A Very Vintage Christmas by Tilly Tennant

This is the first book I have read a boom from this author and an amazing read. 

In this first Christmas read of the year, we meet the fabulous Dobie who in the world  of followers of fashion and trends. Dobie is her own person and I'm for every telling my girls if we all wear the same clothes and did the same things that it would be a boring world, so be yourself. so the minuet I meet Dobie I fell in love with her fo5 standing out the crowd and being her own person.

Dobie owns her own vintage clothing shop, Dobie love anything from the past from the clothes in her  shop to the vintage TV she can't bear to parted from.

One day Dobie buys an action job lot and starts to unpack the contents when. she come across a love letter but Dobie can't leave it there she wants to return the letter to one of the owners. she has an address to start with and makes her ways there not knowing what she will find.

When she knocks on the door to a very rude man called Ed.

But Ed has his own story which becomes clearer as Ed opens up to Dobie  and they become partners in finding the owners of the letter. 

Dobie kind heart and personality breaks his walls and they become friends or is it more 

as Bodie has a boyfriend already, who really does not get her one bit or try to understand her world.

So who holds her heart and will she finally return the letter home ?

Go grab a copy read the story unfold in front of you, and spoiler alert I did not see the twist coming and boy what an ending ...................

Don't Let Go by Jaci Burton

We return to the town of Hope , This is why I love reading a series of books even after you finish the story the characters you catch up in the net story and me4et new people along the way and you feel part of Hope.

In this book we meet Brady Conners who moved away from Hope to build a life for himself but that is short lived as his baby brother dead and he came back to Hope, but Brady is not the settling type.

Brady thrown himself to working 24/7 and now time for woman  or lets anyone get close, until his eyes across Megan. There is something about her he can't let go but he is not relationship material.

Till one day Brady finds a little feisty dog hiding behind bin outside the workshop covered inn mud from the rain storm, he bonds with her little duck to water and names her Roxy.

Megan isn't looking for anything she not the settling type right now as she has her shop to run and bakery business to manage, but Bradley and Roxy seem to invaded her life and her heart. All her friends are having babies and settling down. Every girls dream is to find they prince and live happily ever after.

Will the ghosts from the past make or break this new partnership?

So go grab a copy and get lost in the wonderful tale from Hope.

The Flirtation By Tara Sue Me

Meet the darker fifty shades of grey!!!!!

Lynne always craved something and someone different but isn't a public person so going to clubs are out of the question, so Lynne took the world of the internet to meet her needs and meet Simon.

The relationship of Master and sub did not end well as Lynne thought she was no a good enough for her Master and be the sub he desired.

Lynne took time away working on her teacher training and nannying for a wonderful couple who share her same interests and took Lynne under their wing for protection.

The craving  never went away or the feelings for Simon but she knew she could never be what he wanted or desired but created a online profile and a new her the more wild Lynne or Faye as she called herself. 

Within a day Simon had contacted her and she wasn't brave enough to revel who she was but from the moment thy reconected they talked for days and fitted perfectly together.
Faye was meeting all Sirs orders and making her Master happy but what will happen when their meet face to face will Simon still want her when she has lied who she is.
As a couple their have so many barriers in their way including a crazy sub who wants Simon and will  stop at nothing to get Simon.

If  you are a fifty fan then go grab a copy you with be disappointed ...........

The Reading Group By Della Parker

This is the first time reading this lovely author and here is my honest review of this story.

This book is based in a lovely seaside village, where a group of friends start up a reading group. This book is about loyalty  and friendships through good and bad times.

We start if in the book with Emma with the reading group and we meet Anne-Marie who thinks apart from friends that everyone she meets she is the rich kid but she is far from it and has worked for every penny running and working for her cleaning business. her head is always for of big ideas and wants to help people so she starts up a match making service. She hosts her first dinner event but it doesn't go to plan but made her think that she is missing love on her own life but has there been some one there but she just can't see it.

In the next chapter we meet Kate and in this months read its the turn of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Kate love life has gone down Hill since her husband had to demotion at work but they marriage has more problems than that. Katie feels she is missing something, when Bob the builder turns up to build her new kitchen, Kate's world changes which man does the dirty and breaks her heart.

Next its Jojo turn in March, she has been married twice and is still married to her second husband but she has not seen him in four years when he walked out the door to go find himself . Jojo has been living her life but now feels its time to start dating and has a date with a friend Daniel who has asked her a couple of times before  and they hit it of from the  the first minuet if they date but will her past catch up with her like poor Rebecca  this months book.

In the fourth Chapter we meet Serena who is the dark horse of the family , she feels she was always a disappointment to her family. The first sister was born with brains and is following her father footsteps and is a top notch doctor in London, the youngest sister was born with beauty and became an opera singers like her mother, but Serena feels she was born with neither but kept her head down and become a teacher. Thats when she meet Liam and loved down to the sea far away from her family has possible but fate deals a blow and she loses Liam the love of her life, this months books is Jane Eyre but Serena doesn't feel that her life is anything here the book until Mr Rochester comes into her life.

In the last chapter we meet Grace and Mikey and this month is their wedding and the book is The Great Gatsby and thats all I'm going to say as they are many spoilers in this last chapter so you will have to go and great a copy of this fabulous read and sit back and enjoy.

