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A review by laural27
Christmas at the Beach Café by Lucy Diamond
5.0
Lucy Diamond is an author I always look out for and I was super excited when I heard about Christmas At The Beach Café. Why? You might ask, well firstly CHRISTMAS and secondly, a follow up to The Beach Café! What more could you want?! (oh and a gorgeous cover too!)
We re-join Evie and Ed at The Beach Café in the last few weeks leading up to Christmas. They’ve closed the café down for the winter months and are enjoying lovely romantic walks along the beach, cosy fires and cooked breakfasts. Evie has a vision of the most romantic Christmas, just her and Ed, but her vision is about to be shattered when Ed’s brother Jake turns up on the doorstep and so does Evie’s friend Amber. Maybe Evie won’t get the perfect romantic Christmas she wanted after all…
It was wonderful to re-join the characters from The Beach Café, it felt like a long time since I’d last been in their world and it was lovely to be with them for Christmas. The descriptions of the snowy beach and Cornwall in the winter transported me there and I wanted to run around in the snow and take walks on the beach with Evie and Ed!
However, if you’ve never read The Beach Café (where have you been!?) then you can still read this as a standalone novella and understand what is happening, which is perfect! It will probably make you desperate to go and read The Beach Café though!
The talk of Christmas food also made my mouth water and it has made me so incredibly excited for Christmas day now. I was salivating at the mention of a bronzed turkey and mince pies. Mmmm yummy!
Evie and Ed were just as lovely as they were in The Beach Café and I loved seeing their relationship blossom and grow even if at times it seemed as though there might be a few obstacles in their way. It was interesting to see how Jake affected their dynamic and how the addition of Amber also caused some tension but everything is solved by some Christmas love and magic!
Lucy writes extremely well and I constantly feel myself smiling as I read. The descriptions are tangible, the characters are perfectly formed and the pacing of the novella is just right. I just wanted to keep on reading (I couldn’t put it down so read it in one sitting!)
This is a novella which is around 100 pages long. It is the perfect bite sized story which will mean you can read it in one afternoon, snuggled in front of the fire. I hope that in the future we may have another return to The Beach Café because I would love to see where all the characters go to next. You’ll also be please to know that at the back of this novella there are some gorgeous Christmas recipes, plus an extract from Lucy’s new novel (coming in 2014) called One Summer In Italy! Completely and utterly brilliant!
Lucy’s latest festive offering will fill you with joy, Christmas cheer and have you desperate for a mince pie!
We re-join Evie and Ed at The Beach Café in the last few weeks leading up to Christmas. They’ve closed the café down for the winter months and are enjoying lovely romantic walks along the beach, cosy fires and cooked breakfasts. Evie has a vision of the most romantic Christmas, just her and Ed, but her vision is about to be shattered when Ed’s brother Jake turns up on the doorstep and so does Evie’s friend Amber. Maybe Evie won’t get the perfect romantic Christmas she wanted after all…
It was wonderful to re-join the characters from The Beach Café, it felt like a long time since I’d last been in their world and it was lovely to be with them for Christmas. The descriptions of the snowy beach and Cornwall in the winter transported me there and I wanted to run around in the snow and take walks on the beach with Evie and Ed!
However, if you’ve never read The Beach Café (where have you been!?) then you can still read this as a standalone novella and understand what is happening, which is perfect! It will probably make you desperate to go and read The Beach Café though!
The talk of Christmas food also made my mouth water and it has made me so incredibly excited for Christmas day now. I was salivating at the mention of a bronzed turkey and mince pies. Mmmm yummy!
Evie and Ed were just as lovely as they were in The Beach Café and I loved seeing their relationship blossom and grow even if at times it seemed as though there might be a few obstacles in their way. It was interesting to see how Jake affected their dynamic and how the addition of Amber also caused some tension but everything is solved by some Christmas love and magic!
Lucy writes extremely well and I constantly feel myself smiling as I read. The descriptions are tangible, the characters are perfectly formed and the pacing of the novella is just right. I just wanted to keep on reading (I couldn’t put it down so read it in one sitting!)
This is a novella which is around 100 pages long. It is the perfect bite sized story which will mean you can read it in one afternoon, snuggled in front of the fire. I hope that in the future we may have another return to The Beach Café because I would love to see where all the characters go to next. You’ll also be please to know that at the back of this novella there are some gorgeous Christmas recipes, plus an extract from Lucy’s new novel (coming in 2014) called One Summer In Italy! Completely and utterly brilliant!
Lucy’s latest festive offering will fill you with joy, Christmas cheer and have you desperate for a mince pie!