It is a really wordy book. I'm sure this book is building the foundation for the next in the series but it was overly detailed about things that may or may not have affected the love story between Mia and Daniel. The ending was also a bit disappointing you have this huge turning point in their relationship and it ends with the Nigel and Giselle walking out of the gallery and no real closure on what happen at the gallery showing, did he sell any art work and maybe use the money to help pay for the house renovation or send Madeline and her husband on a vacation? It just needs more closure to the ending of the story. Bunch of good parts to the book but it was overshadowed by to much family drama in this book.

This book is so much more than the cover or the blurb would have you believe. Yes it's a gorgeous story, in a gorgeous location but it is also filled with complex, multilayered characters with dark backstories and huge hurdles to overcome.

Beautifully written and so full of hope, it couldn't be released at a better time. If ever the world needed books like this!

This book on occasion definitely pulled at my heart strings although to be honest it is easily done. However I genuinely felt as if I was a part of their world and was invested in their happiness. I was drawn to the characters and also to the guesthouse that is in dire need of TLC just like Daniel and Mia.

I loved how the house is slowly but surely brought back to life and how the process is the perfect tonic for the characters. Daniel has his flaws but I love how we see his character grow throughout the story. Mia is a resilient character who has a strong protective side especially with her loved ones. I thought the build up in their friendship was well developed, it wasn't rushed and felt perfectly natural.

I liked the idea that the characters have less than perfect families and this is what makes them more engaging to read and get to know. Aaron and Luke were a great addition along with the "grey army" this group of characters really gave a warm and family orientated feel to the story.

The story flowed effortlessly and before I knew it I was onto the last chapter and it felt as if the time had flown. Sunrise at Butterfly Cove left me with a smile, Sarah Bennett has created some wonderful characters and I can't wait to catch up with them in the next book in the series.

Butterfly Cove has pretty much everything covered from friendship, new beginnings, loss, love and family.

Full of charm, engaging and heart warming what more could you want!

Five stars from me!

Thank you to HQDigital and Netgalley for my copy. This is my honest and unbiased opinion.

Mia Sutherland's husband dies tragically young and she has tried to make a new life by renovating a crumbling guesthouse in peaceful Butterfly Cove. Unfortunately the job is bigger than she anticipated and she is almost prostrated by her grief. She has made two firm friends in the older couple Madeline and Richard who have helped her with the little restoration that she has achieved.

Daniel 'Fitz' Fitzwilliam is a photographer, feted by the London arts scene he has become a monster in his own eyes: drinking too much, dabbling in drugs and believing his own hype. Disgusted by himself and realising that his girlfriend was part of the problem he gets on a random train out of London. Disembarking from the train at the end of the line Daniel realises he has no plans, no hotel room and no taxi, until a kindly older woman takes him under her wing and decides he can stay with Mia.

Despite initial misgivings, Mia eventually agrees that Daniel can stay for one week, in return for helping her with the house.

Together the two of them heal each other's wounds as they restore the house, aided and abetted by Madeline and Richard. But as they both emerge from the detritus of their pasts, real life intrudes once more and Mia has to deal with her parents and her younger sisters while Daniel needs to face up to what he left behind in London.

I really liked this, partly of course for the envy that a young woman could afford such a sumptuous sounding property, even if it does need a lot of decorating and repair, but also because it unfurled gently, like a butterly's wings. Nothing too angsty, nothing too alpha male, just real life family dramas.

Sunrise at Butterfly Cove is a beautiful romantic tale.

Mia has had a terrible time recently losing the love of her life so tragically. Thinking she is going to spend the rest of her life alone she throws herself into restoring a lovely big house in Butterfly Cove. Unexpectedly she finds love again when she lets a handsome stranger stay.

Both Mia and Daniel face a few difficulties in the book but we see this bring them closer together and see a happier stronger side of Mia.

The descriptions and characters that the author has used throughout this book are perfect and so easy to imagine.

I really enjoyed this book, I thought it was really well written, and so cheerful.

This is a wonderful start to the series and I cant wait for the next book to see whats next for them all.

I love a romance framed by the beauty of our little island and, set on the English coast, Sarah Bennett hits the spot with Sunrise at Butterfly Cove.

"Whatever had brought him to her doorstep—serendipity, fate, or just a well-meaning meddling friend—this half-broken man needed a safe place to stay."

This is a lovely story of two people brought together unexpectedly, but who soon realise that they share common ground in that both are dealing with personal pain. After Mia agrees that Daniel can be the first guest in her non-functioning, barely liveable B&B in exchange for helping with some renovations, the trust between them builds, with them slowly beginning to let their guards down, opening up and supporting one another.

"I feel like we came together at a moment in time when we both needed the other so badly without even realising it."

