Book Review - Berlin Calling by Lilo Moore - #HolidayReading Mexico

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Title: Berlin Calling

Author: Lilo Moore

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Author supplied Copy

Publisher: Self Published

Publication Date: 19th January 2023

Rating: 5 Stars

The song contest is hotting up, on and off the stage!

Rose writes twee pop, smiles a lot, and believes in magic and rainbows. When the cheesy love song she wrote is chosen for the European Song Contest, her luck seems to be turning around – especially when a chance encounter leads to the hottest one-night stand of her life. It’s almost too bad she’ll never see him again.

But then Rose discovers it wasn’t a chance encounter. The hot German DJ with the sexy deep voice is her rival for song contest glory.

Grumpy Emil is incredibly talented and the song he spins with his sister could be a winner, even if he doesn’t appreciate the playful spirit of the contest. As the continent falls in love with Rose and Emil’s competitive banter on social media, they must hide their history from the press or risk losing credibility – and a future songwriting career.

With an anonymous gossip out to ridicule the colourful contestants and a plot to undermine European public broadcasting bubbling under the shiny surface, Rose must be strong in the face of criticism and stand up for everything the contest means to her.

If this Canadian girl can save the contest, maybe she can believe that her feelings for Emil are the real deal.

It's a complete and utter ode to Eurovision, with a couple of main characters with off the charts chemistry, making this a very steamy story too. 

I was caught up in all things European Song Contest (to give it the books name for Eurovision), but it is 100% based on the real thing. 

My only regret with this story is that I don't know what the various songs really do sound like, as I suspect there could be a few great earworms amongst them. 

Rose embodies everything the contest stands for and more and I wish more people were like her. 

And Emil well I fell for him rather fast too, and loved the way he is with his sister too.  Would have loved to see Daria's paintings too.   Ok I just want the whole book made into a film, I know I'd watch! 

It is everything a Eurovision lover could want for in a book, I just couldn't get enough of all of it, and the romance and the mystery of who the troll IG account belongs to also kept me hooked. 

This was perfect poolside reading on the hottest day of my Mexican holiday, where I was heating up equally from the sun and the contents of some of the scenes. 

A complete and utter triumph of a book, and a great first book for Lilo Moore for this sort of genre. 

Light hearted (but with some key messages), full of camp escapism, what more could a girl ask for.  Hit all the right spots and was entirely pleasurable! 

Thank you to the author for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.