relaxing with her 2 young children for the summer she ends up falling for the visiting doctor next door; discovering and unexpected career; annoying her ex husband into a custody fight; and (possibly the worst) realising she’s beginning to turn into her mother. Sadie is tightly wound; compulsively tidying for fun until her interior designer cousin suggests she “use that personality disorder… for good instead of evil” and join his small business as a professional organiser.
Remember ‘Trashy novels’ and ‘Bonk-busters’? Pretend the recession never happened and get some true escapism from the Brit side of the pond. Meet three women of very different origins, the rich and spoiled of London’s Chelsea. Imogen was a successful model before her rich husband put her in a gilded cage for fifteen years. Lady Yasmin appears to be your typical surgically enhanced, social-climbing young trophy wife to her crusty old Lord- but who is she really? Finally, Calvary was born into this life, but can she retain her position and find happiness with a younger man if she finally divorces her serial-philandering husband? These three become unlikely allies when they realise they can all get what they want: If they have the guts and luck to pull off a spectacular heist.
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This was quite a find, and ridiculously underpriced at only 20p to the UK market. A tale of a woman in her sixties finding true love and escaping an unhealthy marriage might not sound exciting, but it’s so well told that I devoured it in one go! When Jeanie reaches her 60th birthday, her family are ready to pack her off to the country to retire. Her quietly domineering husband has decided that she will sell her successful small business and fails to even notice or explain the lack of intimacy in their marriage.
Eilidh has lost her unborn child and her faithless husband, but is more affected by the former. Worn down by IVF attempts and let down by the rest of her family, she chooses to escape to an aunt in a in a remote Scottish village where she has a fresh start. Jamie, her childhood friend, is the village blacksmith-turned-artist, raising his small daughter alone. This touching tale is about finding family and home, in any form, with a little well-intentioned assistance from beyond the grave.