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| About the Book |
Floating Solo
Are you single?
Have you lost your confidence when it comes to travelling?
Would you welcome a few weeks away to find that missing spark?
Climb aboard the Creaky Cauldron for an adventure like no other!
Budding entrepreneur Kat Sinclair wants to grow her quirky solo narrowboat holiday enterprise but faces rejection at every turn. Until a Hollywood film crew gets in touch with the potential to change her business, dreams, and love life forever.
'Enemies to lovers'
'Small town romance'
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Author Bio –
Shelley Wilson is an English multi-genre author of over twenty books. She writes young adult supernatural and fantasy fiction and motivational adult self-help and has recently launched her debut romance. When not working on her own titles, Shelley works as a writing mentor for women in business who want to write non-fiction books. Shelley is a single mum of three and lives in the West Midlands, UK. She loves solo travelling in her VW camper, walking, and obsessing over to-do lists!
Social Media Links – https://linktr.ee/ShelleyWilson72
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| My Thoughts |
A relaxing read - just a shame the book doesn't come with an actual narrowboat holiday!
A typical romance plot, but that is to be expected for this genre, although because of the waterway connection I did find the story a little more interesting than some other romance reads. I liked the realistically portrayed characters from the very start, (even grumpy Jordan,) and happily floated along with them for this enjoyable read.
The only thing I didn't like - purely because I felt them out of place in what I regard as a 'cosy romance' - were the sex scenes, especially the first one. I've nothing at all against a good, romping 'relationship' in adult stories, (I write these myself in my Sea Witch Voyages!) but this was written in explicit detail - too explicit, which I felt was out of place for this type of cosy novel. This is one of those instances where the reader's imagination would have been more appropriate. Writing sex can be difficult; enough is needed to convey emotion, (whether, loving, boredom or fear depending on the context,) but not so much to turn a scene into something voyeuristic or smutty. In this instance the scene could easily have ended at the closing of the bedroom door.
However, apart from that one observation, this was a good story. If you enjoy any of the narrowboat/canal docu-dramas shown on British TV then this is for you. (I do miss the ones with Timothy West and Prunella Scales, they were so interesting!)
Even if you don't watch those programmes, or have never considered a holiday afloat, any escapism romance reader should enjoy this one.
(Note: I read this as a pre-publish ARC where the formatting was not correct - hopefully sorted before final editing and publication.)
**** 4 stars
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Thanks for being part of the blog tour! I wish I could create the Floating Solo holidays, haha.
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