Romance Recomendations

Hello, so I haven't been on here for a good long while, but it is currently valentines day as I write this and I looked at my bookshelf and for the first time in a while I felt the urge to blog, I will be posting a post about why I've been M.I.A soon, but for now enjoy this post and I will be sticking to a schedule hopefully that pushes me to read at least one book a week. 

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So here are my top 5 favourite Romance Books/Authors ….

Abbi Glines 

If you've followed me for a while this won't be a surprise, Glines is on my must read list, even when I'm in a reading slump I still manage to read those books. 

Her characters never fail to entertain and it's hard not to fall in love with every single one of them. 

Where Rainbows End/Love Rosie - Cecelia Ahern

Where Rainbows End is the copy I have but it's now called Love Rosie, and I read it quite a few years ago, but to this day it still sticks in my mind as one of the best love stories I have ever read.

Kat French

I found Kat's books by accident in my supermarket, but now she is one of my favourite romance Authors, her books are so light and funny, they never fail to put me in a good mood. 

Bella Andre

I love a good saga, any series that follows a family or different characters in the same circle are always some of my favourites to read and we are literally on the third section of this family and I can't wait for more. 

Morgan Matson 

This is a YA Author but like Kat French, she manages to make the story light and funny, with a hint of seriousness as well, I love every book by this author but if I had to choose my favourite would have to be The Unexpected Everything. 

Here are some honourable mentions ….

• To all the boys I've loved before - Jenny Han
• J Lynn 
• Geek Girl - Holly Smale
• Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins 
• How to Love - Katie Cotugno 

So the Schedule for uploading will be Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I really am planning to stick to it this time. 

Until Next Time 

Happy Reading

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Every Time We Fall In Love - Bella Andre

Title - Every Time We Fall In Love
Author - Bella Andre 
Series - The Sullivans #12
Genre - Contemporary / Romance 
ISBN - 9781945253746
My Copy - Purchased 
Format - Kindle
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads  - Amazon UK - Amazon US - Amazon CA - Barnes & Noble - Indigo - IBooks

Harry Sullivan has always put his family first, even when it meant losing Molly—his one true love. He’s never been able to forget her, even after fifteen years. Now that his siblings are all blissfully happy, Harry hopes it’s not too late for his own happily-ever-after. But then his doorbell rings…and one look at the teenage girl standing on his doorstep changes absolutely everything.

Molly never thought she’d see Harry Sullivan again, so she's beyond stunned when her fifteen-year-old daughter brings him back into her life. At eighteen, Harry was already strong, sexy, and honourable. And now that he's even more handsome, more brilliant, more loyal and caring? Molly can't stop herself from falling in love with him all over again. Especially when his kisses and the sizzling attraction between them are hotter than ever.

But with more at stake now than they ever thought possible, will they be able to move beyond the mistakes they both made in the past, and fall in love forever this time?

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So I have loved the Sullivan series for many years now and that hasn't changed at all, even with my reading slump I still managed to keep up with this series and it is a series that I can just read it isn't full of drama and angst that makes me want to put the book down it is light-hearted and the characters are written in a way that you end up letting them into your heart and you will never let them go.

This is the twelfth book all-round but it is in the New York Sullivans subcategory, we have had the San Francisco Sullivans, the Seattle Sullivans and this is the last book in the New York Sullivans next we have the Maine Sullivans and then I believe it will finish with the London Sullivans but I am not sure, I don't think I will ever get bored of these books they are such light quick reads and they never fail to put a smile on my face. 

Harry is someone I would connect to in real life he loves History and Books and jousts in his spare time he is literally my dream man and so I have been waiting for his book and it didn't disappoint. Harry and Molly's story starts 16 years before the book starts and they were collage sweethearts but things happened and they didn't see each other until Molly's daughter gets involved. We see some of the family and we hear about a few more but this was a very small character base compared to a lot of the other books in this series and for me it fit well with this book because everything was quaint from the little cottage to the beautiful dog, and the beautifully wrapped up storyline at the end of this book. That is another thing I love about this series is each family has its own problems and in the end they always come out stronger no matter how many years it takes. 

