One Night To Change Their Lives
Mills and Boon Medical
Tina Beckett
romance, medical
Mills and Boon
1st March 2019
Since hospital administrator Garret Stapleton lost both his wife and his daughter he's been determined not to give away his heart again. Until gorgeous but guarded ER doc Adelina Santini gets under his skin...Soon they embark on a scorching affair that has unexpected, life-changing consequences! When Garret's tragic past threatens their happiness, can Addy's surprise pregnancy lead them to their happy-ever-after?
I always like a hospital romance, and I know I am not alone in this. It’s even better for me when the heroine is a doctor not a nurse, and her potential partner is also medically qualified, or is a professional.
This was a nicely paced romance, with enough tragic back stories to give [pause and enable the ‘down’ of any traditional romance story.
The writing style was easy to read with a light touch.
Lincoln
AngelBound
Christina Bauer
contemporary fiction, romance, fantasy, angels, demons
Monster House books
26 Feb 2019
When it comes to fighting demons, Prince Lincoln is the greatest warrior in the history of his people, the thrax. Now Lincoln faces his hardest fight yet...and it's not on a traditional battlefield. Lincoln is falling in love. And the girl is part demon. Between a fated dance at the Ryder mansion...a life-changing walk through a hedgerow maze...and a massive battle with none other than the King of Hell...Lincoln realizes that he wants to share his life with Myla Lewis, the part-demon girl who has captured his heart. However, an evil thrax noble--the powerful Earl of Acca--is prepared to do anything to stop Lincoln and Myla from having a future.
I am very fond of this version of world building and love the idea of demons getting loose and causing illnesses etc – but being invisible to the human eye. And that the Thrax and others like human ice-cream and films. The Ghouls are creepy and the monsters are very imaginative. Don’t read these books if you get nightmares as they will inhabit them! I have now read all the books so far published in the series and found them enjoyable, but I thought that of all of them Armageddon was rather slow in tension building. The story of Lincoln finally comes out now – his background and how he courted Myla from his perspective and then we learn about how Maxon got his night terrors in Armageddon. Better to have read Armageddon before Maxon but this author does not produce books in chronological order so a bit tricky… However, if you can manage to sort out the storyline in your own mind, then do read the books as they are published.
Little Book Cafe: Amy's Story
Little Book Cafe
Georgia Hill
women's fiction romance
harper impulse
19 Oct 2018
Escape to the seaside for a new three-part series for fans of The Canal Boat Cafe and Willow Cottage
Amy, the manager of The Little Book Café, is a hopeless romantic who had her heart broken, but quietly refuses to give up on love.
With her friends Tash and Emma, not to mention their shared love of books and delicious cake from the café next door, Amy might just find the courage to fall for a real life romance this time…
Amy's Story is the final instalment of The Little Book Cafe series so wrap up warm this Autumn and treasure this wonderful book.
This cafe is actually next door to the bookshop even though you can purchase coffee and cakes inside the bookshop. I found this rather confusing as I could not decide where the coffee came from.. but as the premises were jointly owned..
This book is set in a fictional south coast UK town which is
all too nice and neat for reality – where these towns are struggling and not so
nice any more – but some of the economic difficulties were mentioned as were the
lack of anything for youngsters to do – which led them to petty vandalism.
A cosy book that
lacked any ‘bite’ with a very ‘soft’ style. Very much in older style of
traditional romances which include a Cinderella hiding from the world in baggy
clothes etc with a weight problem – she thinks. And a rescuer.
The Age of Misadventure
Judy Leigh
contemporary fiction, romance, humour
Avon Books UK
February 18, 2019
368
The gloriously funny new novel about living life to the full, whatever your age, from the author of A Grand Old Time. 55-year-old Georgie Turner doesn’t need a new man. Her daughter, aunt and sister are the most important people in her life (and the most infuriating). But it seems the older they get, the further apart they drift. Georgie’s never been a fan of her sister Bonnie’s husband, so when she learns her brother-in-law has been up to no good, Georgie sees an opportunity to bring the women of her family back together. Along with her 21-year-old daughter and 80-year-old aunt, she packs Bonnie into the back of her car and they leave Liverpool to hide out on the coast of Sussex. With the help of some sun, sea and bottle or two of prosecco, this will be an adventure they’ll never forget. But could the right man find Georgie while she’s stopping the wrong man finding her sister? A gorgeously fun and uplifting novel, perfect for fans of The 100 Year Old Man and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Yes, all 3 of us – let’s leave Liverpool and go to Brighton…
Why? Well, there’s the rub – we need to get out of town quick, ‘cos a bad man is after us…
But we can borrow this really smart flat with lovely views. Just one problem – we can’t leave it, because someone’s very stupid husband made a very bad and very dodgy deal and now they are after us to pony up. Which of course we can’t. So we need to stay hidden. 2 sisters and an elderly, but game Aunty.
I wish this story had been quite as amusing as it would seem from the description. I did think that Nan was brilliant but found the sister weak and whiny and very shallow with nothing at all humorous about her. The potential elements were there for a really great story that would make a brilliant film. But it just missed its mark for me.
Cheetahs Never Win: A Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count)
A Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count) #5
RJ Blain
contemporary fiction, romance, humour, fantasy
RJ Blain
2 Jan 2019
Witnessing a double homicide dumps Aaron Clinton into the middle of a gruesome murder investigation. To stop the budding serial killer from striking again, Aaron’s forced to join forces with a reformed cop and a colony of cranky cats.
Warning: this novel contains cats, murder, more cats, mayhem, cheetahs, mischief, felines, a serial killer, romance, humor, puns, generalized hilarity, and whipped cream used in inappropriate fashions. Proceed with caution.
A fun
story with lots of sniggers and a cherry on top!
I now
know a lot more about Texas than I did before, not necessarily to its benefit
of course, and oh Fire Ants! I suspect I have been a victim of these ants or
their relatives in India when I once sat down in a woodland – certainly
something nasty bit me several times on my behind! And it hurt…
This is
‘universe’ that I am not familiar with and it took a while to understand the
creatures that inhabited it, and I must say that angels that are missing their
heads sounds very creepy. Maybe the author was inspired by The Winged Victory
of Samothrace a famous statue where the head has been lost, or the fables
that say that good deeds result in angels being born – but without heads,
wings, faces etc. Whichever, I found their idea disconcerting.
That
above, I liked the story and it was long enough to satisfy me, – a lot of these
fantasy novels I find are rather short, but this was a good length which meant that
several of the characters could be developed as well as the two main
protagonists.
This was book 5 in the series and so I went back to book 1 –
Playing with Fire: A Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count)
One Night To Change Their Lives
