Book Review - Finding Home in Dolphin's Cove by Kellie Hailes - #HolidayReading Mallorca

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Title: Finding Home in Dolphin's Cove

Author: Kellie Hailes

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Orion Dash

Publication Date: 23rd August 2022

Rating: 5 Stars

All Kenna Sanders has ever wanted is to find a place she can call home. So when her grandmother leaves her failing bait shop business to her, Kenna sees a chance at building a stable life in the Cornish village she was born in but never knew. But her grandmother's will has one stipulation: she has to share the cottage with a total stranger!

Kyran has lost everyone he holds dear and now his business is on the verge of collapse. The last thing he wants is for a woman to waltz in, promise to make it all better, and stir up feelings he's long supressed. Especially a woman in such close proximity...

Kenna has an idea to save the business: set up a fishing festival to reinspire interest in the bait shop. As they work closely together, attraction quickly sparks between them. But while Kenna is looking for forever, Kyran is too afraid to get hurt again. Can they find a way to make the festival a success and escape with their hearts intact?

A warm and uplifting romance, Finding Home in Dolphin's Cove is perfect for fans of Jessica Redland, Tilly Tennant and Donna Ashcroft.

I whizzed through this thoroughly enjoyable story in just a few hours and loved every moment of them. 

I think this could be the first book I have read featuring a bait shop at the heart of it, which given my interest in all things fishing when learning about it at school resulted in me falling asleep in multiple lessons, I think it's testament to how much I trust this authors writing to have read this.

I enjoyed getting to know Kenna and Kyran and this is a classis rivals to lovers sort of trope.  They initially don't really like each other, but have to work and live together. 

Over the course of the story we learn their back stories and I really felt for Kyran and the more I knew about him the more I liked him. 

And I enjoyed getting to know key members of the Dolphin's Cove community, and by the end felt right at home in this small Cornish village setting, and amongst the fish! 

Thank you to Orion Dash and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.