A Greek island holiday.
A fake-dating pact.
A chance at true love?
After losing her job as a book scout, hopeless romantic Evie needs a fresh start. So when she hears that her eccentric grandmother has just taken on a small bookshop in Santorini, Evie jumps at the
chance to visit her.
But life on the island is not as idyllic as it first seems. Gran has a tempestuous relationship with her landlord and he’s threatening to take the bookshop away from her. So when Gran asks Evie to fake a
romance with her landlord’s Greek God of a grandson, Georgios, to keep the family on side, she reluctantly agrees.
As the sun sets on Evie’s Greek holiday, can she save the bookshop – and fake date her way to love?
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Rebecca Raisin writes heartwarming romance from her home in sunny Perth, Australia.
Her heroines tend to be on the quirky side and her books are usually set in exotic locations so her readers can armchair travel any day of the week. The only downfall about writing about gorgeous
heroes who have brains as well as brawn, is falling in love with them – just as well they’re fictional.
Rebecca aims to write characters you can see yourself being friends with. People with big hearts who care about relationships and believe in true, once in a lifetime love. Her bestselling novel Rosie’s
Travelling Tea Shop has been optioned for film with MRC studios and Frolic Media.
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My thoughts: one of my favourite sub-genres is books about books/libraries/bookshops, something Rebecca Raisin seems to be keen on too.
This time we’re in Santorini, Greece, with Evie, whose just lost her job as a book scout for a film company and is feeling a bit at a loss. Her high flying mum (lawyer) and sister (Broadway performer) insist she head over to Santorini to check in with her gran – on her tenth husband and now owner of a bookshop. They’re worried that Gran’s out of money and her no hoper of a husband has run off on her.
So Evie heads to a beautiful Greek island to spend her time in her grandmother’s bookshop. Oh, what a hardship.
Once there, she makes new friends, helps her gran throw a launch party and “fake dates” the hunky Georgios, who has also just lost his job at a publishing firm and is staying with his grandparents.
Thing is, Evie and Georgios are so clearly meant for each other, the islanders are all delightfully eccentric (Donkey Man, the pig farmer who keeps organising the bookshelves) that it’s not really bad at all. I want to move there.
A charming, fun and funny, rom com on a Greek island with lots of people who seem to love books and a pack of delightful, madcap canines, it’s a delicious dream combo.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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