I cant say much about the character development in this book without spoiling too much because the biggest character development happened in the climax and it is such a moving part that I don't want to spoil it but I will say if you have read any of the other New York Sullivans books you will also love this development it wrapped this part of the saga perfectly. 

So overall, it is a very good addition to this amazing series and I would recommend these books to anyone who loves a light quick read and has time to become hooked to the Sullivans because it is very hard to resist them.

Until Next Time 

Happy Reading 

Jade

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Love Me Like This - Bella Andre Review

Title - Love Me Like This 
Author - Bella Andre
Series - The Morrison's #3
ISBN - 9781945253393
Genre - Contemporary Romance 
My Copy - Purchased
Format - Kindle
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Barnes & Noble - Indigo - Amazon UK - Amazon US - Amazon CA - IBooks

 Eight years have passed since Justin Morrison first laid eyes on Taylor and fell head over heels in love with her, even though he knew she could never be his. He's tried everything he can to get over her--including moving to another country--but she's still the only woman he'll ever want. 

Eight years is a heck of a long time to secretly love someone. Taylor knows all too well how impossible it is to forget a man as sexy, sweet, and brilliant as Justin Morrison. So when he turns up on the doorstep of her Napa Valley bed and breakfast, she can't help but long for the happily-ever-after of her dreams.

As Taylor and Justin spend beautifully romantic mornings together watching the sun rise over the vineyards--and can't help but fall into each other's arms on wickedly sexy nights--it looks like they might finally get their chance at the love they've been waiting for. But will the secret Taylor has been keeping shatter everything in the end?

DISCLAIMER ******* THIS REVIEW MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR THE PREVIOUS BOOKS IN THE SERIES.

It  has been a long time since a book from this series was released the previous book was released in 2015 so it took me a few chapters to reacquaint myself with the characters but even when i did it did not matter too much since we don't really see much of the rest of the the Morrison family. 

Remembering the other books you could tell from those that this was going to be one of the books but after i finished reading it i didn't get the same feeling as i normally do reading one of Andre's books, it was still good but it felt different. 

If you have read any of this type of genre before you know how these books go, it is pretty much a given that you will know what normally happens, boy and girl fall in love, then something happens to tear them apart, then at the end of the book they end up together. This book is different from that and i actually really appreciate that, i feel as if every new adult/adult romance book has the same story lay out and it has gotten boring in recent months. The characters are your typical romance characters, but you can overlook it, when the story is a bit different you don't feel as if you have read this book before. 

Taylor and Justin are nice characters and they carry the story and since for most of it, it is just them and some background characters you really do get to know them and get invested in them and if you have read the Sullivan Series from Andre then you will recognise the Napa Valley area from that series, and some of the characters.

Bella Andre is one of my Auto-buy Authors and so even though i didn't enjoy this book as most if her others it doesn't mean it was not worth the read, Andre has such a way with words that it doesn't really matter in any case, and even though i did not particularly enjoy this book i do recommend Andre as an Author and you should check her books out they are rather addictive to read.  

Until Next Time

Happy Reading

Once She Dreamed Part One & Part 2 - Abbi Glines

Title - Once She Dreamed Part 1 & Part 2
Series - Once She Dreamed
Author - Abbi Glines
Genre - New Adult
My Copy - Purchased
Format - Kindle
Where You Can Find It - Part 1 - Goodreads - Amazon UK - Amazon US - Barnes & Noble 
Where You Can Find It - Part 2 -  Goodreads - Amazon UK - Amazon US  

Everyone in the small country town where Sammy Jo Knox had been born and raised, never left. They made their life there. Got married, had kids, lived in the same houses that were always there along the streets that never changed. The whole white picket fence and tree swing might look good on greeting cards but in real life it was boring, at least to Sammy Jo.

When Sammy Jo was a little girl she began dreaming of something bigger. Brighter. Something that wasn’t her town. She wanted to see the world and experience it all. Just how she was going to do that she had no idea. Because if her momma had her way, she’d marry one of the boys in town and be spitting out babies and going to church on Sunday with them all lined up in a row.

