Mahjabeen
It has always been Emily dream to open up a café one day, and now that she been fired by her boss a.k.a. her fiancé (Peter). She doesn't seem too happy with the life she is living; her fiancé seems stuck up. Emily doesn't tell Peter about her dream of opening a café one day, however, when she does, he doesn't seem very supportive. I mean you've just fired her...let her live her dream.
Her best friend Kate signs her and Emily up for the local running club and that where Emily meets Ludek; because she fell in front of a café that was up for sale. Unlike most of the books I've read (where it takes the main character almost half the book to realise their partner is not the one for them) I'm glad Emily broke of her engagement with Peter within the first few chapters.
Opening a café isn't as is as it seems, the first week didn't go as well as Emily hoped. She bumps into Ludek (who is a doctor) again as she was struggling to take of her engagement ring and of course he helped her take it off. He then invites her to board game event that happens every Friday at their local pub.
Peter is back...yes that's right. Peter. He heard about the café and wanted to help Emily with the business. A few days later, Ludek needs a favour, the pub that usually host them for the board games night on a Friday are unable to host them, so he asks Emily. And of course, she says yes! And as luck would have every Friday night.
She decides to go to a pastry making class. It was kind of useless for Emily as she already knew the basics on pastry making, and on her way back home from London, on the train, there were children at the same table as her, as Emily was thinking about new ideas to bring customers to the café one of the children asked to play board games, however the dad complained that there was no counters to play the games with so Emily decided to make some counters and play with them. And that's when it hit her, yes it finally hit her. She should run a board game café!
As soon as things were looking up, it was falling back down again. Emily café was about to demolished by the local council to set up new housing. Her old boss called to see if she wanted to have her job back (the job she had before she met Peter) and she said yes. With her rival café also being for sale (because of a new Costa coffee opening), with the help of her dad, she was able to buy her rival café.
Emily finally made her childhood dream come true, with the help of her family and friends (old and new). And of course all of the characters got there happily ever afters!
Vivian grandmother has recently retired from being a private investigator and received a phone call about a missing husband (Phillip) and baby. As Vivian grandmother has retired, Vivian decides she going to take on this case.
I figured out from the start who killed Phillip, and with her being in contact with her ex, I put two and two together and it confirmed my speculation about everything.
The storyline was really good, as well as the narrators.
A week before the wedding, Darla starts having doubts about her wedding and it doesn't help that her ex-Andy is back in town. Her grandmother Roxie gives her advice as well as talking about the bridal test. A test where the ex comes back before the big day to see where their true feeling is. I wasn't a big fan of Andy; he was basically spoilt boy who by seems of it couldn't take no for answer. I'm really happy the Darla got her happily ever after.
The Crimson Parrot: A mob trying to figure out to use zoom for the first time. It was funny as they tried to conduct plans via zoom and them struggling as they were being distracted at any given moment. They all had find places around their house as they sat with their laptop/computers. I really enjoyed this, was laughing throughout the story.
The Cape House: Two estranged brothers reunite in their childhood home. After both their parent death, they decide to go through their dad finances, the discover their dad wasn't very good with his money. As they were discussing the future of their childhood home...that's when quarantine hits. A book where two brothers reunite. And the ending...it shook me. He shot him.. The plot was really good it was a shame that the brother didn't get along.
Stop Motion: After a break up with her boyfriend, she is now spending quarantine alone. JJ tries goes back to all those hobbies that she once neglected, one of those being stop motion. Through doing this she discovers her neighbour has been murdered by his husband. . I loved the plot line of the story and how she solved the murder.
Three cousins have been asked to come help at resort that is currently owned by their grandmother. However, the last time they all saw each was during the childhood.
Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah have never met their met their grandmother, as she disinherited their parents before they were born. Having each receiving a personal letter from their grandmother to work on at the family resort for the summer, curiosity get to the better of them and well as questions as to why they have never properly met & why their grandmother disowned their parents.
I really enjoyed the first couple of chapters as we find out about each cousin, what they are like, and who they are as person.
The cousins were not too thrilled at first to be going back to resort but Milly and Aubrey had sort of accepted it and Jonah was still annoyed as he had been accepted into a Science Camp for the summer which was apparently very hard to go into.
