Laura Briggs (2)

I am still enjoying this series, this is the point that Kitty enters the story. I, without realising, read one of the Christmas episodes out-of-order so I was already familiar with her character. I wish I hadn't had this flash of the future but it was interesting to see how her character began in the story. Although I took a month to read the book, in reality I had about two weeks when I didn't have time to read. Although I have the combined volume of the novels, I am now breaking off after this episode to read some Christmas novels and then I will return to Cornwall with Laura Briggs.… (más)

I know that there are books in the series I haven't read, in fact I started on book 2 'A Christmas in Cornwall' and then moved on to this one, but it doesn't seem to matter. I enjoyed the storyline and found the characters to be believable. Both of the books I have read came via Kindle offers on Amazon but I have enjoyed them so much I will purchase the other books in the series at full price if needed.

One of my favourite elements of the novel is that fact it is contemporary but with the class of a period novel. It is refreshing to find a chic-lit style novel that is not full of sex scenes. I am not surprised to read that Jane Austen and classic novels influence Laura, I could detect an essence of Austen and also Daphne du Maurier in her work.… (más)