Showing posts with label Janice Horton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Janice Horton. Show all posts

Friday, 20 September 2019

Book Review - The Backpacking Housewife: The Next Adventure by Janice Horton - #HolidayReading Madeira

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Title: The Backpacking Housewife: The Next Adventure
Author: Janice Horton
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Netgalley
Publisher: One More Chapter
Publication Date: 19th September 2019
Rating: 5 Stars


They say home is really where the heart is…

Lori Anderson should be bursting with happiness. Since leaving behind her life as a housewife to embark on an incredible backpacking adventure she’s met a man she’s fallen head over heels in love with and is living aboard a yacht in the turquoise waters of the sun-drenched Caribbean.

She should be instagramming photos of her swimming with dolphins and sipping cocktails at sunset….and yet Lori finds herself desperately missing her grown-up family, and her normal London life. But when she’s unexpectedly called home, reality hits hard. The urban bustle she used to find exciting is now just exhausting – and why doesn’t it ever stop raining?

If there’s one thing Lori has learnt it’s that you have to fight for what might make you truly happy – so Lori is determined not to let her chance of a little slice of paradise slip through her fingers….

Wow, well I knew I had loved the first Backpacking Housewife book, but I think I may adore this second one even more!

Read in an afternoon poolside, I was whizzing through the pages of this action packed story with a plot and sort of adventure most would never encounter in a lifetime. 

It is an exhilarating read of travel, both to exotic places but also for me much closer to home, but also a story of family, and trying to work out what your heart really desires. 

I'm absolutely loving this next step in Ethan and Lori's lives, and even just hearing what they get up to in the bit between the two books is exhausting but eye opening. 

There is also a keen theme of animal conservation running through this book, and I love how they are always trying to save the planet.  

With every book I'm reading of Janice Horton's,  she is excelling herself and getting better and better. 

I have loved discovering the British Virgin Islands in this book, especially the more remote ones, and all the travel aspects are so well described, it was like I was there beside them. 

Although only present for a small bit, Monty was completely fabulous, and I loved getting to know him.

Wonderful book from a fabulous author, what more could a girl want from her holiday reading!

Thank you to Netgalley and One More Chapter for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 

Friday, 4 January 2019

Book Review - Island in the Sun by Janice Horton - #HolidayReading Mexico

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Title:  Island in the Sun
Author: Janice Horton
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Author supplied copy
Publisher: Self Published
Publication Date: 4th January
Rating: 5 Stars

When successful jewellery designer Isla Ashton unexpectedly inherits her eccentric Aunt Kate’s Caribbean island, she is obligated to return to the place she associates with heartache and regret. To where she grew up and fell in love with her childhood friend, Leo Fernandez. Fully intent on selling the island and finally putting the past behind her, Isla is soon compelled to put together the pieces of what really happened on a fateful night ten-years before. She begins to believe that in going to prison, Leo hadn’t only been shielding her from the same fate. She also starts to suspect that her late Aunt hadn’t been entirely honest in sending her away under the guise of recriminations. Who had they both been protecting and why?

From the moment I saw the cover for this book I had been looking forward to reading it, and I can easily say it lived up to expectations. 

Pearl Island is a fabulous location for a book, in the Caribbean it makes for a spectacular backdrop to a very interesting and enjoyable story. 

We not only get Isla's present day story but also get chapters detailing just what happened between her and Leo, 10 years before hand. 

We also get to see sections of Aunt Kate's diaries which were where the bulk of the most compelling its of the book were. 

I loved hearing about all elements of both Kate and Isla's lives and also about Leo. All characters I enjoyed that have a few things in common. 

This is a book where there are mysteries to uncover, secrets to discover, interesting sections on pearl farming, plus some action that really upped the pace and made my heart race.

This may only be the second book I've read by Janice Horton, but I am continuing to be impressed by her vivid storytelling and her writing style.   

Island in the Sun was an absolute joy to read. 

Thank you to Janice Horton for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

Sunday, 12 August 2018

Book Review - The Backpacking Housewife by Janice Horton - #HolidayReading Book 6

Book 6 of 28 read on my holiday to Cyprus in June 2018.

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Title: The Backpacking Housewife
Author: Janice Horton
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Netgalley
Publisher: Harper Impulse
Publication Date: 6th July 2018
Rating: 5 Stars

One mum is leaving it all behind for the adventure of a lifetime…

Lorraine Anderson was meant to be making a Sunday roast, not swanning off to Thailand, backpack in hand! But when she finds her husband and her best friend in bed together there’s only one thing to do – grab her passport and never look back!

Now, with each mile travelled Lori sheds the woman she once was and finds the woman she was always meant to be. A woman of passion and spirit who deserves to explore the great unknown…and to indulge in the temptation she encounters along the way!

The second I saw the initial announcements for this book I knew I had to read it. I love anything that has a travel angle to it, and this is an author that has been on my radar for a while but that i haven't actually read before. 

And my excitement was truly justified, what an exotic story I have just read, of a woman who on discovering her husband is cheating on her with her best friend, goes straight to Gatwick airport and books a flight to the further away place she can find - Thailand. 

With nothing more than a backpack and a few items of clothing and products bought at the airport, she sets off on an exciting adventure. 

I felt as though I was alongside Lorri on every step of her journey, and the descriptions of the locations in Thailand really transported you placed. 

There are many other travellers we are introduced to along the way, and I really did enjoy the direction her trip took her. 

Definitely a top summer holiday read, in fact i read it poolside in about 2 hours, not wanting to move even when it started to get chillier, as I had to see what happened.   Loved every moment of this book and I am looking forward to reading more from the author in the future.

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