Sunday 30 March 2014

White Wedding by Milly Johnson

I'm now a hard core Milly Johnson fan and need to read all her books before anymore new ones come out !!!!!!!!!
As you can tell this book is based around weddings , in this book we are introduce to three brides Bel, Max and Violet who meet by chance and become close friends. the first wedding we visit is Bel's to
Richard. Bel has control on her she not even let her step mum help her even thou she has been there all her life but she still can't let her in due to her dead mother,  Bel as arrange everything to the 'T ' for her big day. Bel is very calm up till the day when she puts on a very pain dress but nit her mothers one that was left to her she has a moment where she feels is she doing the right thing but she has come this far it's just getting through the day. The wedding is a very plain occasion  as did Vicky and Max felt something was not right !q but everything was revel at the reception as to why it was very pain and low key in cost. Bel takes the stand at the speeches and informs her family and friends the new husband had been having an affair which her cousin Shaden for many months and had made a special cake showing exactly what they had been doing .Bel walked out of the reception and runaway too her fathers cottages but before she went she let notes for her friends and dad explaining why she had to go through with the wedding. All Bel wants is to be alone but when she arrives she finds that one of the cottages has been rented out all Bel wants is a place to hide and cry out her broken heart but there is the most ignoring man staying in the cottage will he leave her alone with her broken heart or will he be the one to fix it!!!!
The next wedding we visit it is Max's to Stuart , Max is a high powered business women how runs her own business and is not short of money Stuart is school teacher on a normal wage stuart wants a small do which his wages can cover, But Max secretly wants a big fat gypsy wedding and starts planning behind his back knowing that she will be her way in the long run, closer to the wedding stuart starts to feeling that no longer belong to together as it will not work they are too different people and his head is turned by an old friend from school but dies not do a thing as he loves Max until he finds the wedding folder hidden with a lock on it once he is indies it proves that they are not meant to be together but Max still goes ahead with the wedding hope that he meets her at the church but he doesn't so Max is left heart broken but Max a friend waiting in the background will he be team. Stuart or will he mend her broken heart and become team Max.
The third wedding is Violet and Glyn , Violet is the distance from all the girls when it comes to planning of the wedding  she still doesn't have a dress up in till the month if the wedding but Violet hiding a secret she is marry Glyn for all the wrong reason but feels trapped in her own life but is still going through with it !!!! Violet lives with Glyn in his flat but Glyn lost s job and had a nervous brake down and is now house bound and all he needs is Violet 24/7 and she could breath so she escapes to her mothers and her new business for an ice cream shop but Glyn phones every second she is not with him. She finally finds a dress but it still doesn't feel right on even every dress fitting  the dress feels tight but really it's lose and has to be taken in from losing weight. Violet business is her only escape leading up to the wedding but she is not alone in the shop as she has a painter in to decorate the shop she starts  to have feeling for him and knows that she does not love Glyn and hadn't for many years but stay with him because if she left again he would try and kill himself  but she makes the break this comes at a cost as Glyn leaves the flat and need to the shop where he finds Pav working in the shop and he see red and hurt hi and sets fire to the shop!!!!! Violet world is turned upside down but knows that all she wants is her Prince Charming will Pav be that guy you will have to read all the book to the very end to get all the twist and turns in the girls life's . another 10  out of 10  everyone must read.

Saturday 15 March 2014

A hopeless romantic by Harriet Evans

This is the first book I have read by by this lovely lady and probably the longest book I have read to date but loved every page.
Laura foster is the hopeless romantic who falls in love at a drop of a hat and this is how the story starts will Laura fallen for off on Dan who is in a relationship but they have been off on for so long that it seems he has a relationship with Dan  which is kept a secret even from her best friends paddy, Jo and Hilary but then one bad day turns into a bad week as Jo finds out about the affair and then Laura finds out that dan is never leaving his girlfriend especially now she is pregnant and too top this off her job that she has worked at so hard but in the last months as gone down hill she gets herself  suspended!!!!!!!
Laura world falls apart and she trows all her rom con films books out the window as they is nothing of Prince Charming and happy endings anymore.
In part two we see Laura coming out of her self pity pit and going away with her parents and gran to theory holiday home in Norfolk to turn clear her head. While there to please her parents she visits a stately home charley hall for the day she was not really in the mood but was trying to keep her parents happy when she bumps into nick and cheeky groundsman who after a few minuets asks her out for drinks that night the new Laura tells herself that it is just a friends things but they got it off like a house on fire and before she how's she fallen for nick against all her rules with the new Laura , then Laura finds out as secret that Nick is not a cheeky groundsman but the Marquis of Ranlagh and runs has she knows that they are from different worlds and that it would not work but it has change her and realised that Dan was never going to be Prince Charming  and is strong for it she comes home after her grand party ready to get her job back and move on with her life just with no men in it for awhile , while on a job do she bumps into Nick and he is cold a brass and Laura confirms that they are from different worlds she try's to leave but nick insist on taking her home this does nit go while and Laura insist at getting out half way home and again she is not with her Prince Charming but she moves on with her life in work no one knows her secret apart form gran . So when she gets a text saying they need to talk and that he wants her to attend a n autumn ball from advice of gran that life is too shirt and too see what she might want she goes to find out that his best friend has set the whole thing up and she is thrown in the deep end and she can't cope and it only confirm her fears that they r from different worlds but before nick could tell her any different her worst nightmare had happened her fear gran had dead from a heart attack but she never got to say goodbye but her dear gran  wrote to her when the days where coming near and told her that life is too short to have the worms man in it and to chase those dreams of Prince Charming and there is one out there for everyone so does Laura get her Prince Charming  by following her heart nit her head you will just have to read the book to find out .