Reviews

Droomreis by Milly Johnson

nelboline's review against another edition

5.0

I just love love loved this book! Each time I read a new Milly Johnson I think "this one is now my favourite!"
Lovely relaxing read! I just love a happy ending ❤️

musiquedevie's review against another edition

5.0

I loved it, simply adored this book. It made me laugh, it made me smile and it made me think. I enjoyed taking this cruise (albeit as a reader *g*) with Ven, Roz, Frankie & Olive. I reveled in their adventures on the Mermaidia and looked forward to every chance I had to pick up the novel and see what was happening next. Milly never disappoints with her novels but this one just moved up to my most favorite one of hers. I wish there was a sequel!

catraitt's review against another edition

5.0

Absolutely LOVED this book! Reminds me of my school friends. Couldn’t get enough of it, looking forward to my next Milly Johnson fix.

bookworm04's review against another edition

5.0

Loved this book my friend lent it to me said I'd enjoy it and also relate to it very girley pick me up mood type read loved it and as a weak reader who usually takes good few months to read a book once into of I couldn't put this down. I always read when kids ate in bed and can read for hours if into book all depend on mood for how long read for but this could not put this down at all. I would definitely recommend this book

lover_of_books91's review against another edition

3.0

This is a good book and very easy to follow, considering there are several different POVs.

Ven, Frankie, Roz, and Olive are four friends that are at different points in their lives, financially and romantically.

It's a good reminder that it's never too late:
❤ to fall in love

katewhite77's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Perfect for a heatwave and pure escapism 

This is perfect holiday reading to lose yourself in. I was on a cruize without leaving my house. narrator and author work together to create this wonderfully emersive which I didn’t want to drag myself away from.

This is the first Milly Johnson I have read but it won't be the last. I may even start another one tonight,  as a kean reader I don't often say that so it is high praise indeed!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer

yasminsarah's review against another edition

1.0

I thought I'd try something else. I love chick-lit, though I don't read it often, but ... this wasn't for me. It's about women in their 40s, unhappy with their husbands, having to live with their mother in law, complaining about the cleaning they had to do... As a 20 year old college student I'm probably not the audience the author had in mind. So it's a dnf for me.

mnsreid's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

loudgls89's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

 I’ve been going through a process of uploading all my books into StoryGraph so I can use it to tell me what to read next, and I was shocked to realise that there were 3 Milly Johnson books on my shelf that I haven’t logged as read! I had to immediately rectify that, and this was the first one. 

As I was reading, it did feel quite familiar so I think I may have read this one when it came out 10 years ago before I was logging my books in Goodreads, but it was fabulous to re-read it again. 

The characters Ven, Roz, Olive and Frankie are written in such a way that you immediately feel like you could be best friends with them (which is typical for every Milly book I’ve read), and I absolutely love that. For me, it means I feel like I’ve been transported into the plot, like I’m there with them - and given that the location for this book is predominantly a cruise ship, that’s not a bad place to be transported. 

As is usual with a Milly novel, the characters are lovely well-rounded people, and their flaws are front and centre. But the friendships shine from the page - and I love how the friendships develop throughout this book - particularly between Roz and Frankie. 

All four characters are going through big things in their lives - Olive is stuck in a loveless marriage, acting as a carer for her hapless, lazy husband and his mother, working a cleaning job by day and looking after the whole household by night. She’s forgotten what it feels like to love. 

Roz comes across as a brashy confident person, but she’s been badly burned by her previous relationship and is risking losing the best man she’s ever known as she’s pushing him away. 

Roz also had a major falling out with Frankie which we don’t know all the details of, but Ven is determined that this holiday will get all four of them back on their feet again and back to the close-knit foursome that they were at school when they made all their dreams for the future together. And speaking of Ven - she’s hiding something. We’re not clued in on her secret so we don’t know what it is, which made for a glorious moment of discovery along with Ven’s friends. 

I loved how the characters progressed through the book, each taking a turn as front and centre so we can get to know them and become invested in their story - and I also loved the way that we kept getting glimpses into life back at home for them too - so we could see what they’d really been going through and how their families were doing without them. 

Full of drama, intrigue and of course romance, I absolutely loved this warm hug of a book. 

elise_oliver's review against another edition

4.0

A bit of light hearted fun. The writing style is easy to read and the characters are enjoyable with a few rather amusing moments to be had. Very much a light fluffy easy holiday read.