Once they arrived at the resort and start working, Doland, wants to meet them. Donald offered the three another job with better pay, however, he is wanting them off the resort. We learn quiet early on that Jonah is an imposter. While their cousin Jonah (JT) is at camp he sent another Jonah in his place, which Millie spotted by putting clues together from when they first boarded the ship.
The plot twist keeps coming we soon learn that the bartender is indeed their uncle and learn that it was him that contacted them. Jonah kept stringing them along as he wanted to pretty much destroy the Story family name as JT dad (Milly and Aubrey's uncle) made Jonah family bankrupt. And of course, this is when the real JT show his face as a picture got posted of Jonah during an event on the island.
And the plot twist keep coming when the pieces are put together, it is revealed that their grandmother isn't who she says she is. Their grandmother had passed away 24 years ago and her good friend Theresa took her place and acted as their grandmother as she wanted revenge on the Story family for the death of her son.
OMG!
This is such a good book.
Rachel uses the same train every day, watching as the same view out the train window. Her ex-husband had an affair, with Anna and he had another affair with Megan. However, Megan goes missing. Anna thinks all the phone calls were coming from Rachel and we find out towards the end that it was Megan.
Rachel goes to Anna when she remembers what happened the night Megan went missing because she remembers that Tom was with Megan and not Anna.
The surprise in me when I found out what happened to Megan and who hurt her and the plots twist.
Barney hasn't been having best time with his love life, every relationship ends before, it can begin. Mainly because he cannot seem to find someone to share the same love of farming as he does. Amber is the producer of a show called ‘Love on the Farm' which Barney signed up. Amber decided to take the role of producer to be closer to her sister Sophie, as Sophie is moving to York for a TV show. Amber is a relationship, however by the looks of things she not 100% of it. But OMG Grant and Liza...absolutely hated them, like they were your typical; I think they were the executive producers. What I did love was the filming of the show and the relationship that you could sort of sense building between Amber and Barney. After the first two directors (Matt and Giles) leave a new director is bought into the show...Parker. Amber ex-fiancé, who we learn was a total arsehole to Sophie when he was directing the show that she was on. As well as Barney ex who turns up. I loved the relationship between Barney and Amber, they really did fall for each other and we got see the love grow for each other as the story went on.
Harry basically has green flag all over him.
The story continues a few months after Harry and Suzie proposal extravaganza. Their proposal business is going extremely well and they decided to help prepare 100 Christmas proposals. Of course we got read the proposal blogs as well.
Suzie has been wanting to get married and start planning for their big day, however, Harry is always avoiding the topic of conversation. And little did Suzie know she had been planning her wedding for two thinking it was a proposal for another couple.
Absolutely loved this book.
From the beginning I already hated Charlie. His girlfriend Willow has just celebrated her 30th birthday and they have been together for a while and is wanting Charlie to ask the big question. However, in Willow case he doesn't...he just continuously cheats on her since they have been together. He is total douchebag and idiot. Willow on the other hand is too forgiving.
Charlie is having an affair with someone under the alias “Kev” (which Willow does not know about.) What annoyed me is that Charlie just could not end the affair and “Kev” just took the piss, happily going along with the affair. And Willow believing Charlie every time he said he was working late or having to travel for work.
I kind of figured out who Kev was as the story went along. The fact that “Kev” could do that to Willow was absolutely shocking. Ben as a whole was not it, the fact the he would rather save a friendship than tell his best friend girlfriend that she was being cheated on.
It was too long of a listen, the blurb was the reason why I wanted to read it; however, it just was not it. The fact that pretty much everyone she knew (Emma, Ben and Anna), knew Charlie was having cheating on her and rather than tell her straight giving her clues to finding out about what Charlie was up to. The ending was quite amusing... Willow ending up with the son of Charlie mistress (Emma and Noah's mum). Willow really said my best friend brother is the one. And it turns out her Charlie isn't going anywhere (he's her new father-in law).
