Monday 1 January 2018

The Bookshop on the Corner | Rebecca Raisin

Author: Rebecca Raisin
Title: The Bookshop on the Corner
Series/Standalone: Bookshop Series #1
Rating: 5*
Publisher: Carina UK - 17th June 2014 
Pages: 123
Format: eBook
Bought/ARC: ARC
Pair With: A fruity tea with a bit of spice. Try T2 Chilli Berry Boom. A sweet storyline, a spicy romance and an Australian Author. Perfect!

Who said that only real heroes could be found in fiction?
Sarah Smith had an addiction – she was addicted to romance novels. The meet-cute, the passion, the drama and the gorgeous men! Now this wouldn’t have been such an issue if she hadn’t been the owner of the only bookshop in Ashford, Connecticut.
Ever since her close friend Lil, from The Gingerbread Café, had become engaged she had been yearning for a little love to turn up in her life. Except Sarah knew a good man was hard to find – especially in a tiny town like Ashford. That was until New York journalist, Ridge Warner stepped into her bookshop…
Love could be just around the corner for Sarah, but will she be able to truly believe that happy-ever-after can happen in real-life too!
Well, my god it feels like it has been such a long time since I've reviewed a Rebecca Raisin novel, in fact it has been long, far too long. I have read all of The Gingerbread Cafe series and ultimately fell in love with Ashford, the characters and Rebecca's writing style. I've never had such a love for an Author as quick as I did Rebecca's books. I'd admired Sarah and was secretly hoping for her own lime light and along came The Bookshop on the Corner. 
The Bookshop on the Corner follows Sarah Smith who owns The Bookshop on the Corner which features lightly in The Gingerbread Cafe series. Sarah is your typical bibliophile, in love with the written word, day dreams about fictional heroes and ultimate book boyfriends, and she spends her life with her nose wedged between the pages of a novel and longs to have her own Hero. 
Sarah was skating through life nicely but with no real love life of her own until the sexy and smouldering Ridge Warner steps his cute little behind in Ashford, and Sarah is thrown into a spin. With Ridge being captured by Sarah, and her him the story follows their will-they, won't-they storyline, and it has you dying to just shout OH KISS ALREADY throughout the book. I don't want to cover too much of the outline because I think they're best discovered for themselves
The characters of this novel are obviously brilliant, witty, divine and upmost genuinely incredibly. As Rebecca is so perfect for writing such life-like and realistic characters that are hard to not fall in love with. Sarah is whimsical and I suppose an under dog of sorts, it's nice to see those quitter characters shine. Ridge was sexy, sophisticated and alluring businessman, you know the type. Travelling the world for a profession gives him that air of mystery and alluring sultriness! I totally fell in love with reading the passion and chemistry grow between the characters, it's almost atmospheric throughout the storyline. And no, real heroes aren't just for fiction Miss Raisin.. Because (although fictional herself) Sarah shows if you just hold out for a hero (till the end of the night, you gotta be strong, sorry!) that you really can find your own real hero. 
With a few hiccups along the way, interfering friends and fates little twists The Bookshop on the Corner rounds up to be a perfectly sweet, indulgent and fabulous read with love, friendship and what it means to find your own hero. Rebecca is an ingenious writer, a creator of adoringly sparkly romances and an author I will follow forever. Her writing is just perfection nestled between the pages of a book. 

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