Review: gorgeous, heartwarming read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2014
I can’t wait for you to read this book. Rebecca has a gorgeous writing style and her descriptions are so colourful, so vivid, so emotive it really brought the story to life.I could clearly see this gorgeous, dusty little bookshop, with its old books filled with so much history and stories of their own to tell, not just from what was printed on their pages but about who owned them and their lives. I loved the little reading room and the wonderful community and friendships from the cute town of Ashford. And it was great to see the characters of Lil, Damon and Cee-Cee again after falling in love with them in the other Gingerbread Café stories.I loved Sarah Smith and her love affair with books. Only someone who shares that love affair with books or knows someone that does can really appreciate how important books are to some people, the complete escapism that books give us, the characters we fall in love with, the places, countries and worlds that we travel to, the adventures we can have. Sarah had this deep rooted passion for books and I loved how protective she was of her little shop and her ‘book babies’. Ridge was the perfect book hero; big, adventurous, sweet, loving, funny and I love how he brought out the best in Sarah and this gave me the best laughs in the book, the completely insane way she acted around him. We’ve all been there when you end up saying dumb things around a guy we like because our brains refuse to function properly when around hot men and I loved how Sarah became this bumbling sweaty mess around Ridge. There were lots of laugh out loud moments, gorgeous heart warming moments and with its beautiful descriptions it was a book I found myself hugging tightly after I had finished. Just perfection.You absolutely need to buy this book now, you won’t be disappointed.