Sasha was having an amazing life, she has an amazing marriage and a fantastic daughter (LouLou). As well as having a great business...well had a great business. Her business in on the brink of bankruptcy. And the icing on the cake she has to attend her family reunion to celebrate her parents' anniversary. Sasha however doesn't want to attend. (She felt like an outsider – her parents favourited her older sister and younger brother). But agrees to go. Her husband Ben wants Sasha to ask her family for some money to help their business, however, Sasha doesn't think that this will be a good idea. From the moment Dirk character was introduced by Sasha's sister (Adele), I had a strong feeling that this guy is her boyfriend (he is also Adele's daughter tutor). We soon find out that Sasha's dad wants to sell the house, however her mum is totally against it as alongside being married to her husband Tony, the house was the only other thing that made her stay in England.We soon learn that Adele and their brother Beau had been asking their parents for money. Sasha had taught they were financially stable, but they really weren't. Sasha decides to leave with her family first thing the next morning but unfortunately get into a car crash, her dad just so happens to be following behind them and Sasha has no choice but to return home. As the story continues Sasha is continuing helping her mum look for her missing earrings during this time Sasha discovered a picture of a baby, but she didn't recognise who this child was. We learn that the child was a child who died a baby, and their parents decided it would be best not to tell the girls. We then discover that it was LouLou who took the earrings and put them in a safe spot, when the earrings was returned Sasha and the rest of the family learn a lot about their family history and where they came from. Overall, it was a good book. The story line got better as I continued to read it, but there were points in the story which I did find a bit boring.
Loved this book. An enemy to lover book.
Hadley is going back to Nebraska for a family wedding. She is not too keen about this so asked her best friend Web to step in as her plus one. However, Web has other plans and fakes a food poisoning and sends his twin brother Will (Hadley nemesis). And Will pretends to be Web.
As Will pretends to be Web, him and Hadley realise what Web plan were. So, now they are stuck together and need to pretend to be in love.
It was a good a book, however, I had a love-hate relationship with the characters...mainly Phillip
Phillip is in need of a wife and a mother to his children, Eloise wants to get married as she feels lonely ever since her best friend got married. But in all honesty he just wanted a mother to the children that he can't seem to control and doesn't know anything about (as he doesn't spend anytime with them). He barely knew his kids likes and dislikes before Eloise came. He also wasn't happy with his first wife, his first wife was depressed to the point where she was suicidal. He used that as an excuse to get Eloise to do what he wants as his first wife never wanted to do anything with him.
The children were spoiled and bratty, always got away with things because Phillip was never around (always working), that was up until Eloise came and changed the family.
A laugh out loud book! I had this on audio book, so I was laughing quite a bit. Emilia is looking for a one-night stand just before her best friend wedding day. In comes Dirk a.k.a. Evan.
After their one-night stand, Emilia realises that Dirk just so happens to look a lot like the groom, when she admits to best friend that she hooked up with the groom during the rehearsal dinner. They both realise that Emilia had slept with Evan, not Devan (the groom). This book was super spicy...it was a bit too spicy for my liking, but I did enjoy it.
Sadie love life hasn't been the best, her wedding to her ex fiancé Felix being cancelled and all. She decides to find a new guy, a rescue dog who goes by the name William. We soon learn that William was given to the rescue centre out of spite, by Jack ex-girlfriend. Now that William has been returned to Jack, Sadie realises that she misses having a pet and decides to go back to the shelter and adopt two cats: Thyme and Rosemary. We also meet Sadie's sister Flora, who Sadie catches having a small fling during a charity ball hosted by Felix mother Even after finding out, Sadie, forgives Felix and says yes to his proposal. (there are small flashbacks to Sadie and Felix love life). Flora was one of many characters that I despised in the book. After bumping into Jack again and Flora trying to get one night stand with him, Jack decides to pay Sadie a visit. During this time Jack talks to Sadie about what happened with Flora and says that Flora really isn't his type. So, her best friend Charlotte signs them all up to a new dating app; Butter Half. Whilst scrolling on the app to see if anyone liked her photos, turns out one person had. Jack! As the story continues the relationship between Sadie and Jack slowly begins to develop, however, there is one problem...Jack ex (Gaynor) is back on the scene and is slightly giving Jack a bit of a hard time. Towards the end we realise that Gaynor is psycho ex who isn't doesn't want Jack to move on. But I was glad that Jack and Sadie got their happily ever after.
The book overall was a real good laugh out loud book with Billie going on dates and meeting Rocco. And then learning that Rocco is her step-sibling and they still end up getting together. The book as well didn't consist of her dating and seeing as much as I'd hope as it mainly was about her family and the drama that's happening. I think Billie and Rocco only attended 3 events hosted by the dating app they've been using and then had one date on their own accord (this was before finding out that they were step-siblings). So there really wasn't much dating happening.