Hey! Sorry for the lax updating of my blog, with a holiday (to Spain - very sunny but it was an extremely long bus journey to get there) and eminent end-of-year essays due in, I feel like I have not had a moment to spare! Below is a picture of my amazing holiday, it was with my lacrosse club hence why we all have matching tops.
To make up for my lack of posts I am going to do a post a day this week, which I hope you will enjoy...
Today I am going to review two books that look like great sunny day reads.
Stolen, A Letter to my Captor - Lucy Christopher
This debut novel is both thrilling and heartbreaking. It tells the story of Gemma who is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian outback, but this kidnapping is not to gain money but love as her captor loves her dearly and expects her to do the same. Ty is not the traditional stereotype of a captor either, he is young and hot and cut off from the world can he persuade Gemma to love him? The story is written by Gemma contemplating the months she spent in the outback and reflects on her ever more confused ideas that entangles love, dependency and obsession. If you think you will like this book I would also recommend Raw by Belle Aurora which is a twist on this tale with a darker feel - http://elouiselilly.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/fourteen-books-for-twenty-fourteen.html
The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters - Michelle Lovric
In the 19th Century when Pre-Raphaelite art captured the imagination of the art world, Europe is excited to explore the infamous red-heads that inspired the enlightened artists. For seven Irish sisters it begins with a jig in an old church and travels through the salons of Dublin to the Palazzi of Venice. From their poor fatherless upbringing filled with poverty, their lives become unrecognisable - for some their fame brings them love, for others great loss, but all their fame comes at a price far too high. The best part of it all is that it is all true.
Do you have good reads for summer that you want to recommend?
Lots of Love
Elouise
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