Book Review - Four Weddings and a Festival by Annie Robertson

The Amazon Purchase link below is an Amazon Affiliate link.

Amazon UK

Title: Four Weddings and a Festival

Author: Annie Robertson

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Orion

Publication Date: 11th July 2019 

Rating: 5 Stars

Four months. Four weddings. One happy ending...?
Lifelong friends and rom-com fans Bea, Lizzie, Hannah and Kat have curled up with Bridget Jones, sobbed at Love, Actually and memorised the script to Notting Hill. They always joked about getting married in one summer - their own Four Weddings - and it seems like this might just be the year . . .

That is, until Bea turns down her boyfriend's proposal. Is her own Hugh Grant waiting for her amid the champagne and confetti? Can real-life romance ever live up to a Richard Curtis movie?

As the wedding - and festival - season gets into its swing, can all four friends find their happy ever after...?

Raise a glass of champagne and get ready for this summer's most charming romantic comedy! Perfect for fans of Sophie Ranalds, Mandy Baggot and Sue Roberts

Loved every single second of this book. And if you are a massive Four Weddings and a funeral fan you will love the multitude of references to the film,  as the four friends see just how many of them will get married in the same summer.

The weddings like the brides could not have been more different nor utterly perfect for each of them. 

Although whether their other halves are ideal partners is for you to discover. 

As the summer wedding season is upon us,  this really is a fabulous summery book to set the mood. 

I loved the friends,  the dialogue,  the writing style,  and just hours I could picture it all so perfectly.

I would say it makes an excellent film, but that could be because that is at the base of the book but highly originally changed. 

A super summer story from an author I've enjoyed in the past and hope to read again in the future too.

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

Book Review - My Mamma Mia Summer by Annie Robertson

The Amazon Purchase link below is an Amazon Affiliate link.

Amazon UK

Title:  My Mamma Mia Summer

Author: Annie Robertson

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Orion

Publication Date: 12th July 2018

Rating: 5 Stars

One summer... One dream... 
One chance to make it happen.

Laurel hasn't taken a risk her whole life. Now as summer dawns, she's going to do something that nobody expects of her. Laurel turns to her ABBA albums and her favourite film, Mamma Mia! She grabs her passport, dons her dungarees, and jets off to Skopelos for her own Meryl-inspired adventure...

Laurel books into the faded but charming Villa Athena and befriends its eccentric owner. As she explores the island's famous sights, Laurel finds herself feeling strangely at home. So should she return to her life in London, or could this be where she truly belongs?

This summer dust off your passport, pack your best dancing shoes, and escape to Greece on your own Mamma Mia! adventure! The perfect summertime read for fans of Karen Swan, Holly Hepburn and Isabelle Broom.

As a massive fan of Mamma Mia (the show and the film), in addition to a lover of fiction where there is a Greek Holiday, I was instantly drawn to this summery looking book. 

Within the first few pages of the  book, I knew I had made the right decision.  I was drawn into the story practically from the first few pages, and loved every moment of the book since.  It is in fact a shame it had to end. 

Laurel and her grandmother Marnie, had always intended to visit Skopelos where Mamma Mia was filmed, but they kept putting it off until it was no longer possible, so when Laurel is forced to take holiday leave from work she decides to go to honour Marnie's memory. 

From the moment she steps onto the plane, we are treated to a whole host of wonderful characters, fabulous scenery more references to Mamma Mia than perhaps is health to put into a book, but all the more enjoyable for their presence.  

If anything I would say if you haven't seen the film some of the references and parallels that are drawn may go completely over your head, but for those that have, you will love every second of this as, I did. 

Laurel soon makes a host of new friends, and Athena at the Villa Athena is a marvellous character, the scenery on the island is spectacular, and as you would expect there is plenty of great food too. 

This is a perfect summer read, or a pick me up in winter when you are longing for sunnier weather.  Full of humour and emotion too, this is just an all around fabulous fun book to read.   

This is the first book I have read by Annie Robertson, and it certainly won't be the last. 

Make your mind up,  and spend some Money, Money, Money, on this book that will have you thanking Abba for the Music, while you spend time with Annie the Dancing Queen, and find out if Laurel really does have a dream! 

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