Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Confetti and Confusion by Daisy James







Millie and Ella are back running their Caribbean cookery school for Claudia as she still recovers. Set over a week, with a bridal party this time.

This time they set to work helping Imogen and Alex get their wedding dream despite the bride's mum not approving of their ideal wedding back home though when she finds old flame Brad here, she takes a back seat thankfully for the bride to be!

The cookery duo have to help create cake pops and a new wedding cake from the cookery school after the wedding party's original ones get destroyed and then their wedding planner goes missing adding to the worries they needn't have.

We catch up on the what was budding romance between Millie and Zach as they go on a treetop course alike to Go Ape though his ex Chloe turns up later and suddenly, but is all that meets the eye?

An exciting drama filled week back in the cookery school we can dream of and it didn't disappoint. We caught up on all the previous events and where they progressed to now as well as developing Millie into the next chapter of her life in her career. There's love and revenge plots in this book which covered the thrilling action. As well as the wedding party providing many laughs in their making and baking. It was a gorgeous tale to dream yourself in to and pretend you're also there in the Caribbean with them. A truly captivating romance read perfect for this summer heat wave!

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

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Purchase links:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daisy-James/e/B015ECQG7E/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1530718282&sr=8-2-ent



Thursday, 31 May 2018

We Come Apart by Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan

In this book we meet Jess, caught shoplifting when out with her so called friends whom help to really put her in the mess she winds up in. Unhappy at home with her mum and stepdad whom seems a sleazy guy whom commits severe domestic abuse.

We also meet Nicu, escaped to Britain whilst his parents try to find him a wife back home for him who's suitable for which they'd return home eventually for them to marry after earning enough money.

As the pair both partake in an ordered community service charge of cleaning the community they meet, but both hide their secrets from the other until they start to hang out more, coming together before they get brutally ripped apart by a tragic act of self defence but too serious to ignore...

A tragic love story of right blooming out of wrong doing as the pair fall into their very short love story. Told in verse it was quick to read and the action flowed featuring an array of important topics from refugees, immigration, kleptomania, domestic abuse and general life wrong from right.

This book will haunt your memories of books you've read as you'll never find one like it again, I'm sure.


Friday, 8 September 2017

Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index by Julie Israel

After losing her sister, Juniper is finding it hard to face certain people at her school, Lauren and Camilla were friends and then there's Heather and Kody too.

When she uses Camilla's bag and finds a letter addressed to a boyfriend or girlfriend Camilla had, Juniper takes it upon herself to find out just what her sister was keeping from her.

Frustrated at herself for not saving her sister and seeing flashbacks to the July 4/5 accident where Camilla was driving and filming at the same time resulting in the car crash accident which killed her, Brand sees her smash up the ceramics department and helps her by taking the detention punishment and helps Juniper dumpster dive for her lost index card from her collection of past events.

Juniper spends the course of the book trying to piece together the life her sister kept hidden from her and along the way finds out secrets of her closest friends which wrecks and repairs relationships.

The unique part of the book aside from the mystery romance her sister his from her, is the fact that she keeps a physical record of the most important memories from set days in a modern day where we mostly rely on technology, I liked that. It was also a promise she made to her sister she continued despite her being gone. Which shows her loyalty and connection is still strong.

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


Sunday, 25 June 2017

This Is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith

Communicating by email after pure chance of a wrong email addressed typed, Ellie meet Graham that she lives in Maine and he California with a pet pig, Wilbur.

So when Ellie and Quinn work in a local ice cream shop whilst a film is being made locally with heartthrob actor Graham Larkin coming. He is trying to find Ellie only accidentally dates Quinn by accident after she spilled ice cream on her shirt at work and borrowed Ellie's. After a lot of doubt from Ellie about dating him things cool off until she hatches a plan to find her could be president father to see if he will welcome her and help her future at Harvard. Graham, wanting to help borrow a boat to find her dad.

The relationship between the two is tricky as it would be when one of you is so popular but they both worked really well before when they were emailing so after the shock don't adapt as naturally people would struggle with yet their happiness that comes when they are together proves they have something between them!


Roots: Poems of Remembering: When remembering becomes returning by Evelyn Valehart

This poetry collection focuses on the metaphor of seeds and roots literally in the ground and in our families and how every step we take is ...