I’m so humbled, surprised and of course pleased when I get 4 and 5 star reviews, for A Stranger in France! Here comes another one on Goodreads you can read here.
I’m so glad readers (so far) are enjoying!
Thank you for reading!
Tag Archives: book rec/review
Fall Into Romance: Blog Hop (14th-21st October) #amreading #romance #bloghop
Hi guys!
Welcome those who have stopped by my blog as part of the blog hop, for Fall Into Romance. Come in, hang up your jacket, grab yourself a drink and mingle on the blog- happy to have you here.
Last month I mentioned I’d be taking part in this blog hop, never done one -first time for everything, so why not do one within my favourite genre. Here is a bit about it:
Fall Into Romance Hop (Oct 14-21)
Event Theme/Blurb
Fall Into Romance! Share the romances that had you falling in love with the genre!Or the ones that keep you smitten! Stop by each blog for new recommendations and giveaways!
Kim’s Featured Book : Deadly Embrace- Jackie Collins
So what romance books have I fallen in love with? Well I’m going to go way back to the first ever romantic -suspense book I read, this book introduced me to the genre as a reader. I fell in love with the book and genre from this one book, years later I’m now an author within the genre myself- pretty cool!
I was in my late teens, barely into my twenties when I discovered Jackie Collins. Man, I remember the feeling I had while reading her book Deadly Embrace woooooooo ! Jackie is famous for giving her readers sex, drugs and rock ‘n’roll, even after her passing she is still a notorious author. But I promise you that’s not why I fell in love with it. Far from it, ok maybe it was part of it 🙂 but the main reason is the way Jackie wrote the book, the cliff hangers, suspense and the story flips between time frames and generations to weave a great thrill of a story with an OMG ending. All this and some romance to boot. Fabulous!
Deadly embrace, is part of a series, and reading this book does not require that you’ve read the first one. When I read Deadly Embrace I had not, I started right here. You’ll get into it and pick up the story, a sign of a great writer, writing a series that readers can jump into at any point. After Deadly Embrace, I read many of her books. I proudly display them on my book case at home. From that moment on, I was and still am Jackie’s biggest fan. 5 /5 stars for Deadly Embrace. This is one for those who like strong characters, a fast story and lots of sexy, but classy romance give this a try. All hail one of the queens of romantic -suspense, the late GREAT Jackie Collins.
The second book I’d like to say I fell in love with, is my own! I had so much fun writing, researching and creating this romantic suspense story.So far I have five star reviews on Amazon. I’d love to share it with all those passing by on the blog hop. Since it’s fall (or autumn as we say here in the UK), and it was released in fall go ahead and fall in love with A Stranger in France…
Book Blurb:
In A Stranger in France, readers are taken on a fast paced, modern day romantic journey, that spans between the city of London, the glitz and glam of France, and the beautiful English coast in a gripping romantic story, between two complete strangers with enough suspense to keep you on the edge of your seat turning pages. When career driven and successful thirty- two-year-old London-born Kate Brown faces hard times in her marriage, she confides in her best friend Tanya Adams in Marseille southern France. Kate makes a bold move and spends two weeks in Marseille away from her husband in London. Her path crosses with tall, dark, devilishly handsome and wealthy Nicholas D’Coix. An immigrant to France from the Ivory Coast west Africa as a young boy, who turned himself around and built up an empire of wealth as a hustler and money maker, and now one of Paris’ top three entrepreneurs. In a whirlwind of sexy, lustful romance Nicholas and Kate fall in love. Kate returns to London to a few surprises of her own, and still very much in love with Nicholas as she makes yet another bold life changing move. Touching on real life issues these two strong characters battle it out against all the odds in the name of love, across the UK and France.
Buy now links
A bargain at under £3.00 for UK readers and under $3.00 for international readers
More hops to go and have a look at on this blog hop below link just click.
Main event link: http://theherdpresents.blogspot.com/2016/10/fall-into-romance-blog-hop.html
Kim’s Book Review: Caribbean Christmas
What do you do when a best selling romance author, offers to do a read and review swap of each others work with you? You lose your damn mind behind the lap top, then compose yourself and a nicely worded email with no typos to say, yes please I’d love to! Gimme gimme. And I’m glad I did, I’ve just finished reading Caribbean Christmas by Tammy Tate she is an author of a number of romance books. This is the first I’ve read and I would for sure read more here’s why.
