Publisher: Shy Bairns Publishing
Publication Date: 22nd May 2024
Genre: Romance
Summary:
Take a spring to summer trip to magical Northumberland and find love and laughter in this feel-good romantic comedy, which will transport you to the iconic island of Lindisfarne and beyond…
Ellie, and Zen with the coffee-bean eyes, met at Christmas when she came to Northumberland to look after rescue animals. They are taking their first tentative steps into a love-at-first-sight relationship and all in their spring garden should be wonderful.
Notification of a death of one of the island’s stalwarts comes as a shock and the island is plunged into mourning, and when Lady Grace takes ill, life at the castle changes overnight, and not for the better. The new custodian and his fiancée have plans, and the islanders are far from happy, especially as it affects their own.
The news that the filming of a reality show is to take place and that the animals must move out of their yard due to the Queen of the Castle production company taking over, really is the final straw.
Can Zen and Ellie navigate their new life together? Will the residents be able to return to cosy Courtyard Cottage? Can the castle and estate survive the new regime?
Review:
Firstly thank you to Rachels Random Resources, Shy Bairns Publishing and Kimberley Adams for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
Firstly thank you to Rachels Random Resources, Shy Bairns Publishing and Kimberley Adams for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
I was so happy to see a sequel to Love Lindisfarne because I absolutely adored that book when I read it last Christmas and I really hoped we'd see more of Zen,Ellie and the islanders.
We had a really unexpected start to the book and I have to say that I really loved that opening, it took me by surprise but I ended up laughing out loud at parts because I could just see these characters coming to life and watch the scene unfold in front of me. We step straight back into Island life and it's like having a warm hug or being settled in that cosy chair by the fire, it just feels good to be there amongst all these familiar faces. Once again Ethel is a star character for me, she is just the life and soul of island life and every party on it, she has been the cause of pretty much every single laugh-out-loud moment I've had in this book, she just brings such joy onto the page. But every character steps out off the page for me, even the ones we all love to hate (step forward Isla!) because Kimberly Adams has created such well-rounded characters that you can picture them vividly almost as if they're standing in front of you telling you this over coffee instead of you reading it.
There are so many characters that I really hope we might get a book about in the future, I'm at least hoping we may get more to this series because I've fallen in love with them all and both books in this series have made me want to take a drive back to Holy Island and stay for a while.
If you're looking for a nice summer read to take away with you definitely add this to your list!
We had a really unexpected start to the book and I have to say that I really loved that opening, it took me by surprise but I ended up laughing out loud at parts because I could just see these characters coming to life and watch the scene unfold in front of me. We step straight back into Island life and it's like having a warm hug or being settled in that cosy chair by the fire, it just feels good to be there amongst all these familiar faces. Once again Ethel is a star character for me, she is just the life and soul of island life and every party on it, she has been the cause of pretty much every single laugh-out-loud moment I've had in this book, she just brings such joy onto the page. But every character steps out off the page for me, even the ones we all love to hate (step forward Isla!) because Kimberly Adams has created such well-rounded characters that you can picture them vividly almost as if they're standing in front of you telling you this over coffee instead of you reading it.
There are so many characters that I really hope we might get a book about in the future, I'm at least hoping we may get more to this series because I've fallen in love with them all and both books in this series have made me want to take a drive back to Holy Island and stay for a while.
If you're looking for a nice summer read to take away with you definitely add this to your list!
Krystina xx
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