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My review:
4.5⭐
Genre ~ Romantic Comedy
Setting ~ Northumberland, England ~ Holy Island
Publication date ~ September 12, 2023
Page Count ~ 403 (38 chapters)
POV ~ single 1st
Featuring ~ animals up the wazoo, island life, small town, insta attraction, slow burn, no steamage
Loveidy love loved!
After Ellie has been publicly dumped by Matt she drunkenly emails Santa Paws and the next thing she knows she quits her job and is leaving London to help take care of some animals in Northumberland. I loved all the animals, but Wilma and Wonky, the two donkeys in love, were my favorite.
When she meets Zen there’s an instant attraction. He’s a sweet, helpful fella, that could do with a hair cut, with coffee bean colored eyes that are easy to get lost in.
Small town, or island rather, living where everyone knows your name, and business, and all residents lend a helping hand whenever and wherever they are needed, no matter the circumstances. If I wasn’t such an introvert I’d want to live there. It’s described well and as an all around lovely place, except when the storms hit.
Everything happens for a reason, so thank the bloody stars Matt was such a tool or Ellie would have never met the delightful Zen, or Meg & Bert, or Aurora. Now that’s not to say she didn’t have delightful friends in London because she certainly did. There were only 2 awful characters out of so many, which is pretty good odds to me.
Overall, there were so many hilarious moments and one liners that kept me entertained throughout. I was not feeling the whole bit with Aidan, but other than that this was near perfect. It’s one of the slowest burns of my life, but I didn’t hate it for these 2 because they both have trust issues and needed to work through them. Maybe we can get a sequel with their happily ever after?
*Thanks to Kimberley Adams and Rachel’s Random Resources for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
Book blurb:
LOVE LINDISFARNE…Take a Christmas trip to magical Northumberland and find love amongst the stars in this feel-good novel, which will transport you to iconic Holy Island where dreams really can come true!
Dumped at the office Christmas party, Ellie is about to vent her spleen on social media when a photo of a cute little dog advertising a charity catches her eye. Her world suddenly changes dramatically when she is offered a month’s stay in Northumberland to help look after rescue animals.
Ellie isn’t too sure where Northumberland is, but accepts, eager to start a new life away from London. Her destination is Lindisfarne, and her arrival on the small island in the North Sea is terrifying, fearing for her life on the causeway as the tide comes crashing in.
Ellie finds herself living in a hilltop castle, and far from the cats and dogs she expected she would be looking after, she is faced with all kinds of furry and feathery animals – and she doesn’t have a clue about any of them!
Welcomed to island life by the warm-hearted residents, she quickly embraces living in this special place, and from the moment she spots the mesmerising Zen with the gorgeous coffee bean eyes, her plans to stay single and mingle begin to fade fast.
Thanks to a severe storm, Lindisfarne is cut off from the mainland, and the islanders work together to salvage the planned Christmas events. Ellie is kept so busy that she hasn’t much time to think about her future when her time on the island ends.
Will the universe give Ellie its blessing? Will she find her happy ever after on the enchanting island of Lindisfarne? If it’s in the stars, then it’s in the stars…
Purchase Links – https://www.amazon.co.uk/LOVE-LINDISFARNE-Northumberland-yourself-amongst-ebook/dp/B0CB1T29YL/
Author Bio –
Kim might be new on the writing block, but she was first published as a teenager writing happy ever after stories for other teens! She progressed to women’s magazines before life and work got in the way. Kim began writing again seriously a few years ago and during that relatively short time has won and been placed in several well-known writing competitions. Love Lindisfarne started off life being shortlisted by Penguin Michael Joseph which gave Kim the impetus to finish it, and Kim turned down the opportunity of traditional publishing because she wanted to keep the cover and content she had dreamed of since the book’s concept!
Like buses that take forever then two come along at once, Kim will also be traditionally published this year too, with just one month between the books. Kim was a finalist in this year’s Comedy Women in Print competition, and her prize was to see her work (this time based in Newcastle) in the Book of Witty Women to be published by Farrago in September.
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