Member Reviews
A sweet Heart warming tale of love and romance
Thank you Netgalley for a copy for an honest review
This was a light and easy read. The characters were all so wasy to like I felt like I was right there in the story with them.
After reading this and looking into this author who I will be reading from again I found that this book was previously published as Three Little Birds
My thanks to NetGalley, the author and publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Sorry for this very late review
3.5
Books with bucket lists are nothing new but here best friends Charlie and Mercedes decide to swap their lists they made on New year's eve.
I really liked the different approach to this topic and I also enjoyed the different challenges Charlie had take. They were really funny at times and also quite a few different challenges.
I really liked the humour in this book, especially in the first half. Later the book little bit lots itself in other topics and I felt a little bit bored as well.
Overall this was an enjoyable story with several laughs and a light writing style.
Light, quirky romantic comedy with some chuckles along the way. The author writes a stellar story that keeps the reader entertained and turning pages. Fast paced and enjoyable.
Charlie's life is going nowhere - she might have a lovely job baking cakes for the local cafe and volunteering at the local hospital radio. But that is all that is in her life, with her ex husband remarried and about to be a father again, Charlie thinks that she is missing out on life.
Mercedes, doesn't let her horse riding accident stop her doing anything. Of course there are some things she cannot do so she comes up with an idea that Charlie needs to complete Mercedes Bucket List and in return she will complete Charlie's.
But the bucket lists are very different and cover belly dancing (which sounded like great fun!), swimming with sharks, zip wiring, knitting, bungee jumping, appearing on television and that life is for living and also for loving.
Add into the mix, Jake a local journalist who seems to keep turning up when Charlie is not at her best and old boyfriend who has his own agenda and the plot moves from humorous and touching to quite thrilling.
The storyline kept me reading, but the book for me only had moments that captured my attention and I was absorbed in the story. I was left disappointed by this, because I felt I was reading pages that added nothing to the story. It perhaps needed to be a bit stronger in plot and character to keep me hooked from beginning to end.
I was given this book through Netgalley for an here neat review. I got halfway through it and Hs to stop. I went back to it many times trying to gain interest but the story just doesn’t live up to its cover. The story is bland and uneventful.
I have bought this book in a kindle format and will read it in due course.
I wanted to like this, and thought the central character was sympathetic, but 'laugh out loud funny'? Not for me I'm afraid. However I continued reading, but there was a little too much poor (and inconsistent) grammar and odd words here and there. I have decided that life is too short to put up with poor written English!