Caribbean Christmas ( in my personal view) is a lovely feel good romance story with a touch of paranormal, it’s also set around Christmas my favourite time of year. Tammy is clearly a very creative writer to conjure up this story, and that’s the first thing that drew me in, and what I love about Caribbean Christmas -the creativity and originality around the story it fits and works really really well.
I read this book in 2 sittings, I was drawn in well before page 50, Tammy’s style of writing is easy going, descriptive and engaging. I found myself transported to the Carib and visualising what I was reading, from the colour of the sea to the food that was being served in certain scenes.I like the way Tammy has woven in different cultures within the story, well. She could have easily dismissed the different cultures found in New Orlands and even the Carib Island this story is set on, and just used them as a setting for events to take place in the story plot line not really touching on who you might find in these places. But, diverse foods,Creole characters and even the langue are included to. Great job.
The characters are all likeable even down to the ghost, I had in my mind a visual of the characters and what their quirks are as people, and this is down to ( in my view) good story telling and character development.
The romantic journey you’re taken on as a reader for me is really enjoyable, this story is more sensual than erotic so if you like more sensual stories focused on love, romance and boy meets girl this is one for you- with a twist of paranormal. I found the sensual scenes lovely to read, I was like awwwww at certain parts and I had that feel good feeling that this genre of romance should give a reader.
So in summary
Romantic element: 5 of 5 it’s very romantic, but so original in the story line and a good happy ever after at the end
Sensuality/story line/plot 5 of 5 a very original story and right level of sensual, and even some suspense towards the end when Kendra almost gives up on Richard.
I’d rate this book 5 out of 5 stars, it’s my kind of feel good romance and it gave me everything I needed in a feel good romance, boy meets girl, love and some conflict, add to that a great location, a twist with paranormal, wonderful. I look forward to reading more.
Word Prompt Response: Circus
I’m not a fan of clowns, in fact they freak me out, I’m not a fan of people sticking knives down their throats for entertainment, in fact that to freaks me out! But I’m a fan of the book ” The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern. My whole reason for participating in today’s word prompt challenge is to brag about this book I discovered about 2-3 years ago.
Where do I start it ? This book was a whole game changer for me when it came to the fantasy and realism genre, a genre that I’ve never touched in all the years I’ve been reading books. (That’s a lot of years by the way).
Don’t get me wrong I don’t dislike the genre I never have disliked it, I just never found a book in this genre to make me start devouring books of this genre. Part of me also (before I read this book ) was not hugely turned on by the thought of different worlds, magic and so forth.
Without giving too much away (as I want you to all to go and read it), in my opinion there’s a real sweet love story which underpins this fantasy/realism book, which could be part of the reason I also really really enjoyed it and gave it a 5 star review.
2 magicians (with very different powers) are played off against each other by their masters/ teachers 1 male and 1 female. The reason for this goes back to past history between their masters, the 2 main characters they are destined to become opponents due to their master’s history. I was instantly drawn to the world of magic and trickery that the author created within her writing from the very first chapter. It does take a bit of concentration and piecing bits together as there are quite a few characters to watch out for, that said it is an easy read and flows well.
There are many twists and turns, some shockers and a lot of imagination provoking in the story line itself, as I read this book part of me wondered is this real or is this part tickery? What is being portrayed here? (If you read it you’ll know what I mean) , the question marks that were raised in my mind are credit to the author’s well tuned creativity; by the time I reached the end of the book, all questions I had were answered by the writing style of the author.
I read this book as part of my book club, the conversation went on and on between all members of the club who read the book. And while not everyone loved the book most of us did (and still do all these years later) reference it as one of the best books we’ve read as a club.
So that’s it just a short note from me, recommending The Night Circus in response to today’s WordPress writing prompt. I hope both hardcore fantasy/realism fans or fantasy genre virgins like yours truly, who need their cherry popping! Go download it, it’s a great introduction to the genre and a real page turner.
Enjoy!
Author, Kim Knight 