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A review by lucyrider
New Beginnings at Seaside Blooms by Jessica Redland
4.0
New Beginnings at Seaside Blooms - Jessica Redland
Another Jessica Redland book - my brain is responding only to her work at the moment and I've been struggling to read much in actual book format, so I'm very grateful for @audible_uk to help me keep up with my "reading" whilst my concentration levels have been poor recently.
Synopsis from @goodreads
“When Sarah Peterson accepts her Auntie Kay’s unexpected offer to take over her florist’s shop, she’s prepared for a change of job, home and lifestyle. What she isn’t prepared for is the discovery of a scarily accurate clairvoyant reading that’s been missing for twelve years. All her predictions have come true, except one: she’s about to meet the man of her dreams. Oh, and his name is Steven.
Suddenly Stevens are everywhere. Could it be the window cleaner, the rep, the manager of the coffee shop, or any of the men she’s met online?
On top of that, she finds herself quite attracted to a handsome web designer, but his name isn't even Steven...
During this unusual search, will Sarah find her destiny?"
This was another book set in the fictional, but very easy to picture, Whitsborough Bay and has a classical tale of Sarah starting the story unhappy and based in London and ending up coming home, only to find things are very different to how she remembered. The Clairvoyant reading was an interesting tactic to drive the storyline, although there were several times I wanted to poke Sarah and tell her to ignore the words of a cold reader!
Sarah was a likeable character and her two best friends Elise and Clare were good counterbalances to her, at times, odd decisionmaking processes. The love and generosity of her Auntie Kay was perhaps a bit unrealistic, but without the gesture, we might not have seen Sarah back in Whitsborough Bay at all!
Lucy Brownhill was narrating this book and I love her narration. She is reassuring and fun with her tone and very easy to listen to. She also manages to navigate several regional accents and genders without being offensive to anyone (as far as I can tell!) and not making it jar you out of the flow of the story.
Once again, I raced through this novel and enjoyed it, although I'm sure it should (could have been) called "Desperately Seeking Steven" as a more appropriate title it gets a solid and satisfiying 4 stars!
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Another Jessica Redland book - my brain is responding only to her work at the moment and I've been struggling to read much in actual book format, so I'm very grateful for @audible_uk to help me keep up with my "reading" whilst my concentration levels have been poor recently.
Synopsis from @goodreads
“When Sarah Peterson accepts her Auntie Kay’s unexpected offer to take over her florist’s shop, she’s prepared for a change of job, home and lifestyle. What she isn’t prepared for is the discovery of a scarily accurate clairvoyant reading that’s been missing for twelve years. All her predictions have come true, except one: she’s about to meet the man of her dreams. Oh, and his name is Steven.
Suddenly Stevens are everywhere. Could it be the window cleaner, the rep, the manager of the coffee shop, or any of the men she’s met online?
On top of that, she finds herself quite attracted to a handsome web designer, but his name isn't even Steven...
During this unusual search, will Sarah find her destiny?"
This was another book set in the fictional, but very easy to picture, Whitsborough Bay and has a classical tale of Sarah starting the story unhappy and based in London and ending up coming home, only to find things are very different to how she remembered. The Clairvoyant reading was an interesting tactic to drive the storyline, although there were several times I wanted to poke Sarah and tell her to ignore the words of a cold reader!
Sarah was a likeable character and her two best friends Elise and Clare were good counterbalances to her, at times, odd decisionmaking processes. The love and generosity of her Auntie Kay was perhaps a bit unrealistic, but without the gesture, we might not have seen Sarah back in Whitsborough Bay at all!
Lucy Brownhill was narrating this book and I love her narration. She is reassuring and fun with her tone and very easy to listen to. She also manages to navigate several regional accents and genders without being offensive to anyone (as far as I can tell!) and not making it jar you out of the flow of the story.
Once again, I raced through this novel and enjoyed it, although I'm sure it should (could have been) called "Desperately Seeking Steven" as a more appropriate title it gets a solid and satisfiying 4 stars!
#book #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #whitsboroughbay #bookreview #romancefiction