Coco Pinchard's Big Fat Tipsy Wedding (Coco Pinchard #2) by Robert Bryndza

For Coco Pinchard forty is the new thirty. After a tumultuous divorce, she's found love with the gorgeous, hunky, four-years-younger-than-her-so-technically-a-toy-boy, Adam. Her career as an author is finally a success, and she has fabulous friends in Chris, a neurotic middle-aged socialite, and Marika, a slightly alcoholic dog walker. 

Coco is even learning to cope with awful ex mother-in-law, Ethel, who despite the divorce, still thinks it's fine to criticise, especially when Coco and Adam decide to move in together... 

But hours before move-in day, Adam ends their relationship without explanation and disappears. After the initial shock and anger (and an 'I told you so' from Ethel) Coco sets out to discover what has really happened.

Full of hilarious twists and turns, Coco Pinchard's Big Fat Tipsy Wedding is a witty, heart-warming, romantic comedy - the highly anticipated stand-alone sequel to bestselling, The Not So Secret Emails of Coco Pinchard.

Another terrific comedy from Coco Pinchard and friends in text form which is easy to read.

Why did Adam end his relationship with Coco so quickly, we all thought they were well suited? What is Adam hiding from Coco? Will the interfering ex Mother In Law still hang around her ex daughter in law and try and get her son Daniel and Coco back together? 

This was funny at parts again and you have something spooky going on in Coco's life. I found this book to be part 2 in a hilarious trilogy and can't wait to read more.

The Not So Secret Emails Of Coco Pinchard (Coco Pinchard #1) by Robert Bryndza

Coco Pinchard was never a single thirty-something. She married young, had a son, and put her dream to be a writer on hold. 

Now her first novel is published. Husband Daniel has greyed nicely into a silver fox, and son Rosencrantz is grown up. It should be time to enjoy life. 

That is, until the annual family Christmas when her hideous mother-in-law Ethel comes to stay, and Coco opens her gift from Daniel. It’s not the jewellery she chose, but an iPhone. This marks the start of Daniel’s mid-life crisis and she catches him in bed with a younger woman. 

The iPhone becomes a confessional of sorts, through emails to her friends Chris, an ageing trustafarian and Marika a slightly alcoholic schoolteacher. Coco documents her seemingly endless (and often entertaining!) run of bad luck. 

Then she meets the hunky Adam and she’s back in the world of dating as a single forty-something... 

Read the emails that tell the hilarious tale of Coco picking up the pieces, in this fun, feel good Romantic Comedy.

I was looking for something fun to read after finishing my last book. I can across another of Robert Bryndza's books which I found out was book 3 in the series, so I went to inspect what the other 2 was to find out that I had them already.

So the story line centres around emails from Coco Pinchard to her ex husband, her lover, her 2 best friends, her son and other people. It tells of her life from just before Christmas to September/October that year. The delights that go on and sometimes the laughter comes through at the antics of her soon to be ex mother in law, her ex sister in law and other things that happen throughout the life of Coco. She has some fun times with Chris and Marika. Her son gets into hot water and she HAS to bail him out of things.

I loved Coco so much and felt sorry for her that it blows your mind the life of an author has amongst living a normalish life. Can't wait to read the next 2 books in the series.

Sex, Lies and Chocolate Cakes: A Delicious Laugh Out Loud Comedy by Steven Morris

After accidentally exposing himself to his son’s girlfriend, and realising that because of his over-hanging stomach, she couldn’t actually see anything, Eric Baxter decides it’s time he went on a diet. Unfortunately, due to an exercise allergy, and an eating obsession, it isn’t going to be as easy as he first thought. 

Throw in a battle of wits with his neighbour’s cat over toilet rights to his garden, a son who lives in the shed and dreams of being discovered on The X Factor, a stroppy teenage daughter with a Wayne Rooney fixation, a wife who doesn’t want to sleep with him anymore, and an amorous work colleague who does, and you have all the ingredients to Sex, Lies and Chocolate Cakes: The Secret Eater’s Diary.

I found this on Amazon and felt like I needed a laugh as life was getting boring for me lol. Well I picked this little laughing book up and it reminded me of all the times I've tried to diet and failed lol.

I loved Eric's banter and the way his family take the mick, laughed at the next door neighbour's cat with his antics and the amorous work colleague, well what can I say she is a lush with a heart. If you want to laugh at people attempting to do diets with the family antics then this is your book.

Can't wait to read the next installment.

Addicted by Nigel May

ADDICTED 

Getting clean is a dirty business 

The wine heiress, the faded entertainer, the operatic diva, the politician's wife - four women who can’t say no…. 

Four women who should be happy with what life has given them. Success, beauty, money and fame. But never judge a book by its cover, because on the outside they may all seem to be completely in control of their lives, but under their fashionable facades, deep within their souls, they are all battling with a common demon…they are all addicted. Addicted to things that could ruin their very existence. In fact for one, it will snuff it out for good. 

Four women…one death, one killer… 

Nigel's first glam-fiction novel, TRINITY, is available online now.

