The Sunflower Cottage Breakfast Club by Lynsey James
Published: 1st August 2016
Publisher: Carina UK
Pages: 218
Available on Kindle
Rating: 5/5
Blurb
Emily Reed is having a bad day. Devastated at losing her
hard-earned promotion to the ditz who’s sleeping with the boss, her mother
drops a devastating bombshell—the dad she’s known and loved for twenty-five
years isn’t her biological father.
Now Emily needs answers and a month in Luna Bay should give
her the time she needs to find her father, and land the difficult client at the
Sunflower Cottage B&B which should put her back in the running for her
coveted promotion.
Setting up the Sunflower Cottage breakfast club should be a
great way to meet the locals and maybe even find out who her father is! The
only problem is that brooding and insanely gorgeous, Noah, is determined to
make Emily’s stay perfectly uncomfortable.
Finding out the truth was never going to be simple, but she
never thought her heart would get in the way…
Review
The Sunflower Cottage Breakfast Club is the second book in
Lynsey James’ Luna Bay series, although it can also be read as a standalone
novel.
Emily Reed, Business Development Manager for Walter Marshall
Hotels has gone from having her life all sorted to being completely lost, after
twenty five years her mum has just dropped the bombshell that her loving dad
Simon is not her biological father. Her biological father is actually a man
named Brian who her mother had a fling with shortly after she was married in
the little Yorkshire town of Luna Bay.
To make things worse she’s just been beaten to a promotion
by Tara, who seems a little too friendly with their boss Paul. Needing a break
and longing to go find out more about her father Emily asks for time off, Paul
strikes a bargain with her she has a month to visit Luna Bay and find some
answers but while she’s there Emily must get the Sunflower Cottage Bed &
Breakfast to sign itself over to Walter Marshall and then she can have her
longed for promotion.
Simple, except Emily makes a bad first impression on Mr
Grumpy himself Noah Hartley. This wouldn’t be so bad except Noah is very close
to The Sunflower Cottages owner Rose and Noah is determined that Rose won’t
sell up. After an accident puts Rose out of action for a few days Emily agrees
to help Noah run the B & B and to set up his “breakfast club” as a way to
keep herself busy and try to subtly find out more about Brian.
After a number of mishaps, misunderstandings and a little
heartbreak it’s finally time for Emily to head back to Glasgow, but something’s
happened that Emily wasn’t expecting she’s fallen in love…can she really turn
her back on Luna Bay now it’s in her heart?
Just like Lynsey’s first Luna bay book I adored this book, it’s
an easy enjoyable read and one which is full of emotions, drama and some
hilarious scenes. I think the thing that has made Lynsey’s writing standout to
me is the characters, she has written some brilliant ones which I can so easily
imagine. One of my favourites being Emily’s mum, I just loved her little pep
talks with Emily and the scenes where she’s helping Emily cook the breakfasts
are some of my favourite in the book. Talking
of breakfasts, I really want one of Noah’s New Yorker breakfasts as it sounded
delicious!
I thought Emily was a great main character and had an ah-ha
moment when I realised she had been mentioned in book one. I also have my suspicions
as to who will be the main character in book three and fingers crossed I’m
right because I’m dying to know more about that person. Anyway back to
Emily, I loved the journey she went on in this book starting out being
the uptight, health conscious business woman to the relaxed Emily who goes
after what she wants rather than what is expected of her. The sparks that flew
between her and Noah were wonderful and I loved reading how their relationship
changed.
I also loved that other previous characters were mentioned,
it was lovely to check in with Lucy and Jake and see how they were doing. I was
a little sad that Elle and George were not in the book as there were character
I loved from the first book.
I enjoyed reading The Sunflower Cottage Breakfast Club while
I was on holiday and found it to be the perfect holiday read as its
light-hearted and fun and Luna Bay reminded me of one of my favourite places
Robin Hood’s Bay in Yorkshire. I’m so
looking forward to more of Lynsey’s wonderful story-telling in Luna Bay book
three.
Thank you to the Lynsey, the publishers and Neverland Blog
Tours for the review copy and for allowing me to be part of the blog tour.
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