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Review: Reluctantly Charmed by Ellie O’Neill
Ireland has got to be the absolute perfect setting for this book! I can’t think of a better location for a book about fairies and magic, not to mention I literally want to runaway to Ireland now and live there forever! Kate McDaid has made a New Year’s resolution….she plans on revitalizing her career and love life. Kate’s life is pretty normal….she lives in Dublin and works as a copywriter at an advertising agency and rides her bike to work…..all pretty normal, until one day her life is about to change in a big way! On her 26th birthday, she is summonsed to a lawyers office where a solicitor informs her…
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Announcement: Winner ONE PLUS ONE by Jojo Moyes
And the winner of the ONE PLUS ONE by Jojo Moyes is….. Melanie L (subscribes to blog) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher for making this giveaway possible!
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Giveaway/Special Feature: Paperback Release ONE PLUS ONE by Jojo Moyes
For those of you who have followed my blog for awhile now know that I’m a big Jojo Moyes fan. I’ve read a lot of her books and am always eager to read another book by her! Last year I read her latest book ONE PLUS ONE which was released in July. Now it’s coming out in paperback! This post also includes a GIVEAWAY for a paperback copy of this romantic and touching novel. You can listen to a free sample of the novel by clicking here! There is also a great book club kit that goes along with this book, so if your book club is still looking for a book…
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Review: The Dress Shop of Dreams by Menna van Praag
That would look beautiful on you. Why don’t you try it on? How often do you hear that when you are shopping for the perfect dress? Is it just fluff that the sales clerk is trying to make us believe or would it truly look beautiful on us? What if that statement was more like a promise? Etta Sparks owns a dress shop where dreams actually do come true. A place where one dress could change your life. Etta has the ability to make your dreams come true with the perfect dress and a little stitching to give you some courage. Her granddaughter Cora has been grieving her parents death for…
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Review: The Night Garden by Lisa Van Allen
In upstate New York there is a small farm that appears to be just another farm in the country. Normal. Ordinary. However the Pennywort farm is anything but ordinary and normal….it’s magical. At the heart of the farm there is a magical garden full of imagination and color. The locals have long said that entering the garden can gain insight to life’s most difficult issues by just walking through the gates, ironically the garden’s caretaker has never experienced any kind of revelation by entering the garden. Olivia Pennyworth has been caring for the garden and has spent her entire life on the farm while harboring a dark secret which forces…
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Book Blast/Giveaway: The Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee
Author Alison Atlee’s The Typewriter Girl is now an audiobook, narrated by Audie winner Rosalyn Landor, and in celebration she’ll be touring the blogosphere from August 4-29 with HF Virtual Book Tours! Audible Audio Book Edition Audible.com Release Date: April 4, 2014 Listening Length: 12 hours and 39 minutes Publisher: Audible Studios Language: English ASIN: B00JH0L9HW Genre: Historical Fiction A Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year pick: The Typewriter Girl is a “spectacular debut, set in a perfectly realized Victorian England.” When Betsey Dobson disembarks from the London train in the seaside resort of Idensea, all she owns is a small valise and a canary in a…
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Review: One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
I’ve been a fan of Jojo Moyes since I read Me Before You last year. Since then I’ve read two more of her novels, The Girl You Left Behind and Silver Bay. I love her storytelling style and her romances are usually unique, touching, and compelling. However, the last novel I read by her, Silver Bay, lacked some of her usual magic so needless to say I was hesitant to review One Plus One. The reviews I had seen online though made me decide to read One Plus One, in hopes of recapturing some of the magic from Moyes earlier novels. I was glad that I decided to give this one…
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Review: Silver Bay by JoJo Moyes
Liza McCullen lives in the small community of Silver Bay with it’s pristine beaches and secluded lifestyle, she feels completely at ease and safe in her life. Liza and her family run a small hotel there that features small exhibitions to see dolphins, whales, and all the beautiful sea creatures of the Australian coast. Running the whale watching tour is something extremely important to Liza, but not as important to her as raising her daughter Hannah. All of the women in Liza’s family have secrets…but none so big as Liza. Though she is the strong one in her little family, deep down she is as fragile as the delicate marine…
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Review: The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna van Praag
Alba’s life is falling apart. Everything that she has been working for has literally come to a grinding halt, she has lost all hope. While working on her MPhil at Cambridge, she suddenly gets rejected and can no longer continue pursuing her passion–history. While wandering the streets of Cambridge one night, she suddenly finds herself in front of a house that she has never seen before. Mysteriously drawn to the house, Alba is met by the land lady, Peggy, who invites her into the house for some tea. As soon as Alba enters the house, she notices the hundreds of photos of famous women in British history–Beatrix Potter, George Eliot, Daphne…
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Announement: Winner The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna van Praag
And the winner of The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna van Praag is…. Zoe M (tweeted about the giveaway) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher for making this giveaway possible!