I would like to thank Bookouture, Netgalley and the lovely Mr Nigel May for the copy of this highly addictive book.

OMG, what happened there I can't comprehend the way Mr May weavered his magic in this lustrous novel. The characters you just love to hate with their flash of money, lifestyle and men (sex on tap). I kinda guessed who the killer was, but there was shocks, laughs and even gasps along the way with this highly addicted (pun intended) novel.

I can't wait to read more from Mr May as he really does write close to Ms Jackie Collins.

All's Fair in Love and Cupcakes by Betsy St. Amant

She's written a recipe for her future, but does it include love?
Katherine 'Kat' Varland is a small town girl, born and raised---and every day, her dreams of owning her own bakery get further away. She has no money, and the cupcake shop she bakes for, Sweetie Pies, seems to get smaller and smaller. Kat might be the sweetheart of Bayou Bend, Louisiana, but she longs to make a name for herself where she can flourish as Kat---not as the girl baking someone else's recipes.
As head coach for the Bayou Bend championship high school football team, Lucas Brannen is used to winning---everything except his best friend's heart. He finally gathers the courage to make a gesture and show Kat his feelings by signing her up for the popular reality TV show Cupcake Combat. But his plan backfires after he realizes the cash prize for the winner also includes a one-year baking contract at one of New York City's most famous pastry houses.
The situation grows sticky when Kat enlists Lucas's help as her baking assistant for the show. Lucas is torn between helping Kat live her dream and selfishly wanting to keep her in town. His plan has always been a dozen acres of land and a farmhouse in Bayou Bend---but Kat is blinded by the stars in her eyes.
Will Lucas and Kat risk their chance at love in order to achieve their individual dreams? Or will they find that sometimes the most delicious happily-ever-afters begin and end in the same place? 

I would like to thank the publishers and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this lovely book.

When I started this book, I was frustrated at the main 2 characters as you could see where you wanted the book to head. It was lovely to see them move away from their hometown and try and explore their feelings as well. Loved Kat's ideas on her cupcakes. This made me feel like I was watching Masterchef (on any of the tv channels) but a cupcake version. There was cattiness in there as well (much as you would expect any kind of competition). But would Kat leave Lucas for the bright lights and the chance to make her own cupcakes. All will be revealed when you read this delightful book.

An American Girl in Italy by Aubrie Dionne

An Italian paradise is the last thing she wants… but the one thing she needs!
Surely any girl would kill for the chance to tour Italy’s most famous cities for the summer? To experience the warmth of the Tuscan sun, the culinary delights of the pizzerias and caffés and to stroll along the cobbled streets of the City of Love itself…
Any girl apart from ambitious oboist Carly Davis that is! For her, the Easthampton Civic Symphony’s latest European tour is one massive inconvenience. She can’t even put her smartphone down long enough to snap a picture of the Coliseum.
Only, there’s one Italian attraction that Carly hadn’t quite expected to be a part of the tourist route…

Tour guide Michelangelo is as dark and delicious as Carly’s morning espresso. And when she needs a few lessons in the language of love to land her an important gig, he’s a more than capable tutor.

But with her promising career back in Boston, can Carly really afford to lose her heart in Italy?

I would like to thank Netgalley and the publishers for the lovely review copy of this book. 

I found some of the characters endearing to say the least. The 2 main characters have a fiery feel from the book. Carly is an oboist who doesn't really want to be in Italy. Michaelangelo is Italian with a vineyard and LOADS of complications. What happens when these two collide is apparently anything but fireworks. Add in a drop of a diva and a load of orchestra confusion and you have a lovely story for love. 

Never been to Italy before, but reading this it feels like I've been shown the delights of some of the historical museums and the vineyards of  heaven.

Daddy's Home (Holly Jennings #1) by A.K. Alexander

They call him “the Family Man,” the cunning killer who preys upon single mothers and their innocent children, hunting for a family to call his own. But when they fail to meet his unyielding demands for perfection—and they always do—he kills. 

Holly Jennings is the San Diego PD’s top crime scene investigator. She’s also a single mother struggling to raise her daughter alone and to dealing with her feelings for another man in the wake of her husband’s death. The Family Man case hits her hard—but even harder when her friend becomes his latest victim. 

Determined to stop this psychopath once and for all, Holly delves deep into the investigation, combing through evidence for clues to his identity. But the closer she gets to the truth, the further she must venture down a dark path that could cost her everything: her family, her newfound love—even her life. A Wall Street Journal bestseller, this edgy page-turner is guaranteed to keep readers riveted into the wee hours of the morning.



I have been meaning to read/listen to this since I listened to Mommy, May I? a while ago. This is the 1st of her series that introduces a fiesty cop that is on a case that is close to her heart. I found the main character really endearing and fiesty at times. Family Man aka Daddy is a horrid man who has thoughts of what a Dad is. He is a delusional man who thinks any single woman with a kid in tow is a ready made family.

What happens whilst she is looking for this delusional man will make your skin crawl and scream at the book to make people notice. Will be interesting what happens in the next book.