Showing posts with label bookshop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bookshop. Show all posts

Saturday, 22 June 2019

The Little Bookshop At Herring Cove by Kellie Hailes

Set in Herring Cove, Sophie runs a bookshop living above where her parents used to. Her best friends Ginny and Natalie also live close by in this little seaside community.

Alexander turns up from a building company set to take over under orders from his dad. However he tries to help out Sophie after learning of her debts and later her parents deaths. As he gets to work building shelves for her the pair come to grow close talking about their lives and for Alex his love of building work his parents blatantly disapprove of.

However as Sophie refuses to leave and Alex helps her and gets to know the locals even though Natalie has agreed to sell and move for a better life he realises there's a way he could help preserve their community in its natural style and so he tries to persuade his father but after Sophie realises he knows about her money woes after she confided only about her ex boyfriend though.

As Alex heads back to London and Sophie too is left heartbroken the pair must find their way to come back together again and for the good of Herring Cove and its future without a resort destroying the natural beauty there the pair must fight his parents to achieve their mutual dream...

I was engrossed in this book and read it in one  evening I was so gripped in the plot and not just because of the handsome Alex who sweeps Sophie off her feet eventually! The drama was always related to the plot developing and it did so at a steady pace instead of rushing to the point and then seeing the repercussions where as we could've seen a very different story play out indeed. It was warm, romantic and had some moments you wishes you loved there too! The ending was beautiful but you'll have to read it for yourself to find out why!

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!


Saturday, 5 May 2018

Bookshop Girl by Chloe Coles

Threatened with closure to make way for new retail units, Bennett's bookshop is at risk of being closed down.

With her Mum on jobseekers, choosing a future university for herself and sporting a hot guy in the street, her mind is full of things but at the top, saving Bennett's takes over. Working there with best friend Holly is amazing for them both and they set up an online petition to stop the closure going ahead.

After taking part in a life drawing class, the cute boy Paige likes turns up again at the bookshop, only as the closing down sale begins, the petition grows stronger as they use more social media outlets to spread the word through, so they then discover stock is going missing.

As friendship fall outs, dates, chance meetings and campaigning as well as reaching out to an author for help with the petition happen, Paige's life gets very busy as the final countdown to closer looks ever closer...

I liked the concept but found the storyline could've been better executed as there were often things that started but not played out, many characters could've had more input in the action but didn't seem as into the petition and campaigning to save their own jobs and the language was very feminist teenage angst and immature at times. Don't get me wrong, there's funny moments and darn weird happenings but it didn't completely work for me.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!


The Devil's Sister by Kate J. Blake

When vampire Raphael refuses to accompany his sister, Beatrice, to a masquerade ball, as she wants to find her mate, she is put in a positio...