The day Hale Christopher Jude III walked into the bakery she worked at, she knew he was it. That part of life she was missing. He smelled of foreign places and exciting things. He represented all the bright lights she dreamed of and simply put, she hoped he was her way out of this place.

What Sammy Jo didn’t realise was things that appear perfect… aren’t. And chasing her dreams could lead to something very different.

OK, so to start this off i am going to say this is going to be a spoiler free review for both parts of this book, and that there will be a spoiler review in a couple of days. Because there is a huge spoiler i want to talk about but refuse to in this review. 

So on to the actual review, when i started reading this book i didn't get into it at all, it felt quite slow and i wasn't as invested in Sammy as i was in Glines' other character upon first reading them. Like i didn't get the instant connection i did with the others and i wasn't sure why. I think it was her character in the beginning she was very different than anything i had read from Abbi before and i was a bit put off. So i stopped reading and it wasn't until January of 2017 that i picked it back up and decided to push through and read and i am so glad that i did because the real action is in the second part the first is just a build up that needs to be there even if it is a little slow. 

So Characters, this is only going to be a brief part on the characters i will talk about more of them in the spoiler review, Sammy's character from the start to the end has the most development and it is good to watch because i think for some people she will be easily relatable, i didn't get it at first but i do now i understood her in a way that we both want to escape, she lives in a tiny town in Alabama and i live in a tiny village just inside of London and there are times i would take any offer just to leave. So that was one big aspect i think a lot of people could sympathise with Sammy Jo but at the same time from the outside we can see what a terrible idea it is for her to move all the way to New York with this guy she barely knows. 

The men in this story are just as hot, just as beautiful as in her other stories and i will be talking more about them in the spoiler review because once i start writing i may end up spoiling and i don't want to.

The story is a little far fetched, but then again from where i stand it is fiction, and i can give it some lenience. If it was a non fiction that is where i draw the line, but apart from being a little slow in the first part it really picks up in the second , The ending is again some thing i will talk about in the spoiler review but i will say it is an open ending so be warned about that. One final thing i will say is i highly recommend this series for people who are a fan of Rosemary beach because it has some people you may recognise. 😉😉

Until Next Time

Happy Reading

The Piano Man Project - Kat French

Title - The Piano Man Project
Author - Kat French
ISBN - 9780007577606
Genre - Adult > Contemporary > Romance
My Copy - Purchased
Format - Paperback
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Waterstones - Barnes & Noble - Indigo - Book Depository - Amazon UK - Amazon US

You: kind, piano-playing sex god
Me: hopelessly romantic charity shop manager

Honeysuckle Jones has a problem, and her best friends Nell and Tash are on a mission to help her solve it. She needs a man – a caring, intelligent, funny man. But most importantly, a man who’s good with his hands…

Luckily Honey’s new neighbour – moody, antisocial ex-chef Hal – fails on almost every count. Even though the chemistry between them is electric, he’s obviously wrong for her in every way.


But when Honey discovers the devastating reason for his moods she decides to give him another chance. And discovers that the best songs aren’t always in tune…

I fell in love with Kat French last year, and since this was actually her debut novel i knew i had to read it. I went into this book no knowing anything but the blurb and i am very glad about that but i am going to have to talk about some of the things i am glad i didn't know so that i can explain Hal's character a little bit. 

I knew this book was going to be good, considering the first line that reads .... "'Don't you think there's something sad about buying yourself a new vibrator for Valentines day?' Honey picked up a lurid pink model and eyed it with distaste.

i have no idea why i love that line but it is one that i remember, it is memorable. When we first meet Hal he is not the kind of character you expect he is a moody, alcohol dependant, sad man who is fast becoming a recluse but not of his own accord. Hal used to be a world renowned chef with his own restaurant and it is sad to see where he ends up. 

The characters in this story are remarkably written they seem like real people, and you just want to go to this little village and spend time with them all. Honey grows so much over the course of this book and she does it in a spectacular way. 

This is a feel good romance book perfect to read on a cold rainy winters day, because it put a huge smile on my face, i loved every minute of reading this book and Kat French has become an auto buy author for me because of her writing and her characters in such a few pages she creates a world and a story that will resonate with many, many readers.

Until Next Time

Happy Reading