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A review by thebeccafowell
Make or Break at the Lighthouse B&B by Portia MacIntosh
4.0
A massive thank you to Harper Collins for sending me an e-ARC of this book.
This was a pure guilty pleasure for me. I've never been one for chick lit or anything remotely like that, but every once in a while a read a blurb and I am like 'this book, I need to read this book'. That's exactly what happened with this book and here we are, writing a 4 star review.
At first I did not like the main character, Lola. In the first chapter she just seems to enable her clearly selfish 'best friend', not calling her friend out on her crappy behaviour, and for a few chapters after, consistently tries to make excuses for why none of her so called friends and boyfriend could be bothered to help her in her time of need. Luckily her parents are more than happy to have her home and help her recover, and it's great seeing her character develop and begin to realise how terrible her friends in London were for her, and makes some unusual friends back at home at the B&B.
So something that happens later in the book, or rather it happens before the book takes place but it is brought up in conversation between characters, it really hit home with me, I actually had to put the book down and take a break (it was a short break, I finished this book in a matter of hours). I don't want to add spoilers but something we find out about Dean's ex wife makes me hate her for many personal reasons.
This book definitely would not be for everyone; its a little predictable and cheesy - the line 'I could kick myself, or I would if I could' is used at least three times by the main character who has broken her leg and made me cringe after the first time. BUT I know at least one person who I'll be recommending this too as they will love it.
This was a pure guilty pleasure for me. I've never been one for chick lit or anything remotely like that, but every once in a while a read a blurb and I am like 'this book, I need to read this book'. That's exactly what happened with this book and here we are, writing a 4 star review.
At first I did not like the main character, Lola. In the first chapter she just seems to enable her clearly selfish 'best friend', not calling her friend out on her crappy behaviour, and for a few chapters after, consistently tries to make excuses for why none of her so called friends and boyfriend could be bothered to help her in her time of need. Luckily her parents are more than happy to have her home and help her recover, and it's great seeing her character develop and begin to realise how terrible her friends in London were for her, and makes some unusual friends back at home at the B&B.
So something that happens later in the book, or rather it happens before the book takes place but it is brought up in conversation between characters, it really hit home with me, I actually had to put the book down and take a break (it was a short break, I finished this book in a matter of hours). I don't want to add spoilers but something we find out about Dean's ex wife makes me hate her for many personal reasons.
This book definitely would not be for everyone; its a little predictable and cheesy - the line 'I could kick myself, or I would if I could' is used at least three times by the main character who has broken her leg and made me cringe after the first time. BUT I know at least one person who I'll be recommending this too as they will love it.