My Review for We Were on a Break by Jo Lovett

We Were on a Break made me laugh out loud and smack my forehead in frustration! Honestly, I loved Emma. She was eccentric, quirky and hilarious. On the other hand, Callum was a bit boring and too straitlaced. I loved the synopsis. I really fancy the idea of a road trip across Europe, although maybe not with an ex! That would be quite hard work. I liked Jo’s descriptions of the places Emma and Callum visited, and I would have loved to stay in...

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My Review for For the Love of Lily by Olivia Lockhart

I loved, loved, loved this. I loved Lily; I loved Luke, and I almost loved Zack. Too much happened and I don’t want to give any spoilers, but if you love romance, then you absolutely must read this. The story does sort of end on a bit of a cliffhanger, but that’s good. I can’t wait to read the next one and thankfully I won’t have long to wait.Few books make me cry, but Olivia got me good and proper with this one. OMG, soul-searching and heart-wrenching...

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My Review for Do Me a Favor by Cathy Yardley read by Elyse Dinh and Teddy Hamilton

I love an audiobook and although this was a slow start; I found myself enjoying it more and more as the book progressed. Hudson was a great character. I liked him from the very beginning, but Willa was a different story. It took me a while to warm to her, and she did irritate me a bit when she was constantly calling on Hudson to come and get her out of a pickle.Both Elyse and Teddy were great narrators and worked well together as Willa and Hudson....

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My Review for Life Begins at 50 by Celia Anderson

As a girl (yes, I still think of myself as a girl), who turned 51 a few months ago I was looking forward to reading this, and whilst my life is absolutely nothing like Kate’s, I could relate to bits of her life. I think Kate is brilliant; she has great friends, a job she enjoys and godchildren she adores. I particularly loved Elsie and the names she decided on for her cuddly unicorn and sheep - I won’t spoil that for you, but it made me laugh.The...

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My Review for Stolen Mothers by Stacy Green

Stolen Mothers is another fast-paced thriller from Stacy Green, throwing you once again into the daily life of FBI Agent Nikki Hunt. This time she needs to find the serial killer who is responsible for killing all these women, but there is a harrowing personal story behind it all too. Did what happened nine years ago to Nikki influence what the killer did next?I sped through the book as quickly as other things allowed me to, and it was a welcome...

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My Review for Blue Skies Over Wildflower Lock by Hannah Lynn

I wish I’d discovered this series before the third one. I loved Blue Skies Over Wildflower Lock so much. I disappeared onto the waterways of England from the moment I read the first page until I finally closed my Kindle. Hannah has put so much research into this book and how you can navigate the waterways to get from one side of the country to the other. I honestly wished I was travelling with her and September Rose, enjoying the tranquillity...

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My Review for Happy Ever After at Puddleduck Farm by Della Galton

This is the fifth book in the Puddleduck Farm series and another delightful book from Della. As always, I love the characters and I especially love the animals. Spock the parrot is probably my favourite from this book!In this one, Della deals sensitively with certain subjects, but overall I think you’ll find that this visit to Puddleduck Farm is as warm and cosy as the rest, despite the circumstances. From my understanding there is still more...

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My Review for The Butterfly Garden by Rachel Burton

I love gardens and nature and anything even remotely related to that, so to read a book called The Butterfly Garden was an inevitable choice for me, especially as it’s set in Suffolk, England - I live on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, so I was keen to see if I recognised any places. A dual timeline novel split between 1963 and 2018, where our female protagonists are Clara and Meredith, respectively. I was hooked as the story and all the family secrets...

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My Review for Courage for the Clarks Factory Girls by May Ellis

I read the first two books in the Clarks Factory Girls series, back to back. This second in the series is a continuation of the lives and stories of the people who live and work in Street, Somerset, in the UK and, once again, they welcome us with open arms. I love the characters (well, most of them) that May has created and the family and friendship they bring. This time around, we discover more about the effects the First World War had on the...

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My Review for The Clarks Factory Girls at War by May Ellis

The Clarks Factory Girls is a new wartime saga series by May Ellis and as I’m on the book tour for the second in the series, I wanted to read the first one, before I started the second. I’m unsure whether our friends across the pond know that Clarks Shoes used to be a massive thing in the UK (although maybe not as much these days). Almost everyone I knew had a pair of Clarks shoes as their first ever pair, and school shoes in particular would,...

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