This story does come with a good dose of angst and family drama, however whilst it's pretty central to the story it's not too heavy and as the blurb describes, it is a heartwarming and uplifting read albeit a little speedy in parts.

"I’m glad you’re here."

Sarah Bennett has created an endearing group of people who your heart will go out to and, with secondary characters who each play a valuable role, the foundations have been laid for Wedding Bells at Butterfly Cove. Better get my hat out.

This is a beautifully paced romance about Mia, who moves to the picturesque Butterfly Cove after a tragic event in her life. There she throws herself into renovating an old guest house, but long before it is finished she finds herself with an unexpected guest. Daniel is a prominent photographer, burnt out from his glamorous lifestyle he heads out of London and finds himself in Butterfly Cove. This is where their story begins and it is a romantic one.
This is a well written debut, with an affecting beginning and you can’t help feeling compassion for Mia from the start. Vulnerable and closed off from the world she is an unlikely love interest to Daniel, yet he too needs a safe haven and Butterfly Cove is a place for healing. They both need to let go of the past for different reasons. The romance is built up slowly and very tenderly with gradual thawing and understanding.
Daniel is lovely character and the story very sweet, but there is a lot more to this than the love story as I had first thought. Mia’s friends and her troubled family are well developed with interesting back-stories. I am looking forward to returning to Butterfly Bay in the summer with Sarah Bennett’s next book in the series, as this is a beautifully romantic debut by a promising new author.

Lovely warm cosy sunny feeling looking forward to the next trip to butterfly cove

I loved this book, and was hooked right away. Both of the main characters were very likeable and warm, and I adored the setting. Details of the house makeover In a lovely old house by the sea were a bonus. My only criticism is that there was probably just a bit too much going on the fringes, just a few too many characters and complications. I would have been more than happy to just follow the main romance at the seaside !! Still an excellent read I couldn't put it down. I loved the happy ending and the warmth of the characters. Well done !! Thank you

After the sudden loss of her husband, Mia Sutherland is broken-hearted, but she struggles to keep her head above water by going ahead with her plans to renovate a bed and breakfast in the quiet town of Butterfly Cove. Her first guest is photographer Daniel Fitzwilliam, a London photographer in serious need of a chance to unplug. He stays with Mia a week, but what a week it is. The two form a friendship as they share their life stories, a friendship that shows signs of becoming much more. This is the first in a series about Mia and her sisters, and it was lovely to sit back and read a nice story that did not involve Washington politics. Thank you Sarah Bennett, I needed that!

Sunrise at Butterfly Cove is a sweet, feel good contemporary romance. A young widow and a disillusioned photographer heal each other in an old house by the sea. There is family drama and angst. These two have to let go of the past to make a future. They do it agonizingly slowly but the story is better for it. I felt like a good portion of this book was spent setting up the next. This book is definitely sigh worthy. I look forward to the next installment.
Thank you to Netgalley and HQ Digital for this copy of the book which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

Butterfly Cove is a stunning setting that clearly has restorative qualities, as Mia and Daniel both find themselves thoroughly at home there despite difficulties in their recent past. The cove and area really is as pretty as the cover makes it seem, and I believe in summer the sky and sea will be as vibrant a blue, and the grass will be a very bright green.

However most of the story in this first book in the Butterfly Cove trilogy takes place in the winter and spring, and it really is a charming story, of friendship between a man and woman, who both really could do without added complications as they grow closer.

Mia moves to Butterfly Cove to set up a guesthouse, after her husband dies suddenly, she needs a fresh start and has started to renovate her new property in order to open her guest house. She has two sisters one with rather large problems, and her childhood wasn't particularly happy, and we get to see all about those two circumstances as the book progresses.

Daniel was a famous photographer, who is now burnt out, he jumped on a train away from London and ended up on a local train from Exeter where he meets Madeline, who gives him a lift to Mia's guesthouse despite it not being ready yet.

They work out a mutually acceptable arrangement and from this moment on Daniel became one of my favourite characters and was bordering on book boyfriend territory. He is wonderful and seems to really understand Mia, and the need for anything that may develop between them to move incredibly slowly.

It is a sweet story of friendship, and not just Mia and Daniel's but also of family. Not the most conventional families but of family feel of friends, and how they would do anything for one another. Daniel's two best friends are lovely boys and Madeline, with her husband become like surrogate parents for any of the various waifs she seems to be collecting at Butterfly Cove.

There is a lovely warm and cosy feel to this book, and it does contain a very sweet slow building romance, as well as some wonderful plans for the guest house. It is an enjoyable debut novel, and I am already looking forward to my next trip to Butterfly Cove in the summer.

Thank you to Netgalley and HQ Digital for this copy of the book which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.