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A review by portybelle
Searching for Steven by Jessica Redland
4.0
Sarah has just come out of a disappointing relationship and heads home to the Whitsborough Bay on the Yorkshire coast for a bit of TLC from her family. While there, she is offered an amazing opportunity by her auntie, an opportunity which involves setting up a business which would turn her hobby into her work. She decides to go for it and sets about making a new life for herself back home. While moving into her new place, she discovers a tape recording from 12 years previously. The tape is a recording of a psychic reading she had when she was 18. The tape had vanished so she had never listened to it and being rather drunk during the reading, she couldn't remember the predictions. The predictions and messages on the tape recording are scarily accurate with some already have been fulfilled and others being proved right throughout the book. Most importantly, the clairvoyant says that Sarah will meet her one true love at the age of 30 and that he will be called Steven. And so the search for Steven begins!
I don't really think I believe in fortune tellers and psychics but I could understand if I had come across a tape like the one Sarah found with its accurate predictions, I would be out looking for a Steven too! As you can imagine, Stevens (and Steves and Stevies) suddenly appear all the time in her life and each time she wonders if he could be her Steven. It seemed to me though, and to others, that the perfect man for Sarah was right under her nose even if he wasn't called Steven.
The book is full of well drawn characters with Sarah's best friends, Clare from London and Elise from Whitsborough Bay, who can't stand each other, providing some great scenes. Her mum and dad were always so proud of her achievements, her matchmaking Auntie Kay with her own secret about love from the past was determined to help Sarah find her Charlie. And no I haven't made a mistake with the name, you'll understand if you read it.
Searching for Steven is a warm, sparkling story with a very satisfying ending. Sarah comes to realise that "when true love comes along, you have to hang onto it with all your strength because it's worth it." I know this book is the first part of a trilogy and hope to read the others too at some point.
I don't really think I believe in fortune tellers and psychics but I could understand if I had come across a tape like the one Sarah found with its accurate predictions, I would be out looking for a Steven too! As you can imagine, Stevens (and Steves and Stevies) suddenly appear all the time in her life and each time she wonders if he could be her Steven. It seemed to me though, and to others, that the perfect man for Sarah was right under her nose even if he wasn't called Steven.
The book is full of well drawn characters with Sarah's best friends, Clare from London and Elise from Whitsborough Bay, who can't stand each other, providing some great scenes. Her mum and dad were always so proud of her achievements, her matchmaking Auntie Kay with her own secret about love from the past was determined to help Sarah find her Charlie. And no I haven't made a mistake with the name, you'll understand if you read it.
Searching for Steven is a warm, sparkling story with a very satisfying ending. Sarah comes to realise that "when true love comes along, you have to hang onto it with all your strength because it's worth it." I know this book is the first part of a trilogy and hope to read the others too at some point.