Summers of the Sisterhood forever blue by Ann Brashares

If you ever seen the film the this book is a must and cosy up on the sofa and then watch the films.

The travelling pants are back for a whole summer long !!!!

The four girls have gone they separt ways since leaving school but sill remain close even tho they are miles apart.

Lena now hides within her paintings rather than people, she is trying to forget the past, her first love but he turns up out of the blue  will she stay with the old or let in the new.

Carmen tends to keep herself to her self but one day is taken in by a new friend , who understands the power of the pants. Carmen has a down day and wears the pants and lands her first acting role but is new friend or foe?

Bridget lost her mother at an young age and she never made roots at her home and moves to Turkey for a work dig but falling for the handsome professor is this a replacement for Eric ?

Tibby goes off to college and falls in love , but fates desk her another card will their relationship survive ??

What I really liked about this book how you are right in the middle feeling what the girls feels the ups and downs the closeness of their friendships.

so grab a copy I was hooked from the first page, you won't be disappointed. 

A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland

This is not my normal genre of reading and I never refuse a book to review so I gave it ago.

This book is based in 1316 when the world was a different place. the setting is in a priory St Marys in Dartmoor. The priory was built over an old well whichlocals worship daily and the priory is run by prioress Johanne.

One evening Sister Fina sees a vision along with her other sisters when attending to the well and on that same evening Sister Fina  comes across a deaf and muted  boy the priory walls. The priest does not want the boy stay and insist the boy will bring a curse to them all. The next day the priest is found dead, but prioress Johanne to keep a lid on the situation as she is having visitors to the priory brother knight Nicholas who there to investigate  the pilfering of priory money and age has her own secrets to hide.

Things begin to happen the minuet the boy turns up, there are many twist and  turns through out this story and great detail has gone into the characters, history events and the  harsh conditions of the prior of time.

so if you are a historian or a supernatural fan then go get a copy and sit back and enjoy.

In The Name of Love by Louise Lee

This is the second book from Louise Lee that I have picked up and not wanted to put down,

We meet Florence Lee a P.I  from Dorset.

Flo is normally catching out cheating husbands and wives  and future partners,but this case was personal.

Flo was six years old when Bambi her Mother appeared to of killed herself but her body was never found and Flo cant let it go .That's where the story begins in Italy tracing her Mothers foot steps, history and finding out the truth.

As well as searching for her Mother against her Fathers wishes, her Father has meet another woman while Flo  been on assignments  and her little bother is too marry his gay lover to Flo dislike as she doesn't trust him as far as she can throw him.

Her investigations take her all over Italy and meeting and investigating characters like Tom, a beautiful Italian strangers that grabs her heart but also has many family connections to help her find information on her Mother, the only catch is his father Rocco is head of the Mob.

Flo has many dramas going on in her life but her main target is finding her \mother 

will she find what she  is looking for or will she  leave disappointed..........

Go grab a book and find out.

The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes by Ruth Hogan

I was sent this book to review and when  I started to read this book, I wasn't sure  I would be able to  continue after watching and supporting  and care for my husband lose his fight to brain tumors and was hard to read this book.

Reading this book I have come to realise that I have lost too many people to cancer and including my wonderful Mum too, but with that everybody has a different tale to tell. 

This story is not for the faint hearted  and tells a dark tale of a woman experience her loss, death of a child and hitting  rock bottom and we all eventually live again.

We meet Masha  who always lived her life to the fullest, over the years there was a terrible accident that changed her life and she is now a different person her only inner peace  is when she is at the cemetery or nearly drowning  at the local lido on a daily basis, this is her routine now.

Fate has a different card to be dealt for Masha when she encounters who other people....

In walks Kitty Muriel a fabulous seventy old woman that changes , Masha way of thinking, Kitty has many usual pursuits in her life with her Sally red shoes.

Go grab a copy see how friendship unfold.

I round I was crying and laughing through out the book, so please go grab a copy sand enjoy.

The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola

This is not my normal gene for reading but from a couple of pages in I was hooked on Audrey Story.

Audrey arrives on Skye in 1857 looking for answers to her Mothers death and securing a job helping an elderly lady collect local folk stories, which co inside with her Mothers journal .

Skye in the 1800's is a harsh and very dark environment, Folk stories full of malicious fairies not (Tinkerbell).

Girls start to go missing another found drowned. The locals start to blame the fairies and events  are happening to displease them.

But Audrey thinks there is more human involvement  in the girls. Audrey finds the more she digs the more she is blocked out at every turn and when she starts to ask question's  to get clarity.

The author brings caution to the 1800's from the Isle of Skye.

This is a wonderful tale, had me , this book will not disappoint there are so many twist and turns you wont to put it down.

Finding You by Jo Watson

We meet jane in this wonderful funny and heart warming read.

Jane has always felt that there was something missing from her life as she has always know that she was adopted and felt that she was the old one out .

There was a need to fill the whole , Jane decides to take herself to Greece to find her Greek father with little information from her mother.

On her arrival she meets her tour guide Dimitri, which happens  to be the same as her fathers!!!!

Jane goes to Greece to find her father but finds herself, does she ever find her real father ?

Well you will just have to grab a copy for a great holiday read, but be par pare for Asda music playing in your head.b