Jenny Hale - Butterfly Sisters

Feel-good fiction

Heartwarming 

Cosy read 

I was gifted a free ARC ebook from Harpeth Road, the Nashville-based publishers of TheButterfly Sisters, by Jenny Hale.  All words and opinions are my own.

 

I’m relatively new to the novels of the USA Today bestselling author Jenny Hale, who has had her books turned into Hallmark movies – the type of heartfelt books that whisk me away to happy places, from around early October to mid-December!  But I am in love Jenny’s sweet, cosy, small town love stories!

 

In Butterfly Sisters, Jenny’s central character, Leigh Henderson, returns to the Tennessee cabin of her late grandmother, to meet up with her Mum and her flighty sister, Meredith.  Enter the former childhood sweetheart of Colton Harris and it’s very easy to disappear into the life around Old Hickory Lake. 

 

What I really love about Butterfly Sisters is that the two fictional sisters are the two sides to Jenny; academically driven and artistic.  And that this is a story about loving family first, paving the way for the romance to bloom. 

Can we also just take a moment to sink into those blissfully rich pink and purple colours of the book's cover?  Can you imagine holding this paperback in your hands?  And how many oohs and aaahs you'll receive from friends and family?! Talk about #bookenvy!

 

If you love happy-ever-afters, with heart-warming moments – Colton is often the balm between the two misunderstood sisters – and feel-good fiction, treat yourself to some reading time curled up under a blanket, with Butterfly Sisters. 

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Enni Amanda - Hidden Gem

Romance 

Feel-good Fiction

Just absolutely gorgeous

New Zealand location

I loved the character of Marnie when she was introduced in Enni Amanda's earlier novel, Nest or Invest (also fabulous), the next-door neighbour best friend.  

In Hidden Gem we see the flaws and all side of approaching forty, with an incurable illness, a stroppy teenage child and the gift of love, in the form of Jason, a bit of an insomniac.  Their story is believable, fun and very sweet.  

This second novel in Enni Amanda's Love New Zealand series is a sweet romance, with a bit of bedroom action, brilliantly told, against the backdrop of a housing crisis, in New Zealand (though this also happens elsewhere in the world).  

Hidden Gem is a seriously honest and delightful second-chance romance that you need to read, once you've read Nest or Invest (that improv scene will floor you!).  

I'm off to pop book 3, Night and Day, on pre-order. 

PS - how beautiful are the covers of this series, from Yummy Book Covers?!